Book Image

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

Hyperledger Fabric model


The Hyperledger Fabric project is powered by the IBM blockchain platform and is hosted with the Linux Foundation, with its key highlight over confidential transactions being a permissioned network, programmable business login, and no need for cryptocurrency computational methods.

"We're seeing great results and actively preparing for the transition to 1.1.0. Our latest offering, the IBM Blockchain Platform Starter Plan, will be among one of the first products in the market to deliver on this new release"

—Jerry Cuomo, VP of IBM blockchain technology.

After getting an insight into Hyperledger Fabric and other projects under the Hyperledger project umbrella, it's time to understand the technology practically, and also see some of the challenges during its deployment steps.

Hyperledeger Fabric core components

After understanding the transaction flow, it is important to get insight into how communication is established and maintained among several nodes of the network:

  • Nodes...