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

Is there no solution for Age-gating?

India provided legal recognition to electronic documents through the Information Technology Act 2000 (ITA 2000). This gave legal recognition to electronic documents. ITA 2000 also introduced the Digital Signature and later on the Electronic Signature (e-Sign) as a means of … Continue reading

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Is Crowdstrike outage an AI Failure?

The failure of Crowd strike security software causing global chaos will be analysed by experts in Due Course. In the immediate, it appears that there could be a failure in the Artificial intelligence based automated response which has generated a … Continue reading

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MeitY seeks Endorsement of Big Tech for DPDPA Rules

It can only happen in India that Companies like Meta are in the forefront of challenging Government notifications such as the Intermediary Rules in Courts and they are the same entities who are also consulted for advise on how we … Continue reading

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Section.. 63 of Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam..Perspective from Naavi

In the new Indian Evidence Act which became effective from 1st July 2024, the earlier Section 65B of Indian Evidence act has been modified as Section 63. This being an important section in the Act, Naavi has tried to place … Continue reading

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Calling attention of all CERT IN accredited auditors

There are a number of CERT-In auditors who are registered with CERT IN for different kinds of audits. With the notification of DPDPA 2023 expected during this year, there will be new business opportunities that will open up for Audits … Continue reading

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Let’s Help Ourselves by helping MeitY

The Data Protection Industry in India today is waiting for MeitY to start a discussion on the DPDPA Rules. Currently there is one section of the market which is convinced that MeitY has shared its draft with a closed group … Continue reading

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