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ExtraHop Delivers for Sportingbet
ExtraHop, the pioneer in real-time stream
analytics for IT and business intelligence
has made public that Sportingbet, part
of the GVC Group, is using the ExtraHop
wire data analytics platform to gain
visibility into complex IT applications and
infrastructure while strengthening security
monitoring and response procedures.
From its headquarters in the UK,
Sportingbet runs a dedicated IT
department that manages operations
spanning 50 different website brands
processing millions of transactions
worldwide each week. The IT department
is tasked with managing and operating
extensive systems and processes to
ensure the organisation meets internal
requirements and external regulatory
compliance from agencies including the
UK Gambling Commission. In order to
better manage this complexity, ensure
compliance and security, and gain critical
insight into end-user experience and
quality of service, Sportingbet brought in
ExtraHop.
ExtraHop helps the IT team
spot potential anomalies within its
infrastructure that could suggest a
breach. As Lee Riches, Operational analyst
for Sportingbet explains, “As a leading
sports betting brand we are obviously a
target and we run a dedicated team, all
in house, to respond to any threats. As
such, we generate huge amounts of data
and ExtraHop allows us to correlate data
from multiple different sources, in real
time, to quickly spot any issues and react
accordingly.”
Common attacks such as brute force
attempts to break into accounts as well
as ‘scrapers’ that attempt to gather data
from multiple websites can be detected
through the ExtraHop platform’s real-time
analysis of wire data, enabling the team
at Sportingbet to subvert these attacks. An
ability to monitor the environment over
time and look back at previous activity
also allows Sportingbet to set baselines,
making it easier to reliably detect
anomalies and threats in the future.
ExtraHop also provides Sportingbet
with real-time insight into application
and infrastructure performance, and
helps the IT department drill down to
understand the impact of a particular
error across tiers. With this level of crosstier insight, they can anticipate when
an error is likely to impact one or more
of their web properties, and with it, the
company’s bottom line. Moreover, with
insights from wire data, they have the
prescriptive guidance they need to rapidly
troubleshoot and remediate the problem,
lessening the impact to customers and
the business. “With ExtraHop we don’t
need to place any additional monitoring
application on any of our servers, which
is a major consideration. It also has the
ability to help us diagnose root causes
of application issues by dissembling the
complex relationship and data flows
between different parts of an overall
process,” says Riches. “The use of ExtraHop
to meet the IT and business intelligence
needs at Sportingbet is a great example of
how powerful insights unearthed through
real-time stream analytics can help meet
multiple business objectives,” adds Colin
Pittham, VP of EMEA Sales for ExtraHop,
“The rapidly evolving nature of modern
IT means that having a single platform
that can quickly correlate meaning from
the complex relationships between
applications is helping customers like
Sportingbet turn insights into actions that
solve real world problems and negate
threats.”
www.extrahop.com
Anritsu Unveils MS27101A Remote Spectrum Monitor
Anritsu Company continues to expand its field
test portfolio with the introduction of the
MS27101A Remote Spectrum Monitor. The
MS27101A can be used with the company’s
Vision software to create a highly accurate
remote solution for government regulators
and university lab researchers to identify
interference patterns, record spectrum
history and geo-locate the sources of problem signals to mitigate
interference issues and identify illegal or unlicensed signal activity.
Housed in a half-rack enclosure, the MS27101A is ideal for
spectrum monitoring where a small footprint is required. It's capable
of sweeping at rates up to 24 GHz/s, allowing capture of intermittent
signals, including periodic or tr