Security Considerations In Games Platforms
The first, the most obvious and the most publicized threat to the games industry is the Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack. Because so many games now contain online content and cloud stored save games, a service disruption will render the game unusable. A DDOS attack can be executed by directly targeting the games servers. Far more effective, however, is a large-scale attack on the platform cloud services such as Microsoft Xbox Live or Sony’s PlayStation Network or the Steam network....