Chandigarh Police has organized the first Hackathon event

Korel, CHANDIGARH – 30^th November 2019

Today Chandigarh Police has organized the first Hackathon event scheduled from 30^th November 2019 to 1^st December 2019 at Multimedia Hall, at Police lines, Sector 26, Chandigarh. The event is sponsored by Stellar Data Solutions, NVIDIA and HDFC Bank. Sh. Shashank Anand, IPS SSP/Security & Traffic, Chandigarh was the chief guest on this occasion.

            The main motive of the Hackathon event is to encourage creative problem solving, drive innovation, promote a collaborative work environment, providing opportunity and exposure to technical enthusiasts and networking. All the participants of this Hackathon event have been assigned Cyber Parenting, CyberPatrol, DarkWebCrawler, Malware Analysis and Penetration Testing.

            In this Hackathon event total 55 IT students from different Universities i.e. Chandigarh University, Chitkara University (Rajpura and Buddi), Rayat and Bahra University, UIET, PEC, IIT Ropar, Shoolini University, MM University, Guru Gobind Singh College of Technology and various other college/Universities from Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pardesh and other states like Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu participated.

            Special features of the event are penetration testing of Government website. Top three winners will be awarded handsome cash prize and laptop etc.