America's Federal Trade Commission has announced a $25,000 prize for
     whoever creates the best tool for securing consumers' IoT devices.
     The so-called "IoT Home Inspector Challenge" asks participants to
     create something that will work on current, already-on-the-market
     IoT devices, with extra points also awarded for scalability ad easy
     of use. "Contestants have the option of adding features, such as
     those that would address hard-coded, factory default, or
     easy-to-guess passwords," according to the official site, but "The
     tool would, at a minimum, help protect consumers from security
     vulnerabilities caused by out-of-date software."
     The winning submission can't be just a policy (or legal) solution,
     and will be judged by a panel which includes two computer science
     professors and a vulnerability researcher from Carnegie Mellon
     University's CERT Coordination Center. Computerworld points out that
     "This isn't the first time the FTC has offered cash for software
     tools. In 2015, it awarded $10,500 to developers of an app that
     could block robocalls."

   [1]https://news.slashdot.org/story/17/01/07/0745229/us-government-offer
   s-25000-prize-for-inventing-a-way-to-secure-iot-devices

References

   1. https://news.slashdot.org/story/17/01/07/0745229/us-government-offers-25000-prize-for-inventing-a-way-to-secure-iot-devices