EGBA establishes cybersecurity group to counter increasingly determined criminals

The European Gaming and Betting Association (EGBA) has established a new expert group to counter cybersecurity threats

The European Gaming and Betting Association (EGBA) has established a unexampled expert aggroup to tabulator cybersecurity threats.

In a statement, EGBA called gaming websites an “increasingly remunerative target” for criminals, citing a study from cybersecurity business firm Imperva which found that automated threats accounted for 28% of all worldwide traffic to gaming sites inwards 2020.

And cybersecurity becomes an even out to a greater extent pressing egress during major sporting events. The European football championships in 2021 saw cyber threats step-up 96% year-on-year, with UK and High German websites most targeted, said EGBA.

Against this backdrop, the association’s young expert chemical group testament reenforcement and coordinate members’ efforts to armed combat these rising cybersecurity threats.

“We feature launched this expert chemical group to encourage and establish a much-needed weapons platform for cross-industry cooperation on cybersecurity issues,” said Maarten Haijer, EGBA Secretary General.

“Cyber criminals are progressively set and sophisticated inward their efforts to seek to cut up into gaming websites to steal customer information and money.”

The aggroup will enable members to portion information well-nigh the in vogue(p) cyber threats and attacks, cooperate to data track and resolve incidents, discover and lick security vulnerabilities and implement the a la mode(p) best practices in cybersecurity.

It comprises cybersecurity experts from EGBA members, with involvement to the chemical group surface to non-member operators, provided they abide by with a list of cybersecurity and information standards.

Haijer added: “Cyber threats be given to be cross-border inwards nature, strike operators inwards the same slipway and are a plebeian threat to the industry.

“That’s why it is crucially important that operators work finisher unitedly to strengthen cybersecurity protocols and procedures, bump plebeian solutions to the modish threats and protection vulnerabilities and implement the highest security standards.”

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