Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content and threat management solutions, is again calling all students across the Philippines to send their original research papers on internet security and cybercrime for the Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa (APAC and MEA) Cup of the 2013 Kaspersky Lab Student Conference.
A team of Filipino students were recently named overall winner in the global cup of Kaspersky Lab’s annual international conference dubbed ‘IT Security for the Next Generation’.
The event, held at the prestigious Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands last May 11-13 brought together the brightest researchers from four preliminary regional rounds namely, North America, Europe, Russia and the Commonwealth Independent States and from the Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa, to compete for the top awards.
Photo shows Filipino student Joshua Arvin Lat (center), first place winner in the Kaspersky Lab 2012 Student Conference Global Cup posing with second placer Iwan Gulenko (left) from Germany and third placer Napa Sae-Bae (right) from New York, USA. Not in photo are Lat’s team members Kevin Charles Atienza and Rod Xavier Bondoc.
Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content and threat management solutions, announced that students from the Philippines bested 12 other finalists from various countries in the recently concluded regional preliminary round of the Kaspersky Lab Asia Pacific and Middle East, Africa (MEA) Cup2012, an annual event that brings together students and young professionals from around the world in a collaborative environment to present and discuss issues relating to cybercrime.
The research papers presented by team leaders 21-year old Joshua Arvin Lat and 19-year old Ranyel Bryan Maliwanag won the first and second prizes, respectively, at the conference held on March 14 to 16 at the City University of Hong Kong (CityU), a leading university in Asia in professional education and research.
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