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The Asia-Pacific and MEA winners of ‘CyberSecurity for the Next Generation 2014’ Chosen

Kaspersky Lab has today announced the results of the latest regional round of its ‘CyberSecurity for the Next Generation’ international student conference.

The Asia-Pacific and MEA round took place on March 11-13 at Korea University in Seoul, South Korea. 15 winners of local competitions in South Africa, South Korea, Hong Kong, Malaysia, the Philippines and India came to Seoul to showcase their research papers to a program committee of Kaspersky Lab antivirus analysts, industry experts, scientists and professors.

‘CyberSecurity for the Next Generation 2014’ includes four regional rounds: the European Cup, the Russia & CIS Cup, the Asia-Pacific & MEA Cup and the Americas Cup. The winners of each contest get their places in the Final Round as well as cash prizes to help further develop their projects. A selection of the topics suggested to participants this year include, emerging threats for emerging platforms; securing cloud, virtual and ‘big-data’ infrastructure; future protection technologies; securing corporate infrastructure and security education.

The winners of the Asia-Pacific & MEA round are:

• First place – Weizhi Meng from the City University of Hong Kong, for the presentation named ‘Evaluating the Effect of Multi-Touch Behaviors on Android Unlock Patterns’
• Second place – Jaeho Lee from the Center for Information Security Technologies (CIST), South Korea, for the presentation named ‘A Study on Unknown Malware Detection using Digital Forensic Techniques’
• Third place – Adelen Victoria Festin from the University of the Philippines Diliman, the Philippines, for the presentation named ‘Communect: Secure Community Connection Using OpenBTS as an Alternative Base Station’

Camille Salazar from the University of the Philippines Diliman, the Philippines, was awarded a special prize for the best presentation skills. The award was given by Kyeong ho Son, a journalist of ‘ZDNet Korea’, who participated in the program committee. Camille successfully delivered her presentation named ‘SecuriThief: An Online Security Education Tool for the Youth Using True-to-Life Simulations in a Game’.

In addition to the main competition, in which students, young scientists and researchers presented their projects, the ‘CyberSecurity for the Next Generation’ program included activities such as panel discussions, expert presentations and workshops.

Kaspersky Lab is happy to congratulate all the winners and wishes them best of luck in the final round of the conference which will be held in June 2014.

‘CyberSecurity for the Next Generation’ is an annual international event financed and organised by Kaspersky Lab. This long-term project brings together students, young scientists and researchers, leading IT security experts and university professors from across the world in a collaborative environment to present and discuss topical cybersecurity issues.

For more information on ‘CyberSecurity for the Next Generation’ and other Kaspersky Lab educational initiatives, please visit:

· academy.kaspersky.com

· facebook.com/KasperskyStudentConference

· twitter.com/Kaspersky_EDU

About Kaspersky Lab

Kaspersky Lab is the world’s largest privately held vendor of endpoint protection solutions. The company is ranked among the world’s top four vendors of security solutions for endpoint users*. Throughout its more than 16-year history Kaspersky Lab has remained an innovator in IT security and provides effective digital security solutions for large enterprises, SMBs and consumers. Kaspersky Lab, with its holding company registered in the United Kingdom, currently operates in almost 200 countries and territories across the globe, providing protection for over 300 million users worldwide. Learn more at www.kaspersky.co.uk.

* The company was rated fourth in the IDC rating Worldwide Endpoint Security Revenue by Vendor, 2012. The rating was published in the IDC report “Worldwide Endpoint Security 2013–2017 Forecast and 2012 Vendor Shares (IDC #242618, August 2013). The report ranked software vendors according to earnings from sales of endpoint security solutions in 2012.

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