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Skolkovo Cybersecurity Challenge

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Skolkovo Cybersecurity Challenge – is an international contest for innovation projects aimed at protecting the world from cyber threats.

Participation in our contest will allow you and your team to raise funding to implement your technology, leverage the recommendations of the leading industry experts, find partners and customers, and build a company that may take become an industry leader in the future.

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Cybersecurity Challenge Regulations

CATEGORIES CATEGORIES

New anti-fraud solutions
Development of new methods of systems analysis for vulnerability detection
Visualization of complex multidimensional arrays of incident data
User entity behavior analysis (UEBA)
IoT security and car security
Solutions to combat APT attack vectors in web and mobile applications

Digital copyright protection tools
New biometric and identification systems
Control systems life cycle management and incident reporting visualization systems
Honeypots
BI systems for security
Quantum cryptography and telecommunications
New IT security approaches and solutions

Special nominationsfrom partners

We invite partners

WHY PARTICIPATE We consider projects at all stages of development

Idea

Pilot project

Business launch

Existing business

WHY PARTICIPATE

All participants will be thoroughly reviewed by industry experts

Semi-finalists will deliver pitch presentations to the contest co-founders, the competent jury, and receive a reference

Monetary and other prizes from Skolkovo Foundation and the contest partners

1st place

5 000 000

RUB

2nd place

5 000 000

RUB

3rd place

5 000 000

RUB

The number of prizes may be increased to 5 prizes, RUB 5,000,000 each, by special decision of the jury

Provided that the Winner is awarded the status of Skolkovo Foundation member and undergoes the relevant procedures in accordance with the regulations of Skolkovo Foundation

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PREVIOUS YEARS' WINNERS

In the 4 years of its existence, more than 350 solutions participated in the contest. The winners became industry leaders.

After using the grant obtained through the contest, the company became a leader in the Russian market and was selected to Ү-combinator, it raised USD 6,000,000 in investments, and was ranked among the Top 1,000 fastest-growing companies in the United States

The contest made it possible to develop a new product, Secure Bank. Upon completing the grant, the company entered into a contract to protect Remote banking channels with Sberbank.

The project, which became the largest vulnerabilities base, utilizes artificial intelligence technologies to search for new vulnerabilities

PayControl is a unified transaction authentication and confirmation platform. SafeTech's solutions are currently used by the customers of 60+ Russian banks

The company's product makes it possible to verify and authenticate digital photos and document scans. Currently, the technology is being actively implemented by Russian banks, with Oz Forensics' customers including Sberbank Insurance, PaySend, QIWI, etc.

STAGES

30 November ’ 19

contest announcement
start of reception
applications

15 March’ 20

the ending
receiving applications

20 March’ 20

Correspondence
selection

29 May’ 20

competition finale
prize presentation

29 May’ 20

competition finale
prize presentation

REVIEWS

I know that the project design review is very good here. Each project is reviewed by several experts, and not by just one, so there is a comprehensive analysis. This gives hope that the projects in the contest have already been selected.

Natalya Kaspersky

CEO, InfoWatch Group of Companies, co-founder of Kaspersky Lab

Startups, and even large companies carrying out PND, need to participate in any serious contest, and this definitely is a serious contest. Contests give you the chance to test your idea on a large number of experts and to train your presentation skills by introducing your project to the public. That is why I advise everyone to participate, don't just sit around!