participated in a hackathon challenge at the CyberXchange conference
sponsored by Facebook and over a million naira was awarded to the
winning teams.
The students were placed into groups and each
group had a presentation, putting forward their solutions to the judges
who were Yemi Saka of Ernst and Young, Babafemi Ogungbamila of
Interswitch Limited, Regina Wallace-Jones of Facebook, and Bankole
Oluwafemi of Techcabal.com
The team that emerged overall
winner impressed the judges and audience by coming up with multi-factor
authentication for a large enterprise to help secure the accounts of
their employees.
The winning team was awarded N700, 000, the second-place team received N400,000 while the third place team received N300,000.
Regina
Wallace-Jones, head of security operations at Facebook, and a judge at
the hackathon said: “The competitors worked tirelessly to create their
solutions, and we were inspired by their dedication and passion for
security.
“Encouraging this kind of talent is important to
the future of the security industry, and that is why we met with several
university professors at CyberXchange to talk about how to continue to
strengthen security curriculum and training”, Regina added