Author Archives: 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 →

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 →

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 →

Melissa Hathway, the Cyber Security expert from US was in Bangalore recently and addressed members of DSCI Bangalore Chapter at NLSUI on 1st October 2015.  Melissa was until recently working with US President Obama and was tipped to be appointed as … Continue reading →

Naavi has been advocating that companies need to start using  Cyber Insurance in India though the current level of awareness as well as the penetration is low. In these circumstances, the news that BitPay, a Bitcoin processor  could not recover … Continue reading →

The officials at the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) must be congratulating themselves on the excellent work done by their search committee  which found out and recommended  Sri Ankit Fadia to be appointed as the Brand Ambassador for … Continue reading →