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Blockchain Security Framework for Government Private Blockchain Consortium

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Blockchain is a revolutionary technology that allows data transactions to be made in a decentralized structure without having trusted central authorities. Governments have taken steps to unleash the potential of blockchain technology to explore the use of blockchain as critical infrastructure, create new business models, and transform government services and functions. Governments are exploring many blockchain use cases that require establishing a private blockchain consortium. However, the absence of a blockchain security control framework is a challenge faced by governments seeking to adopt best security practices for blockchain. In this chapter, we study the potential of cybersecurity threats associated with establishing and operating a private blockchain consortium for governments. Accordingly, a blockchain security control framework is proposed to guide the government entities to address the risks related to private blockchain consortium.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Graduate Studies office and OpenUAE Research and Development Group at University of Sharjah for supporting this research. We are also grateful to Dubai Electronic Security Center for supporting this research.

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  1. Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE

    Ahmed Alketbi

  2. Computer Science, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE

    Manar Abu Talib

  3. Electrical Engineering Department, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE

    Qassim Nasir

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  2. Center for Cyber-Physical Systems, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

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  4. SEcure Service-Oriented Architectures Research (SESAR) Group, Università degli Studi di Milano, Crema (CR), Italy

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Alketbi, A., Talib, M.A., Nasir, Q. (2021). Blockchain Security Framework for Government Private Blockchain Consortium. In: Rehman, M.H.u., Svetinovic, D., Salah, K., Damiani, E. (eds) Trust Models for Next-Generation Blockchain Ecosystems. EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75107-4_9

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