Since its announcement at the RSA 2014 conference, the security community has been actively involved in the Cisco IoT Security Grand Challenge, an industry-wide initiative to bring the best and brightest security minds to the table to help us find innovative IoT security solutions. Thus far, we've had dozens of wonderful submissions and they're still coming in.

The initial deadline to make a submission was this coming Tuesday, June 17^th. However, the challenge has been so popular that we've decided to extend the deadline by two more weeks, to July 1^st, to give you an opportunity to complete your best work. After all, we all benefit by ensuring that the things we connect are secure. And with billions of objects networked all over the world, many of which will reside in insecure locations, security is arguably more important for IoT than it has been for any other technology in history.

Cisco will select up to six winners, each of whom will be awarded between$50,000 and$75,000 USD. The winners will be announced, and will have an opportunity to present their winning submission, at the IoT World Forum in Chicago, October 14-16, 2014!

Interested in participating? Visit www.CiscoSecurityGrandChallenge.com for full details about the challenge and prepare your response. Good luck!