Protective DNS for betting shops, casinos and the gaming floor
Casinos, betting shops and adult gaming centers run gaming machines, self-service betting terminals, cash desks, card terminals and CCTV, with staff handling customer and payment data on each shift. Shield blocks phishing, malware and C2 callbacks at the DNS lookup, across each shop and floor. It helps you meet the UK Gambling Commission's security expectations, and keeps customer WiFi filtered where you offer it.
What is at stake
Where a gambling estate is exposed
Staff targeted by phishing
Shop and cage staff handle customer accounts, cash and identity checks. Criminals target them with fake logins and supplier emails.Machines and terminals online
Gaming machines, betting terminals and CCTV connect out across hundreds of shops. One infected device can reach the rest.A large estate, a small team
A betting chain may run hundreds of sites with a central IT team. Each one needs the same policy, applied without a visit.
How Shield fits
Staff, gaming floor, payments and customers kept apart
- Shop and cage staffThreat defense by Entra ID group, with new-domain blocking and VPN and proxy apps blocked.
- Gaming floor and terminalsGaming machines and betting terminals on their own VLAN, limited to their supplier domains through the relay.
- Cash desks and paymentsThreat-first policy on card terminals and cash systems, with DNSSEC validation switched on.
- Customer WiFiThreat defense and content filtering, with Safe Search and ad blocking where you offer WiFi.
Guest WiFi policy
- Adult contentBlocked
- GamblingBlocked
- Safe Search on Google, Bing and YouTubeEnforced
- Streaming at busy timesLimited
Allow list
bookings.examplemenu.exampleBlock list
rival-venue.exampleProof
What Shield gives a gambling operator
- 10 days
- earlier warning of new phishing and malware domains than standard blocklists
- ISO 27001held by Purple, alongside Cyber Essentials, GDPR and CCPA
- Cyber Essentialsheld by Purple, the UK government-backed baseline for cyber security
- IWFfiltering meets the Internet Watch Foundation bar on customer WiFi
FAQ
Questions we hear from teams like yours
Does Shield help with our UK Gambling Commission obligations?
It helps you meet the security side of your UK Gambling Commission license by blocking phishing, malware and C2 at the lookup, with reports and log streams as evidence. It does not make you compliant on its own, and it sits behind your firewall.
Can we roll it out across hundreds of shops?
Yes. Point each shop's router, firewall or DHCP at Shield, with no hardware to fit. Policy is set per site, network or VLAN from one dashboard, and scheduled PDF reports go to regional and head office teams.
Will it interfere with gaming machines or terminals?
No. You allow the supplier domains your machines and betting terminals need, and Shield checks each lookup before the connection starts. The relay shows each machine's internal IP, so you can see which one looked up what.
Can we send logs to our security operations team?
Yes. Shield streams logs to Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, Elastic, IBM QRadar, CrowdStrike, Amazon S3 or syslog, and has an open API. Single sign-on works with Okta, Microsoft Entra ID or OIDC.
What happens if Shield goes down?
Shield runs on a dual anycast DNS network and fails closed, so an outage never leaves a shop or gaming floor unfiltered. Each site keeps its policy whichever node answers the lookup.
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Decide what your network reaches, free for 30 days
Tell us which networks and sites you run and who is on them. We map a policy to each one: staff, guests, students, residents and IoT. Then point one network at Shield and see what it stops for 30 days, before you pay anything. Running change control? We plan a pilot on one site with your team instead. No hardware to install.
- We map your networksA Purple expert maps your networks, your venues and the people on each, and answers your questions on bypass, outages, data handling and integrations.
- You get a policy for each oneStaff, guests, students, residents, IoT and paid tiers, each with the policy it needs.
- You prove it, then get your tailored quote30 days free on one network, or a pilot on one site planned with your team, then Shield priced standalone or as an add-on to your Access plan.
Your policy map
Tell us your networks. We map a policy to each one.
A Purple expert comes back with a policy for every network and group you run, from the team that has run content filtering since 2012 and runs WiFi for 80,000+ venues in 90 countries.