There has been much talk
about cyber-attackers planning to disrupt the forthcoming Games. However, a
bigger threat will come from the unprecedented demand that will hit networks
and web connections during this period.
The major risks at the Olympics will come from the huge surge of web
traffic that will occur as millions of sports fans stream events during the
working day. This unprecedented demand will put many networks under a huge
amount of pressure and some connections could simply grind to a halt which will
impact on businesses throughout the UK.
In addition,
whilst the major broadcasting networks have good security measures in place,
there is lots of potential for malware to be attached to videos from YouTube
and other sharing sites and the positive publicity surrounding the games is
likely to mean that people will be less discriminating about the items they
choose to watch. This could result in a
huge surge of IT problems for both personal and business users during the
Games.
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