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

After the sophisticated Sony attack, It is now the simple J P Morgan attack!

Just as the IS community is absorbing the lessons of Sony attack, the JP Morgan security breach involving a suspected data theft of 76 million records has disturbed the community. See Report  According to the New York report it appears … Continue reading

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Has Sony Experience Changed the Security Perception?..How should Indian Government respond?

It appears that the hacking of Sony pictures in which corporate data has been destroyed and compromised has exposed the new dimension of a kind of Cyber warfare. According to FBI, the hack was attributed to North Korean Government and … Continue reading

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Is there a Mehdi in my company?

Mehdi Massor Biswas the Bangalore based employee of an ITC group company  was arrested by the Police for having maintained the Twitter account Shami Witness in which he was promoting ISIS ideology. While the Police will continue their investigation and … Continue reading

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ISIS Propaganda from a Bengaluru Executive?

It is a shocking revelation that one of the most prominent Twitter handles carrying on ISIS propaganda happens to be that of a young professional working in Bengaluru in an MNC firm. Report The twitter handle was titled Shami Witness … Continue reading

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Government Fails to understand the Uber business model

The incident in Delhi involving a Uber taxi driver (a known criminal convicted earlier) committing rape of a girl using the taxi service to get a drop back to her house at around midnight after attending a party and pub has exposed … Continue reading

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Uber failed in ITA 2008 Compliance

Before we proceed, let me make one point clear. Banning of Uber and other “App Based Taxi Services” is completely unacceptable. It is an immature reaction to the incident and should be reversed immediately. We need to learn from the … Continue reading

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