Microsoft has announced a prize of $100,000 for hackers to try to hack their way into the Linus OS that powers its Azure Sphere.
The Azure Sphere is Microsoft’s comprehensive Internet of Things (IoT) solution. It has many aspects including hardware, OS, and cloud computing components. Its aim is to ensure that users’ devices are protected.
Azure Sphere also covers the security aspect of a customer’s business as well as those of their clients. Thus, it is its importance that makes Microsoft offer such a high price as $100,000 according to a Forbes report.
It is clear that Linux has better defense systems than Windows and it is why Microsoft chose it to run such an important project. However, it still wants hackers from around the world to test their skills against it.
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This is not unusual in the software world. Tech firms usually try to find weak points in their security and setting up a monetary prized contest like this to do so.
What happens is that when a particular hacker manages to bypass a company’s security. They receive the prize and tell the company how they did it.
On 5th May 2020, Azure Security Lab expanded to include rotating research initiatives and a dedicated program page.
The company has always believed in the power of collaborations. Its page says:
“Security researchers have repeatedly demonstrated that working together helps protect customers by identifying and reporting vulnerabilities to Microsoft through Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD).”
Likely, this competition will be subject to some of the Microsoft Azure bounty conditions. It matches the level of access hackers gain to the amount of reward they will receive with Remote Code Execution having the highest prize.
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