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Hands-On Cybersecurity with Blockchain

By : Rajneesh Gupta
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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

Challenges with blockchain


Although blockchain has a great impact on the exchange of assets and reduces the operational costs for financial institutions, as is often the case, the hype creates a foggy structure and distracts from the potential business solutions and use cases. It is now important to understand some of the challenges that need great attention so that we can achieve a sustainable business model with blockchain-based applications. These challenges are as follows:

  • Technology expertise: As per a 2017 Global Digital IQ survey, around 86% of finance executives said that their organizations have not developed the required blockchain skills. The lack of blockchain expertise in the global market leads to less attention regarding its potential business use cases and implementation methods. There are several combined programs to simplify and educate Blockchain for the entire community, however blockchain backend system still require expert hands with programming languages, such as Node...