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

This credit card fraud should be a lesson to Judges, Adjudicators and Banking Ombudsmen

Posted on October 6, 2015 by Vijayashankar Na

The credit card fraud reported in media today involving use of 580 fake cards created by fraudsters resulting in withdrawals of Rs 2.84 crores from Kotak Mahindra Bank is a lesson to all those men in Judicial positions who have … Continue reading →

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WhatsApp Moment in Indian Financial Services

Posted on October 5, 2015 by Vijayashankar Na

Happy to note that Mr Nandan Nilekani is back at what he is at best..the professional circles..after a brief brush with politics that too  with the Congress party. Naavi has been highly critical of his association with Congress party which … Continue reading →

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1710 Bank Frauds reported by Police..Does RBI have a count?

Posted on October 4, 2015 by Vijayashankar Na

Dr Triveni Singh, the additional Superintendent Lucknow is emerging as a “Super Cyber Crime Cop” of the country having resolved many individual and organized cyber crimes in the areas around Noida and NCR region of Delhi. Dr Tiveni Singh is an … Continue reading →

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Voluntary Special Interest Group on Secure Digital India (VSIG-SDI)

Posted on October 3, 2015 by Vijayashankar Na

 Regular visitors of this site remember the article “If NAMO is the CEO of Digital India, who is the CISO”? This thought is still ringing in the minds of many of us who are wholeheartedly supporting the Digital India project … Continue reading →

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Cyber Insurance and Data Breach Liability

Posted on October 3, 2015 by Vijayashankar Na

In US it is stated that 46 of the 50 states have made Data Breach Notification mandatory. As a result when a data breach even occurs the company needs to conduct an in house audit and then send out notifications … Continue reading →

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Protect Bank Consumers from Frauds or be prepared for disaster..A warning to BJP Government

Posted on October 2, 2015 by Vijayashankar Na

Naavi has been arguing from a long time that Banks are vicariously liable for Cyber Crimes in which customers lose money. It is under this argument that in the S.Umashankar Vs ICICI Bank case, the adjudicator of Tamil Nadu held … Continue reading →

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