It’s Friday, fun day, time to plan for the weekend! Are you buying Lotto tickets? Heading to Vegas? Placing an online sports bet on your favorite team? Aren’t you glad that there’s the new IWA 17, “Information and operations security and integrity requirements for lottery and gaming organizations”? This just-published standard helps organizations that provide gambling venues to set up systems that protect themselves and their customers. And you can get the new release from Document Center now!
IWA 17 is an International Workshop Agreement, based on the World Lottery Association (WLA) publication, WLA-SCS:2012, “WLA Security Control Standard — Lottery and Gaming Security and Integrity Standard for Operations.” It represents the efforts of the gaming industry to ensure security and integrity, as well as address risk management issues for this sector.
In addition to the gaming industry itself, regulators and other government entities are a stakeholder in this issue. With many government jurisdictions involved in lottery schemes, the ability to provide constituents with proof of good practice is vital. And of course, users of such services want to be assured that their identity and financial information is protected, as well as knowing that any games they play are legitimate.
The body of the document provides users with core information on Information Security Management Systems (ISMSs). It also covers general security control objectives and how to achieve them. And there are additional requirements specific to the gaming and lottery industries.
However, I find the Annexes A and B to be especially helpful. They cover both general and industry specific security and integrity control objectives. Each Annex is divided into a series of tables that address such topics as the organization of security, human resource security, access control and so on. Various types of game-specific issues are also reviewed: Instant tickets, lottery draws, internet sales, prize money protection, etc.
Another interesting feature of the IWA 17 is Annex C, which lists the contributors to the standard by jurisdiction, organization and name. Who knew there were so many lotteries and other gaming businesses out there?
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