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

1710 Bank Frauds reported by Police..Does RBI have a count?

Dr Triveni Singh, the additional Superintendent Lucknow is emerging as a “Super Cyber Crime Cop” of the country having resolved many individual and organized cyber crimes in the areas around Noida and NCR region of Delhi. Dr Tiveni Singh is an … Continue reading

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Voluntary Special Interest Group on Secure Digital India (VSIG-SDI)

 Regular visitors of this site remember the article “If NAMO is the CEO of Digital India, who is the CISO”? This thought is still ringing in the minds of many of us who are wholeheartedly supporting the Digital India project … Continue reading

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Cyber Insurance and Data Breach Liability

In US it is stated that 46 of the 50 states have made Data Breach Notification mandatory. As a result when a data breach even occurs the company needs to conduct an in house audit and then send out notifications … Continue reading

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Protect Bank Consumers from Frauds or be prepared for disaster..A warning to BJP Government

Naavi has been arguing from a long time that Banks are vicariously liable for Cyber Crimes in which customers lose money. It is under this argument that in the S.Umashankar Vs ICICI Bank case, the adjudicator of Tamil Nadu held … Continue reading

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Are We Cyber Ready?.. Melissa Hathway Shares her concerns

Melissa Hathway, the Cyber Security expert from US was in Bangalore recently and addressed members of DSCI Bangalore Chapter at NLSUI on 1st October 2015.  Melissa was until recently working with US President Obama and was tipped to be appointed as … Continue reading

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Why Cyber Insurance seekers need to do better home work

Naavi has been advocating that companies need to start using  Cyber Insurance in India though the current level of awareness as well as the penetration is low. In these circumstances, the news that BitPay, a Bitcoin processor  could not recover … Continue reading

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