Cisco Systems is offering up to $300,000 in prize money to members of the global security community who propose the best practical security solutions across the markets being impacted daily by the IoT The deadline for submissions will be June 17 and the winners will be announced at the company s second annual Internet of Things World Forum in Barcelona, Spain later this year. The security instabilities of cars and medical devices have been made clear over the past several years. The Food and Drug Administration urged medical device manufacturers to take security more seriously last year.
Source: https://threatpost.com/cisco-challenging-programmers-to-secure-the-internet-of-things/104587/