Case Study: Sportingbet achieves real-time, cross-tier visibility and stronger security with ExtraHop

ExtraHop enhances visibility and security for Sportingbet

Sportingbet operates local sportsbooks, virtual games and casino sites for millions of customers across 200 countries, managing 50 different website brands and millions of transactions weekly. With a heterogeneous infrastructure (Unix, Linux, Windows, multi-vendor networking) and strict regulatory and security requirements, the IT team needed deeper, real-time visibility into application performance and threats without adding agents or latency.

Sportingbet deployed an ExtraHop EH8100 appliance to passively analyze wire data (20 Gbps, up to 825,000 transactions/sec), giving correlated cross‑tier visibility and full‑stream analysis. The platform enabled faster root‑cause diagnosis (for example, spotting a DNS bottleneck), proactive alerts on performance and security issues (brute‑force and scraper detection), and immediate ROI through improved monitoring, troubleshooting and threat detection—while plans are underway to extend insights via ExtraHop’s Open Data Stream.

Sportingbet

Lee Riches

Operational Analyst