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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

Blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS)


Since the birth of cloud computing, one of the hottest terms that has changed the way a product or a service can be delivered or deployed is X (anything) as a service, where X is any form of software or application. After the world recognized the immersive power of blockchain, industry leaders began to explore various possibilities of using blockchain with their existing cloud infrastructure models such as supply chain management, identity and access control, database management, and many more. Hyperledger resembles to the distributed ledger technology however blockchain technology has been taken a special focus in the ecosystem.

 With the Azure Blockchain service, Microsoft became the first software vendor to launch BaaS in 2015. Microsoft, in close collaboration with ConsenSys, announced that it was going to develop an Ethereum BaaS on the Microsoft Azure platform. SAP launched its own BaaS platform and named it Leonardo, which is a Hyperledger-based cloud...