Entertainment & Gaming

Video game consoles and networks are attractive and lucrative targets for hackers, especially when it comes to cheating and piracy. The impact of malicious attacks can have disastrous results for your business.

• Widespread cheating will likely shatter your honest (and paying) customers’ trust, driving them away.
• Piracy may deflect gamers from buying your product, destroying your entire game base.

Many gaming companies depend on firewalls and spyware solutions to block hackers. However, these bolt-on solutions alone are not enough. Spyware solutions can create privacy concerns, and firewalls don’t prevent application-layer attacks.

How do you protect your revenue and ensure all your players have a fair and entertaining experience? Prevent attacks before they occur.

How Vantage Point reduces risk for gaming and entertainment software

We believe that the best way to protect your revenue is by proactively building security into the software development lifecycle instead of bolting on intrusive spyware solutions at the end.

Vantage Point's security experts take the requirements and constraints of gaming applications (fast response times, widely distributed state, etc.) into account when helping secure games.

Our security strategies help you:

• Determine the right places to verify data on the server side to prevent client-side trust issues without significantly impacting performance.
• Design monitoring solutions to capture statistical data, so that you’re able to identify cheaters without impacting other players.
• Make reverse engineering or modifying your client-side code more difficult. This is the final step in securing your game and is ineffective unless the right server-side controls are in place already.
• Evaluate hardware and software-based random number generation mechanisms (commonly used in online gambling and other gaming applications) and evaluate how random numbers end up being used to ensure games are fair (e.g. to generate card shuffles.
• Find and mitigate many other security issues, including those that are not specific to games.

Different revenue models (freemium, ad-supported, packaged, subscription, etc.) and different game types (FPS, MMO, etc.) have different constraints and needs. We understand the different business models for games and have extensive experience analyzing and securing many types of games and gaming consoles. Our approach is tailored to your specific needs.