Managing the iGaming Attack Surface: Player Portals, Affiliate Dashboards and API Integrations
The average iGaming operator adds 5–10 new third-party integrations per quarter. Each one creates new subdomains, new APIs, new login portals, new cloud resources. Your attack surface is growing faster than your security team can track it. Hadrian maps every asset — including the ones you've forgotten about.
Hadrian finds an average of 35% more assets than operators know they have.
What the iGaming Attack Surface Looks Like
A typical MGA-licensed operator with 200 employees has a far larger attack surface than they realise:
- Player-facing website + mobile apps (iOS, Android)
- Affiliate management portal (often on a separate subdomain)
- Back-office and CRM access interfaces
- API endpoints for game content, payments, and data feeds
- Partner/agent portals for B2B relationships
- Development and staging environments (often forgotten, rarely secured)
- Cloud storage (S3 buckets, Azure Blob) — misconfigured storage is a leading breach vector
- Employee remote access (VPN endpoints, remote desktop)
- Third-party integrations that expose your brand via iframes or shared scripts
The Forgotten Assets Problem
Every iGaming company has digital assets they've forgotten exist: a staging environment from 18 months ago that still runs an old, unpatched version of the platform; a subdomain pointing to a decommissioned service that's been taken over; an old API endpoint that was meant to be turned off but is still responding. These forgotten assets are prime targets — they're real, they're live, and nobody is monitoring them.
Continuous Attack Surface Management with Hadrian
Hadrian uses the same discovery techniques as attackers — passive reconnaissance, DNS enumeration, certificate transparency logs, internet-wide scanning — to build a complete map of your external attack surface. It then tests every asset it finds for vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and exposures. As your attack surface changes (new integrations, new cloud resources, new acquisitions), Hadrian discovers the changes and assesses them automatically. Your attack surface map is always current.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is attack surface management?
Attack surface management (ASM) is the continuous process of discovering, cataloguing, and testing all of an organisation's externally accessible assets for vulnerabilities and exposures. It answers the question: "What can an attacker see and reach from the public internet?"
How does Hadrian differ from a traditional vulnerability scanner?
Traditional scanners test a list of assets you provide. Hadrian discovers assets you don't know about and tests them — including forgotten subdomains, misconfigured cloud storage, and third-party integrations. It runs continuously, not as a periodic scan.
Do we need attack surface management if we already have a firewall and antivirus?
Firewalls and antivirus protect your internal network. Attack surface management discovers what's exposed on the public internet — the entry points that exist before an attacker ever reaches your firewall.
Map your complete attack surface with Hadrian
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