There’s been a lot of talk about the limitations of the newly regulated Swedish market due to operators only being allowed to offer one introductory bonus to players.

But bonuses are not the only thing players are looking for in today’s highly competitive online gambling marketplace. Today many users are more concerned about better service and faster withdrawals.

I believe if operators focused on these they would more than make up for any player churn being experienced due to the inability to offer regular bonuses.

One of the big trends taking off in the Swedish market over the past year has been the so-called ‘no-account’ casino. This term is something of a misnomer as there is indeed an account, but it is created in the background with very little effort required of players.

It would perhaps be more accurate to call it ‘automated registration’ and this would certainly be more popular with regulators, who are understandably concerned about any description that implies inadequate checks are being carried out.

This simplified registration process, made possible by Trustly, is particularly suited to the Swedish market, where consumers are racing towards a cashless society but are at the same time very protective of their privacy.

And, crucially for operators struggling to adapt to the new bonus regime in Sweden, customers using this automated registration process do not expect bonuses.

They do, however, expect to receive their money immediately when they win. One of the big frustrations among players is operators that hold onto their money for longer than they should, sometimes under the guise of doing KYC.

KYC is, of course, very important, but it shouldn’t be used as an excuse to delay payouts to players.

At Altenar we’ve recently launched our first sportsbook client in the regulated Swedish market, LuckyCasino.com, which offers Trustly to players.

While we recognised the attraction of the system and the importance of immediate withdrawals, we also saw the need to adapt the process to account for the fact that compared with casino, in sports betting there is a greater risk of fraud due to the potential for misuse of inside information.

We therefore designed a feature so that limits can be set, varying from operator to operator and segment to segment, and that when payouts go over that limit we have to manually approve the settlement.

By putting such thresholds in place, players can still enjoy the services of Trustly when betting, but there are protections in place to make sure the system is robust.

Operators using the automated registration process have reported huge success so far and I believe in the next 12 months almost all operators in Sweden will have implemented this. We’re shortly about to launch our second Swedish licensed operator using the same feature.

New entrants to the market should look to compete with the more established players by getting ahead of the curve in this way rather than trying to attract customers with huge first-time bonuses.

While many in the industry have complained about the bonus limitations, I believe we will have a better market without the constant slew of bonus offers.

I’ve been involved in the Swedish market for many years, going right back to my time at Expedt in 2002 through to working with Altenar’s partners both before and after the market regulated.

If we look back to the early 2000s, the bonuses that companies were offering their users were simply tools to help them learn the systems. Over time, this evolved into more and more operators throwing large sums of money at players to attract or retain them.

As a marketing tool this simply isn’t sustainable over the long term. It’s time operators started looking at other ways to attract and retain players and automated registration is certainly a good place to start.

Written by Dinos Stranomitis COO Altenar.

Several companies that dabble with digital content on daily basis store their data on cloud. This data consists of private information of users and comprises of billions of terabytes in size. This delicate data faces threats from ransomwares and malwares. Hence, there arises the need for cloud security. Many software companies strive on making their firewalls impregnable by upgrading their security software.

CloudPassage is a security pioneer which has been awarded the first-ever patent for universal cloud infrastructure security and a leading innovator in cloud asset visibility. To help the company identify and remediate cloud risks, CloudPassage launched Halo. Its primary objective is to find a threat in any deployment in any company’s multi-cloud or hybrid cloud platform. Software Vulnerability Assessment tools and Cloud Service Management (CSM) are key differentiators for the platform. They offer insights on the threats and risks that could arise with usage of different types of cloud services in the organization. One of the key components of CloudPassage Halo is compliance monitoring. It is an automated process of identifying the arrays that informs the company when the configuration or workload strays away from the defined protocols.

The key features of CloudPassage Halo are software vulnerability assessment, file integrity monitoring, secure configuration assessment, and log-based intrusion detection. It offers automated security visibility and compliance monitoring for workloads that run in any on-premise, hybrid cloud, or public cloud environment. Furthermore, it enables monitoring while configuration of a software and reduces the vulnerability by scanning the surface for cloud workloads. It is a single platform that hosts three licensed SKUs: Halo Container Secure, Halo Cloud Secure, and Halo Server Secure.

Keysight Technologies is one of the leading companies that offer solutions to service providers, government, and enterprises ensuring cloud security. Recently, it announced that Symantec and Ixia (a Keysight Business) would extend their collaboration to upgrade their secure hybrid networks. The customers of Symantec would gain real-time visibility into their cloud database as Ixia’s CloudLens integrate with Symantec Security Analytics. This integration will lead to forming an industry-leading threat detection and forensics solution. When any enterprise stores their resources on the cloud, there is often a gap in visibility for those cloud assets. By adapting the cloud database, the IT operations organization is restricted to gain access to the infrastructure and networks that underpin its services. This leads a gap while monitoring those services.

In hybrid network system, SOC teams of enterprises require packet-level access to ensure that their cloud assets are protected. Symantec is working closely with Ixia as it is a part of the Integrated Cyber Defense Platform strategy to develop visibility architecture. This integration enables the SOC admins visibility in the cloud traffic and determine the source and scope of prominent attack or threat to the cloud infrastructure. Bryan Cardoza, product manager, Symantec stated that the recent enterprise comprises of mixed assets, including the data of infrastructure and premises, in the cloud. By operating hybrid cloud environment, this information would be prone to threats and security breaches. This integration will gain customers the full visibility of packet-levels in cloud in hybrid environment and network systems.

Comprehensive forensics and incident responses can be enabled with Security Analytics, by recording and enriching the traffic. Symantec Security Analytics is the key component of the Symantec’s Integrated Cyber Defense solutions. It works with Ixia’s CloudLens and Vision ONE for seamless traffic visibility across hybrid networks. Ixia’s Vision One network is a physical network that processes, feeds, and aggregates the traffic from several access points to Symantec Security Analytics appliances. Ixia’s CloudLens is programmed to gain visibility of the cloud environment and send traffic to Symantec’s Virtual Appliances. This traffic that is received through virtual and physical appliances is analyzed and processed. The results obtained from the analysis and then delivered through an aggregated view within Security Analytics.

A world leader in NextGen SIEM, LogRhythm, strives in empowering enterprises all over the world and reduce operational and cyber risk by quickly detecting, responding, and neutralizing the harmful cyberthreats. It has released a new Cloud-Based NextGen Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Platform to improve the cloud security. The platform provides accurate detection and accelerated neutralization of sophisticated cyberthreats. The benefits from this platform are driven by LogRhythm’s end-to-end platform architecture. It uses patented and high-end machine-based analytics and its embedded security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) functionality. This ensures customers can now endorse best-in-class analyst experience offered by LogRhythm. Furthermore, it calculates the efficiency and other benefits while reducing the expenditures.

The customers of LogRhythm Cloud services require significantly lesser time to administer, deploy, and maintain the platform whilst spending more time using LogRhythm. This specially benefits the platform that is designed to reduce mean time to respond (MTTR) and mean time to deploy (MTTD) at the lowest cost of ownership (TCO). Kevin Merolla, the security manager at Chart Inc. said that the problem for solution maintenance was never an issue while working alongside LogRhythm Cloud. He could identify new cases for production instead of wasting time for setting up new hardware and software. It makes LogRhythm Cloud more valuable as it can be used across multiple other networks.

As the threat to private data increases, many companies aim to integrate cloud security. Many software companies have invested in the market of cloud security to develop new software that will put a stop to ransomwares and malwares. This has greatly profited the market of cloud security. As technology advances, more and more enterprises choose to digitalize its documents. To ensure the protection of this digital data, the need for cloud security increases at a substantial rate. The fast pace advancement of digital sector will drive the market for cloud security to new heights. After performing exhaustive research, Allied Market Research has forecasted that the global market for cloud security would rise to $8.9 billion at a CAGR of 23.5% by 2020. The fast pace advancement of digital sector will drive the market for cloud security to new heights.

By: Pratik Kirve

Pratik Kirve holds a bachelor degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering and currently working as a Content Writer at Allied Analytics LLP. He has avid interest in writing articles across different verticals. When he is not following updates and trends, he spends his time reading, writing poetry, and playing football.

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