We have a great opportunity for Computer Science students interested in learning about the antivirus and security industry and building experience developing quality applications against public APIs! OPSWAT is sponsoring a programming competition for students to write software that demonstrates the value of OPSWAT's Metascan Online API.
Metascan Online is a free cloud-based file scanning service that uses more than 40 antivirus engines to scan files for threats, and the API allows the power of multi-scanning to be integrated to any software application. The programming competition will give students the opportunity to develop projects utilizing the Metascan Online API, such as a browser plugin to scan downloaded files for threats, a browser toolbar to scan the file at a given URL, a mobile application to scan files or any number of other potential applications.
All submissions will be judged by a panel of OPSWAT team members and the winning submissions will be promoted and hosted on the Metascan Online website. Prizes will be awarded to the top three submissions, including onsite interviews for a position at OPSWAT. In addition to the prizes awarded to the top three submissions, all participants that submit a completed project that is deemed to be valuable to the Metascan community will be awarded $2,000!
Interested in participating? Read more about the competition rules, prizes and example projects here.
OPSWAT will also be hosting a seminar at San Francisco State University to introduce students to the security industry and this competition, discussing the issues of an ever-changing virus landscape and the security solutions being used to address this problem.
The seminar, being held on Wednesday, October 23rd at 5:30 pm, will cover several topics, including the complexities of the spread of malware across multiple platforms and the detection of these threats using antivirus and sandbox solutions. OPSWAT CEO and Founder Benny Czarny will present how security solutions such as OPSWAT's Metascan aim to address these problems and provide statistical analysis to prove the value of using multiple antivirus engines compared to a single engine.
For more information on this seminar, please visit the SFSU event page.
