CIPHER Open Call 1

In short

Open call run by CIPHER, a project funded by Digital Europe. It passes EU money on to third parties (cascade funding). The budget is €4.32 million. Deadline: 6 January 2027.

What the call funds

• Execution spans five specialized challenges categorized across three operational modes.
• Knowledge conducts NIS2 Article 21(2) compliance audits (K1) and benchmarks industrial pentesting kill-chains against CIPHER's automated suite (K2).
• Testing validates S3 WORM vulnerability pipelines (T1) and assesses telemetry ingestion within the XDR SaaS platform (T2).

Source: EU Funding & Tenders Portal, © European Union, CC BY 4.0, summarised. The official call text and its annexes decide eligibility, budget and deadlines.

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