Case Study: Sycuan Casino Resort achieves continuous automated security validation and stronger defenses with Pentera

How Sycuan Casino Resort Improved its Security Validation Program

Sycuan Casino Resort, a major San Diego hotel and casino with a complex environment of thousands of slot machines, cloud services, and hundreds of endpoints supported by a small IT team, was struggling with slow, burdensome manual penetration tests that left large parts of its attack surface unchecked and exposed to ransomware risk. To scale and automate validation, Sycuan deployed Pentera (Pentera Core) to address coverage gaps and speed up security testing.

Pentera automated continuous security validation and enabled Sycuan’s lean team to run gray-box and black-box tests that uncovered previously unknown issues (including weak passwords and feasible man‑in‑the‑middle scenarios), helped enforce a consistent password policy, and delivered clear risk visibility to management. By using Pentera, Sycuan instituted ongoing security checks, improved remediation prioritization, and significantly reduced the organization’s window of exposure to attacks.

Sycuan Casino Resort

Paul Wirszyla

IT Security Analyst