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Understanding the layers of an application leads to a better threat investigation outcome as well as helping with developing proper controls with optimized cost. Starting with the blockchain as the peer-to-peer application we will analyze the peer-to-peer networks and how they provide the underlay for blockchain. We’ll have a look at the layers of the peer-to-peer application starting from the network layer, communication flows and communication ports through analyzing packet captures collected from both client side and network taps, up to the blockchain layer and client-side processes where we start to have a look at imported functions, memory and CPU utilization. We aim to have a structured approach for threat investigation for peer-to-peer applications.
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Mahdy, M. (2021). Peer-to-Peer Application Threat Investigation. In: Hacid, H., et al. Service-Oriented Computing – ICSOC 2020 Workshops. ICSOC 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12632. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76352-7_55
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