{"id":295,"date":"2026-05-13T05:30:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T05:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.osto.one\/?p=295"},"modified":"2026-05-19T13:59:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T13:59:57","slug":"osto-at-aiss-2025-nasscom-dsci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.osto.one\/resources\/events\/osto-at-aiss-2025-nasscom-dsci\/","title":{"rendered":"Osto at NASSCOM-DSCI AISS 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"background:#EEF1FB;border-left:5px solid #1C267A;padding:20px 24px;margin:0 0 32px;border-radius:2px;\">\n<div style=\"font-size:11px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:0.15em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#1C267A;margin-bottom:10px;\">TL;DR<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size:16px;color:#1C267A;margin:0;line-height:1.65;\">AISS 2025 brought together India&#8217;s cybersecurity ecosystem for the 20th NASSCOM-DSCI Annual Information Security Summit. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osto.one\/\">Osto<\/a>&#8216;s founder shares takeaways on platform validation, AI security trends, and the partnership conversations that only this room makes possible.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"rank-math-toc\" class=\"wp-block-rank-math-toc-block\"><h2>Table of Contents<\/h2><nav><ul><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<!-- AISS 2025 BLOG POST -->\n<p style=\"font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.75; color: #333;\">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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.75; color: #333;\">AISS is India&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<!-- PERSONAL CONNECTION CALLOUT -->\n<div style=\"background: #EEF1FB; border-left: 5px solid #1C267A; padding: 22px 26px; margin: 32px 0; border-radius: 2px;\">\n<div style=\"font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.15em; text-transform: uppercase; color: #1c267a; margin-bottom: 10px;\">A seven-year chapter<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #1c267a; margin: 0; line-height: 1.7;\">Karmesh, Osto&#8217;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.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.75; color: #333;\">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.\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-347\" src=\"https:\/\/www.osto.one\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ef6c22e1-038b-4168-bf75-08fee70c7d5b1-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Osto team at AISS 2025 NASSCOM-DSCI Annual Information Security Summit in Aerocity Delhi - image 1\" width=\"2174\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.osto.one\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ef6c22e1-038b-4168-bf75-08fee70c7d5b1-1-scaled.jpg 2174w, https:\/\/www.osto.one\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ef6c22e1-038b-4168-bf75-08fee70c7d5b1-1-255x300.jpg 255w, https:\/\/www.osto.one\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ef6c22e1-038b-4168-bf75-08fee70c7d5b1-1-870x1024.jpg 870w, https:\/\/www.osto.one\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ef6c22e1-038b-4168-bf75-08fee70c7d5b1-1-768x904.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.osto.one\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ef6c22e1-038b-4168-bf75-08fee70c7d5b1-1-1304x1536.jpg 1304w, https:\/\/www.osto.one\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ef6c22e1-038b-4168-bf75-08fee70c7d5b1-1-1739x2048.jpg 1739w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2174px) 100vw, 2174px\" \/><\/p>\n\n<h2 style=\"font-size: 22px; font-weight: 600; color: #111; margin: 40px 0 14px; padding-bottom: 10px; border-bottom: 2px solid #EEF1FB;\">A few takeaways from those conversations<\/h2>\n<!-- THREE TAKEAWAYS -->\n<div style=\"margin: 20px 0 36px; display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: 12px;\">\n<div style=\"border: 1px solid #EEF1FB; padding: 20px 22px; border-radius: 2px; background: #FAFBFF;\">\n<div style=\"font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.15em; text-transform: uppercase; color: #1c267a; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Takeaway 01 \u2014 Platform validation<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.7; color: #333; margin: 0;\">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. <strong>We heard that directly from CISOs running large infrastructure and from integrators with deep enterprise relationships.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"border: 1px solid #EEF1FB; padding: 20px 22px; border-radius: 2px; background: #FAFBFF;\">\n<div style=\"font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.15em; text-transform: uppercase; color: #1c267a; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Takeaway 02 \u2014 Where buyers are pointed<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.7; color: #333; margin: 0;\">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&#8217;s useful context for how we are thinking about the roadmap.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"border: 1px solid #EEF1FB; padding: 20px 22px; border-radius: 2px; background: #FAFBFF;\">\n<div style=\"font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.15em; text-transform: uppercase; color: #1c267a; margin-bottom: 10px;\">Takeaway 03 \u2014 A room you can&#8217;t recreate<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.7; color: #333; margin: 0;\">We also came away with partnership and pipeline conversations that are difficult to start anywhere else. <strong>AISS uniquely brings the full Indian cybersecurity stakeholder set into the same hallway across three days, and that breadth is the point. You can&#8217;t recreate it elsewhere.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- CLOSING WRAP-UP -->\n<p style=\"font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.75; color: #333;\">Thanks to the DSCI team and NASSCOM for hosting AISS for two decades. The Indian cybersecurity industry is meaningfully better because this summit exists.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.75; color: #333;\">Osto will be back at AISS 2026, probably with a larger presence and definitely with more to show.<\/p>\n\n<!-- CLOSING CTA -->\n<div style=\"background:#1C267A;padding:28px 32px;border-radius:2px;margin-top:32px;\">\n  <p style=\"font-size:17px;font-weight:600;color:white;margin:0 0 10px;line-height:1.5;\">One cybersecurity platform for founders, with every module built in house.<\/p>\n  <p style=\"font-size:14px;color:rgba(255,255,255,0.75);margin:0 0 18px;line-height:1.7;\">That is what the CISOs and integrators in the room at AISS told us the Indian ecosystem is asking for. If you are building a startup that needs a consolidated security and compliance posture without spending nine months wiring together five separate vendors, we should talk.<\/p>\n  <a style=\"display:inline-block;background:#FFFFFF;color:#1C267A;font-size:13px;font-weight:bold;padding:11px 22px;text-decoration:none;letter-spacing:0.05em;border-radius:2px;\" href=\"https:\/\/osto.one\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Talk to us at Osto<\/a>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Osto&#8217;s founder shares takeaways from AISS 2025, NASSCOM-DSCI&#8217;s 20th cybersecurity summit. 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