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IdentityShield’ 26 Innovation Sandbox

Where Visionary Ideas Shape the Future

Top Finalists

Celebrating the standout innovations that made it to the final round of IdentityShield Innovation Sandbox.

⭐ Finalist
Kavach

AI Powered Cybersecurity Talent Vetting & Hiring Platform

Shikhar Beriwal

Cyber Unbound

4:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Cybersecurity talent shortage stems from overlooking skilled, uncertified engineers due to vague job requirements, resume bias, and costly certifications. Cyber Unbound's AI platform lets enterprises instantly filter, shortlist, and hire vetted cybersecurity talent by skills, experience, pay, and availability.

⭐ Finalist
Kavach

Consent Management & Data Protection

Jasmine Amin

ClearConsent DataSec Pvt Ltd

4:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Indian organizations struggle with fragmented tools to manage user consent, privacy obligations, and DPDP Act compliance, lacking practical, India-specific solutions. ClearConsent is a modular, API-enabled platform that operationalizes compliance with real-time consent tracking; centralizes purpose mapping, consent records, and audit logs; and more.

⭐ Finalist
Kavach

Automated Code Review & Security Analysis

Prashant Bhivsane

Code Review Tool

4:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Built a Trust-First AI Code Review Platform to fix what existing AI tools get wrong: adoption. Instead of forcing blind automation, our system lets teams choose between full automation or human approval for every AI comment. The result is faster reviews, code quality, lower engineering cost, and AI that teams want to use.

Nominations

Meet the innovative companies that made it to the final showcase. These cutting-edge solutions represent the future of cybersecurity.

AI-Powered Threat Detection Platform

Guru Prasad

@EAGLE_INNOVATOR

3:45 PM - 3:55 PM

Manual ethical hacking requires complex commands, making cybersecurity assessments time-consuming and inaccessible for beginners and pros. Solution is an Automated Ethical Hacking System that uses automation and natural language interactions to run scans, generate clear reports, and deliver fast security insights.

Next-Gen Security Monitoring Solution

Shreyash Ghare

Vigilant Mavericks

3:55 PM - 4:05 PM

CI/CD pipelines lack built-in security, making them prime targets for supply-chain attacks. The solution is an AI-powered PyGuard and VMX (a rule-based multi-detector scanner) that detects malicious intents, identifies insecure commands, and more.

Privilege Management & Access Control

Vaibhav Bawiskar

Sudo Su

4:05 PM - 4:15 PM

Drishti Nexus is a portable, offline-first security log analysis tool designed for isolated and air-gapped network environments where traditional cloud-based SIEM solutions cannot operate.

AI Powered Cybersecurity Talent Vetting & Hiring Platform

Shikhar Beriwal

Cyber Unbound

4:15 PM - 4:25 PM

Cybersecurity talent shortage stems from overlooking skilled, uncertified engineers due to vague job requirements, resume bias, and costly certifications. Cyber Unbound's AI platform lets enterprises instantly filter, shortlist, and hire vetted cybersecurity talent by skills, experience, pay, and availability.

Zero-Trust Network Architecture

Mayur Agarwal

SilentMesh

4:25 PM - 4:35 PM

Traditional cybersecurity uses noisy, probabilistic detection that fails to stop "East-West" lateral movement in banking, causing alert fatigue and missing APTs. SilentMesh deploys a Fractal Grid of dynamic, AI-driven decoys for deterministic deception.

Secure Development Platform

Mihir Soman

KumbhCoders

4:35 PM - 4:45 PM

Traditional malware detection relies on limited, curated datasets and predefined behavioral rules, but fails against new or zero-day malware. Quantum Malware Handler overcomes this with a hybrid quantum and learning real-world malware binaries.

360-Degree Threat Monitoring System

Dhanesh Dodia

ThreatWatch360

4:45 PM - 4:55 PM

Rising digital threats like phishing, fake sites, impersonation, and data leaks cause financial losses, penalties, and brand damage. ThreatWatch360 continuously monitors the web, detects/analyzes threats, and automates takedowns to protect your brand in real-time.

Consent Management & Data Protection

Jasmine Amin

ClearConsent DataSec Pvt Ltd

4:55 PM - 5:05 PM

Indian organizations struggle with fragmented tools to manage user consent, privacy obligations, and DPDP Act compliance, lacking practical, India-specific solutions. ClearConsent is a modular, API-enabled platform that operationalizes compliance with real-time consent tracking; centralizes purpose mapping, consent records, and audit logs; and more.

MoSAST - Mobile Security Assessment

Abhishek Anand

MoSAST

5:05 PM - 5:15 PM

Alert fatigue from standard tools flags thousands of harmless bugs, burying real exploitable threats. Solution is MoSAST, which applies Reachability Intelligence to trace attacker-accessible vulnerabilities and Surgical AI for instant, verified code fixes—slashing remediation from weeks to seconds.

SDLC Security Integration Tool

Nitesh Pamnani

SDLC Tool

5:15 PM - 5:25 PM

PR reviews bottleneck development velocity due to fragmented context, scattered architectural decisions, and massive cognitive load on growing codebases. Next-Gen Code Review Agent delivers better engineering velocity, safety, and scales expertise.

Automated Code Review & Security Analysis

Prashant Bhivsane

Code Review Tool

5:25 PM - 5:35 PM

Built a Trust-First AI Code Review Platform to fix what existing AI tools get wrong: adoption. Instead of forcing blind automation, our system lets teams choose between full automation or human approval for every AI comment. The result is faster reviews, code quality, lower engineering cost, and AI that teams want to use.

Selection Process

From submission to showcase, here's how we identify and celebrate the most innovative cybersecurity solutions.

1

Initial Pitch Presentation

Each team will be allotted 5 minutes to present their innovation, followed by 5 minutes of questions from the jury panel.

2

Jury Evaluation

The jury will assess each presentation based on predefined evaluation criteria and assign scores accordingly.

3

Finalist Shortlisting

Based on the consolidated scores, the top three teams will be shortlisted as finalists and invited to present their innovations before a larger audience.

4

Final Presentation & Winner Announcement

After the final presentations, the jury will conduct a final evaluation and declare the winning team.

Showcase Innovation

Showcase Your Innovation

Whether you’re advancing technology, transforming industries, or solving critical challenges, we want to hear your story. Showcase your breakthroughs and join us in shaping the future at IdentityShield Innovation Sandbox.

The top innovations will receive industry recognition, valuable feedback from experts, combined cash reward worth ₹2,25,000 (Winner: ₹1,00,000; 1st Runner-Ups: ₹75,000; 2nd Runner-Ups: ₹50,000) to winners and placement opportunity to top pitches.

Each finalist will get a 5-minute spotlight to present their innovation, followed by a brief Q&A with the panel.



Innovation Sandbox Winners'25

Showcasing the top innovation winners of 2025

Panel Discussions

Winner Pitch

Aditya Kumar, Ravindra Jangid, and Mohak Bansal, awarded a prize amount of ₹1,00,000 for Database Shield.

Panel Discussions

Runner Up

Rohan Padile, Shubham Chemte, awarded a prize amount of ₹75,000 for Granular Access Control for Web Applications.

Panel Discussions

2nd Runner Up

Mihir Soman, awarded a prize amount of ₹50,000 for Developing a Cyber Triage Tool for Digital Forensics.

Special Award Winners: Collectively Curious

Mr. Anirban Mukherji, Founder and CEO of miniOrange, honored Team “Collectively Curious” from Nutan Maharashtra Institute of Engineering & Technology—Latika Manoj Ray, Bhagyashree Kisan Surwase, Gauri Rajesh Dere, and Saniya Jalil Shaikh—with a Special Prize for their groundbreaking project, EQ Play: Empowering Equality through Interactive Learning.

Their socially driven platform leverages gamification to nurture empathy, respect, and inclusivity in children, powerfully demonstrating how technology can be a catalyst for meaningful social impact.

IDSS 2025

Jan 16–17, 2026

  MDS Banquets, Pune

 identityshield@miniorange.com

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