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

Digital Society Day Initiatives from Naavi

Today is the 15th anniversary of the Digital Society Day which marked the beginning of the legal recognition of electronic documents in India. In order to mark the day, Naavi has been initiating new activities in different years basically to … Continue reading

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Rs 197 crores lost by ONGC to a silly Cyber Fraud

Two years back we wrote the following posts: RBI and ECGC should consider trade remittances to Hong Kong as Highly Risky : July 14, 2013 Syndicate Bank loses Rs 1.13 crores of customer’s money: November 26, 2013 Negligence of Export Promotion … Continue reading

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Cyber Appellate Tribunal may become active once again

Visitors to this site are aware of the several approaches the undersigned has made regarding the delayed appointment of the Chair person for Cyber Appellate Tribunal. (CAT) The CAT which is the body which has to adjudge appeals against the … Continue reading

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Is it a WhatsApp Moment or Napster Moment for Indian Financial System?

I refer to the earlier post on “WhatsApp moment in Indian Financial Services”  in which the views of Mr Nandan Nilekani on how the financial services market in India is transforming. One of the changes that the new mobile payment … Continue reading

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What should be the policy on Crypto Coins in Digital India ?

One of the issues that the Government of India is now trying to address is reduction in Black Money in the system. E Banking and Mobile Banking are expected to assist in the reduction of use of cash in the … Continue reading

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Can Encryption be considered as a “Right of Self Defense” ?

Speaking on a program on BBC, Edward Snowden the well known security specialist who brought to open the US spying on Internet across the globe has  highlighted the risk of Smart Phone hacking through a simple SMS message. He says … Continue reading

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