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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

Ethereum


Ethereum is one of the oldest blockchain flavors and has provided platforms with a way to customize a system. Bitcoin aims to disrupt the current payment system and online banking with its own consensus mechanism, whereas Ethereum is in the midst of decentralizing the existing computer system since it works heavily on the client-server model.  

History

In 2013, Vitalik Buterin, a 22-year-old programmer involved in Bitcoin, first described Ethereum in a whitepaper. In early 2014, a Swiss company called Ethereum Switzerland GmbH developed the first Ethereum software. In June 2016, decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) was hacked by an anonymous group, sparking significant debate in the crypto-community and resulting in the network being split into two groups: Ethereum (ETH) and Ethereum Classic (ETC).

What is Ethereum?

Ethereum is a decentralized network that has the capability of running applications in a distributed environment. The idea is simply to avoid complete dependency...