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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 on integrity


Even with more money being spent on cybersecurity, many organizations are still reluctant to use public cloud solutions. It is a common practice to apply encryption to the data going to the cloud, but encryption can only provide solid confidentiality against internal attacks; it can't protect data from corruption caused by configuration errors, software bugs, or espionage attempts. Although blockchain technology has its own solid approach to achieving immutability with the hashing algorithm and the Merkle tree model for integrity, we have to try and understand how it would practically work with real-world applications and Hyperledger Fabric.

Integrity in the current blockchain network

Integrity is a way of avoiding any tampering with the data. Blockchain uses cryptographic hashing to ensure that the ledger remains tamper-proof. One of the key characteristics of this hashing function is that it is always one-way, which means it is logically impossible to get the data...