August Security

Scientific monitoring of the Championships the mikado soft by security experts of the Fachhochschule Hannover Berlin, 18.07.2011 – only are world famous companies have become the victims of misuse of data on a vast scale. But even without these recent cases is undisputed that IT security in today’s digital world is one of the most important topics. Therefore, the mikado aligns soft gmbh with the scientific support of the University of Hanover the first German championship in the area of IT-security. This competence competition addressed practitioners from companies and public institutions, which have to do in their area of activity with the security. He starts on the 2nd August 2011 and promises attractive prices to the three winners of the finale. Also, the best 25 participants will receive a certificate with the placement in the competition, which can be useful for the future career as proof of the professional qualification in this topic.

A registration can be made at are all Participants receive their personal access information shortly before the start automatically for the first round of the game. Overall, they must prove themselves in four rounds to penetrate into the finals of the best five. 12 questions to a freely selectable time are within a several-day period to answer per round. These rounds are conducted online, with a certain number of participants for the next round will qualify each. Only the finale takes place live in Munich. The content of the German IT security Championship responsibility Prof. Dr. Josef of heroes.

He teaches at the University of Hanover since 1999. His work focuses on the topics of security architectures, as well as system and network security include trusted computing. At the same time, he leads the research group Trust@FHH. There is no doubt that the challenges in the IT security will constantly continue to rise, because our world now of digital systems with their diverse networking new Attack surface produces.