Hackathon for Software Engineers and Programmers with $10,000 USD Prize from Devpost

Devpost is announcing the launch of the Azure Sentinel Hackathon for distinguished programmers who want to solve Solve Cybersecurity's greatest challenge. Participate in this hackathon and build end-to-end cybersecurity solutions for Azure Sentinel that delivers enterprise value by collecting data, managing security, detecting, hunting, investigating, and responding to cybersecurity threats.

About the Hackathon:-

• To shore up their defenses, enterprises have deployed dozens of security products, each producing a large volume of alerts. In isolation, these products may have high false positive rates and poor response prioritization.
• As a result, organizations report that 44% are never investigated. Part of the reason for these alerts to fall through the cracks is a massive shortage in security professionals.
• Azure Sentinel provides a platform for security analysts and threat hunters of various levels to not only leverage existing content like workbooks (dashboard), playbooks (workflow orchestrations), analytic rules (detections), hunting queries, notebooks, etc. but also to build custom content and solutions as needed. 
• Furthermore, Azure Sentinel also provides APIs for integrating different types of applications to connect with Azure Sentinel data and insights. This hackathon challenge revolves around how you can provide the ultimate enterprise value by delivering an end-to-end solution via Azure Sentinel content and/or integrations.

• First Prize
• $10,000 USD cash.
• Blog post, social and Azure Sentinel banner featuring the winning submission.
• Second Prize
• $4,000 USD cash.
• Blog post, social and Azure Sentinel banner featuring the winning submission.
• Two Runners Up
• $1,500 USD cash.
• Blog post, social and Azure Sentinel banner featuring the winning submission.
• Popular Choice
• $1,000 USD cash
• Blog post, social and Azure Sentinel banner featuring the winning submission
• First 10 Eligible Submissions.
• $100 USD cash.

• The Hackathon IS open to: 
• Individuals who are at least the age of majority where they reside as of the time of entry.
• Teams of Eligible Individuals (“Teams”).
• Organizations (including corporations, not-for-profit corporations and other nonprofit organizations, limited liability companies, partnerships, and other legal entities) that exist and have been organized or incorporated at the time of entry.
• An Eligible Individual may join more than one Team or Organization and an Eligible Individual who is part of a Team or Organization may also enter the Hackathon on an individual basis. If a Team or Organization is entering the Hackathon, they must appoint and authorize one individual (the “Representative”) to represent, act, and enter a Submission, on their behalf. By entering a Submission on behalf of a Team or Organization you represent and warrant that you are the Representative authorized to act on behalf of your Team or Organization.

Requirements:-

• Submissions must be built for Azure Sentinel and can be in the form of one of the following project types:
• Project Type 1: Azure Sentinel solutions that include at least three different content types like data\ connectors, workbooks, playbooks, analytic rule templates, investigation / exploration queries, notebooks, hunting queries, parsers (Kusto Functions) to deliver an end-to-end monitoring - detection - investigation - response scenario. These scenarios can fulfill:
• Product value (like Teams or Zoom, etc.).
• Domain value (like compliance scenarios, or threat intelligence capabilities or networking capabilities, etc.)
• Industry vertical value (like finance, healthcare, etc.).
• Project Type 2: Azure Sentinel API integrations that deliver enterprise value and / or can enable easy migration of organizational content to Azure Sentinel. 
• Project Type 3: Standalone or one-off Azure Sentinel content submissions that include only a data connector or only workbooks or only analytic rule templates or only playbooks or only notebooks or only hunting queries.
• Additional Submission Requirements:
• Include a text description that explains the features and functionality of the submission and describe how the submission could help enterprise cybersecurity using Azure Sentinel.
• Submit a demo video (hosted on YouTube, Vimeo). Your video should include a demo of your working submission via a step-by-step visual demo.
• Please submit at least one image/screenshot of your submission.

Judging Criteria:-

• Quality of Idea
• Indicates creativity, originality, and the potential to significantly improve organizational security using Azure Sentinel
• Value to Enterprise
• Demonstrates usefulness to an enterprise, for example by streamlining or automating security operations, reducing threat detection and response times, or improving the effectiveness of existing security tools or enables migration to Azure Sentinel
• Technical Implementation
• Assesses how well the idea was executed by the submitter, including the user experience, the complexity of the scenarios, blending in Microsoft and non-Microsoft entities or data or other APIs with Azure Sentinel, and whether it performs as expected.

About Devpost:-

Devpost is a platform that helps software engineers participate in software competitions. Customers market their developer tools and jobs to the Devpost community. It has  partnered with great organizations like Oculus, Uber, Evernote, Twitter, Twilio, Venmo, IBM, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and more to bring new opportunities for software engineers to practice their skills, learn new technologies, work on interesting problems, and win some amazing prizes.

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