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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FDPPI–MYRA Partnership Creates a New Benchmark in Professional Certification for Data Protection in India

  A new era in Certification of professionals in the area of Data Protection has dawned in India with the collaboration of FDPPI with MYRA School of Business. For the first time in India, a leading professional body in Data … Continue reading

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In a Hospital, “Data is Life” — and a “Data Breach” is a “Patient-Safety Event”

We have discussed in these columns, more than once, that of all the Data Fiduciaries the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 has created, the hospital occupies a category of its own. The reason is captured in a single line … Continue reading

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RBI AI Guidelines for Public Comments-2

This is in continuation of our earlier post on “Model Risk Management” guidelines released by RBI as draft for public comments.  (Copy of guidelines) Let us discuss the “Chapter II” of the draft guidelines on “Governance”. This chapter prescribes that … Continue reading

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Excellence in Safety: One day Workshop in Secunderabad

An Interesting Workshop on Healthcare is being organized by KIMS Hospitals in Secunderabad on 27th June 2026. Details are as follows.   Naavi is happy to participate in the event. Naavi

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RBI Guidelines for AI for Public Comments-1

In continuation of our previous post,  here is an outline of the 16 page draft guidelines issued by RBI on AI usage in Regulated Entities (RE), for public comments. The scope of the guideline  has been defined broadly as to … Continue reading

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