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Veracode Hacker Games challenges university students to hack and patch real-life apps online

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Veracode announced the launch of the Veracode Hacker Games. The two-week collegiate competition will challenge computer science and cybersecurity student teams from eight leading universities across the U.S. and the U.K., including University of Virginia, Tufts and University of Warwick, to test their secure coding skills and give them the opportunity to win individual prizes, plus $15,000 in charitable donations for the top universities.

“With mounting pressure on developers to deliver software that is secure and keeps society safe from harmful cyberattacks, gaining foundational security knowledge translates to fewer exploitable problems during production and after deployment,” said Chris Wysopal, Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Veracode.

“Yet, training around secure coding is almost absent at the university level. We’ve launched The Veracode Hacker Games to help universities make secure coding a core part of their computer science and cybersecurity curriculum, while giving students an edge when it comes to putting their skills to the test in a real-world environment.”

Industry research paints a picture of the skills gap

By empowering the next generation of software developers to write secure code at the start of the development cycle, organizations will be able to better manage their risk profile.

  • Hackers are becoming more sophisticated, now attacking every 39 seconds according to a recent study by the University of Maryland.
  • According to IBM, the average total cost of a data breach for a company is nearly four million USD.
  • Currently, only 3 percent of U.S. bachelor’s degree graduates have cybersecurity-related skills (National Center for Education Statistics) and in the UK only five undergraduate computer science degrees are certified by the UK’s National Cyber Security Center for cyber security content (National Cyber Security Center).

Ming Chow, Associate Teaching Professor, Tufts University, said, “As educators, our job is to ensure the next generation is fully prepared for the challenges they will face in their careers.

“In this case, software development and security need to become tightly integrated from the start. The Hacker Games…

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Security firm Veracode sponsors $15K hacking competition for universities

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The application security testing firm Veracode announced Thursday it’s sponsoring an ethical hacking competition featuring teams from eight U.S. and U.K. universities and will award $15,000 in prizes.

Running from March 15 to 26, the Hacker Games — an apparent nod to the teenage battle royale series “The Hunger Games” — will pit groups of student coders against each other as they attempt to find vulnerabilities in real pieces of software. The contest, the company said, will “explore practical examples of real-world threats” and challenge students to either exploit flaws or patch them before they can be compromised.

The company said the competition was motivated by a statistic from the Department of Education that just 3% of bachelor’s degrees awarded by U.S. colleges include cybersecurity-related skills, while just 5% of computer science degrees awarded by British schools meet that standard, according to the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre.

“With mounting pressure on developers to deliver software that is secure and keeps society safe from harmful cyberattacks, gaining foundational security knowledge translates to fewer exploitable problems during production and after deployment,” Chris Wysopal, Veracode’s chief technology officer and one of the company’s co-founders, said in a press release.

Before founding Veracode in 2006, Wysopal — whose code name is “Weld Pond” — was part of a hacker collective known as L0pht, members of which were among the first cybersecurity experts to tell members of Congress, in 1998, just how vulnerable the internet is to malicious activity. The group also included Pieter “Mudge” Zatko, who was hired last November as Twitter’s head of security.

Based in Burlington, Massachusetts, Veracode has seen its value rise in recent years, first being acquired in 2017 by CA Technologies for $614 million and being sold the following year for $950 million to the venture capital firm Thoma Bravo.

The participating U.S. schools include Stonehill College, Indiana University, Tufts University and the University of Virginia. U.K. schools include University of Birmingham, University of Warwick, University of York…

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SD Times news digest: The Hacker Gamers by Veracode, GrammaTech Shift Left Academy, and Talend to be acquired by Thoma Bravo

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Veracode has introduced a secure coding competition, The Hacker Games, which aims to challenge university students to hack and patch real-life apps online to win individual prizes, plus $15,000 in charitable donations for the top universities.

“Training around secure coding is almost absent at the university level. We’ve launched The Veracode Hacker Games to help universities make secure coding a core part of their computer science and cybersecurity curriculum, while giving students an edge when it comes to putting their skills to the test in a real-world environment,” said Chris Wysopal, the founder and CTO of Veracode.

Writing secure code is especially important now as a recent study by the University of Maryland showed that hackers attack every 39 seconds and the average cost of a data breach for a company is nearly $4 million, Veracode explained.

GrammaTech Shift Left Academy
GrammaTech’s Shift Left Academy was created to provide actionable advice on integrating security earlier into development and DevOps pipelines.

The site features interviews with industry experts, technical “how to” advice and other actionable information for the DevOps and security community.

“Developers are being asked to integrate security best practices earlier in the development cycle, or what is commonly known as ‘Shift Left’, however there is resistance to implement these large-scale initiatives since they can be disruptive to their workflows and release schedules,” said Andrew Meyer, the CMO of GrammaTech. “Shift Left Academy provides practical advice and content, versus theoretical resources. Our goal is to give the DevSecOps community tools they can use to immediately improve outcomes.”

Talend to be acquired by Thoma Bravo
The data integration and data integrity provider Talend is set to be acquired by Thoma Bravo.

Talend would become a private company and continue investing in its cloud transition as well as products and solutions that serve the evolving data needs of its customers.

“Data has become critical to every facet of the world, and Talend’s data fabric empowers organizations to operationalize their data,” said Chip Virnig, a partner at…

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