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

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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Why Do we need a Cyber Fraud Prevention Policy?

The Ministry of Information Technology has already adopted a National Cyber Security Policy adopted in 2013 by the Kapil Sibal ministry and continued by the new Government. The Cyber Security Task Force of NASSCOM-DSCI has tried to take a deeper look … Continue reading

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Save Digital India From Cyber Frauds

We are all Netizens who depend on Internet for our day to day communications as well as transactions. It has been several days since we have visited Banks physically and are happy to transact through Internet and Mobiles. Come to … Continue reading

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Dendroid malware writer arrested

In yet another instance of a “Deviant mind” inside an otherwise brilliant security professional, a 20 year old security researcher who has worked as an intern in a security company doing research on mobile malware has been arrested for creating … Continue reading

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Reputation damage through Social Media..New Zealand passes new law

“Reputation Damage” is a concern of both Individuals or a Companies. The risk of “Reputation Damage” has increased with the growing influence of Internet and more particularly the social media such as Twitter and Facebook.  While the core objective of Twitter and … Continue reading

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