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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

Chapter 3. Introducing Blockchain and Ethereum

Once in several years, we see the birth of revolutionary technologies with the capability to disrupt a wide range of business models. In this chapter, the blockchain will be introduced with an insight into the technology and its business use cases. Blockchain is a concept that originated to avoid third-party involvement in any financial transaction in a whitepaper named Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System, by Satoshi Nakamoto. We will also be discussing the types of blockchain-based business needs, cryptography, and consensus, which mitigate the risk of fraud.

You will learn about the following topics in this chapter:

  • What blockchain is
  • Internet versus blockchain
  • How blockchain works
  • The building blocks of blockchain
  • Ethereum blockchain
  • Private versus public blockchains
  • Business adaptation