Tonight the 2012 ICE Totally Gaming Conference & Exhibition kicked off at 8 Northumberland in London with the Totally Gaming Awards banquet. Celebrity presenter Katie Derham hosted the banquet, which was designed to cover all gaming sectors along with media, marketing, and outstanding contribution awards. The 2012 awards were open to all suppliers and operators in the European gaming market and recognized and rewarded innovation, as well as great products and services from the gaming industry.

Here are some of tonight’s 2012 Totally Gaming Award winners:

• 888.com for Best Online Product of the Year (iovation was a finalist)
• Betfair for iPhone for Best Mobile Gaming Product
• Holland Casino Amsterdam for Best Casino Operator
• Jan Jones and Ron Goudsmit for Outstanding Service to the Land-Based Industry
• Wes Himes for Outstanding Service to the Remote Industry
• Novomatic for the Media Award
• Inspired Gaming Group for Best Betting Product
• Casinos Austria for Best Marketing Campaign
• Casino Cosmopol Sun vaal for Best Casino 
• Raff Ltd for Best Lottery Product
• JMC Global for Best Street Supplier 

Next up on the ICE agenda is the Combating Cybercrime in Gaming conference at Earls Court. Starting Tuesday, January 24th, attendees will find a great line-up of topics, including jurisdictional approaches to investigating cybercrime, knowing “who” and “where” your gaming customers are, implementing strategies to reduce data leakage from your network, cybercrime hotspots and forecasting future threats, and staying ahead of mobile gaming fraudsters.

iovation’s vice president of global sales, Max Anhoury, leads the mobile gaming fraud panel at 2:00 pm, titled Staying One Step Ahead of Mobile Fraudsters, to help attendees understand the latest cybercrime threats and how gaming operators can better protect their business, brand and customers.  Joining Mr. Anhoury will be Darwyn Palenzuela, Chief Technology Officer at Smart Gaming Group and Christina Thakor-Rakin, Head of Operations at Virgin Games. iovation will be sharing worldwide mobile device trends from its global reputation database of more than 800 million unique devices, which includes PCs, laptops, smartphones, tablets and consoles. 

iovation offers mobile fraud protection by uniquely identifying mobile devices that touch its clients websites or applications. The company employs a “defense-in-depth” approach to identifying, recognizing and developing a reputation for each mobile device, which includes multiple components and strategies that work in concert to help online businesses fight fraud effectively. iovation’s device reputation service includes both web and native device recognition, with SDKs for iOS and Android available globally. Managing the associations between devices provides opportunities for device re-identification even when evasion techniques are in play.

Those attending iovation’s Mobile Gaming Fraud Panel will learn:

• Mobile gaming offerings available and the progress and challenges posed
• Mobile fraud schemes and how gaming sites detect and prevent them
• Popular real-time rules that gaming operators are using to detect and deny fraudulent transactions
• Advanced technologies that will impact your strategy today and in the future
• Regulatory and compliance issues with regard to managing fraud on mobile devices
• Mobile application development and experiences with iOS and Android approval and distribution systems
• Future trends and mobile gaming growth expectations by operators

If you are unable to attend the presentation, but would like to learn how to protect your gaming site from chargebacks, identity theft, bonus abuse and collusion, stop by the iovation booth #5117 during the exhibition and speak with our team!

Tags: device recognition, ICE Totally Gaming, iovation, Max Anhoury, mobile device reputation, mobile fraud, Mobile Gambling, Mobile Gaming, ReputationManager 360, Totally Gaming Awards

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