Authors
M.Sc. of Information Systems, Information Security, the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Egypt
Abstract
Many companies face cybersecurity challenges related to state-of-the-art systems like Blockchain. Blockchain is a relative novice technology rapidly increasing as a next-generation solution for maintaining digital transactions and record-keeping issues. Blockchain technology can be used in financial services, healthcare facilities social services, the governmental sector, the Internet of Things (IoT), and so on. Regularly any new technologies have some challenges like security risks (threats and vulnerabilities). Among these blockchain challenges; is managing the large-scale digital transactional system, which is potentially exposed to a multitude of threats. Thus, this paper introduces the categories of blockchain technologies’ cybersecurity vulnerabilities and some aspects of cybersecurity risk assessment.