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Hands-On Cybersecurity with Blockchain

By : Rajneesh Gupta
Book Image

Hands-On Cybersecurity with Blockchain

By: Rajneesh Gupta

Overview of this book

Blockchain technology is being welcomed as one of the most revolutionary and impactful innovations of today. Blockchain technology was first identified in the world’s most popular digital currency, Bitcoin, but has now changed the outlook of several organizations and empowered them to use it even for storage and transfer of value. This book will start by introducing you to the common cyberthreat landscape and common attacks such as malware, phishing, insider threats, and DDoS. The next set of chapters will help you to understand the workings of Blockchain technology, Ethereum and Hyperledger architecture and how they fit into the cybersecurity ecosystem. These chapters will also help you to write your first distributed application on Ethereum Blockchain and the Hyperledger Fabric framework. Later, you will learn about the security triad and its adaptation with Blockchain. The last set of chapters will take you through the core concepts of cybersecurity, such as DDoS protection, PKI-based identity, 2FA, and DNS security. You will learn how Blockchain plays a crucial role in transforming cybersecurity solutions. Toward the end of the book, you will also encounter some real-world deployment examples of Blockchain in security cases, and also understand the short-term challenges and future of cybersecurity with Blockchain.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Business adaptation


Industry leaders are spending millions of dollars on research and development (R&D) to evaluate emerging platforms over blockchain. In any sector, the cost of intermediaries is unavoidable and this is growing with the number of transactions, and is based on subscription plans.

Let's explore blockchain use cases:

  • FinTech: Financial organizations are always in need of adapting an emerging technology to solve key security challenges and enhance user experience. Because of the risk of downtime (service disruption) involved in technology refreshes, organizations prefer to wait till they get feedback and use cases from the majority of their industry players. More than 50 of the largest banking organizations have already recognized and appreciated blockchain for enhancing security at the foundation layer. Every successful transaction is saved in the distributed ledger chronologically with a hashing algorithm in the form of blocks. This means that records cannot be tampered...