Patrick Adiba Quotations

Don't rely only on designing a system and hoping it's going to work. Test it, and test it with real problems.

A lot of the security is related to processes. We try to design a system that's secure, to prevent people from processing, entering or modifying data.

In an environment providing real-time information to media, any security incident, triggered with malicious intent or not, can have disastrous consequences. For a highly visible event like the Olympic Games, the challenge of IT security is not only to prevent unauthorized people from accessing the systems, but to control the activity of authorized people inside the games' network.

All of the situations we encountered, we'd anticipated because of all the testing and rehearsals we did. We were never taken by surprise.