OCGN · Traditional Organised Crime and the Internet: The changing organization of illegal gambling networks

Traditional Organised Crime and the Internet: The changing organization of illegal gambling networks

This title of this project was ‘Policing Traditional Organised Crime and the Internet: The changing organization of illegal gambling networks’. There are a few EU publications on cyber security/cyber crime and the gambling sector. However, those that have been published have indicated that regulation is often on an ad-hoc basis and in an informal manner. This project therefore set out to address the impact, reach and threats that organised crime has and can cause to this under researched field. This proposal built on previous EU research but focused on cyber security prevention strategies and threats to and from organised crime to online gambling sites in particular. Since there is limited research in the EU on how these online gambling sites manage internal and external threats and inform the police of security threats this research set out to produce a set of recommendations for law enforcement, national and international EU policy makers and online gambling system managers that highlight best practice within the EU in preventing the threats to online gambling. 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. This 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.

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