OCGN

There are a few EU publications on cyber security/cyber crime and the gambling sector. This proposal is novel in that it focused on the threat to the integrity of online gambling sites from organised criminal elements in the EU (most research on this subject is done in the USA), and their ability to withstand threats, intimidation and extortion and responses to these threats. It set out to assess EU gambling sites early warning systems and cyber security management techniques that enable them to efficiently process the flow of information from both internal and external sources, and analyse and where necessary exchange information on developing cyber security solutions to deter and prevent organised crime, which will complement previous, but still limited, research by EU mentioned above. 

The objectives of this project set out to produce new information on the current state of gambling sites cyber security management techniques to deter and prevent threats to business stability and integrity from organised crime. The scientific objectives (SOs) of this research are: (SO1) to establish tools and techniques that will facilitate the management of internal and external cyber threats to the online gambling sector (SO2) to validate tools and techniques that will facilitate the management of internal and external cyber threats to  online gambling sector (SO3) set standards of information management in online gambling sector (SO4) set standards of dissemination and flows of information to cyber security centres from online gambling sector. The impact of these will inform our current understanding of threats from organised crime to the online EU gambling sector and tools and techniques that need to be developed and disseminated across borders to prevent crime.

This project set out to fuse approaches from a range of disciplines and draw on academic, law enforcement and practitioners’ knowledge in preventing cyber crime in the online gambling sector.