Netcraft Prize

Netcraft is an Internet services company based in Bath which provides Internet data mining, defences against fraud and phishing, web application security testing, and automated penetration testing. Clients include many of the world's leading Internet infrastructure and financial companies; in particular, Netcraft's anti-phishing services are very widely licensed, ultimately protecting hundreds of millions of people.

This prize is for the top five penultimate year students on the MEng Computer Science (G403) degree, with each student achieving at least 70% overall and having not recieved a Netcraft prize in the second year. Each student getting a prize will be awarded a £250 Amazon gift voucher and a high-end Targus laptop backpack worth £50. In previous years winners received an engraved iPod Touch.

For 2009 Netcraft presented additional prizes for the top five students on the three year BSc CS degree. The winners of this prize were: David Arthur, Douglas Cowie, Michael Howard, James Thomas and Gareth Wilson.