Recent Trends in Blockchain for Information Systems Security and Privacy

The main goal of this book is to encourage both researchers and practitioners of Blockchain technology to share and exchange their experiences and recent studies between academia and industry.

Amit Kumar Tyagi is Assistant Professor (Senior Grade), and Senior Researcher at Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Chennai Campus, India. He earned his PhD in 2018 from Pondicherry Central University, India. He joined the Lord Krishna College of Engineering, Ghaziabad (LKCE) from 2009- 2010 and 2012-2013. He was Assistant Professor and Head Researcher at Lingaya's Vidyapeeth (formerly known as Lingaya's University), Faridabad, Haryana, India from 2018 to 2019. Dr. Tyagi's current research focuses on machine learning with big data, blockchain technology, data science, cyberphysical systems, smart and secure computing and privacy. He contributed to several projects such as "AARIN" and "P3- Block" to address some of the open issues related to the privacy breaches in vehicular applications (such as parking) and medical cyberphysical systems (MCPS). He has also published more than 8 patents in the area of deep learning, Internet of Things, cyberphysical systems and computer vision. Recently, he was awarded best paper award for "A Novel Feature Extractor Based on the Modified Approach of Histogram of oriented Gradient", ICCSA 2020, Italy. He is a regular member of the ACM, IEEE, MIRLabs, Ramanujan Mathematical Society, Cryptology Research Society, and Universal Scientific Education and Research Network, CSI, and ISTE. Ajith Abraham is Director of Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), a not-for-profit scientific network for innovation and research excellence connecting industry and academia. As an investigator and co-investigator, he has won research grants worth over US$100 million from Australia, USA, EU, Italy, Czech Republic, France, Malaysia, and China. His research focuses on real world problems in the fields of machine intelligence, cyberphysical systems, Internet of Things, network security, sensor networks, web intelligence, web services, and data mining. He is Chair of the IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society Technical Committee on Soft Computing. He is editor-in-chief of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI) and serves/served on the editorial board of several international journals. He earned his Ph.D. in computer science from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

Contents Preface vii Acknowledgments ix About the Editors xi TRACK 1 Blockchain: Background and Importance 1 1 Fundamentals of Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) 3 Leema Roselin G, Rajmohan R, Usharani S, Kiruba K, Manjubala P 2 Blockchain for Information Systems Applications 39 Divya Stephen, Blesmi Rose Joseph, Neeraja James, and Aswathy S.U. 3 A Dynamic Trust Model for Blockchain-Based Supply Chain Management Networks 59 Shivam Narula, Annapurna Jonnalgadda, and Aswani Kumar Cherukuri TRACK 2 Blockchain for Information Systems: New Methods for Day-to-Day Problems 75 4 Blockchain and IoT Technologies to Improve the Agricultural Food Supply Chain 77 Saranya P, Maheswari R, and Tanmay Kulkarni 5 A Novel Hybrid Chaotic Map-Based Proactive RSA Cryptosystem in Blockchain 87 S. Selvi and M. Vimala Devi 6 Institutional Technologies for Blockchain: Implications and Policies 99 Shyam Mohan J.S., S. Ramamoorthy, Narasimha Krishna Amruth Vemuganti, Vankadara Naga Venkata Kuladeep, and Raghuram Nadipalli 7 Two-Fold Security Model Using 2D-Vector Key Bunch and Privacy Preservation of the EHRs in the Distributed Network Involving Blockchain 117 Shirisha Kakarla, Geeta Kakarla, and D. Narsinga Rao TRACK 3 Blockchain in the Near Future: Possible Uses and Research Gaps 139 8 Analysis of Security and Privacy Aspects of Blockchain Technologies from Smart Era' Perspective: The Challenges and a Way Forward to Future 141 Amit Kumar Tyagi 9 Applications of Blockchain Technologies in Digital Forensics and Threat Hunting 159 Shabnam Kumari, Amit Kumar Tyagi and G. Rekha 10 Healthcare Solutions for the Next Generation: A Useful Explanation from the User's Perspective 175 Amit Kumar Tyagi, Meenu Gupta, Aswathy S.U., and Chetanya Ved 11 Blockchain-Based Medical Insurance Storage Systems 219 Ciza Thomas, Bindu V, Amrutha Ann Aby, Anjalikrishna U.R., Anu Kesari, and Dhanya Sabu 12 Hybrid Multilevel Fusion: Integrating Score and Decision Levels of Fusion for Multimodal Biometric Systems 237 Aarohi Vora, Chirag Paunwala, and Mita Paunwala 13 Blockchain: A Security Component for Data Security and Privacy-Current Trends in the Automotive Industry 247 Sruti C R, S Umamaheswari TRACK 4 Blockchain with Other Computing Environments 259 14 The Future of Edge Computing with Blockchain Technology: Possibility of Threats, Opportunities, and Challenges 261 Aswathy S. U., Amit Kumar Tyagi and Shabnam Kumari 15 CryptoCert: A Blockchain-Based Academic Credential System 293 Varun Wahi, Aswani Kumar Cherukuri, Kathiravan Srinivasan, and Annapurna Jonnalagadda 16 A Comprehensive Transformative Effect of IoT, Machine Learning, and Blockchain in Computing Technology 315 Deepshikha Agarwal, Khushboo Tripathi, and Kumar Krishen Index 343