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Enhancing Security and Compliance for Games24x7 with Nirmata

India’s leading online gaming company achieves continuous compliance and robust security for its Kubernetes environments with Nirmata Control Hub, the Unified Governance Platform.

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Games24x7 by the numbers

Users on Games24x7 platforms
100M+
To set up Nirmata, plus a few hours of training
<2 hours

Challenge

Opportunity

Games24x7, a pioneering online gaming company in India with 100 million+ users, is renowned for its popular platforms like RummyCircle and My11Circle. As a leader in the dynamic and rapidly evolving gaming industry, Games24x7 continuously faces significant security and compliance challenges.

Games24x7’s rapid growth and complex infrastructure posed substantial security and compliance challenges. As a digital-native business with hybrid workloads, the company needed a solution that could handle continuous monitoring and compliance in a highly dynamic environment. Traditional policy governance methods were inadequate, prompting Games24x7 to seek an approach that could provide developer self-service while ensuring robust security.

  • Dynamic threat vectors and constantly changing environments in the gaming domain.
  • Need for continuous monitoring and compliance due to the agility and ephemeral nature of workloads.
  • Requirement for policy-as-code solutions to manage security policies effectively.
  • Existing solutions were too complex, inflexible, and difficult to manage.

“It has been a great experience working with Nirmata. From the initial POC to the deployment and ongoing support, their team has been highly responsive and technically proficient. Nirmata’s solutions have significantly improved our security posture, enabling us to provide a safe and compliant environment for our users.”

— Kuldeep Tomar, CTO, Games24x7

Solution

Solution and implementation

Games24x7 turned to Nirmata for its ability to automate security and compliance with policy-as-code, tailored specifically for cloud-native applications. Nirmata provided a seamless and efficient way to manage security policies, offering ease of deployment and adoption.

  • Policy-as-code. Enabled Games24x7 to define and enforce security policies dynamically.
  • Continuous monitoring. Provided real-time discovery and resolution of misconfigurations.
  • Centralized governance. Streamlined policy governance and compliance across all environments.

The onboarding process was straightforward and quick, taking less than two hours for setup and a few hours for training. Games24x7, which was already using AWS, required a solution that could enforce Amazon EKS best practices. The ease of use and the technical support from Nirmata’s team played a crucial role in the implementation, ensuring compliance with Amazon EKS standards and enhancing the overall security posture.

Results

Outcome

The deployment brought significant improvements to Games24x7’s security posture:

  • Continuous compliance. Achieved through codified policies and centralized governance, reducing the risk of non-compliance penalties.
  • Enhanced security. Continuous monitoring led to quick discovery and mitigation of vulnerabilities, significantly reducing the likelihood of security breaches.
  • Operational efficiency. Easy deployment and adoption reduced operational complexity, so IT and security teams could focus on strategic initiatives rather than managing complex security systems.
  • Cost savings. Early detection of misconfigurations and non-compliant resources prevented costly security incidents and minimized the need for manual interventions, lowering operational costs.

Next steps

Next steps

Games24x7 is expanding its container-based infrastructure and aims for 100% container-based deployments, with Nirmata ensuring continuous compliance and security for containerized workloads. Games24x7 is also a design partner for Nirmata’s capabilities to scan infrastructure-as-code files in CI/CD pipelines.

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