Singapore is stepping up collaboration with tech giants to strengthen its cyber defences.
At the Singapore International Cyber Week 2025, Google and Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced new memoranda of cooperation (MOC) with the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA), expanding intelligence sharing, AI-powered defence tools and joint incident-response capabilities.
The partnerships signal the city-state’s intent to work more closely with hyperscalers to protect national infrastructure and advance its ambitions as a secure global artificial intelligence (AI) hub.
David Koh, CSA’s chief executive, said cybersecurity “is a team effort,” adding that closer cooperation with major industry players would help Singapore mitigate cloud and AI-related risks.
Google’s renewed collaboration includes AI-driven threat intelligence sharing, joint technical exercises and capacity-building programmes. This builds on efforts from 2023, including a dedicated AI agents sandbox between Google, the Government Technology Agency of Singapore (GovTech), CSA, and Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) to test agentic solutions for public sector use cases and stay ahead of evolving risks.
“AI has given us a historic opportunity to reshape the cybersecurity landscape. However, technology is just one piece of the puzzle, which is why public-private partnerships such as the one between Google and CSA are a strategic imperative to help us deploy, learn and iterate on how we can leverage AI successfully for cybersecurity,” said Royal Hansen, Google’s vice president for engineering.
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Meanwhile, AWS will work with CSA on joint incident response, cyber-threat simulations and ecosystem development to enhance operational readiness across systems of national importance. “This collaboration further strengthens our commitment to help Singapore transform into a secure global AI hub where technology drives positive societal impact,” says Paul Vixie, AWS’s vice-president and deputy CISO.
Blockchain intelligence joins the fight
Complementing these cloud partnerships, TRM Labs, a blockchain-intelligence company that tracks illicit crypto activity, has signed an MOC with CSA to enhance Singapore’s national threat-intelligence capabilities.
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The collaboration comes as blockchain and digital-asset activity increasingly intersect with cybercrime. According to TRM Labs’ 2025 Crypto Crime Report, the volume of cryptocurrency flowing into illicit addresses rose from US$37.4 billion ($48.5 billion) in 2021 to US$44.7 billion in 2024, underscoring the need for intelligence that can rapidly map on-chain behaviour across networks.
Similarly, CSA’s Singapore Cyber Landscape 2024/2025 report highlights monitoring of decentralised systems as a core pillar of national cyber defence.
Under the agreement, TRM will provide CSA with access to its blockchain-intelligence platform and associated AI features, including generative and reasoning components. It will also contribute data and technical expertise to co-develop tools tailored to CSA’s long-term operational needs.
Both parties will also explore a blockchain tracing solution that uses agentic AI to track Singapore’s national ransomware exposure more accurately and connect on-chain and off-chain adversary activity, enhancing the agency’s ability to disrupt ransomware groups.
“This partnership with CSA builds on our ongoing efforts to create a safer digital world, including initiatives such as Beacon Network, a real-time, private-public intelligence-sharing system that helps stop illicit funds. By combining our industry-leading cross-chain analytics and AI-driven blockchain intelligence with Singapore’s cybersecurity expertise, we are helping shape the next frontier of digital trust and resilience,” says Esteban Castaño, co-founder and CEO of TRM Labs.
