Under the aegis of the Department of Financial Services (DFS), Ministry of Finance, and the Indian Banks’ Association (IBA), the PSB Suraksha Manthan 2026 serves as a national platform to nurture cybersecurity innovation in public sector banking. It invites participation from students across India to ideate, innovate, and build solutions for real-world cyber threats.
Selected participants will develop prototypes addressing critical challenges, culminating in a showcase event in July 2026.
Why You Should Participate
🏆 Exciting prizes and national recognition
📜 Certificates of Excellence, Merit, or Participation for all participants.
💡 Hands-on exposure to real banking challenges
🚀 Opportunity to engage with cybersecurity leaders
Problem Statement
Cybersecurity & Fraud Prevention in Banking Systems & Digital Transactions
Modern banking systems are prime targets for cyber-attacks, identity theft, account takeovers, and financial fraud. With rapid growth in internet & mobile banking, and UPI-based payments, banks must continuously strengthen their cybersecurity posture. This hackathon challenges participants to design intelligent, secure, and resilient solutions that protect digital banking ecosystems at scale.
Learn about the most critical cybersecurity challenges facing modern banks: account takeovers, payment fraud, data breaches, and social engineering. This video equips you with insights needed to build robust defensive solutions.
Great job! Your team has been shortlisted in the first round of the Hackathon.
Get ready for the next stage, and if you have any questions or need guidance, our Hackathon team is here to help.
Team Number
Team Name
Member 1
Member 2
Member 3
Member 4
Member 5
Member 6
1
BLACKBOX
Akshat Arya
Madhur Prakash Mangal
Nidhi Singh
Bhanvi Nayer
Nandika Gupta
Saisha Goel
3
INSIGHT PERSONA
Japmehr Singh
Arnold Savio Rojan
Rishika
Palak Sharma
Tanvi
Tanya Mahana
4
PIXELS
Umar A. Mahmood
Aakriti Singh
Kaashvi Sood
Syed Ashhar Ali
Bhavya
Ayush
9
DATABAES
Dia Vats
Mohd Arshil
Akansha Singh
Akshaya Behera
Tilottama Ganguly
Jivansh Raghuvanshi
10
SCOR7
Rudra Raut
Shivam Kumar
Harshit
Rohit Kumar
Aditya Swaraj
Palak Kamthan
18
TEAM INFIN8
Mahi Tyagi
Manan Singh
Vanshika Kulshrestha
Kiran Pillai
Vivek Chaudhary
Daksh Garg
19
KOFFEE WITH KODE
Om Vinayak
Archit Nirula
Aanika Bajaj
Shauryan Shindhu
Aksh Vats
Anshul Sharma
20
AMAVAS
Swayam Kohli
Mahak Singh
Archit Sahay
Ayush Kumar
Vishwas Kesarwani
Aayat Khan
24
CODE NOVA
Tanya Gupta
Lakshita Vashisht
Manvi Singh
Bhoomi Jindal
Nandini Mittal
Samriddhi Tripathi
29
TEAM TITANS
Laveena
Kunal Chaudhary
Jatin Dhiman
Ram Sharma
Mukul Kumar Rotela
Priyang Alankrit Chauhan
34
SYNDICATES
Siddhant Sinha
Maanpratap
Yash Jaiswal
Sammyak Jain
Aditya Bansal
Asmi Kumari
37
FINANCIAL DEBUGGER
Shahee Bhambani
Satyam Kasana
Divyansh Rajput
Aditya Saini
Shaurya Mishra
Guneesha Gulati
41
GRADIENT
Srishti Kanjilal
Ambuj Kumar
Jiyad Hussain
RD Shubham
Danish Raja
Avva Nagavenkat
42
INGUIN
Faizan Ahmed syed
Jaanvi Sharma
Rida Fazil
Aditi Negi
Prachi Sharma
Sameer Chaurasia
43
HECKERS
Aurindom Ghosh
Abheek Ghosh
Shreyas Jain
Raghav Lakhanpal
Sonakshi Kumar
Parth Tiwari
46
TEAM EXCEL-LENT MINDS
Rikshita Barua
Deepanshu Sharma
Mrigesh Mohanty
Kunal Saxena
Tripti Jain
Ishita Anand
48
HACKHERS
Srishti Saxena
Likhita Gorantla
Aarti Joshi
Angel Biju
Nandana V
Shruti Saxena
49
PSB PATHFINDERS
Himanshu Kumar
Aman Mathur
Krishan Yadav
Shavy Aggarwal
Saanvi Kapoor
Yashasya Aggarwal
51
CODE4US
N. Kailash
Harshit Rai
Leisha Jain
Sarthak Pandit
Shourya Solanki
Joy Vashisht
Prizes & Rewards
🥇 Winner
₹ 5,00,000
Fully funded trip to Global Fintech Fest 2026, Mumbai
Cash prize
Certificate of Excellence
Hackathon goodies
🥈 1st Runner-Up
₹ 3,00,000
Cash prize
Certificate of Merit
Hackathon goodies
🥉 2nd Runner-Up
₹ 2,00,000
Cash prize
Certificate of Merit
Hackathon goodies
💰 A special prize of ₹ 1,00,000 will be awarded to the team developing
innovative, AI-based and out-of-the-box product.
💰 Bank may consider a special award of ₹ 1,00,000 to an
all-women team for delivering an innovative solution.
💰 Total Prize Pool: ₹ 12,00,000
🎓 All participants will receive a Certificate of Participation.
Leadership & Guidance
PSB Suraksha Manthan 2026 is being conducted under the strategic
guidance and leadership of the Bank’s senior management,
reinforcing the Bank’s commitment to strengthening cybersecurity
and innovation in digital banking.
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Our existing old Internet Banking customers ( Retail and Sole Propriership) who are yet to register in PSB UnIC are requested to make a onetime registration by visiting our website: https://punjabandsind.bank.in/ and by clicking on PSB UnIC and choosing appropriate Option as follows:
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General Manager-IT,
Punjab & Sind Bank
Internet Banking
Dear customers,
A New Internet Banking and Mobile Banking Solution - PSB UnIC for Retail Customers including NRE/NRO and PSB UnIC Biz for Sole Proprietor customers and Corporate Customers has been rolled out successfully by the Bank bringing UPI, IMPS, NEFT, RTGS and many more banking services under one platform.
Please note that our customers have already been notified that the old Internet Banking Portal of the Bank will be pulled down by 28.02.2022. The Funds Transfer services were blocked for Retail Internet Banking Customers since 09.01.2022. However, our old Internet Banking Portal was running parallelly for the last few days for the benefit of old Retail and Corporate Internet Banking Customers. It has now been decided that the Old Internet Banking will be pulled down on midnight of 21.03.2022. Bill Payments and Tax Payments ( OLTAS and GST) can be done through PSB UnIC digital platform. Bill Payment services are moved to PSB UnIC from 16.03.2022 onwards and the OLTAS functionality will be live from 18.03.2022 through PSB UnIC.
Our existing old Internet Banking customers ( Retail and Sole Propriership) who are yet to register in PSB UnIC are requested to make a onetime registration by visiting our website: https://punjabandsind.bank.in/ and by clicking on PSB UnIC and choosing appropriate Option as follows:
And submit the duly signed application form along with required documents Viz. Board Resolution / Partnership Letter with Deed / Trust, Society, Club Resolution Letter/ HUF Letter etc. and also the KYC documents of the Authorised Users immediately to the parent Branch.
These corporate customers will be sent a registration kit through email after submission of the above documents. By Using the credentials in the mail, the corporate customers are requested to register by following the instructions contained in the email and start availing the benefit of PSB UnIC Biz services.
General Manager-IT,
Punjab & Sind Bank
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