During the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Ministry of the Interior reinvents anticipation and crisis management.

The Olympics: An Extraordinary Event Demanding Exceptional Measures

10,500 athletes from 206 nations, 40 competition venues to secure simultaneously—half in Île-de-France and 7 within Paris itself—6,000 journalists from around the globe, tens of millions of spectators, and 4 billion viewers worldwide, not to mention the 22 host cities, reaching as far as French Polynesia.

Centralizing Coordination and Overseeing Security
To ensure a safe and successful celebration, security had to be flawless. For the Games, one rule prevailed: a single operations commander. The Minister of the Interior assumed full responsibility for the national coordination and security strategy.

At the request of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), a National Strategic Command Center (CNCS) was specially created and activated to oversee security, analyze, and transmit critical information to authorities. In parallel, the Ministry established an Olympic Intelligence Center (CRO) to centralize and analyze data from intelligence services, ensuring a comprehensive and responsive approach to the security challenges of such a high-stakes event.

Ready from Day One: The Olympic Flame Relay

Alongside the Ministry of the Interior, Onepoint Defense & Security acted as a key partner to win the race against time: being fully operational by May 8, 2024, the start of the Olympic Flame relay.

When the CNCS implementation project launched in early 2023, it triggered a countdown: build the organization, infrastructure, and information system of the CNCS, and train and deploy over 1,300 personnel from more than 40 governmental and ministerial departments, all within less than 500 days.

Given the global scope of the event and its unprecedented scale in Paris, a scaled agile framework (SAFe) approach was adopted from day one.

To meet this challenge without slowing momentum or value delivery, Onepoint Defense & Security took on multiple key roles:

• Defining and implementing the SAFe methodology framework and supporting the teams
• Acting as end-to-end project owner, from scoping needs to functional testing
• Leading training, change management, continuous improvement, and strengthening cybersecurity (RSSI) chains
• Supporting the formalization of doctrine: processes, organization, battle rhythm, and reporting cycle
• Producing a full program feedback report to feed into long-term legacy planning

Deploying a Digital Hypervision Platform to Master Information and Reputation Impact
Beyond meeting deadlines, the CNCS faced another challenge: controlling the speed and quality of information, in sync with social media and potential reputation risks.

It needed to capture and synthesize data from over 100 sources to produce up to six daily situational briefings.

Sources included:

• The Ministry’s own systems
• Interministerial data
• PARIS2024 organizer data
• Prefectural updates
• Open public data

The existing means of information production and synthesis were no longer viable—too slow, too risky, too costly. A complete digital hypervision platform, based on a market solution, was therefore designed and refined throughout the project.

This platform was built around key features:

• Collaborative information input with enriched thematic tags (links, images, geolocation), structured as a digital logbook
• Integration of data from all origins and formats: open data, PARIS2024 organizer inputs, ministerial and prefectural sources
• Interactive map displays organized by thematic layers
• Planning for liaison officer assignments, based on the operational alert level of the center (“armement”)
• Collaborative production of situational briefings, compiling all relevant information for decision-makers

This digital infrastructure enabled the CNCS to operate at the speed of the event—and at the scale of its global visibility—establishing a new standard in crisis anticipation and real-time coordination for the French State.

The challenge of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games was met thanks to a functionally enriched platform and the mobilization of a multidisciplinary team—Onepoint Defense & Security, the software publisher, and the Digital Directorate.

The hypervision core software was enhanced with four additional modules, delivering major functional value and addressing critical needs for over 1,100 CNCS users, all of whom were trained on how to use the different components.

A joint project team worked hand in hand daily to define and translate needs and use cases, design and test solutions, and ensure optimal performance. The platform was successfully integrated into the state cloud and received full certification across its entire scope for a one-year period.

An iterative approach enabled effective management by deadlines and delivery capacity. With growing maturity, the project team focused its efforts on the most critical use cases and functionalities for the Games, while adapting CNCS processes and organization when some digital features took longer to develop.

Gradually, native digital uses and practices began to emerge, overtaking legacy paper-based and desktop doctrines. As a result, the platform is increasingly seen not as a collection of isolated modules, but as a coherent, interconnected whole that delivers high value.

Rethinking Anticipation and Crisis Management Through Digital Tools

Now that the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games have concluded, the objective is to build on digital practices and the experience gained to shape a long-term legacy strategy.

By leveraging hypervision technologies, data, and AI, there are numerous opportunities to reinvent the CNCS’s day-to-day operational activities into continuous anticipation and monitoring functions.

This evolution could potentially revolve around two main axes:

• Drawing inspiration from CNCS digital use cases to reinvent crisis management based on digital hypervision and data, ensuring continuity with routine monitoring activities (smooth and efficient triggering and exit from CIC mode).
• Enabling decentralized and distributed use of the hypervision platform: Ministry of the Interior, other ministries, operational centers, prefectures—each organization can benefit from its own environment and configuration: tooling, situational updates, tailored campaigns, contextual workspaces, and more.