Gaming Laboratories International’s Professional Services Division has successfully completed a World Lottery Association Security Control Standard audit for its first African lottery client, Loterie Nationale Sénégalaise.26
The Professional Services Division, based in New Brunswick, Canada, consults with lotteries worldwide on a wide range of topics spanning security assessments, project management, procurement support, system renewal, IT strategy and standards implementation.
The WLA Security Control Standard, the lottery sector’s only internationally recognized security standard, combines a leading international standard for information security, ISO 27001, with current best practices in lottery security.
“Since GLI’s creation of its Professional Services Division in 2011, we have grown to a global team consisting of the industry’s foremost leading experts,” said Thomas Bierbach, the lab’s director of Lottery & Gaming Practice.
In other news, GLI identified its latest Latin American and Caribbean Regulators Roundtable as the lab’s most successful yet. The gathering brought together gaming and lottery regulators and trade associations from 21 countries to the two-day event held last month in Bogotá.
“Our main challenge was to balance the agenda to fulfill the expectations of an audience that have common objectives and also, very specific ones,” said Karen Marcela Sierra-Hughes, the lab’s director of Latin American and Caribbean Development. “We were successful in this effort as this Roundtable proved to be the only international conference that gathers both gaming and lottery government entities at one event.”
The roundtable was presented free of charge through GLI’s GLI University. Topics covered gaming law, monitoring and control systems, interactive gaming and regulation, government procurement processes, profitability analytics, federal and multi-jurisdictional operations, AML, racing regulation and responsible gaming.
