Developers from Karaganda shared a prize of 1 million tenge

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At the IT Hub "Terricoin Valley," a Security Hackathon took place. The main prize of 200,000 tenge was won by a team of students with a two-way encryption application. The second place and 100,000 tenge were awarded to students from a professional college for their solution on SSL/TLS. Grants of 50,000 tenge each were given to students from the Karaganda Polytechnic College and pupils from an IT school, while a schoolboy from Almaty received 25,000 tenge for an application for vulnerability parsing.

The Security Hackathon, dedicated to cybersecurity, took place at the IT Hub "Terricon Valley." Participants developed solutions for two cases: a web application for checking IPs/domains and a client-server application for data exchange. In just 48 hours, participants developed prototypes and prepared for project presentations.

The main prize of 200,000 tenge was won by a team of students who developed an application with two-way encryption and data transfer functionality. The second place and 100,000 tenge went to students of the professional-technical college for their solution involving secure data transmission via SSL/TLS.

Students from the Karaganda Polytechnic College received the "Audience Choice Award" — a grant of 50,000 tenge to further develop their application. Another team also received this award: eighth and ninth-grade students from the IT School, who developed a client-server application for data exchange with voice input. Additionally, a schoolboy from Almaty, who presented a web server application for vulnerability parsing, received a grant of 25,000 tenge.