Grants Kaspersky: the second space for your ideas
To earn a name and money on information security, you need not go to the “home wizard for your PC” calls, but make a more fundamental contribution to the industry. If you have interesting ideas in one of the areas of interest to Kaspersky Lab, then you can take part in the competition held by the company and get 100 thousand rubles for the project. And the experience of previous years shows that participation in the program itself becomes for the contestants a “rocket knapsack”, bringing to the world of big IT.
Winning the competition is easier than it seems. New topics (as a rule, unpleasant ones) constantly arise in information security, therefore, finding an original and useful field of research is more than realistic. For example, in 2011, Yaroslav Turovsky from Voronezh State University, who approached IB from the standpoint of pure psychology, became one of the winners - his research was called “Cognitive patterns of victimization behavior in cyberspace”. In general, the most diverse areas of knowledge are applicable to the subject of information security — from analyzing Big Data to parallel computing on GPU in cryptographic algorithms.
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When the original idea was born, you need to fill out a short application on the website of the Kaspersky Academy , and hold your breath before April 15 - on this day finalists will be determined among the contestants. They will have to conduct their research for six months in order to present it to the jury at the very beginning of December, and find out who became the winner and the recipient of the cherished grants. This year there are five nominations: “Classification of malicious and potentially dangerous programs”, “Methods for detecting and analyzing cyber threats”, “Information security in the corporate environment”, “Content analysis”, “Mobile device security”. Everything is very tasty, promising and very, very demanded by the business. And the approval of Kaspersky Lab experts serves as a sort of quality mark. Here is how another winner of past years, Igor Sychev, talks about this: “After the grant ... I left for an internship at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA, USA, where I was an intern at the Extreme Computing Group during the summer of 2012. Now I have returned to Russia and work at ABBYY (we are doing the Skolkovo grant project), I am studying in graduate school at HSE. As the personnel officers and my mentor from Microsoft told me, they did not understand what “Kaspersky Grant” was, but it sounded cool. That is to say, a quality mark, that LC will not knit brooms. So participation in the program had a very good effect on my work - I would hardly have gotten into Microsoft Research without participating in the Grants of Kaspersky Lab. ”
A pleasant change in the current grant program was that not only Russian researchers, but also their colleagues from other CIS countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine, can take part in the competition. Reception of applications is already open, you need to tell about yourself, your experience and your projects until March 18, 2013.
Winning the competition is easier than it seems. New topics (as a rule, unpleasant ones) constantly arise in information security, therefore, finding an original and useful field of research is more than realistic. For example, in 2011, Yaroslav Turovsky from Voronezh State University, who approached IB from the standpoint of pure psychology, became one of the winners - his research was called “Cognitive patterns of victimization behavior in cyberspace”. In general, the most diverse areas of knowledge are applicable to the subject of information security — from analyzing Big Data to parallel computing on GPU in cryptographic algorithms.
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When the original idea was born, you need to fill out a short application on the website of the Kaspersky Academy , and hold your breath before April 15 - on this day finalists will be determined among the contestants. They will have to conduct their research for six months in order to present it to the jury at the very beginning of December, and find out who became the winner and the recipient of the cherished grants. This year there are five nominations: “Classification of malicious and potentially dangerous programs”, “Methods for detecting and analyzing cyber threats”, “Information security in the corporate environment”, “Content analysis”, “Mobile device security”. Everything is very tasty, promising and very, very demanded by the business. And the approval of Kaspersky Lab experts serves as a sort of quality mark. Here is how another winner of past years, Igor Sychev, talks about this: “After the grant ... I left for an internship at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA, USA, where I was an intern at the Extreme Computing Group during the summer of 2012. Now I have returned to Russia and work at ABBYY (we are doing the Skolkovo grant project), I am studying in graduate school at HSE. As the personnel officers and my mentor from Microsoft told me, they did not understand what “Kaspersky Grant” was, but it sounded cool. That is to say, a quality mark, that LC will not knit brooms. So participation in the program had a very good effect on my work - I would hardly have gotten into Microsoft Research without participating in the Grants of Kaspersky Lab. ”
A pleasant change in the current grant program was that not only Russian researchers, but also their colleagues from other CIS countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine, can take part in the competition. Reception of applications is already open, you need to tell about yourself, your experience and your projects until March 18, 2013.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/170105/
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