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

Airtel does a Maggi!

Just as Maggi has got into a controversy on its taste enhancing additives to its noodles, Airtel appears to be encountering a controversy by introducing a “Computer contaminant” into its customer’s browsers which is an offence under Section 66 of … Continue reading

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Using the Smart Grid in the Smart City and the Security issues

One of the first innovations that the proposed Smart Cities in India need to build up is an efficient way of distributing electricity so that the net cost of consumption of Electricity is reduced. The solution for this without doubt … Continue reading

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Let’s develop a model Cyber Security Framework for a Smart City

AP Chief Minister Mr Chandrababu Naidu laid the foundation stone for the new Capital City of Andhra Pradesh to be known as Amaravati. The City is to be developed as a “Smart City”. Knowing the cyber savvy nature of Mr … Continue reading

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Impersonation of “Naavi” sighted

P.S: Since the publication of this post and an email sent to the founders of Naavi.co., a response as quoted below  has been received from Mr Bates, promoter of Naavi.co. Naavi has been the promoter of www.lookalikes.in which promotes the … Continue reading

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Cyber Security Task Force-NASSCOM-DSCI initiative,Will it have a holistic view?

It is reported that NASSCOM and DSCI has set up a Cyber Security Task Force with representatives from industry and academia to identify key priorities and build a detailed action plan. The task force is expected to study the Indian … Continue reading

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Banks Prepare an assault on customers through Court actions

Naavi.org has been highlighting the fact that banks are conducting “Unsafe Banking” in pursuance of “Profit before Customer Service” and pushing Customers into greater and greater risks. RBI has through the 2001 guidelines on Internet Banking and again through the … Continue reading

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