Microsoft Announces The $260,000 Contest To Find New Approaches To Computer Security

Today Microsoft has announced BlueHat security prices, which will provide $ 260 000 in cash and prizes at the event Black Hat USA 2012.

Microsoft claims that the award is to bring together "to produce new ideas for how to sustain a title defense." First prize takes home $ 200,000 in cash, $ 50,000 in cash in the second, third, and MSDN Universal subscription that the company has a value of $ 10,000.

The moment of creation of the price is not an accident, computer attacks worldwide increasingly common in the public eye, and more often of brass. Lulzsec and anonymously with their pranks, hacking and insecurity led to the forefront of the mind of the average consumer.

Microsoft, which acquired an interest in computer systems are secure and can afford cats (208 000 times its current level of cash), so the investment is worth the potential reward: an innovative approach to security.

Of course, the winners will be published on the case, Black Hat, Microsoft will offer a gesture more hidden way in the world.

Specifically competition "challenges security experts to design a technology implementation of new mitigation measures to prevent the exploitation of security vulnerabilities in the memory." The criteria for winning is innovation, with the most innovative project to win the top prize, according to Microsoft copy.

TNWmicrosoft like the move by Microsoft, as it should stimulate discussion, and perhaps some new ideas loose, but I think a slow way to find answers to big questions, questions that must be solved now, and maybe not in one year .