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

ITA 2000/8 compliance is like the seat belts for the rear seats….Use them to avoid the risks…

Indians have been provided a tragic reminder that car passengers not wearing seat-belts in the rear seat could make them vulnerable to the risk of fatalities in case of an accident. While we express our regrets on the recent tragedy … Continue reading

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Policy Bazaar data breach… Implications for the New Data Protection Act-NPDAI-15: Shape of Things to Come

.S: This series of articles is an attempt to place some issues before the Government of India which promises to bring a new Data Protection Law that is futuristic, comprehensive and Perfect.  In our continued discussion on “The Shape of … Continue reading

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The Shape of things to come-14: Automated Means of Processing and Automated Decision making

P.S: This series of articles is an attempt to place some issues before the Government of India which promises to bring a new Data Protection Law that is futuristic, comprehensive and Perfect.  In our continued discussion on “The Shape of … Continue reading

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Compliance Management Rating for CERT-In Guidelines (CMR-CERT-IN)

In the absence of Data Protection Authority as envisaged under the PDPB 2019 (Since withdrawn) , the regulation of Data Security under the general provisions of Information Security as envisaged under Information Technology Act 2000 as amended in 2008 assumes … Continue reading

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How NFTs can be used for “Wash Trading”

The new avatar of Black Money and Corruption is NFTs and Crypto Currencies. The Meta Verse as a technology platform is also being used to promote NFTs and Crypto Currencies just as the Block Chain platform. This is for the … Continue reading

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IRCTC Innovation Curbed out of ignorance and media Pressure

IRCTC has many customer complaints and even the undersigned has pointed out several deficiencies in their services some times on this website itself. However this does not mean that we need to oppose whatever IRCTC does. We therefore need to … Continue reading

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