The rapid increase in IT infrastructure and presence in cyber space has given rise to enormous chances of security breach. Cybersecurity is one of the burning issues in today's modern world and the lack of cybersecurity policy and cyber strategy might make the situation vulnerable. Today blockchain technology has almost covered every sector from business to data security. This book is written for all enthusiastic and cyber professionals in this new era of blockchain technology. Blockchain has already proved its versatile nature as adopted by several governments and tech giants from all over the world. Any anonymous user can trust another anonymous user in the cyber world with the authentication and validation via blockchain technology.

Blockchain governance provides a more distributed diffusion of authority in which authentication sources are the individual themselves. This book offers approaches for cybersecurity and cyber defense via Blockchain technology to counter cyber-attacks and ransomwares that are increasing every second. The book can be used for many ways by several cybersecurity professionals to secure online data, people, and networks as a part of cybersecurity, information security and cyber defense initiative with several countermeasures and defense strategies in the web. Each chapter of the book provide excellent tools and techniques for the burning and challenging issues in today's modern cyber (and zero trust) world.

About the Author

Naresh Kshetri is currently an Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity at the Department of Math, CS, and IT, Lindenwood University. He completed his PhD (Computer Science) from University of Missouri - St. Louis (UMSL), graduated with an MS (Cybersecurity) from Webster University, and also earned an MCA (Computer Applications) degree from University of Allahabad. With more than nine years of experience and research interests in Cybersecurity, Blockchain technology, he has published in various journals, conferences, and book chapters. His research is funded by the University of Missouri - St. Louis and the Lindenwood University. Dr. Naresh has taught various CS courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. His teaching horizon expands from high school level teaching to university level teaching.

Purnendu Shekhar Pandey has done his Ph.D. from IIIT-A (Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad) in Information Technology. He worked in various government and private institutions where he taught both PG and UG students. He is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, KIET, Group of Institutions, Ghaziabad, U.P. He has more than eleven years of experience and research interests in the field of IoT, Machine Learning, Cyber-Security, Sensor Networks, Network Coding, D2D assisted Networks, etc. He has published various papers in SCI and ESCI Journals, top-notch conferences like ANTS, FRUCT, NOPE, CCNC (h-index> 25), and reviewer in various peer-reviewed SCI journals. He has given various talks on IoT and discrete process modeling, machine learning in industrial IoT, etc. in various national and international conferences and has hosted various session chairs at various international conferences.

Mohiuddin Ahmed has been educating the next generation of cyber leaders and researching to disrupt the cybercrime ecosystem. His research is focused on ensuring national security and defending against ransomware attacks. Mohiuddin has edited several books and contributed articles to The Conversation. His research publications in reputed venues attracted more than 2900 citations and have been listed in the world's top 2% scientists for the 2020-2022 citation impact. Mohiuddin secured several external and internal grants worth more than $1.4 Million and has been collaborating with academia and industry. He has been regularly invited to speak at international conferences, public organizations, and interviewed by the media for expert opinion.

Book Information
ISBN 9781032583037
Author Naresh Kshetri
Format Hardback
Page Count 312
Imprint CRC Press
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd