SECURITY TESTING OF A SPORTSBOOK

Security Testing of a Sportsbook

Case Study

Security Testing of a Betting Portal: A leading Sportsbook and an associated Voucher Payment provider

Client is a betting portal operating in different countries with millions of dollars in revenue.

Scope: To perform a complete Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (VAPT/Dynamic Analysis) along with Source Code Assessment (Static Analysis).

  • Two web applications are hosted in AWS and written in Java utilizing WebSocket
  • AWS Infrastructure on which the applications are hosted
  • Source Code of the applications

We deliver the following test types for mobile apps

  • Functional Testing : Verify the functions of mobile app
  • Test Automation : Automation of regression suite
  • Compatibility Testing : Check compatibility across devices
  • Usability Testing : Perform the intended tasks of the app
  • Performance Testing : Check the responsiveness, Capacity and scalability
  • Security Testing : Verify Data Integrity, storage, security of logs

At ACUDAY, we perform the following security tests

  • Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (Dynamic Analysis): Scan the application using commercial as well as open source tools to identify vulnerabilities in your Sportsbook and exploit the vulnerabilities to identify the Risk.
  • Source Code Assessments (Static Analysis): Scan and Analyze the code for all the vulnerabilities using commercial as well as open source tools followed by a manual validation to eliminate False Positives.

Our Approach to Security Testing:

  1. Discovery – Understand (a) Business requirement, (b) Security and regulations & (c) Test objectives
  2. Plan – Conduct exhaustive analysis
  3. Design – List the vulnerabilities and risks and design tests and select the respective tools
  4. Execute – Conduct tests and provide score
  5. Report – Prepare a comprehensive report with POC’s (Videos) along with remediations and provide a walkthrough

Conclusion

In a nutshell, ACUDAY conducts scans to assess the external security of the Sportsbook as well as several breach-related business metrics and provide a comprehensive picture of the Sportsbook resiliency with a score. If a site’s RISK score is HIGH, it suggests that several standard security measures are probably not in place. A LOW score means the developers have given thought to web security and are taking steps to keep the Sportsbook data as private as reasonably possible.