Author Archives: Vijayashankar Na

When Singapore amended its data protection laws increasing the penalties for data breach to 10% of the annual  turnover, a window of opportunity has opened up for India to attract investments of data processing companies to India. India presently is … Continue reading →

Lupin Suffers Information Security Incident-Business Insider The trend of Continuing cyber attacks on pharmaceutical companies, before the advent of the PDPA (Personal Data Protection Act of India) when companies are expected to have better security oversight seems to continue with … Continue reading →

Singapore passed some key amendments to the Personal Data Protection Act 2012 establishing a new norm for administrative fines at 10% of turnover. Now companies, with turnover exceeding Singapore dollar 10 million per year,  responsible for data breaches face financial … Continue reading →

FDPPI (Foundation of Data Protection Professionals in India) is the Champion organization in Personal Data protection in India. Started in September 2018 under the leadership of Naavi, FDPPI has made significant strides in establishing itself as the torch bearer of … Continue reading →

[Reproduced from India Legallive.com] Three major cyber attacks in the Indian pharma industry in the last few months have left people wondering whether there is a pattern indicating the reason for this spurt. First was the Breach Candy Hospital one … Continue reading →

Naavi.org has been time and again pointing out that Bitcoins and Crypto Currencies are like the drug menace and have to be eliminated from India if we are serious about rooting out corruption and cyber crimes. I still believe that … Continue reading →