Cyber LEAP Act aims for innovations through Cybersecurity Grand Challenges

The challenges set up under the legislation will offer prizes, including cash and non-cash prizes, to competition winners, although the prizes aren’t yet spelled out. The legislation directs the secretary of commerce to set up the competitions in six key areas:

1. Economics of a cyber attack, focused on building more resilient systems while raising the costs for adversaries
2. Cyber training, to give Americans digital security literacy and boost the skills of the cyber workforce
3. Emerging technology, to advance cybersecurity knowledge in emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence
4. Reimagining digital identity, aimed at protecting the digital identities of US internet users
5. Federal agency resilience, to reduce cybersecurity risks to federal networks and improve the federal response to cyberattacks
6. Other challenges as determined by the secretary of commer