The ITWeb Security Summit Hackathon 2024 saw young coders dedicate over 30 hours of their time to creating AI-based security solutions.
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According to Tiyani Nghonyama, chairperson of the hackathon and Geekulcha COO, the theme focused on the need to create a highly-secure environment to provide protection against the new kind of advanced hacker and today’s emerging, sophisticated threats.The hackathon is hosted annually by ITWeb, in collaboration with youth ICT organisation Geekulcha, and is sponsored by tech firms Snode Technologies Telspace Africa, CompTIA and the Northern Cape provincial government, among others.
Working in teams, participants were requested to build security capabilities and/or defend a business, while highlighting risk mitigation against cost, reputation and overall survival of a business that would be impacted by such risks. “This year's hackathon has superseded the previous year’s hackathons by a measure of improved quality, participation numbers and highly-active female participation, and more mentors participated to provide guidance, among other aspects. Participants travelled as far as from KwaZulu-Natal and the Northern Cape, and spent countless hours on the road to reach the hackathon.”
“Sudo SPU” − another team of students from Sol Plaatje University − took home the second prize of R10 000. Their solution focused on detecting vulnerabilities and mitigating threats to protect businesses from the loss of sensitive client data, with a particular emphasis on CVE-2024-4040.
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