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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

DNS topology for large enterprises


For IT professionals, understanding DNS queries and the types of name server takes us most of the way to organizational DNS best practices:

  • Network topology: Redundancy plays a critical role in domain infrastructure. Even if one server fails, another takes control to keep the service up and running. BIND (widely used DNS software) supports high redundancy through a master-slave relationship. The master NS updates the change in mapping to one or more slave servers through the zone transfer mechanism.
  • Configuration files: BIND's configuration is storedin a file callednamed.conf. This named.conf file helps the server to recognize the authoritative and/or caching server and whether it is the master or slave for any specific zone. The file points to zone files that contain the real mapping database. It contains lines or records that define name-to-address and address-to-name mapping for a specific domain.

Architecture

With the changing technology and network transformation...