Publication detail

The Security Reference Architecture for Blockchains: Toward a Standardized Model for Studying Vulnerabilities, Threats, and Defenses

HOMOLIAK, I.

Original Title

The Security Reference Architecture for Blockchains: Toward a Standardized Model for Studying Vulnerabilities, Threats, and Defenses

Type

article in a collection out of WoS and Scopus

Language

English

Original Abstract

Due to their specific features, blockchains have become popular in recent years. Blockchains are layered systems where security is a critical factor for their success. The main focus of this work is to systematize knowledge about security and privacy issues of blockchains. To this end, we propose a security reference architecture based on models that demonstrate the stacked hierarchy of various threats as well as threat-risk assessment using ISO/IEC 15408. In contrast to the previous surveys [1, 2, 3], we focus on the categorization of security vulnerabilities based on their origins and using the proposed architecture we present existing prevention and mitigation techniques. The scope of our work mainly covers aspects related to the nature of blockchains, while we mention operational security issues and countermeasures only tangentially.

Keywords

blockchains, security, privacy, ISO/IEC 15408,  threat-risk assessment.

Authors

HOMOLIAK, I.

Released

30. 5. 2022

Publisher

Czech Open Systems User's Group

Location

Radešín

ISBN

978-80-86583-34-1

Book

Sborník příspevků z 54. konference EurOpen.CZ, 28.5.-1.6.2022

Pages from

185

Pages to

210

Pages count

26

URL

https://europen.cz/Anot/54-1/sbornik-54.pdf

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT185144,
  author="Ivan {Homoliak}",
  title="The Security Reference Architecture for Blockchains: Toward a Standardized Model for Studying Vulnerabilities, Threats, and Defenses",
  booktitle="Sborník příspevků z 54. konference EurOpen.CZ, 28.5.-1.6.2022",
  year="2022",
  pages="185--210",
  publisher="Czech Open Systems User's Group",
  address="Radešín",
  isbn="978-80-86583-34-1",
  url="https://europen.cz/Anot/54-1/sbornik-54.pdf"
}