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A blockchain-based cyber-security for connected networks

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Both technical and commercial businesses have become increasingly interested in blockchain technology. The Internet of Things (IoT) was established out of the interconnectedness of numerous new technologies, such as wireless technology, the Internet, embedded automation systems, and micro-electromechanical devices. Manufacturing settings and activities have been successfully altered into the fourth industrial revolution, known as Industry 4.0, by applying cutting-edge technologies such as cloud computing (CC), cloud service provider (CSP), Information communication technologies (ICT), and Enterprise Model, as well as other technological advancements. Data management is characterized as acquiring data to make better business decisions; data about a corporation is processed, secured, and stored. In the early notion, there were connected contrivances and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) interactions, and transaction data is recorded on the Blockchain. Security is a challenging subject that must be carefully considered throughout a CSP's design and development phases. By focusing on such issues while taking into account the traditional characteristics of IoT/ IIoT-predicated environments, we proposed a Secure and Distributed Framework for Resource Management (SDFRM) in Industry 4.0 environments within a distributed and collaborative Industry 4.0 system, the dynamic and trust-based Distributed Management Framework (DMF) of shared resource access, in this research article. Furthermore, to offer strong privacy assurances for Access Control (AC)-equivalent actions, a privacy-preserving approach is devised and implemented into the Distributed Management Framework (DMF). Based on blockchain technology and peer-to-peer networks, the recommended DMF provides for dynamic access control and system governance without relying on third-party vulnerabilities. A privacy-preserving technique is presented and implemented into the DMF to give adequate privacy safeguards for AC-related processes. With an average throughput of 98.15 percent, our proposal exceeds the Multichannel Blockchain regarding successful storage transactions.

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choudhary, D., Pahuja, R. A blockchain-based cyber-security for connected networks. Peer-to-Peer Netw. Appl. 16, 1852–1867 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12083-023-01506-9

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