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

SBI’s NEFT system poses a legal risk…Action required from SBI and RBI

One of the customers of SBI has reported a faulty behaviour of the NEFT system in SBI which needs to be explored both by SBI and the RBI. It could be considered as causing a “Legal Risk” both to the … Continue reading

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Is NASSCOM promoting an Online authentication system which is not ITA 2008 compliant?

Recently, NASSCOM (through DSCI) conducted product promotion seminars for FIDO alliance at Mumbai and Bangalore, introducing some online authentication solutions along with some partners of FIDO alliance in India like Persistent Systems. According to the website of FIDO alliance, FIDO stands … Continue reading

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New Cyber Security Framework for Banks will shakeup CISOs in Banks.

RBI has been from time to time providing guidelines to Banks for managing the Information Security aspects. Recently, RBI also has created an Information Security Subsidiary which apart from looking after the Information Security in RBI will also provide policy … Continue reading

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FDA CFR Part 11 regulations and Indian Companies

It appears that, of late, the US FDA has been tightening the implementation of CFR part 11 regulations regarding maintenance of records in electronic form. The tremors are being felt now in India since these regulations also affect Indian pharma … Continue reading

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Dr Swamy bowls a googly at Raghuram Rajan… Is media carrying a biased campaign?

For the last few weeks, intense debate has ensued on whether the RBI Governor, Mr Raghuram Rajan should get a second term or not. The media has been batting for an extension of Mr Rajan’s tenure as if he is … Continue reading

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The mystery land of Cyber Insurance-1: Overcome the “All is Well syndrome”

At naavi.org, we have been discussing the issues of Cyber Crimes and Cyber Law since 1998. After initial years of focus on Cyber  Laws, we moved to discussing the proactive defense in the form of Techno Legal Information Security and … Continue reading

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