BENGALURU: A coding scheme to safeguard confidential data and provide secure data storage, developed by three Pondicherry College of Engineering students won the first prize at the seventh edition of Unisys Cloud 20/20 in the city recently.
The technical project contest witnessed the participation of colleges from all over the country.
The prize winning project, titled God’s Secret Key, developed by Laavanya N, Sofeiyakalaimathy C and Priyadharshiny S, is aimed to address malware, denial of service and hacking threats for small and micro enterprises.
They mimicked the coding structure of DNA to develop a secure coding scheme.
The second prize went to Ankush Rai from Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, for Internet Vigilante: Vision-based Action
Profiler for Multimodal Context Aware Security. The project allows security agencies to observe human behaviour through surveillance videos and thereby prevent terror attacks.
Triplet Li-Fi, a project by Shibin George and Prinson V Jacob from Mangalore Institute of Technology and Engineering, won the third prize.
Students were supported by project guides from their respective institutes and Unisys.
Finalists will be offered an employment opportunity by Unisys.
Participation in the technical project competition was also extended to working technology professionals this year. Though the response was good, none of the entries made it to the final round.
According to a release, more than 1,000 teams from colleges across India participated in Cloud 20/20 Version 7.0.
Speaking at the valedictory, Ravikumar Sreedharan, managing director, Unisys India, said the ideas presented at the contest would play a key role in solving tomorrow’s business challenges, which are driven by the unprecedented demands of an increasingly mobile, data-intensive and connected world.