Information Security On An Olympic Scale

jeffy124 writes: "Wired is running a story about the man in charge of securing the computer systems at the Salt Lake City Olympic Games next February. Matt McClung discusses how he's withstanding an 'overhype' in the media on the possibility getting his systems cracked and what he's doing to prevent it in the first place. With 4500 PCs and 550 servers, that shall be a daunting task, especially given the reliability problems at the '96 Atlanta games."

Comments

Re:Security already not so great

[imrdkl]

Wow. This link really tells a story. Looks like they switched from Solaris and Linux, around July, and since then don't have an uptime worth a darn.

A clean and stable games is one of the most important things we can do right now.

Re:Is this the right man for the job?

[spudnic]

Maybe this IS security through obscurity. Maybe the article is just a front for what will actually be running on the servers. "Let's tell them we'll be running W2K and have all of the service fingerprints report as though we actually where, but then install xxxxxxx"

It could be. ;)

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