Security Shootout – Some insights
I recently saw the ticker on CNN – IBN that talked about a security contest called “Security Shootout” that was giving away a Scorpio as its first prize. WOW! this was cool.. and i set to investigate the contest..
Some cool things about the contest:
1. The contest is being run and sponosred by Microsoft India.
2. The contest is geared towards the Microsoft developers. Almost 50% of the questions can be attempted by anyone in any technology but the rest of them need deep knowledge of the Microsoft Development using .NET
2. The total worth of prizes for this contest is almost INR 45,00,000/- … contrast this with the Code Jam Contest (http://www.topcoder.com/pl/?module=Static&d1=gicj06&d2=overview) being run by Google that has its prize money as mere INR 14,60,000/-..
currently the contest is open for Ist phase and i cudn’t resist participating in it (though i am not eligible for the same!)… Phase I gave out 30 questions for me to attempt.. the questions were of easy to medium difficulty.. i am told that the competition is only going to get tougher in the next rounds..
i don’t know my score yet as it doesn’t tell you the score before the close of the contest. there is an option of retaking the contest before the contest closes its First Phase on
The cool thing is that this set of 30 questions is different for everyone and comes from a set of 300 questions that feed the first round.
MY TIP: Read “Secure Code” book and know inside out of CAS implementation in .NET 1.1 and .NET 2.0..
MY QUESTION: What level of CAS implementation was available in .NET 1.0?
MY COMMENT: if your answer was “Don’t know”, please DO NOT attempt the contest. if your answer is “No CAS implementation in .NET 1.0”, you have a chance…
Read the book and get yourself the Scorpio 🙂
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