Organizers of the Paris Olympics insist that ongoing troubles at French computer services group Atos, which provides essential services for the Games, will not affect the Games.
Attempts to sell parts of the heavily indebted group have failed, the company continues to make losses and its share price has fallen.
The International Olympic Committee said on Thursday: “We have full confidence that Atos, which has been a partner of the Olympic Movement for 30 years and benefits from its unique expertise, will honor the contract that binds the IOC and, ultimately, Paris 2024. “I'm sending it to you,” he said. Statement to AFP.
The Chairman of the Paris Organizing Committee is tony estingutosaid on Wednesday that Athos' Olympic team was on the road, insisting that “whatever happens at the front of the group will not affect us at all.”
To put an end to speculation, organizers have promised to arrange a press visit to the game's technology operations center by the end of March.
Atos has been the IOC's technology partner since the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Games and is responsible for managing 300,000 certifications.
It is also responsible for compiling and distributing real-time competition results and integrating other technology partners such as telco Orange, digital services company Intel, communications equipment provider Cisco, timekeeper Omega and audio-video company Panasonic. Masu.
～Defense against cyber attacks～
According to Atos, approximately 300 of its 110,000 employees will be working 24 hours a day, 365 days a year during the Games.
One of its divisions, Eviden, is working with the French Cybersecurity Agency (ANSSI) to prevent attacks on the Games' information systems, which are expected to be exposed to eight to 10 times more cyberattacks than the Tokyo 2021 Games. We plan to cooperate with .
“Given the difficulties that the company may be facing, it is clear that there is a need to be particularly vigilant, but we do not see any warning signs regarding the group's situation that could affect the safety of its activities for the game. “No,” said Vincent Strubel. said the ANSSI Director-General in an interview published in the Figaro daily on Tuesday.
“We are monitoring it closely to make sure there are no issues, but today there are no issues,” he said.
Atos has around 3.65 billion euros ($4 billion) in debt and its share price has fallen 80% since last summer, valuing the group at just 200 million euros despite annual sales of 11 billion euros. It's staying.
Talks to sell its big data and security business to Airbus for between 1.5 billion and 1.8 billion euros collapsed on Tuesday.
In February, Atos failed to reach an agreement to sell part of its business to Czech businessman Daniel Krechinsky.
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