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

The mystery land of Cyber Insurance-2: What is Cyber Insurance?

Naavi along with some of his friends embarked upon a Cyber Insurance Status study in India titled “India Cyber Insurance Survey 2015”. Some aspects of this survey has been briefly referred to on this site earlier. Now based on the … Continue reading

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ITA 2008 compliance guidelines for Matrimonial Websites

An Advisory has been issued by deity on ITA 2008 compliance requirements by matrimonial websites. It is well known that matrimonial websites are “Intermediaries” under ITA 2008 and the guidelines already issued under Section 79A for “Due Diligence”are applicable. Such … Continue reading

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The trinity of E Banking Security.. How will they coordinate their activities?

Over the years, RBI has grown in multiple directions and the management of its responsibilities is getting increasingly complicated. The media is obsessed with the monetary policy related functioning of the RBI such as the management of interest rates and … Continue reading

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SBI’s NEFT system poses a legal risk…Action required from SBI and RBI

One of the customers of SBI has reported a faulty behaviour of the NEFT system in SBI which needs to be explored both by SBI and the RBI. It could be considered as causing a “Legal Risk” both to the … Continue reading

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Is NASSCOM promoting an Online authentication system which is not ITA 2008 compliant?

Recently, NASSCOM (through DSCI) conducted product promotion seminars for FIDO alliance at Mumbai and Bangalore, introducing some online authentication solutions along with some partners of FIDO alliance in India like Persistent Systems. According to the website of FIDO alliance, FIDO stands … Continue reading

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New Cyber Security Framework for Banks will shakeup CISOs in Banks.

RBI has been from time to time providing guidelines to Banks for managing the Information Security aspects. Recently, RBI also has created an Information Security Subsidiary which apart from looking after the Information Security in RBI will also provide policy … Continue reading

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