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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

Understanding blockchain on availability


Business applications are accessible through networks (public or private), and these applications are sets of code that have value until they are accessible, which is when they are needed. Blockchain is a software application running on the cloud that keeps its value until it is not broken or disturbed. For users, the face of blockchain is simply a decentralized application (dApp), and in order to keep it available all of the time, both the frontend and the backend of the system should run seamlessly.

Availability in the current blockchain network

On-time and reliable access to information resembles availability. Cyberattacks such as DDoS cause huge disruption to internet services and result in websites becoming inaccessible, which costs businesses a lot of money. The decentralized nature of blockchain makes it harder to disrupt these applications.

No single point of failure

Even if one node in the blockchain goes down, the information can be accessed...