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

Why We cannot spare 20 minutes for a cause?

P.S: This is a reproduction of what I posted today at Linkedin. Cyber Crimes is accepted as a big concern for all of us. When there is a phishing attack that wipes out the bank account of a victim or … Continue reading

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Hanover Survey on Cyber Insurance

In November 2014, on online research was conducted by Hanover Research to understand the market for Cyber Insurance. (A Copy of the published Report is available here). The survey is supposed to have gathered information from 271 respondents, most of … Continue reading

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The Zero-Day Market.. Some insights

Zero-Day vulnerabilities are a category of software flaws that are exploited by cyber criminals before the software developer comes to know of it and fixes it through a bug fixing patch or upgradation. Since such vulnerabilities are not known to … Continue reading

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Do You Have a Question on Cyber Law?

Spreading the knowledge of Cyber Law has been a mission for Naavi. In continuation of this effort, Naavi has launched an Android App which can be used for sending questions on Cyber Law to Naavi. The App titled “Cyber Law … Continue reading

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Should IS community be bearish on Cyber Insurance?

Information Security Professionals think that all the talk of Cyber Insurance is nonsense since the risks are so huge that any company that insures Cyber risks is doomed to fail. Is this negative thinking justified?.. Let’s explore Cyber Insurance is … Continue reading

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Cyber Security Subsidy for SMEs in UK

After the attack on Sony in US, Naavi.org had pointed out that there is a need for Government subsidy for SMEs towards maintenance of Cyber Security. Now in a move which supports this view, the UK Government has come up with … Continue reading

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