http://www.globalsecuritychallenge.com The Global Security Challenge is the first annual business plan competition to find and select the most promising security technology startups in the world. en-uk http://www.globalsecuritychallenge.com/blog_detail.php?id=309 http://www.globalsecuritychallenge.com/blog_detail.php?id=309 INSTINCT the cross departmental organisation of the UK Government and led by the  Office for Security and Counter Terrorism (OCST) selected Thales together with the GSC to launch another new challenge focussing on innovations in Aviation Security.Titled the INSTINCT - Technology Demonstrat... http://www.globalsecuritychallenge.com/blog_detail.php?id=308 http://www.globalsecuritychallenge.com/blog_detail.php?id=308 The second annual Cyber Security Challenge, sponsored by BAE Systems and Accenture, is now open for entries! Are you a cyber security start-up or researcher working on innovative software solutions to critical cyber security challenges? Are you developing the latest and greatest disruptive tec... http://www.globalsecuritychallenge.com/blog_detail.php?id=305 http://www.globalsecuritychallenge.com/blog_detail.php?id=305 CloudSwitch has won 10,000 USD in cash as well as mentorship from CapGemini. CloudSwitch protects enterprises from the complexity, risks and potential lock-in of cloud computing, freeing them to leverage the cloud’s advantages in cost and business agility. Backed by Matrix Partners, Atlas Ven... http://www.globalsecuritychallenge.com/blog_detail.php?id=302 http://www.globalsecuritychallenge.com/blog_detail.php?id=302 The newly established Cyber Security Challenge UK is a programme of national challenges to identify and nurture the UK’s future cyber security workforce. It will test the nation’s cyber security skills, excite entrants about the variety of job prospects available to them and create a muc... http://www.globalsecuritychallenge.com/blog_detail.php?id=301 http://www.globalsecuritychallenge.com/blog_detail.php?id=301 This year there are overall awards of $500,000 available for the winners! Join the prestigious ranks of our previous finalists and winners, who raised over $78 million in fresh capital via our challenges and events. This year’s international Challenge has two general categories for emerging ... http://www.globalsecuritychallenge.com/blog_detail.php?id=300 http://www.globalsecuritychallenge.com/blog_detail.php?id=300 If you are a security entrepreneur, ready to pitch your idea to venture capitalists, industry partners or the judges of the Global Security Challenge - the below video is important learning material for you. Kromek's pitch at the GSC 2009 is a great example of a startup's elevator pitch ... http://www.globalsecuritychallenge.com/blog_detail.php?id=299 http://www.globalsecuritychallenge.com/blog_detail.php?id=299   Do you seek a solution for a problem or technology gap? Do you want to work with innovative start-ups to improve a security gap?   It is the core business of the Global Security Challenge (GSC) to run and organize competitions – unique in the security space.  Founded in ... http://www.globalsecuritychallenge.com/blog_detail.php?id=298 http://www.globalsecuritychallenge.com/blog_detail.php?id=298 CNI Expo together with Global Security Challenge (GSC) is launching a new competition for security start-ups, called “Security Technologies of Tomorrow Challenge”.  This competition is only open to finalists from previous GSC competitions, such as our Cyber, Idea, Crowded-Places ... http://www.globalsecuritychallenge.com/blog_detail.php?id=297 http://www.globalsecuritychallenge.com/blog_detail.php?id=297 GSC is proud to report that the winner of our SME category in 2009, Kromek, from the UK just raised £12.3 million pounds (~$18,9m) in its latest funding round in March 2010. As reported by the FT: "Kromek, a developer of digital colour and 3D X-ray imaging technology that makes scanning prod... http://www.globalsecuritychallenge.com/blog_detail.php?id=296 http://www.globalsecuritychallenge.com/blog_detail.php?id=296 Following up on last year's GSC blog article on how large the global market for security products is, here are a few new figures from 2010: £150 billion GBP, as estimated by Goldman Sachs and quoted by the UK government agency, UKTI in its latest SPRINGBOARD Magazine: "The global market f... http://www.globalsecuritychallenge.com/blog_detail.php?id=295 http://www.globalsecuritychallenge.com/blog_detail.php?id=295 Follow updates from the GSC on LinkedIn and Twitter, where security innovators, VCs and security professionals can follow updates from the Global Security Challenge and discuss security innovation topics or post jobs. Over 400 startups and professionals have joined us on these two social networking ... http://www.globalsecuritychallenge.com/blog_detail.php?id=294 http://www.globalsecuritychallenge.com/blog_detail.php?id=294 We are currently looking for 2 highly motivated employees for our fast growing company in London. The two open positions are both full-time, based in our London office: - Director of Conferences & Competitions  - Sales & Marketing Executive  For more information about the roles and... http://www.globalsecuritychallenge.com/blog_detail.php?id=293 http://www.globalsecuritychallenge.com/blog_detail.php?id=293 - Thinking about entering a GSC competition?- Need tips on what to include in a GSC competition entry?- Do you want to know what really happens in the judges Q&A?  We interviewed the two winners of the Global Security Challenge 2009.  Here is what they had to say.... Prof Max Robinso... http://www.globalsecuritychallenge.com/blog_detail.php?id=290 http://www.globalsecuritychallenge.com/blog_detail.php?id=290 Do you have an innovative technology that can be used to prevent, defend against, cope with or recover from terrorist incidents and other criminal acts in the Cloud?  If this sounds like you, take a look at the new GSC competition – Cloud Security Challenge 2010.  Competition winner... http://www.globalsecuritychallenge.com/blog_detail.php?id=289 http://www.globalsecuritychallenge.com/blog_detail.php?id=289 Cloud Security Challenge - Apply today!   Have an innovative idea to protect access to the cloud, regulatory compliance or data integrity? As cloud computing is investigated and adopted by businesses, its inherent security risks are becoming more apparent.  Governments and large enterpr... http://www.globalsecuritychallenge.com/blog_detail.php?id=287 http://www.globalsecuritychallenge.com/blog_detail.php?id=287 Although 2009 has seen drop of investor activity in security start-ups compared to last year, this just reflects the larger economic reality of this year and we still tracked a healthy level of investments and exits throughout the year: Total venture capital funding comes in at $449 milli... http://www.globalsecuritychallenge.com/blog_detail.php?id=285 http://www.globalsecuritychallenge.com/blog_detail.php?id=285   Incorporating key insights from recent interviews with thought leaders on cyber security, as well as propriety statistics, the 'Innovation Trends in Cyber Security' report summarises the current state of play in the cyber security sector and highlights key trends for the coming years. ... http://www.globalsecuritychallenge.com/blog_detail.php?id=284 http://www.globalsecuritychallenge.com/blog_detail.php?id=284 Kromek (UK) and Adaptive Imaging Technologies (Israel) have been awarded $400,000 and $100,000 respectively, as the winners of the Global Security Challenge competition 2009.  The security companies, who were chosen out of hundreds of worldwide entries, pitched their inventions at the GSC Secur... http://www.globalsecuritychallenge.com/blog_detail.php?id=283 http://www.globalsecuritychallenge.com/blog_detail.php?id=283 Ksplice has been voted the winner of the ‘GSC Cyber Security Challenge’ award, by an expert judging committee.  The award brings with it a £5,000 cash grant, sponsored by BAE Systems and mentorship from Nick Kingsbury, an experienced international software entrepreneur and ven... http://www.globalsecuritychallenge.com/blog_detail.php?id=281 http://www.globalsecuritychallenge.com/blog_detail.php?id=281 The GSC Security Summit 2009 will see the culmination of the six regional finals held around the world in September and October.  Find out who the winners are, from each of the six regional events, and see them make their final pitches in the battle to win the titl...