Security Challenges for Online Gambling - A Conversation with Jonathan Srugo Cybersecurity Advisors Network

John Salomon talks to Jonathan Srugo, cybersecurity consultant, founder of Nebotain Smart Digital Defense, and former CISO of an Asian online gaming company.
Internet gambling is a significant part of the online economy, and is legal (if often heavily regulated) in much of the world.  Unfortunately, whether due to moral considerations or disagreements about legality, several cybersecurity actors, including vendors and government agencies, refuse to support gaming operators threatened by malicious actors.  
This, combined with the lucrative nature of the industry and its high degree of dependence on availability and brand integrity, often leaves companies much more vulnerable than more mainstream, traditional firms to cybercrime and attacks.
In this video, we talk about an area of the cybersecurity sector that is not on the radar of many professionals working in more "traditional" industries.  Jonathan shares his observations on the types of attacks, actors, and motivations that affect gaming operators, thoughts about working with vendors, law enforcement, and CSIRTs, and the views of management towards the value of information security capability.  Most importantly, we discuss why failing to support any victims of cybercrime hurts everybody, whether you agree with their business model or not.  
An overview of legality of online gambling:  https://slotegrator.pro/analytical_articles/where-online-gambling-is-legal.html
Typical statistics about DDoS attacks on online gambling sites:  https://www.gamblinginsider.com/news/17722/research-shows-25-of-all-gambling-sites-were-hit-by-june-ddos-attacks
Find Jonathan on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-srugo/ and check out Nebotain Smart Digital Defense here: https://www.nebotain.com/
Visit us at https://cybersecurityadvisors.network
Intro/outro music courtesy of Studio Kolomna via Pixabay: https://pixabay.com/users/studiokolomna-2073170/