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EXCLUSIVE: Avneet Rana from Baazi Games tells us about data security and privacy on gaming platforms

Baazi Games is an online gaming platform which has over 7.5 million registered users, across its verticals – BalleBaazi.com, RummyBaazi.com and PokerBaazi.com.

BalleBaazi is India’s fastest-growing and most trusted fantasy cricket app. Cricket fans who have immense knowledge of the game can exhibit their team-building skills on BalleBaazi.com.

RummyBaazi is focused on delivering a thrilling online rummy experience, RummyBaazi is the latest online venture of Baazi Games. This business house is known for its disruptive market dynamics and player-centric initiatives over an extended spectrum of virtual gaming in India. RummyBaazi is its specialized arm that offers an exclusive online rummy gaming experience on its safe and secure platform.

PokerBaazi.com is the brain-child of a young, energetic and dynamic team of five co-founders and passionate poker players. It provides the best gaming experience to Indian players which sometimes rivals the International counterparts. Gaming with PokerBaazi is seamless with hassle-free withdrawals.

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avneet rana EXCLUSIVE: Avneet Rana from Baazi Games tells us about data security and privacy on gaming platforms

In an exclusive interview with TechnoSports, Mr Avneet Rana, Co-Founder and Director of Technology at Baazi Games has spoken about data security and privacy on gaming platforms and the future trends

We asked a few questions to which Mr Avneet Rana has answered. Here’s what he told us:

1. Is the data really secured on gaming platforms?

Data Security has been one of the key pillars to which we can attribute our success. We, at Baazi Games, have done a significant amount of research and analysis in incorporating the industry-standard best practices to keep our platform safe and less vulnerable to any kind of data breach or similar malpractices. Over the years, we have been hands-on with understanding the scope and impact of such attacks and implementing robust solutions after gathering the insights and learnings. During the lockdown, the technology world witnessed a surge in DDOS attacks. As a proactive measure, we further enhanced our security architecture. All our platforms are covered through continuous monitoring and penetration testing, giving us an advantage to mitigate any security vulnerability before it becomes a major issue. Today, our data security measures are stable and all of our platforms are well-structured and secured.

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2. How do the gaming platforms maintain data security and privacy?

We understand the criticality of the data we are dealing with, hence give utmost priority to data security. Rigorous testing of the code, infrastructure and online platforms is a daily exercise, which ensures that there are no loopholes whatsoever. From signing up on our platform till the user is playing and winning and withdrawing money, the data is secured at multiple levels by our security policies which use AI-based algorithms to find any vulnerability. Furthermore, frequent audits are done at different levels to ensure the same.

3. What are the new trends in online gaming?

As per KPMG, India is one of the largest emerging market considering the daily gaming app downloads and the world’s fastest-growing mobile gaming market, which gives us a lot of scope to innovate and offer users an enriching experience. Due to the lockdown, people spend more time online and are bound to play for a longer duration. It is important that we understand this scenario and bring in the users to play on our platforms from everywhere. We did aggressive marketing campaigns during this time, hosted out of the box tournaments which had very lucrative guaranteed winnings and introduced new features every now and then. Our private table feature on PokerBaazi.com brought people closer to their loved ones during the quarantine period and virtual tournaments on BalleBaazi.com kept people entertained when there were no live sports. As more and more people are getting connected with mobile phones, tablets and laptops, which has become a latest technology trend globally, we expanded and revamped our architecture and infrastructure technology to incorporate the increasing user base and growing business. Our tech stacks are now capable of holding 1 million concurrent users.

4. What is the expected growth of the industry in the coming years? According to the report, Gaming – India Story, by Maple Capital Advisors, India has about 300 Mn online gamers and the download of online games are to grow by 43% by FY22 due to the growth of digital infrastructure and substantial rise in quality and engaging gaming content. The online gaming market is rising exponentially and with the technology journey moving from video games to cell phones, it has become very convenient for the users to connect and get started. Cloud-based sub-genre games are in the demand today. This not just gives the freedom to access games anytime without downloading apps, but also allows them to play games online with real players from around the world. Over the years, the success of online gaming has grown to be dependent largely on the experience and convenience offered by the platforms. Along with the aforementioned two attributes, we believe that sense of security should also be given due attention. It is more than important now to keep a check on the responsible gaming aspect; to ensure which we have adopted technologies like advanced data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence, guaranteeing a safe environment for our users.

About Mr Avneet Rana, Co-Founder and Director of Technology at Baazi Games

An engineer by qualification, Avneet Rana started his professional career at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in 2012. However, with time passing by, Avneet became disillusioned with his tenure at TCS and at the same time came an opportunity from a former college mate and an avid Poker enthusiast – Mr. Navkiran Singh, CEO of Baazi Games – and he took the leap of faith to showcase his skills in the field of software.

Based out of Delhi, Avneet has been with the brand since the hay days of PokerBaazi.com. He has been responsible for designing the UI and was integral to the rollout of the PokerBaazi version 1.0 on 23rd October 2014.

A man of pure talent and hard work, Avneet holds strong opinions about the digital future of virtual gaming in India, the promising future of budding gaming start-ups and the exponential growth of the online gaming industry in India.

He has been at the core of building strong products under Baazi Games, which includes creating agile apps that can be further developed according to the product life cycle and product feature learning curve based on the user community itself. He has devised the architectural framework keeping in mind the agility of human perception of technology and the fast pace of the fraternity. Using API based microservices to reduce the framework rigidity, internally developed ML and AI for smooth functioning of the apps, Avneet has always kept us ahead of the curve.

He has led a very data-driven approach to prepare roadmaps and ML-powered planning for various engaging campaigns. Additionally, he has been a key cog in the wheel to offer the users a safe and seamless user interface as he drives the development of the security department as well. Navkiran and Avneet being the tech visionaries they have built a strong in-house team who is always at the disposal of creating and maintaining the products.

Avneet completed his engineering in 2012 from Manipal University. He is also
passionate about playing football and has been a poker enthusiast since his college days.

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