Interviewer: What is iovation?
Darin: iovation provides a service for games and websites to help them fight fraud and abuse.
Interviewer: Is this credit card checks or what exactly is it? And how would a game use this service?
Darin: Well, actually it’s not credit card checks. We consider fraud just another kind of abuse on a website. We handle it all the same way. We do that with device recognition and device reputation. We provide a global database of devices, and we track their reputations so we can tell you, when you send us a transaction, what that device has been up to.
Interviewer: Can you give me specific examples of how games use this service to eliminate fraud for a better experience for the legitimate players?
Darin: Yeah, it’s very easy. Before they let the user log in or use a part of their game or service, they check with us and find out what the computer’s reputation is. For example, if they are concerned about chat abusers, they can send us a transaction, find out whether or not we’ve seen them commit chat abuse on their site or anybody else’s site, and they can decide how to act on it.
We do the same thing with fraud. Before a financial transaction you can check with us, and we’ll tell you whether or not they’ve committed some kind of fraud on your site or somebody else’s site.
Read the entire interview with Darin Glatt, iovation application architect, here.
