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

Can Criminal cases be revisited if Sec 65B certificate is absent?

In what can be considered as a serious concern to criminal cases where decisions have already been taken based on electronic evidence without Sec 65B certificate, Supreme Court has debated the issue of challenge of Electronic Evidence at the appeal … Continue reading

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CERT-FIN… the proposed Security Czar for BFSI sector

We have discussed some aspects of the organizational structure for the proposed CERT-Fin in our previous article (See here).  Let’s now see some of the other aspects of the report on which public comments can be submitted upto July 31, … Continue reading

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Proposed CERT for Financial Sector (CERT-FIN)… Will it create an efficient organization?

The Working Group under the Chairmanship of  the Director General of CERT-IN constituted to study and submit the recommendations on the setting up of a Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) exclusively for the Financial Sector in India covering Banks, Fintech … Continue reading

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Can a Programmer be a good Compliance Official?

Who would make an effective Compliance official in an organization? is a question that troubles many in the management. In large organizations, there is no dearth of people or capacity to appoint professionals and hence there could be several persons … Continue reading

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Supreme Court issues notice to RBI on Bitcoin regulation

The war on Bitcoin… Should it be legalized? Banned? or left to find its own fate in the chaotic world of unregulated and anonymous Crypto world has now reached the door of the Supreme Court of India. A Public Interest … Continue reading

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Are Drugs to be made legal in India?

What a ridiculous question to ask?… any one would say. But this thought came to me after reading the comment supposedly made by a Finance Ministry Official (Unknown) quoted by coindesk.com in its article available here. (If this quote is … Continue reading

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