Gaming Authentication

Gamblers wish to make bets. Gambling establishments provide hospitality in the form of food, alcohol, and lodging, on top of gambling facilities. Administrators are required to maintain secure venues and infrastructure. Gaming platforms provide loyalty programs for regular customers. And online gamers must establish digital wallets from which they fund their activity. Even a great deal of on-premise gambling is conducted using digital funds. On some online gaming platforms, players can open an account with little vetting, but need to assert identity when it’s time to cash out.

So what of those illicit use cases? Criminals invade user wallets. They steal loyalty points that they can use to make bets under other people’s names. They use purloined identities to acquire hotel rooms. They impersonate users in order to cash out their winnings. They flood application processes with duplicate applications, or return under another name after being banned. In two very high profile cases, they took over privileged IT accounts to install ransomware and shut down entire facilities for weeks. In other cases, fake floor workers have looted gaming machines.

authID addresses all these use cases, empowering the legitimate processes while preventing their misuse. Facial biometric verification ensures that only legitimate users can access their own gaming accounts. No one else can leverage their name or cash in on their behalf. No one can book a room or place a bet in their name, or make off with their loyalty points.

And by requiring biometric authentication at an IT level, authID prevents the corruption of enhanced-access accounts, shutting down an avenue for ransom attacks. authID can also perform deduplication, so that banned users cannot return, nor can they establish multiple identities. At a consumer level as well as an institutional level, authID ensures that only the right people have access to the right digital assets. Gamers can have the confidence to see the benefits of their own activity, while the providers experience seamless operations with legitimate bettors.