A security system is a tool that helps you identify your critical assets and protect them. Implementing a systematic approach to security issues increases your ability to manage, measure, and improve internal security processes.
Manage your operational risks
Most lotteries depend upon information technology (IT) in that they are reliant on processing, storing, and transmitting data. But a security system includes much more than the IT of your business. In addition to targeting your physical security, information technology, and the lottery drawing itself, the security system should include the following areas of your operations:
- design
- development
- marketing
- sales
- operations
- support services
The security system targets your operational risk and efficiency, and assisting you in implementing processes and procedures that can help you manage the operational risks in the areas mentioned above.
Protecting the integrity
Lotteries regardless of size face security demands from various stakeholders. In the wake of deregulation and the penetration of the Internet, lottery fraud by unserious actors is becoming more prevalent.
The World Lottery Association (WLA) is working to protect the integrity and promote the role of state-licensed lotteries as generators of funds for good causes. By turning the focus on security systems, WLA wishes to underscore the importance of procedural security and visibility in lottery operations.
WLA has developed the WLA Security Control Standards©, which are security standards tailor made for lottery operations. Certification of your operations according to this standard can help you demonstrate to your stakeholders that your lottery’s security system measures up to the best practice in the industry.
Where do I go from here?
To get on the road to certification, you should begin reading about the WLA Security Control Standards©, which are applicable to all members of WLA wishing to undergo third party certification of their security system.
