Community · Odisha, India

Security awareness, carried by practitioners who do the work.

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.

25+
volunteer SMEs across organizations
10+
institutions reached across Odisha
2
disciplines: offensive & defensive
1
shared mission: close the awareness gap

Who we are

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.

Our vision

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.

What we do

  • Awareness sessionsPlain-language briefings for staff who aren't security specialists.
  • Technical workshopsHands-on labs for engineering and IT teams inside partner organizations.
  • Campus outreachTalks and CTF-style exercises at colleges and universities across Odisha.
  • Incident briefingsPractitioner readouts on threats currently active in the region.

The people behind it

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Ananya Patnaik

Offensive Security Lead
OSCP · CEH
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Rohit Sahoo

Cloud Security SME
CISSP
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Meera Dash

Threat Intelligence Analyst
GIAC
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Suresh Nayak

Detection Engineer
GCIH

Why security matters more now

Every wave of new technology quietly widens what attackers can reach.

A wider attack surface

Cloud services, IoT devices, remote work, and third-party integrations mean organizations now defend a perimeter that barely resembles a single office network.

Faster-moving attackers

Ransomware crews, initial-access brokers, and automated scanning tools now operate at a pace most internal security teams weren't built for.

People remain the entry point

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 USING AI

AI as a defender's tool

Security teams are using machine learning to work through volumes of signal no human team could review alone.

  • Anomaly detection across network and identity logs
  • Automated triage and prioritization in the SOC
  • Correlating threat intelligence feeds at scale
  • Flagging phishing and social-engineering attempts earlier
SECURITY FOR AI

Protecting the AI systems themselves

As organizations adopt AI, the models and pipelines become assets that need their own defense.

  • Guarding against prompt injection and data poisoning
  • Securing training data and model supply chains
  • Testing for adversarial inputs before deployment
  • Governance and access control around model usage

Upcoming events

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Want ODSECURITY to run a session at your organization or institute?

Reach out through the registration link and mention your organization — we'll follow up to scope a session that fits your team.

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