Cybersecurity Innovation Day & Launch of CyberCall 2022
Cybersecurity Innovation Day & Launch of CyberCall 2022
Singapore, 31 August 2022
Stamford Ballroom, Raffles City Convention Centre
In 2021, Singapore refreshed its National Cybersecurity Strategy to address new and emerging cyber threats that will increase in scale and sophistication. These are the three key pillars – building resilient infrastructure, enabling safer cyberspace, and strengthening international partnerships that Singapore aims to protect, adapt and collaborate toward enhancing the nation’s cybersecurity space.
Taking a step further, the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore launched its first Cybersecurity Industry Call For Innovation (CyberCall) initiative in 2018 to uplift Singapore’s cybersecurity landscape and enable companies to innovate and tackle cybersecurity challenges. The CyberCall aims to:
Catalyse the development of innovative cybersecurity solutions to meet national cybersecurity and strategic needs;
Develop a vibrant local cybersecurity ecosystem through the building of advanced cybersecurity capabilities, as well as growing the pipeline of local talent;
Identify and articulate mid to long-term cybersecurity challenges to encourage the trial and adoption of novel solutions.
This year, on August 31st, the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA), together with partners, National University of Singapore (NUS) Enterprise and TNB Ventures celebrated Cybersecurity Innovation Day and officially launched the fourth edition of CyberCall 2022 in Singapore. With support by ICE71 – Innovation Cybersecurity Ecosystem at BLOCK71, the successful turnout was attended by academia, cybersecurity professionals, investors and companies from startups to multinational corporations.
Photo credits: ICE71
Opening speeches by Mr Brian Koh (right), Director of NUS Enterprise, and Dr Janil Puthucheary (left), Senior Minister of State for Communications and Information, highlighted that the programme can benefit both cyber-security firms and end-user organisations. By creating new opportunities for cybersecurity companies to innovate for potential reference customers and end users that can benefit from innovative solutions to their cybersecurity problems.
Photo credit: ICE71
Launch of Cybersecurity Industry Call For Innovation (CyberCall) 2022
CyberCall 2022 is seeking cutting-edge and scalable cybersecurity solutions in the following areas:
Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Cybersecurity
Cloud Security
Internet of Things (IoT) Security
Operational Technology (OT) Security
Privacy-Enhancing Technologies
Open Category
CSA has assembled seven challenge statements from six end-users including the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC), Home Team Science and Technology Agency (HTX), Mediacorp, PacificLight Power, SMRT Corporation and SP Group, looking for solutions to address cybersecurity concerns in their sectors. For more details about the challenge statements, click here.
Each selected solution that fulfils the eligibility criteria will be awarded funding of up to S$1,000,000 under CSA’s Cybersecurity Co-Innovation and Development Fund (CCDF) and the potential to discuss their proposals in greater depth with the participating end-users for potential co-innovation, adoption and test-bedding.
During the event, CSA presented tokens of appreciation to tech experts and was awarded the 11 winning solutions providers of CyberCall 2021, selected from more than 70 local and international companies. Attendees were also able to explore solution demonstrations from both past and present CyberCall winners during the booth visit and networking session after.
Press release: CSA Launches Cybersecurity Industry Call For Innovation 2022
Report: Singapore CyberLandscape 2021
CyberCall 2022 Call for Proposals is now open – https://cybercall.sg/.
The submission deadline for the proposal is November 30th, 2359hrs (Singapore Time).
Main eligibility criteria to participate in CyberCall 2022:
Open to MNCs, SMEs and startups registered in Singapore;
Overseas firms that are not registered in Singapore will need to partner with a Singapore-registered company to apply;
Funded work must be conducted in Singapore;
At least 50% of manpower funded must be Singaporean or Singapore PR.
Cybersecurity companies are invited to a series of Meet the End Users (Online and In-person) sessions to gain deeper insights on the needs and challenges of this year's participating end-users, present promising solutions to address specific challenge statements and get valuable feedback from end users.
Sign up for the sessions here: https://cybercall.sg/event-save-the-date/
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