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

Courts can be Crazy

Recently two judgements were reported from abroad one on a Canadian Court considering the Emoji Thumbs up as a digital signature, another where a victim of an identity theft was adjudged guilty of Trademark infringement. To this I would like … Continue reading

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New Draft Data Protection Bill DPDPB 2023 released

The new draft of the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2023 as to be tabled in the Parliament has been released by the Standing Committee on IT headed by Shiv sena MP Mr Prataprao Jhadav. A Copy of the bill … Continue reading

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ISO-8: ISO 27701

ISO 27701 was published on August 6, 2019 as an extension of ISO 27001:2013. It was a framework for management of Privacy of Personal data and included requirements for Privacy Risk Assessment, Privacy Impact Assessment, Data Protection Impact assessment and … Continue reading

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MOVEit vulnerability exploited.. Where was DPIA?

A Russian ransomware gang CLOp has reportedly been exploiting a zero day vulnerability in a secure file transfer software called MOVEit and has reportedly affected hundreds of businesses in UK and USA. Moveit is a managed file transfer software product … Continue reading

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ISO-7: Planning, Implementing, evaluation and Review

In the series of articles so far, we have discussed the Scope of ISMS under ISO 27001 as well as the Leadership requirements and some aspects of Planning. In this article let us list out all the requirements specified under … Continue reading

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ISO-6: Governance Structure

We are presenting a series of articles in this series to spread the awareness and understanding of ISO 27001, ISO 27701 and PDPCSI. ISO 27001 is a certifiable standard while ISO 27701 is a requirement which can be certified only … Continue reading

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