/ Asahi/March 14, 2022, Guangzhou -- The first Tencent Digital Security Innovation Competition was officially launched in Beijing. The competition is co-sponsored by Tencent Security and China Industrial Internet Development Alliance. It is jointly sponsored by Tencent Security, KEEN, Yuan Qi Capital, Cyber Yingjie, World Consulting and other enterprises, and organized by the security committee of China Industrial Internet Development Alliance.
The competition aims to find new forces of network security, explore a new track of "technological innovation", recruit enterprises with innovative technologies in the field of network security, build a display stage and incubation platform for enterprises, cultivate a number of excellent innovative enterprises, and jointly promote the development of industrial innovation.
At present, Tencent Digital Security Innovation Competition has been open to enterprises, public institutions, scientific research institutions, universities and other organizations and teams to register, the final will be held in June.
The first digital security Innovation competition was launched to build a highland for industrial innovation
As digital technology accelerates and policy dividends continue to flow, security is more important than ever. In the next decade, a large number of new business forms, new scenarios and new models will flourish based on digital technology. Once security problems occur, they will bring "seismic impact" to the digital economy. In the face of new security problems, the industry urgently needs to break through the existing defense system, establish a new security construction idea, and further explore the possibility of "safety first".
The scale of China's cyber security market is maintaining rapid growth, but the industry also begins to show a trend of "partial capacity overflow and insufficient innovation capacity". Some technical directions with long-term value and relatively large investment of manpower and resources lack of attention and support. Chen Shengxi, executive deputy secretary-general of China Industrial Internet Development Alliance, said at the launch ceremony that China Industrial Internet Development Alliance will work together with Tencent and other industrial Internet leaders to make concerted efforts from the aspects of "setting standards, strengthening technology, promoting application, holding events, building ecology", and further promote the construction and upgrading of industrial Internet security system.
In this context, this Tencent Digital Security Innovation Competition advocates "let technology and innovation speak", adheres to the selection principle of "don't look at the founder, don't look at the revenue, don't look at the case", focuses on mining innovative enterprises with application scenarios, can solve problems, verifiable implementation, original intellectual property rights, and provides support for technology research and development, scene implementation, to cultivate a number of excellent innovative enterprises. Build a highland for industrial innovation. Yu Yang said that he hoped to build the competition into the most influential and innovative technical event in China, and build up a reserve of innovative technologies for the digital era by training excellent teams and products through the competition.
All sectors of the industry jointly formed a mentor group, calling for ecological cooperation to promote industrial innovation
Digital economy is in an innovation cycle, the security boundary is constantly restructured, the security situation is increasingly complex, no single enterprise can cope with it, so it is necessary to gather government, enterprises, institutions, scientific research systems and other fields to form a joint force to promote industrial innovation and development.
Yu Yang said in his speech that every scenario and subsector of cyber security deserves in-depth technological exploration and breakthroughs. Due to its broad coverage and deep dimension, it is doomed that the problem cannot be solved solely by a small number of leading forces behind closed door, and companies with deep exploration in different fields should participate in the process.
Therefore, this competition focuses on enterprises with new racetracks, new fields and innovative technologies, excavates and is not limited to innovative projects in a wide range of security fields and business scenarios related to security, industrial security and security formats, hoping to cultivate and support a group of innovative enterprises that are flexible, independent and oriented to the future market.
It is learnt that the competition also formed an advisory group of industry leaders such as Fang Binxing, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Lei Xiaobin, Secretary-General of China Industrial Internet Development Alliance, Duan Yongchao, founding partner of Weicao Zhiku and executive chairman of the Information Society 50 Forum, Ding Ke, Vice president of Tencent, a mentor group composed of Tan Xiaosheng, Li Shaopeng, He Wenjun, Chen Jian and Yu Yang, more than 30 top security experts, A luxury panel of mentors and judges composed of investment institution experts and corporate Csos. Representatives from all walks of life in the industry will be committed to taking this competition as the hub, creating a normal linkage between government, industry, university and research, promoting industrial innovation and escorting industrial development with the power of ecology.
At the launch meeting, He Wenjun, founding managing partner of Yuanqi Capital, Wan Yi, co-founding partner of Yuanqi Capital, and Fu Rongjie, general manager of Tencent Security Market, also introduced the white paper on big data of the network security industry, the training course for the growth of start-ups, the competition system and other contents. This competition also provides enterprise growth support plan for participating enterprises. In addition to the cash bonus pool of 300,000 yuan, the shortlisted winning enterprises will have the opportunity to become Tencent's leading partner, obtain exclusive marketing cooperation support, and will also gain star mentor professional guidance, entrepreneurship coaching series courses, super CSO training class free student opportunities, Tencent security joint laboratory chief exchange Generous interest.
