Cyber security has become the new frontier in the security and defence world.

Therefore, the GSC sought out the world's most creative innovators and start-ups to help responding to these mounting challenges in cyber security. The winners of this year's Cyber Security Challenge, Ksplice, received cash prizes and also mentorship by Nick Kingsbury of Kingsbury Ventures. Nick is seen above presenting the award to Wassem Daher, CEO of Ksplice, at the Global Security Challenge summit in November 2009.

Ksplice, an enterprise software company offering to make systems more secure, reliable, and maintainable through seamless updates, was named the winner of the 2009 Cyber Security Challenge, a competition run by the Global Security Challenge based in London. See www.ksplice.com

The Cyber Security Challenge aims to recognize the world’s best startups responding to mounting challenges in cyber security, the new frontier in the security and defense world. The competition is sponsored by BAE Systems, a leading defense and aerospace company.

Ksplice’s Chief Operating Officer, Waseem Daher, said, “We are honored at the enthusiastic response to our product. Ksplice solves a major security problem by making it possible to apply updates to running software without restarting it. We thank the Global Security Challenge for creating valuable opportunities for promising security companies, and BAE Systems for sponsoring the Cyber Security Challenge.”

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BAE Systems are sponsoring the Cyber Security Challenge through their Investment in Innovation team:

Targeted Technologies: Examples of our areas of interest include data protection, user authentication, penetration testing, network protection, spam-prevention, anti-malware, identification of data theft, detection of dormant threats on corporate servers, tackling of identity theft on the internet and defences for virtualised computing resources.