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How transparency through blockchain helps the cybersecurity community?

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Blockchain is heralded as a revolutionary technology that changes the way we store data and conduct transactions. How does the tech fare with cybersecurity? Let’s find out. Ushered into existence back in 2008 to support cryptocurrency, blockchain quickly garnered the attention of people for its functions. Popularly known as a “digital ledger”, a system that can save information with a variety of favorable features, several businesses have begun to focus on this new technology. The question is, why use blockchain for cybersecurity? Blockchain proudly boasts of its core features that makes it so viable - decentralized, immutable and transparent. The three features possess solutions to various problems that are otherwise  a hassle with conventional digital ledger technologies. Owing to being a one of a kind technology that is efficient at preventing fraudulent activities from taking place, blockchain is of great help to enforce stringent security protocols for an overall better...

Will Blockchain improve financial cybersecurity?

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Financial cybersecurity has crawled into prominence ever since finance moved from pulp-notes to silicon chips. With all the convenience of digital banking and financial solutions, fintech also comes bundled with its set of disadvantages including compromise in security and other associated vulnerabilities. The blockchain is looked at as an almost-panacea for the challenges that the world faces with financial security, or fintech to be concise. at this juncture, it is important to understand what a blockchain exactly is. Blockchain Financial Cybersecurity A blockchain is a distributed Ledger when blocks of information are chained together by cryptographic hashing. Any financial transactions append new blocks to the ledger and it still stays chained with the first block that initiated the transaction. The data inside the block is encrypted and is immutable. This would mean that only the users with the right access to them would be able to even view the data in the block. The i...