Microsoft announces winners of Security Shootout

MUMBAI: Microsoft

Corporation India Pvt. Ltd. today announced that Varun Sharma has won the

Security Shootout contest.

After competing with over 11,200 developers from across India and undergoing

three strenuous rounds of secure coding, Sharma is now the owner of a customized

Scorpio Passion.

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Shootout was designed for the growing developer community in India and has

been a great success in its first year of launch. The initiative was aimed at

providing budding developers with an opportunity to gain knowledge on how to

write secure code and develop secure software applications. Security Shootout is

part of Microsoft's ongoing security mobilization efforts, under which it works

closely with partners and customers to promote software security.

Vimal Rajyaguru and Ashwath Govindan emerged as the first and second runners

up respectively and were presented a Toshiba M4 laptop each. Through the contest

over 7500 prizes were won by the participants, including Pocket PC's and 80GB

USB 2.0 powered external hard disk drives. Also, the top 500 participants

received security certification vouchers, which will help them hone their code

development skills over a long term. Through this initiative, Microsoft is also

making an extensive collection of security resources available to developers,

such as webcasts, blogs, articles, white papers and books.

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