Cyber security has become the new frontier in the security and defence world.
Therefore, we seek the world's most creative innovators and start-ups to help responding to these mounting challenges in cyber security. We recognize that many disruptive innovations are not ready for mass commercialization and we encourage researchers and infant companies to apply for this year'sCyber Security Challenge. The judging for this award will focus mainly on the disruptive potential of the technology, focusing less on the idea's maturity.
BAE Systems are sponsoring the Cyber Security Challenge through their Investment in Innovation team:"Cyber Security is a key area for us to further invest in both because of the wide range of issues currently faced and the breadth of work being done in the space. We seek to uncover the creative capabilities of innovators in universities and SMEs that apply to information assurance and cyber security needs."
Targeted Technologies: Examples of our areas of interest include data protection, user authentication, penetration testing, network protection, spam-prevention, anti-malware, identification of data theft, detection of dormant threats on corporate servers, tackling of identity theft on the internet and defences for virtualised computing resources.The winners of this year's Cyber Security Challenge will receive:
- £5,000 GBP cash award for the 1st place winner, sponsored by BAE Systems
- £4,000 GBP cash award to be split among the two runner-ups, sponsored by BAE Systems
- Mentorship by Nick Kingsbury (Venture Capitalist, former partner at 3i)
Who can Apply: Individuals & Companies
Deadline for Submissions: May 15, 2009
How to Apply: Enter by using our online submission system
The Global Security Challenge LLP (GSC) is a central hub for security innovators, start-ups and investors. It is a valuable launching pad for security innovation and each year over $500,000 USD is awarded in its world leading competitions to start-ups, entrepreneurs and researchers within the security technology field. The top contenders from previous competitions have subsequently raised over $52 million in new capital.
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