The Digital Security by Design (DSbD) Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund challenge aims to radically update the foundation of the UK’s insecure digital computing infrastructure.

Through this competition, Innovate UK (IUK) is supporting small businesses to explore and investigate the requirements, dependencies, and range of potential complexities associated with the adoption of DSbD technologies across the software development ecosystem.

Proposals must focus on detailed investigation of a problem framed around a system and software stack concept. This could lead to a subsequent implementation that will benefit from the use of DSbD technologies.

The competition is open to single applicants only. The organisation must be a UK registered micro, small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) working in software development.

IUK has allocated up to £1.5 million to fund innovation projects with total eligible costs of between £40,000 and £80,000. SMEs can self-fund their project beyond their allowable total eligible costs. The total self-funded contribution must not exceed £160,000.

More details here.