NMi Gaming Division gains extended ISO 17025 scope

(Denmark).- NMi Gaming has been granted an extension to the scope of their ISO 17025 accreditation to cover testing and certification of all elements of the new Danish Gambling Authority (DGA) Certification Program.

2014-11-04

United States

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(Denmark).- NMi Gaming has been granted an extension to the scope of their ISO 17025 accreditation to cover testing and certification of all elements of the new Danish Gambling Authority (DGA) Certification Program.

The Program was released by the DGA this summer and the extension of scope was granted to NMi after an audit and review by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS).

The DGA described the new Program, which becomes mandatory for any certification activities carried out from January 1st, 2015, as "better suited for the execution of supervision" and also as creating "a better base for the future development of the Program".

Certification of gaming products for Denmark can only be carried out by laboratories that explicitly have the relevant documents listed on their ISO Schedule of Accreditation and operators and suppliers face another learning curve on how to understand the new regulations within the stipulated time frame.

Andrew Rosewarne, Managing Director for NMi UK commented: "We are delighted to have been accredited in accordance with the revised certification framework from the Danish Gaming Authority. We have been working with UKAS for several months to get to this point and I believe we are one of the first in the world to gain approval for the new standard.”

“We already have work under way using the new Program and customers are benefiting from the knowledge we gained from our early push for the qualification. From the January 1st, 2015, certification against the new documents will become mandatory. This applies not just to annual certification but also to the quarterly vulnerability scanning and change management reporting, so no one operating in Denmark is more than a few months away from needing expertise in the new Program.”

“Our commitment to maintaining pace with emerging and evolving regulated gaming markets means that NMi is well prepared for developments of this kind,” he concluded

The new Program implements changes to the requirements for RNGs, penetration testing and vulnerability scanning, virtualised server environments (Cloud), along with a number of clarifications and minor updates. Documents have been divided so that requirements that only apply to a specific type of gambling product are separated from those applicable to all gambling products, to enable the compilation of certification packages related to specific game types.