MAGAZINE OF THE EUROPEAN LOTTERIES, 2011, SEPTEMBER ...

and Risk Management Working Group and Director
of Security and Risk Management at La Française des
Jeux, introduced members of both committees and
highlighted the projects and tremendous amount of
work that was in the process of being completed by
both bodies.
The objectives of the seminar were also highlighted
and endorsed by moderator John Branscombe of J2B
Security Ltd.
Trond Laupstad, Head of Security at Norsk Tipping
(Norway), Thierry Pujol, Claude Mathieu, Head of
Internal Audit, and Daniëlla Van Reeth, Information
Security Advisor of the Loterie Nationale (Belgium),
described how their Lotteries were dealing with issues
surrounding retail security.
Trond Laupstad concentrated on the well-established
playerregistrationcardsysteminNorway,whilstThierry
Pujol explained the comprehensive monitoring process
in France that has over 21,000 annual visits to retail outlets
by security personnel to identify retailers who are
not complying with procedures in relation to checking
proposed winning tickets and the payment of prizes.
WORKSHOPS
Claude and Daniëlla outlined the Belgium Loterie Nationales’
retail monitoring programme.
At the conclusion of the presentations the group formed
a panel, taking many questions from the floor and
it was clearly apparent that retail security is still an important
topic of concern.
Risk Management always arouses a great deal of interest.Two
excellent presentations were given by Antonio
Gorrasi, IT Security Manager at Lottomatica SpA (Italy)
and Christos Dimitriadis, Head of Information Security
at Intralot (Greece), describing how their organisations
were dealing with risks and related issues.
Paul Jay, Head of IT Security and Networks at Camelot
UK Lotteries Ltd (UK) outlined how Camelot had
painstakingly reviewed its security focus in an effort
to make established controls and processes more business
and user friendly without diluting overall security
and integrity. This prompted much interest and
many questions.
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