We are delighted to announce that Ryzome has been awarded the Cybersecurity Co-Innovation and Development Fund (CCDF), known as the CyberCall grant, by the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) through the CyberSG Talent, Innovation, and Growth (TIG) Collaboration Centre.
Ryzome’s Chief Operating Officer, Gloria Lee, accepted the award from Singapore’s Senior Minister of State for Digital Development and Information, Tan Kiat How. The presentation took place during CyberSG Innovation Day 2025 on 14 November.
Why Ryzome was selected
The Cybersecurity Industry Call for Innovation (CyberCall) initiative aims to catalyse the development of innovative cybersecurity solutions that show strong potential for broad organisational adoption. This year, five companies were awarded the grant during CyberSG Innovation Day 2025. This prestigious award recognises the most visionary companies who are developing innovative technologies to tackle emergent cybersecurity challenges.
Under the Open Call category, Ryzome was selected based on our agentless, hypervisor-based technology for runtime security. This novel monitoring approach shifts security mechanisms for virtual machines and workloads from inside the protected system to the hypervisor level, allowing the security solutions built upon it to be ‘tamper-resistant by design’. This addresses a critical security challenge: securing virtualised environments from advanced threats that disable and evade existing security defences.
The problem: Defence evasion and visibility gaps you can’t solve with agents
While organisations have relied on agent-based security solutions for years, a fundamental architectural limitation of this approach remains: these solutions operate inside the same environment they're meant to protect. Once attackers gain privileged access, they can disable, evade, or manipulate the very security mechanisms designed to stop them. Threat actors are well-aware of this limitation and modern cyber threats are designed to evade agent-based defences, creating blind spots where threats operate undetected.
Ryzome solution: Agentless, hypervisor-based runtime security to achieve ‘tamper-resistance by design’
Our technology operates from the hypervisor layer, rather than within the protected system itself, and leverages the hypervisor’s introspection capabilities. This architectural approach fundamentally changes how organisations approach runtime security. The technology enables continuous, independent observation of workloads without deploying any in-guest agents, delivering real-time threat detection, deep forensics, and actionable intelligence that security teams can trust.
“Tamper-resistance isn’t a feature we bolt on through anti-tampering mechanisms, it’s the foundation we build upon,” said Gloria Lee, Chief Operating Officer at Ryzome. “Receiving the CyberCall grant is a meaningful validation of Ryzome's ‘tamper-resistant by design’ approach to runtime security and threat detection.”
Accelerating innovation with grant funding
The funding will support the development of advanced applications of Ryzome's technology, focusing on:
- Runtime threat detection and forensics for virtual machines and containers
- Encrypted traffic visibility for TLS/SSH communications
These developments aim to strengthen defences for organisations that face sophisticated attackers exploiting visibility gaps and defence evasion techniques in virtualised and cloud infrastructures. By providing security that adversaries cannot easily detect or evade, we enable security teams to detect hidden threats, accelerate investigations, and reduce business risk.
“Our mission is to make security in virtualised and cloud environments more reliable and harder to evade,” added Gloria Lee. “This grant allows us to push that mission forward and bring our hypervisor-based monitoring technology to more organisations protecting their most critical systems.”
If you’re interested in learning more about our agentless, hypervisor-based technology for runtime security, contact us for a technical walkthrough or a tailored demo.
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