Author Archives: Vijayashankar Na

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 →

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 →

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 →

The officials at the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) must be congratulating themselves on the excellent work done by their search committee  which found out and recommended  Sri Ankit Fadia to be appointed as the Brand Ambassador for … Continue reading →

The DeitY has recently been in the news for its decision to appoint “Brand Ambassadors” for the Digital India Programme. My previous post on this subject in these columns has suggested that there are moles in DeitY who are trying to derail … Continue reading →

Ravi Shankar Prasad as the Minister of Communication and Technology occupies a key position in the Modi cabinet. His ministry is also critical to the image of Mr Modi himself who is pushing the Digital India Concept world over. On … Continue reading →