Introduction In 2026, India's education technology ecosystem found itself at the center of a major cybersecurity discussion after a 19-year-old security researcher claimed to have discovered multiple critical vulnerabilities in the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) On-Screen Marking (OSM) platform. The incident quickly gained national attention because the OSM platform was designed to digitize the evaluation of Class 12 answer sheets—a process impacting millions of students annually. The researcher alleged that vulnerabilities within the portal could potentially allow unauthorized access to examiner accounts and evaluation functions. CBSE later clarified that the reported issues existed on a testing environment and not on the production platform used for actual answer-sheet evaluation. (The Times of India) Regardless of where...