Author Archives: Vijayashankar Na

It is well recognized that behind many of the successful ransomware attacks in an organization, there is a simple security failure of an employee clicking an e-mail attachment containing a malicious code. Prevention of E Mail based attacks is therefore … Continue reading →

While we in India is still procrastinating on the introduction of a law for protecting information privacy, the world seems to be moving ahead into legislating for “Mental Privacy”. The “Information Privacy” as defined by the Puttaswamy judgement refers to … Continue reading →

We have moved from Security by Design to Privacy By Design. Now it is time to upgrade to Compliance by Design. Non Compliance of Data Protection law could lead to a penalty of 4% of Global Turnover. Mitigation of the … Continue reading →

India is planning to pass a law on Privacy and Data Protection and the Bill titled Data Protection Act 2021 (DPA 2021) which is pending in the Parliament. The copy of this Bill originated in 2018 following the Srikrishna Committee … Continue reading →

(Press note issued by Mumbai High Court for not providing timely hearing of Adjudication case) The Adjudication system in ITA 2000 was one of the commendable features of Cyber Law in India trying to provide a fast track settlement of … Continue reading →