The 20th NASSCOM-DSCI Annual Information Security Summit (AISS 2025) ran from 3rd to 5th December 2025 at Hotel Pullman and Pride Plaza, Aerocity, New Delhi.
AISS is India’s largest and longest-running cybersecurity convening. For two decades, it has been the room where government, academia, vendors, enterprise CISOs, and founders meet across three days. The 2025 edition organised its agenda around Security Technology Leadership, Security and Privacy Governance, Future of Cyber Crimes, AI and Quantum, and Geopolitics and Cyber Diplomacy.
Karmesh, Osto’s founder, has been part of the DSCI community since 2018, when his previous venture won the DSCI award for Most Innovative Cybersecurity Startup of that year. He has attended every AISS in the seven years since.
That continuity matters at AISS in a way it does not at most cybersecurity events. The friendships compound. The trust compounds. The conversations get more candid each year because everyone serious in Indian cybersecurity keeps showing up. The 20th edition was a useful marker of how much the Indian cybersecurity ecosystem has matured over those seven years.
A few takeaways from those conversations
The direction Osto is building toward was validated in a room with very high standards for what counts as a serious cybersecurity platform. One cybersecurity platform for founders, with every module built in house, is what the Indian ecosystem is asking for. We heard that directly from CISOs running large infrastructure and from integrators with deep enterprise relationships.
The agentic AI and quantum tracks gave the team a sharper read on where enterprise and government buyers are pointed for the next 18 months. AI agents in security operations came up in nearly every serious hallway conversation. That’s useful context for how we are thinking about the roadmap.
We also came away with partnership and pipeline conversations that are difficult to start anywhere else. AISS uniquely brings the full Indian cybersecurity stakeholder set into the same hallway across three days, and that breadth is the point. You can’t recreate it elsewhere.
Thanks to the DSCI team and NASSCOM for hosting AISS for two decades. The Indian cybersecurity industry is meaningfully better because this summit exists.
Osto will be back at AISS 2026, probably with a larger presence and definitely with more to show.