ODSECURITY is a volunteer collective of subject-matter experts from organizations across industries, sharing hands-on offensive and defensive security knowledge with institutions that need it most.
ODSECURITY brings together security practitioners who each hold a full-time role somewhere else — in banks, telecoms, product companies, and government-linked organizations — and volunteer their time to teach what they see on the ground.
Members carry certifications from respected bodies across both offensive and defensive disciplines, and the group's sessions are shaped by what our members are actually defending against this quarter, not a fixed syllabus.
A region where every institution — government offices, universities, hospitals, and startups alike — treats security awareness as a shared responsibility, not something outsourced entirely to an IT team.
The 24 spokes of the Konark Sun Temple's stone wheel once marked the hours of the day. We borrow that idea: vigilance that doesn't switch off, carried across organizations rather than kept inside any single one of them.
Sample member cards — replace names, roles and photos with your own team.
Every wave of new technology quietly widens what attackers can reach.
Cloud services, IoT devices, remote work, and third-party integrations mean organizations now defend a perimeter that barely resembles a single office network.
Ransomware crews, initial-access brokers, and automated scanning tools now operate at a pace most internal security teams weren't built for.
Most incidents still start with a person, not a firewall — which makes plain-language awareness one of the highest-leverage defenses an organization has.
Security teams are using machine learning to work through volumes of signal no human team could review alone.
As organizations adopt AI, the models and pipelines become assets that need their own defense.
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Reach out through the registration link and mention your organization — we'll follow up to scope a session that fits your team.