This is part 2 of a blog on healthcare security. For more info, check out part 1. An independent guest blogger wrote this blog. When it comes to data security, there is no more important place than the healthcare industry. When people go to the doctor, they provide all of their most sensitive information, from their health issues to their phone number, to a doctor they trust.
Our goal on the Splunk Blockchain team is to help our customers ensure their blockchain deployments are scalable, secure, and stable. This blog post will discuss a few approaches to blockchain scalability and how Splunk fits into the picture.
We’ve just published Splunk’s 2020 Predictions about a wide range of data technologies, from AI to virtual reality to the security threat of deepfakes. The blockchain portion discusses how distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) will break beyond the cryptocurrency realm that gets much of the coverage. Here, I thought I’d dive a little deeper into the topic.
Blockchain technology represents a fundamental shift in how data can be shared, in an open and transparent method. At the core of blockchain’s appeal is the guarantee to all parties involved that the data they send and receive cannot be changed or tampered with—as well as being error-free.
This past June, I attended the 2019 Bitcoin Conference in San Francisco, CA. With the various discussions on Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, and with the chance to hang out with my favorite Crypto personalities, it was easy to lose myself in all the festivities. While taking a break, I found a seat and decided to charge my iPhone. The station by where I was seated was a wooden cube with two standard wall sockets and two USB ports.
While Blockchain technology offers unprecedented security solution and information sharing solution, it remained as of now mostly limited to the cryptocurrencies. While cryptocurrencies made Blockchain their core technology strength, other industries remained mostly silent bystanders.
Binance, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, has revealed that it is being blackmailed to the tune of 300 Bitcoin (approximately US $3.5 million) by someone who is threatening to release some 10,000 sensitive photographs of its customers. And in an attempt to identify its blackmailer, Binance has put a 25 Bitcoin (approximately US $290,000) bounty on their head.
At Splunk, our mission is to make data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. There is no technology that pairs better with that vision than blockchain and distributed ledger technology. Blockchains give participants access to shared, trusted data and Splunk is the perfect platform to deliver rich operational and business insights into that data.
Blockchain is a new, complementary piece of enterprise infrastructure, and just like any infrastructure it has the same elements of performance, security and stability. Organizations will need to come up with a plan to monitor performance, security and stability. Splunk makes it easy to do just that, not just with blockchain but with the rest of the enterprise infrastructure. This is absolutely necessary for getting to production and also makes application development faster.
Hyperledger Fabric is a blockchain framework by the Linux Foundation that uses some open source projects to build a modular blockchain application. And do you know what? You can monitor your Hyperledger Fabric applications with the Elastic Stack. :) We are going to assume a specific Hyperledger Fabric setup. With Hyperledger Fabric you can deploy your application using different "blocks" to achieve the same result.
