Antony Shane

I build and scale ventures that
Deliver full spectrum cybersecurity services

Researcher Security & AI
Entrepreneur Founder & CEO
Engineer NIT Rourkela
Antony Shane — Cybersecurity Entrepreneur, Founder of Rapture Twelve, NIT Rourkela

Entrepreneurship meets research.

I'm Antony Shane, building ventures and advancing research at the intersection of offensive security and AI to strengthen real-world cyber defenses.

I'm a fourth-year B.Tech student at NIT Rourkela, leading Rapture Twelve Pvt. Ltd., a DPIIT-certified cybersecurity startup, and co-founding Zharnyx Pvt. Ltd., an edtech platform training cybersecurity engineers through immersive, hands-on learning.

My work is grounded in a simple belief: to defend a system effectively, you must first understand how to break it. I approach security from an attacker's perspective, studying how systems fail under real adversarial pressure, then engineering defenses that hold in real-world conditions.


Leadership, execution & research.

2026 — Present Co-Founder

Zharnyx Pvt Ltd

Co-Founder — CyberSec EdTech

Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu

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2025 — Present Research

NIT Rourkela

Undergraduate Research Associate

Advisor: Dr. D.P. Mohapatra

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May – Jul 2025 Internship

Briskinfosec Technology

Cybersecurity Engineer (Intern)

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

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Awards & Certifications.

Antony Shane at PSB Inter-NIT National Cybersecurity Hackathon 2025 — Grand Finale Award Ceremony, MANIT Bhopal

Achievements

PSB Inter-NIT National Cybersecurity Hackathon — Winner

600+ participants · National Final · 2025

CTF Competitions — Multiple Podium Finishes

National & international · 2024–Present

Responsible Vulnerability Disclosure

Multiple critical CVEs in live production environments · 2024–Present

Certifications

OSCP — Offensive Security Certified Professional

Offsec · Exam preparation in progress

Google Cybersecurity Professional Certificate

Google / Coursera

Network Security & Cryptography

NPTEL · IIT Kharagpur


The work

Build.
Break.
Secure.

"To defend a system effectively, you must first understand how to break it."

Building ventures that operate at the frontier of offensive security and AI. Two companies. One research agenda. One mission.

Vulnerability Assessment & Penetration Testing AI / ML Integrated Tools Development General Security Services & Consulting SOC Operations & Incident Response Full Stack Development & Deployment AI Integration & Business Automation
2+
Active Ventures
25+
Team Members
11+
Projects Delivered
4+
Research Initiatives

Rapture Twelve · Offensive security operations globally.
Zharnyx · Training the next generation of security engineers.

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