Payment services and slot supplier Everi Holdings has selected Infoblox to help protect the billion in transactions it processes each year for the gaming industry.
“The best-in-breed solutions from Infoblox help Everi to meet the exacting security expectations of its customers and continue its growth as a leader in financial services,” the company said in a press release.
Everi Holdings provides software and payment services for more than 1,100 gaming locations in 36 countries, including every casino on the Las Vegas Strip and 90 percent of casinos throughout the United States as a whole. With billions of dollars at stake, hackers are devoting a lot of attention to Everi’s customers, presenting unique security challenges.
Attacks on Everi’s networks have increased sharply over the past eight months, resulting in as many as 8,000 attacks per day on the company’s domain name system (DNS).
“Traditional firewalls and anti-virus software don’t prevent these attacks,” said T.J. Short, chief information security officer and vice president of infrastructure at Everi Holdings. “We did a comparison of multiple ways of protecting our DNS, and Infoblox came out on top—well above the competition.”
Infoblox Internal DNS Security disrupts malware communication with hacker servers while automatically detecting and blocking the exfiltration of sensitive data. By sharing this information with the Infoblox Reporting Server, Everi can generate detailed reports identifying compromised resources and simplifying the mitigation process.
“I don’t have 50 to 100 people at any of my locations to do this,” said Short. “We’re talking handfuls of people who have to manage a multitude of tools. So the fact that Infoblox actually does automatic updates, the fact that it patches automatically, makes my life a whole lot easier.”
