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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 8. Blockchain-Based DNS Security Platform

The Domain Name System (DNS) is mainly designed to resolve a host name query to an IP address. Internet users need to have domain names, such as www.packtpub.com, but the internet needs an IP address to route the request to the desired destination. This way, DNS becomes the phonebook of the internet and allows everyone to use it globally; however, this also leaves a high possibility of it getting misused. In this chapter, we will learn about the DNS infrastructure, the core components, challenges with the existing system, and how blockchain can transform its current functionality.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • DNS
  • DNS structure and hierarchy
  • DNS topology for large enterprises
  • Challenges with the current DNS solution
  • Blockchain-based DNS solution
  • Labs