Cyber Grand Challenge Finalist Announced

Darpa annouced the 7 finalist for the Cyber Grand Challenge with a $2 million prize.

• CodeJitsu (Berkeley, Calif.): A team affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley
• ForAllSecure (Pittsburgh, Pa.): A startup founded by a team of computer security researchers from Carnegie Mellon University
• TECHx (Charlottesville, Va.): Software analysis experts from GrammaTech, Inc., a developer of software assurance tools and advanced cybersecurity solutions, and the University of Virgin
• CSDS (Moscow, Idaho): A professor and post-doctoral researcher from the University of Idaho
• DeepRed (Arlington, Va.): A team of engineers from the Raytheon Company
• disekt (Athens, Ga.): Four people, working out of a technology incubator, who participate in CTF competitions around the world
• Shellphish (Santa Barbara, Calif.): A group of computer science graduate students at the University of California, Santa Barbara

http://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2015-07-08

http://www.cybergrandchallenge.com/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2015/07/08/how-the-audacious-pentagon-agency-that-invented-the-internet-is-now-trying-to-save-it/?tid=sm_tw