Security News > 2020 > June > Microsoft Sponsors 2020 Machine Learning Security Evasion Competition

Microsoft is sponsoring a Machine Learning Security Evasion Competition this year, with partners CUJO AI, VMRay, and MRG Effitas, the company has announced.

The competition, which welcomes both machine learning practitioners and cybersecurity professionals, will allow researchers to exercise their defender and attacker skills, Microsoft says.

The event builds on a similar competition launched at AI Village in August 2019 at DEFCON 27, where contestants participated in a white-box attack against static malware ML models, with many of them identifying approaches that completely and simultaneously bypassed three ML antimalware models.

Between August 6 and September 18, 2020, there will be an Attacker Challenge, which will feature a black-box threat model.

Microsoft promises prizes for the winner and runner-up for each challenge: a Grand Prize and a First Prize, respectively.

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