Flexxon has been named an awardee of Singapore’s Cybersecurity Industry Call for Innovation (CyberCall) 2025 for a hardware-based tool to secure AI agents, the company announced on 10 November.
The award, under the programme’s “Cybersecurity for AI” challenge, was announced at the CyberSG Innovation Day on the same day. It is the third time Flexxon has received funding under CyberCall.
Hardware gateway for AI agents
The funded project, X-PHY AI Armor, is described as a hardware-rooted secure Model Context Protocol (MCP) gateway. According to the company, it inspects requests made by AI agents for injected instructions and hijacked tools, enforces controls on high-risk actions at the hardware level, and writes audit records to hardware.
Flexxon co-founder and chief executive Camellia Chan said: “Agents are useful precisely because they act without waiting for a person.”
About CyberCall
CyberCall has been organised since 2024 by the CyberSG Talent, Innovation and Growth Collaboration Centre (TIG Centre), a joint initiative of the National University of Singapore and the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA). Willis Lim, executive director of the TIG Centre, is named in the release.
Flexxon’s earlier awards came in CyberCall 2019, when it was one of eight projects selected from 72 submissions for its X-PHY solid state drive, and in the 2021 edition, for a server security module.
Rising AI-related threats
The company cited CSA’s Singapore Cyber Landscape 2025/2026 report, published in June 2026, which said agentic AI could potentially automate significant parts of cyber kill chains.
It also pointed to CSA’s Singapore Cybersecurity Health Report 2025, which surveyed 2,005 businesses and non-profit organisations and found that almost nine in 10 had encountered at least one cybersecurity incident during the year.
The release further cited a Gartner forecast that up to 40% of enterprise applications will feature task-specific AI agents by the end of 2026, up from fewer than 5% in 2025.
