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How Secure is Blockchain Really? Improve the Security of Blockchain Now!

August 19, 2018

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The whole world has now turned around its head towards ‘Blockchain’ but is that secure as you think?

 

With enormous benefits, Blockchain is now ruling the world. It takes control on almost all fields, starting from banks to government. Blockchain attracts every modern marketer and businessman now-a-days. But there are still a few marketers and people who are involved in immense financial exchange and not yet impressed by ‘blockchain’. The reason behind it is the fear of insecurity. They probably don’t aware of or they don’t get the point of block chain and how secure it is.

 

It is not remarkable, when it comes to financial and financial exchange, people tend to put extra care on it. So, let’s come to the point. Is blockchain secured enough? Or how secure is blockchain really? Proceed below! This blog is entirely about the blockchain and the ways to improve blockchain security.

 

How Secure is Blockchain Really?

SecureObviously, as you all know, blockchain uses extremely difficult math to perform, so it is not at all possible to hack and take over control. But things can be contradicted sometimes! When it lays on messy, some fancy math and software supports skilled cheaters in the real world which creates blockchain security issues.

 

What commonly makes blockchain secure? A unique cryptographic fingerprint to each block and a consensus protocol makes data and transaction extremely protective. So, unless someone has combined nodes of computer, you can’t imagine hack and track things in blockchain. This is what we say blockchain is tamperproof.

 

Ways to Improve the Security of Blockchain

 

When considering to Blockchain security solutions, we all would end up with finding zero. But, what is the need to go for blockchain security and is it possible to have blockchain security risks.

 

Well, everything in this world has an unavoidable opposite effect! So, blockchain is not all exceptional. So, how intelligently you can improve the security of blockchain? Go through the following.

 

Plan How to Recover If Things Go Wrong

 

Block chain depends on some major layers such as networks, client software, yours and others. All of the layers have equal compromises, human errors and security events. Hence, it would be clever to make everything planned and being ready if anything goes wrong.

 

No matter whether it involves in software or smartcards, the continuous protection to keep everything safe is important. In addition, if it is a transaction of physical goods such as money and freight, a well planned process of translating blockchain into physical process is essential.

 

Do Futuristic Plans

 

Always be cautious on ‘what seems secure today may not be the same tomorrow’ Plan for Critical Security Events in order to avoid blockchain security issues. Anyhow, blockchain is known for secure and safe. Blockchain uses established technologies to build common cryptographic properties, so it is not at all possible to hack the data and control it.

 

The hashing algorithms used for blockchain adds safety to the data, however, it ay not be in future. For instance, a few years ago, a program was released using hashing algorithm, gradually announced as weakened.

 

Strictly Adhere to Principle

 

Any entity that has 50% of computational power and control in it, can bale to rewrite the transactions. The truth behind this is to provide verification and validation process. So, in order to maintain it in control blockchain in any field needs to have strict contracts and controls. The major thing is blockchain affects not only one entity but also it affects all blockchain participants.

 

Though the technology behind blockchain sounds safe and secured enough, there is always some blockchain security risks and vulnerabilities that we must give our attention to. So, both in public and private the participants need to have and follow a strong vulnerability management program.

 

Reviews and comments are welcome!

 


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