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The book on “Virtual Currency – Blockchain Technology – Security Auditing” deals with the importance of virtual currency, Blockchain technology and security auditing concepts. Today, virtual currency plays a vital role in share market and foreign exchange. Blockchain technology is a major revolution to store transactional records in a network with enhanced security features. Security auditing is one of the necessary practices of an organization to ensure security of the data and other IT infrastructures to prevent the confidential data from the vulnerability issues. This book focuses on virtual currency, types of virtual currency, crypto currencies, methods used in virtual currency, obtaining and generating virtual currency, sending and exchanging of virtual currency, pros and cons of virtual currencies. It also deals with the concept of Blockchain technology, Blockchain architecture, and components of Blockchain, decentralization, applications and characteristics of Blockchain technology, cyber attacks in Blockchain. This material also provides the knowledge on security auditing, steps to conduct security audit, types of security audit and practices in detail. This material acts as a ready reckoner to explore the various kinds of virtual currency, significance of Blockchain technology and the practice of security audit to ensure the organization’s security.
Padmavathi Ganapathi, Dr. D. Shanmugapriya
Padmavathi Ganapathi
Dr. Padmavathi Ganapathi is the Dean-School of Physical Sciences and Computational Sciences and Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women (Deemed to be University), Coimbatore, India. She has more than 33 years of teaching experience and 25 years of research experience. Her areas of interest include, Cyber Security, Wireless Communication and Real Time Systems. She has executed funded projects worth 267.368 lakhs Sponsored by AICTE, UGC, DRDO and DST. She has supervised 22 scholars at Ph. D level. She has more than 200 publications in prestigious conferences and peer-reviewed journals. She is the life members of various professional bodies like CSI, ISTE, ISCA, WSEAS, AACE and AICW. She is reviewers for many IEEE Conferences and Journals. She has visited many countries for technical deliberations. She is the Course Co-ordinator for SWAYAM-MOOC on Cyber Security. So far, more than 71, 000 learners have enrolled for various sessions and benefitted.
Co-author
Dr. D. Shanmugapriya
She is an Assistant Professor and Head, Department of Information Technology, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women (Deemed to be University), Coimbatore, India since 2001. She has more than 20 years of teaching experience and 10 years of research experience. Her areas of interest include, Cyber Security, Biometric security and Image Processing. She has executed funded projects sponsored by DRDO, DST and UGC. She is Supervising 3 scholars at Ph.D level. She has more than 25 publications in prestigious conferences and peer-reviewed journals. She is Reviewers for many Conferences and Journals. She is a content Writer of Virtual Currency, Block Chain Technology and Basics of Security Auditing for SWAYAM-MOOC course on Cyber Security.
