Author Archives: Vijayashankar Na

About Vijayashankar Na

Naavi is a veteran Cyber Law specialist in India and is presently working from Bangalore as an Information Assurance Consultant. Pioneered concepts such as ITA 2008 compliance, Naavi is also the founder of Cyber Law College, a virtual Cyber Law Education institution. He now has been focusing on the projects such as Secure Digital India and Cyber Insurance

Calling attention of all CERT IN accredited auditors

There are a number of CERT-In auditors who are registered with CERT IN for different kinds of audits. With the notification of DPDPA 2023 expected during this year, there will be new business opportunities that will open up for Audits … Continue reading

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Let’s Help Ourselves by helping MeitY

The Data Protection Industry in India today is waiting for MeitY to start a discussion on the DPDPA Rules. Currently there is one section of the market which is convinced that MeitY has shared its draft with a closed group … Continue reading

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Voice Your Views on DPDPA Rules: It is now or may be never

The DPDPA 2023 was gazetted on August 11, 2023. However, the Government could not pass the rules and notify the Act before the elections and it is now scheduled for the 100 days agenda of the Modi 3.0 Government. It … Continue reading

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Privacy at BSIDES Cyber Security Conference

On June 28, 2024, there was a major Information Security Summit at Bengaluru lead by BSIDES Bengaluru. Amongst the several things discussed during the conference was also a panel discussion on “Tactics for Combating Privacy Threats” in which the undersigned … Continue reading

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Section 63 of Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam

Section 65B of Indian Evidence Act (IEA) was a very important amendment made to the age old Indian Evidence Act 1872 consequent to the passing of Information Technology Act 2000 (ITA 2000) notified on 17th October 2000. This section provided … Continue reading

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Climate Change Impact of Artificial Intelligence usage

I draw the attention of the readers to our earlier article “Climate Change impact on ISO 42001” and the “RBI Reference on thee impact of Climate Change on Financial Risk”. RBI had also released the draft guidlines on “Disclosure Framework … Continue reading

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