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

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Let’s Create a Community of Data Auditors

DPDPA 2023 as a data protection law charted a course different from GDPR in several respects. One such differentiation that we can note is that DPDPA envisages a role for “Data Auditors” who are independent auditors outside the Company. Currently … Continue reading

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Why Auditors have to be ready before the DPDPA Compliance come into existence

It is heartening to note that CERT IN has recognized the need for its Empanelled Auditors to be ready to Audit the DPDPA Compliance in other Companies. As a part of this recognition, CERT In empanelment division recently issued a … Continue reading

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DPDPA Insurance and Insurability Assessment

I refer to my earlier writings about the need for insuring of risks arising out of non compliance of data protection regulations. Ref: A Golden Era for Insurance Industry ushered in through Personal Data Protection Act of India Now with … Continue reading

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Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act

USA has passed a federal Act called “Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act”. The Act was signed on December 21 2022 with different timelines for implementation. The concept of a legislation urging the Federal Agencies in US to be prepared for … Continue reading

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Are you Quantum Ready?

We are aware that Quantum Computing has been a technology development that has disturbed the Cyber Security community. The reason why the Cyber Security community is worried is that the enormous power of computing that is generated in quantum computing … Continue reading

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