'The security researchers involved in these schemes can be an addition to existing security teams and provide additional eyes on an organisation's products,' George Papamargaritis, the managed security service director at Obrela Security Industries, says, 'meaning bugs will be unearthed and disclosed before cybercriminals get a chance to discover them and exploit them maliciously.' Indeed, in terms of event style, Kristina Balaam, a senior security intelligence engineer at Lookout says, there's not much difference between the two. There are, of course, lots of positives about a hacking competition, such as the Tianfu Cup or Pwn2Own.
