GSC in the news
Security Trends
"New ways of identifying people through biometrics and online anti-fraud technologies are the areas creating the biggest buzz in security right now, according to the co-founders of an annual competition for security innovation."
(by Sean Hargrave, Media-Planet, Washington Post Supplement. June 2008)
$500,000 Contest
"Global Security Challenge has opened its annual competition for technologies to defend against or recover from terrorist incidents and similar disasters."
(by Jack Schofield, The Guardian, 17.04.2008) click here for the full story
Mission for James Bond's Q: seek venture capital
"...MBA students at London Business School staged the inaugural security challenge last year, when British start-up Ingenia Technology took the $10,000 first prize for an anti-counterfeit laser-scanning device. Such was interest in the competition that the U.S. government's Technical Support Working Group raised this year's prize to $500,000"
(by Mark Trevelyan, Reuters, 26.11.2007) click here for the full story
Grant offer for security products
"The contest, co-founded by London Business School and backed by the US Pentagon among others, is open to businesses with less than $5m in annual revenues with a demonstrable product."
(by Jonathan Moules, Financial Times, 16.06.2007) click here for the full story
Business Competitions - Where Big Ideas Bring Big Bucks
"Specifically designed to help start-ups in the booming post-September 11 security field, the second annual competition increased the prize money from $10,000 to $500,000 (thanks to the Technical Support Working Group at the U.S. Defense Dept.) making it "the biggest business plan competition in the world ..."
(by Alina Dizik, BusinessWeek, November 2007) click here for full story
iViz Tech Solutions Aims to Put Hackers Out of Work
"iViz, recognized as one of the Asia's top 5 security startups in the Global Security Challenge held by London Business School in September 2007, ..."
(Red Herring, January 2008) click here for full story
"The Technical Support Working Group, a technology coordinating organization co-chaired by the U.S. Departments of State and Defense, is a co-sponsor of the Global Security Challenge (GSC), a competition managed by MBA students at London Business School..."
(Office of the Spokesman, US Department of State, November 6, 2007) click here for full story
NUS to co-host first-ever Asian leg of GSC competition
"The National University of Singapore has been selected to host the first-ever Asian leg of the Global Security Challenge."
(28.05.2007) click here for the full story
Business Brains Join Battle to Beat Terrorists
"As the London Business School team points out, many innovations have a security element as well as the use for which they were designed. The Global Security Challenge hopes to educate entrepreneurs about the potential of adapting their technologies for security markets."
MBA Students Compete For A Safer World
"Homeland security is a fast-growing market , but there are concerns that innovation in technology-based security is not up to pace with society's needs, because startups have to overcome bureaucratic obstacles to market their ideas.
Students from London Business School are trying to tackle this deficit by launching the Global Security Challenge--the first business school competition to feed the growing market for new security technology businesses."
Contest for start-ups
"... The plans come from the UK, USA, Israel, Asia and eastern Europe and deal with technology solutions in secure communications, contingency software, data integrity, chemical detection, biometrics, access control and bio-technology, report organisers - MBA students from the business school."
Five secure final showdown
"The organisers of a innovative competition to find some of the world's most promising security technologies have named five finalists. The Global Security Challenge (GSC) is organised by MBA students at the London Business School ..."
