November 1, 2011

German IT Security Prize 2012 – call for participation

Horst Görtz-Foundation awards 200.000 to applied IT Security solutions

The Horst Görtz-Foundation calls for participation in the competition for the 4th German IT Security Prize. The prestigious award is endowed with the highest prize money for applied IT security solutions in Germany: a total of 200.000 Euro is distributed between three winners, chosen from ten nominees. The Jury is looking for ideas and concepts from the areas of IT security, cryptography, system and network security and cyber defense.

Developers or scientists from companies and research institutes are invited to participate; the leading applicant has to be working or studying in Germany. CASED is organizing the competition and hosting the award ceremony on November 29th, 2012 in Darmstadt.

Registration deadline: February 14th, 2012

Deadline for short proposal: February 29th, 2012

Further information (in German only) at: www.horst-goertz.de/it_preis.html