Singapore opens CyberCall 2026, with proposals due 9 January

Singapore opens CyberCall 2026, with proposals due 9 January

10 November 2026: The Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) has opened CyberCall 2026, its annual call for companies to build cybersecurity products against problems set by critical infrastructure operators and government users, with proposals due by 9 January 2027. At the same event it named 13 companies that share approximately S$5.6 million under CyberCall 2025.

Not yet independently verified. The S$1 million ceiling and 24-month project length come from the TIG Centre's CyberCall page, which does not say whether they apply unchanged to the 2026 call; the press release gives no total budget for 2026. We will update this when it can be confirmed, and remove this note.

Two ways to enter this year

The 2026 call has two categories. The Open Call takes proposals in six priority areas: cybersecurity for AI systems, AI for cybersecurity, quantum-safe security, OT and Internet of Things security, cloud security and privacy-enhancing technologies. The User-Driven category answers specific challenge statements from organisations that intend to use the result, among them CSA itself and the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore, and asks for solutions that small and medium-sized enterprises can also adopt.

CSA gives three of the challenges in its release: an autonomous detection and incident response tool for intrusions that move fast, a way to verify ADS-B aircraft position messages so that spoofed ones can be caught, and a tool that lets small businesses find and fix their own security weaknesses. The full set of 2026 challenge statements is on the TIG Centre's CyberCall page, which says late submissions will not be considered.

What a winning project gets

The funding comes from CSA's Cybersecurity Co-Innovation and Development Fund. The TIG Centre's page states support of up to S$1,000,000 on qualified cost categories and a project duration of up to 24 months. After the deadline come clarification sessions, a panel evaluation and, for shortlisted applicants, a letter of offer.

Who won last year, and for what

The 2025 recipients lean heavily towards securing AI agents, which is a fair guide to what the panel wants. CSA names Amaris.AI, BlackScore, CloudsineAI, Ensign InfoSecurity, Flexxon, IdentityPlane, ISTARI Global, pQCee, Protos Labs, Silence Laboratories, ST Engineering D'Crypt, StrongKeep Cybersecurity and Veridic. Among the funded projects are CloudsineAI's attack graph platform for multi-agent AI systems, Flexxon's gateway that inspects agent-to-tool traffic for prompt injection and tool hijacking, IdentityPlane's identity platform covering both staff and AI agents, Ensign's framework for tracing the cause of incidents in operational technology, and pQCee's quantum red teaming tool, which simulates quantum attacks on classical cryptography.

The wider CyberSG programme

CyberCall is run by the TIG Centre, which NUSX manages for the National University of Singapore under the CyberSG initiative launched in 2023; CSA says the centre has supported more than 120 companies since then. The centre has also relaunched its catalogue of local suppliers as CyberSG Atlas, listing more than 200 Singapore-based cybersecurity companies sorted by the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, and set up a CISO advisory committee drawn from critical infrastructure sectors, government, academia and industry. Separately, the CyberSG R&D Programme Office, set up with Nanyang Technological University, has awarded more than $40 million across 23 research projects since 2023 and incubated seven spin-off companies.

Sources

• Cyber Security Agency of Singapore: CSA strengthens support for cybersecurity innovation from research to market (press release), 10 November 2026, 10 November 2026
• CyberSG TIG Centre: CyberCall programme page (read 11 November 2026), 11 November 2026