IGN caught up with Steve Toneguzzo of Global Gaming Services at the World Gaming Congress in Las Vegas. His business is taking off as it takes on the project management of linking the 100 thousand poker machines in New South Wales to a central monitoring system being developed by the recently privatised TAB Limited (formerly the NSW Totalisator Agency Board).
His operations manager, Tom Keck, has had more than 20 years experience in the wagering and gaming industries, from on-course and off-course totalisators, including TABs, lotteries and Keno in Australia, South-East Asia and the United States. Most recently, Keck project managed the development of the statewide Keno system in Queensland for Jupiters Limited.
GGS is reportedly involved in auditing most of the internet gaming sites in the country for regulators, potential operators and technology providers.
The audit process for internet gaming is an interesting facet which will likely elicit lots of interesting discussions by regulators, operators and suppliers. GSS offered IGN the following list of issues which they are addressing in the audit process.
Watch for more information on this company's role in internet gaming regulation.
Legend
G = Government
O = Operator
T = Technology Provider
F = Financial Institution
C = Telecommunications
Issues Consideration Matrix
Each of these headings has many sub-issues for consideration.
| ISSUE |
RESPONSIBLE |
INPUT |
| Licensing |
G |
O,T |
| Inspector's Validation / Audit Procedures |
G |
O,T |
| System Submission / Audit / Validation Process |
G |
O,T |
| Player Protection / Audit / Logs |
G |
O,T |
| Gaming Internal Controls and Operating Procedures |
O |
G,T |
| IT Internal Controls and Operating Procedures |
O |
G,T |
| Surveillance Controls and Operating Procedures |
O |
G,T |
| Gaming System Security (Firewall, Etc) |
O |
T |
| Operator's Manual (Gaming) |
O |
T,G |
| Users Manual (IT) |
T |
|
| Development Environment Security - Physical |
T |
|
| Development Environment Security - Logical / Procedural |
T |
|
| Software Change Control System and Procedures |
T |
|
| Software Release System and Procedures |
T |
O,G |
| Fault Reporting System and Procedures |
T |
O |
| Disaster Recovery - System / Procedural |
T |
O,G |
| System Availability |
T |
O,F,C |
| Financial Transaction Security |
T |
F |
| Game Design Procedures and Documentation |
T |
|
| System / Database / Security / Communication Design Documentation |
T |
|