In the current cyber threat environment forces must swiftly modernize their approach to cyber defense hardening vulnerabilities using rapidly deployable low-cost solutions. With recent advances by potential adversary entities in Quantum Computing, it becomes even more imperative to harden these points of attack against cyber intrusion. To achieve this logistical security, our paper describes how Blockchain can be deployed to Edge Systems as a means of degrading adversary efforts to find weaknesses in both our first responders and their logistical support via Digital Twin modeling.
Blockchain technologies allow the compartmentalization of data that deters or rapidly degrades the ability of an adversary to destabilize our response capabilities. Edge computing, integrated with blockchain, enables distributed and secure edge computing that can promote the integrity of IoT data. The IoT architecture is divided into three layers: An IoT device layer, an edge layer, and a cloud layer. Blockchain can be integrated at each of these layers. Communication between IoT devices, between devices and the edge server, or between edge servers is recorded as transactions and stored on the edge server blockchain. Edge servers process real-time requests and store data in their blockchain. Data that is not time-sensitive and needs further aggregation or analysis is sent to the cloud layer.
This paper explores the validity of Blockchain deployment within law enforcement and digital twin-supported environments, its “friendliness” with existing Edge Compute systems as well as those in development and details the advantages of deployment vis-a-vis potential adversary, cyberattacks that the U.S. Forces will be facing soon or are already facing. This review of the utility of this Blockchain integration can provide a roadmap for tools to rapidly increase the defensibility of our forces both at home and in the field.
Keywords
BLOCKCHAIN, CYBER, EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES, QUANTUM COMPUTING, SECURITY
Additional Keywords
Edge Systems, Digital Twin