Blockchain-Based Cyber Threat Intelligence System Architecture for Sustainable Computing

Jeonghun Cha, Sushil Kumar Singh, Yi Pan and Jong Hyuk Park
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Jeonghun Cha: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology (SeoulTech), Seoul 01811, Korea
Sushil Kumar Singh: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology (SeoulTech), Seoul 01811, Korea
Yi Pan: Department of Computer Science, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30302-5060, USA
Jong Hyuk Park: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology (SeoulTech), Seoul 01811, Korea

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 16, 1-18

Abstract: Nowadays, the designing of cyber-physical systems has a significant role and plays a substantial part in developing a sustainable computing ecosystem for secure and scalable network architecture. The introduction of Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) has emerged as a new security system to mitigate existing cyber terrorism for advanced applications. CTI demands a lot of requirements at every step. In particular, data collection is a critical source of information for analysis and sharing; it is highly dependent on the reliability of the data. Although many feeds provide information on threats recently, it is essential to collect reliable data, as the data may be of unknown origin and provide information on unverified threats. Additionally, effective resource management needs to be put in place due to the large volume and diversity of the data. In this paper, we propose a blockchain-based cyber threat intelligence system architecture for sustainable computing in order to address issues such as reliability, privacy, scalability, and sustainability. The proposed system model can cooperate with multiple feeds that collect CTI data, create a reliable dataset, reduce network load, and measure organizations’ contributions to motivate participation. To assess the proposed model’s effectiveness, we perform the experimental analysis, taking into account various measures, including reliability, privacy, scalability, and sustainability. Experimental results of evaluation using the IP of 10 open source intelligence (OSINT) CTI feeds show that the proposed model saves about 15% of storage space compared to total network resources in a limited test environment.

Keywords: cyber threat intelligence; blockchain; sustainable computing; security (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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