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The Security Reference Architecture for Blockchains: Toward a Standardized Model for Studying Vulnerabilities, Threats, and Defenses
blockchains, security, privacy, ISO/IEC 15408, threat-risk assessment.
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.
@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"
}