Secure Chains : Cybersecurity and Blockchain-powered automation

Bhattacharya Abhishek Bhattacharya Srinivas Mahankali Abhishek

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• Informatique
• Computer science

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• Publié par: BPB Publications
• Date de parution: 01 janvier 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9789389328646
• Langue: English

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Secure Chains

Cybersecurity and Blockchain Powered Automation

by
Abhishek Bhattacharya
Srinivas Mahankali
Gokul B. Alex
FIRST EDITION 2020
Copyright © BPB Publications, India
ISBN: 978-93-89328-653
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About the Authors
● Abhishek Bhattacharya
Abhishek has been a serial Entrepreneur and an Advisor with several startups where he primarily looks into Smart Contract Auditing and putting cybersecurity protocols in place. He has been a Department Editor at XRDS for over 4 years, and also contributes to ACM US TPC, which focuses primarily on advising the U.S. Government on cybersecurity and other policies. His first book was on Information Technology back in 2014. He has been a speaker in Blockchain and a Contributing Author with HackerNoon and CoinTelegraph, among others. He is an Advisor with IIB Council’s Blockchain Advisory Board, which is present across 145 countries.
● Srinivas Mahankali
Srinivas Mahankali is a Principal Consultant (Blockchain) at NISG, India. He previously headed the Blockchain Centre of Excellence at ULTS (ULCCS) group, and is the Program Director for Blockchain in Technology and Management at Amity Online. He is Six Sigma Certified, NCFM Level 2 Certified in Capital Markets, and R3 Corda Certified. He has an MBA from the prestigious IIM Bangalore. His earlier book, Blockchain – The Untold Story, ranks as a bestseller on Amazon and was the world’s first book to be translated to Chinese by AI bots.
● Gokul B. Alex
Gokul Alex was bitten badly by Blockchain bug as early as 2013. His early affair with Blockchain started with explorations on Bitcoin protocol during his stint with IBM and EY. He was curious about the Financial Technology, Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics aspects of Bitcoin. He has started contributing to a Spain based Blockchain StartUp in 2015. He was exploring Eris Industries and Ripple in this time period. He has setup a Blockchain Educational Network in South India in 2016. He has developed the first Blockchain prototype in Hyperledger 0.6 in 2016. He has quickly moved to Ethereum Stack and developed a Healthcare Provider Data Management dApp using Truffle Framework in 2016. He started working on Tendermint platform. He has setup the largest Hedera Hashgraph Community in India. He has learned IOTA ledger and deployed a prototype on Raspberry Pi. He has become the MVP Ambassador for Hedera Hashgraph during the main net launch. He started working with ZCash and Zero Knowledge Proof in 2017. He has become a ZCash Zeal and runs the ZCash Kerala Community thereafter. He interests hiked in Blockchain Privacy and started learning Hyperledger Indy. He has setup decentralised identifier prototypes in Hyperledger Indy. He has developed Agricultural Supplychain Prototype on Hyperledger Sawtooth and learns the architecture of Intel SGX hardware. He has joined Algorand foundation as the first Ambassador from India fascinated by Zero Knowledge Proof. He has developed a Satellite Security App on Algorand Protocol. He gets deep into post quantum cryptography. He is taking a session on Quantum Knowledge Proofs for the Quantum Computing Conference in the state of West Bengal in India. Fascinated by Blockchain Privacy and Security Models, he joins Elixxir Blockchain Platform Ecosystem known as XX Collective. He has architected numerous Blockchain Platforms for Central and State Governments in India during his stint with PwC. He has setup the first ever Government Blockchain Labs for PwC in Bengaluru in India. He is advisor to numerous Blockchain StartUps across the world. He has incubated a Post Quantum Cryptography Start-up in collaboration IISc Bengaluru based Researchers. He is currently authoring a book on Decentralised Finance Platforms.
Acknowledgement
Writing a book on one of the most futuristic technologies of the time has been astoundingly fascinating. The ups and downs while writing the book have stretched over a year, and can’t be let go without mentioning and thanking the most valuable contributions to this book. And since it’s a 300+ pages textbook, it had to be quite a mouthful. So, let’s begin in no order of importance or appearance.
This book couldn’t have been possible without the wholehearted support of BPB Publications, especially Mr. Manish Jain, Mr. Nrip Jain, and Mr. Varun Jain. The speed at which BPB brought this book to fruition is unthinkable and couldn’t have been possible without Sourav, Anugraha and the rest of the BPB family.
The greatest advantage this book had was to have passionate blockchain professionals like Mr. Srinivas Mahankali (Principal Consultant, Blockchain at National Institute for Smart Government) and Mr. Gokul Alex (ex-Associate Director, PwC and Chief Scientist, FusionLedger) as co-authors. The kind of content, insight, mentorship, motivation, and industry experience such authors and educators brought to the table is simply unparalleled.
Next up, the most essential help we received regarding this book was from my university (Prof. Dr. Abhay Bansal, Dr. Ajay Rana, Ms. Shanu Sharma, and Ms. Seema Sharma, Computer Science and Engineering at Amity University, Noida). They helped us with such crucial technical feedback that we couldn’t have taken the book live without those additions.
The support of the family and friends and people belonging to the Blockchain and Cybersecurity community has been invaluable in completing this extensive textbook.
—Abhishek Bhattacharya Co-founder, Whrrl 3x Entrepreneur, Author and Advisor
Preface
Bitcoin is just one example of something that uses a blockchain. Cryptocurrencies are just one example of decentralized technologies. And now that the Internet is big enough and diverse enough, I think we will see different flavors of decentralized technologies and blockchains. I think decentralized networks will be the next huge wave in technology. The blockchain allows our smart devices to speak to each other better and faster.”
Melanie Swan
The world is going digital and the wave of automation is sweeping across all facets of our corporate and personal lives. Industry 4.0 is all about leveraging IOT (Internet of Things) devices to further facilitate the process of automation that helps all organizations to rapidly scale by leveraging technology. The amount of data and information generated by the connected things is being harnessed with the help of advanced algorithm-empowered analytics to induce intelligence into all the actions undertaken for the functioning of these connected devices.
Along with a lot of advantages, these advances also bring in their own element of risks that can threaten our own existence. The digitized and centralized systems connected to the internet can be targeted by the cybercriminals to penetrate into these devices using malware and misdirecting the computing power.
Robots, drones, and chatbots are now finding applications across all industries, functional areas, and even in homes. All these are prone to misdirection by cybercriminal-led attacks.
Autonomous vehicles are around the corner, with most part of the new generation’s vehicles being already automated and are communicating over the net.
The cryptocurrency invention through the launch of bitcoin in 2008 is now in the process of evolving into a full-fledged crypto-asset economy powering the economic transactions between machines and markets across all their permutations and combinations thereof.
In 2015, 1.4 million Jeep Cherokee cars of Fiat Chryslar were recalled when researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek demonstrated that they were able to hack them and control them remotely.
Countries like UK are taking action and leading the push towards autonomous vehicle technology. They have even enacted frameworks like the ‘Autonomous and Electric Vehicles’ bill to ensure that the vehicle designs include stringent norms for cybersecurity.
Created by the Department for Transport (DfT) and the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI), the 8 principles are as follows: Principle 1: Organizational security is owned, governed, and promoted at board level. Principle 2: Security risks are assessed and managed appropriately and proportionately, including those specific to the supply chain. Principle 3: Organizations need product aftercare and incident response to ensure systems are secure over their lifetime. Principle 4: All organizations, including sub-contractors, suppliers, and potential third parties, work together to enhance the security of the system. Principle 5: Systems are designed using a defense-in-depth approach. Principle 6: The security of all software is