RP students take agentic AI cybersecurity project Aegis to GovWare 2026

“Showcasing our Final Year Project, Aegis, at Singapore International Cyber Week x GovWare 2026 showed us that our project has the potential to grow beyond the classroom,” says Kho Soong Yang, an RP School of Infocomm student.

GovWare is a major cybersecurity event that attracted over 15,000 attendees and more than 300 exhibitors from around the world.

Aegis was conceptualised by Soong Yang and his teammates, Teo Rui Xuan and Shahrul Gunawan, students in the Diploma in Infocomm Security Management (now known as the Diploma in Cybersecurity & Digital Forensics).

The trio explored how agentic AI could help cybersecurity professionals investigate and respond to cyber threats more efficiently by streamlining workflows and reducing manual work. For their project, they developed a working prototype integrated with NetWitness, an enterprise cybersecurity monitoring platform that RP partners with.

“While AI can help process information, having a human in the loop to verify its findings remains important,” explains Rui Xuan. “We spent considerable time refining how information was processed, improving output consistency and building in regular human review checkpoints.”

Beyond the technical development, showcasing Aegis at GovWare also challenged the team to explain complex technical concepts to audiences from different backgrounds and engage with experienced industry professionals.

“As students, we were focused on developing Aegis’s technical capabilities and getting the different AI agents to work together,” says Shahrul. “But we learnt that reliability, accuracy, integration with existing systems and user trust are just as important in the real world.”

With cyber threats continuing to evolve, the team is keen to test Aegis against a wider range of security incidents and scenarios, identifying areas for improvement along the way.

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