29 PUBLIC GAMING INTERNATIONAL • JULY/AUGUST 2022 Security There is an extraordinary amount of quality and security practices involved in the company’s instant game production process—from audits to game design and programming, to secure bar codes and scratch-off coatings on the physical game ticket, as well as the secure distribution of lottery games. This takes place from the moment the games are designed, programmed and produced, to the moment they are distributed in the lottery’s retail network and placed on sale to the moment they are validated for a prize. Multiple and overlapping layers of security systems protect the integrity of each and every game, including state-of-the art firewalls, networks and other security appliances and applications. At the core of these protected layers of security systems, game data is fully encrypted using highly advanced encryption systems. All of the company’s systems are subject to ongoing and independent scrutiny from expert auditors who assess security on behalf of lotteries. Prizes aredistributed in agame as randomly as possible. Patented Key Dual Security technology protects games by requiring separate ‘keys’ from multiple and independent parties for each game. Two keys, one created by Scientific Games, and one created by the lottery, are needed to produce valid game data. The keys control the game’s random number generator which controls the shuffling of winning and non winning tickets in the game. The result is an unpredictable and unbiased mixture of winning and non-winning tickets. Add in the random distribution of packs from warehouses, and the millions of instant game wins around the world are random events occurring every minute of every day. As the company that created the world’s first secure instant game, Scientific Games continually develops new systems and tools that improve the security, accuracy, and efficiency of the game development process. Pre-Production The prepress function ensures that the final game to be delivered accurately matches the original art approved by the lottery and represented by the ticket proof. A simulated ticket—the contract proof—represents the final printed product in its most detailed, color accurate form using the industry’s most realistic proof generation technology. Because millions of tickets will be created from the plate files, Scientific Games’ proofing technicians reviewevery set of blueline proofs before the game can be plated for the press. The technicians are considered an audit team for the entire prepress process—from artwork, through working paper development, to plate file completion. They check that the game specifications were produced, and confirm that every aspect of the tickets is correct. Games Production Each press, or ‘printing system’, is an engineering marvel of technologies, integrating sophisticated imaging systems, custom designed drying and curing units, inspection cameras, and data capture systems— all managed by expert print professionals. Offering exceptional reliability, flexibility, and capacity, each printing system has specialized capabilities that produce diverse game designs, ticket sizes, finishes, and play styles.
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