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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

Lab on Ethereum-based secure DNS infrastructure


DNS infrastructure has been the most targeted asset of organizations. Traditional DNS is vulnerable to several sophisticated threats. The current DNS system is hierarchical and the system root server becomes the high-value attack vector. Since the entire infrastructure is centralized, even a slight failure can lead to whole system failure. A group of engineers, Greg Siepak and Andrea Devers, have developed an Ethereum-based DNS platform to connect client and name server without any involvement of a third party in between. The project is named DNSChain and is hosted over GitHub at https://github.com/okTurtles/dnschain.

Lab preparation

Configure the DNSChain server in Ubuntu. It will run the PowerDNS Recursor, issuing DNS queries for .com and .net domains as you would expect, but consulting the local Namecoin blockchain to resolve .bit domains.

We will start with a fresh copy of Ubuntu LTS. In our lab, we will deploy this Ubuntu system over Amazon...