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Blockchain & Cryptocurrency - Build, Secure, Apply & Analyse

Oct 4th and 5th, 2023

Grand Hyatt, Kochi, India

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Blockchain & Cryptocurrency - Build, Secure, Apply & Analyse

Blockchains have a large number of un-explored use cases and Cryptocurrency is fast becoming a new platform for designing modern fin-tech & governance stack. It is crucial to understand the basics of Blockchain Technology if you are looking to securely build and operate blockchain based applications or provide distributed financial operations through crypto-currency,

In this 2 days course we bring you right from the basics building blocks of Blockchain Technology to advanced use cases, security considerations, attacks and analysis of blockchain based transactions to the smart-contracts and complex cases of cryptocurrency trails.

This course aims to equip you with the right amount of technical knowledge and ample hands on techniques to get you a head-start in to build and secure blockchain based implementations, analyse or investigate Cryptocurrency transactions and security incidetns.

Course Content (ToC):

Topic marked as (*) are optional and are subject to time constraints.

Day 1: Understanding Blockchains & Cryptography
- Understanding ARM Assembly
  - Building blocks of cryptography
    - Hashes, Public / Private Keys, Signing / Verification, encryption
    - Key wallet and key generation basics
  - Understanding Transactions in Blockchain
  - Understanding Transaction verification by miners, mining
  - How double spending is avoided
  - Smart Contracts
Day 2: - Attacks. Frauds & Investigation related to Cryptocurrency
- Section 1 - Attacks and Fraud case studies
  - Protocol level attacks
  - Exchange Frauds
  - Social engineering
  - Attacks on wallets
- Section 2 - Tools & Techniques
  - Introduction to Cryptocurrency forensics tools
  - Understand Mixers
  - Decode the transaction trials
  - Hand on session practice cases

Pre-requisite:

Understanding of Security concepts and basics of cryptography, ability to execute hands on labs using Windows or Linux/Mac machine with simple python scrips or openssl commands

Participants Requirements:

Laptop with approx. 50 GB of free space.
Virtualbox installed on host OS (latest version – 7.x)
8+ GB minimum RAM (4+GB for the VM).
Admin access to the laptop

Duration:

2 Days

Who should attend

Developers, Security professionals, Law Enforcement Agency officers, keen to learn the technical details of the Block chain and basics of cryptocurrencies for secure implementation and carry out basic analysis and investigations

What to expect

Basic understanding of the Blockchain & cryptocurrency analysis & investigation of incidents.

What not to expect:

Ability to hack and gain millions of cryptocurrencies

Speaker

Ajit Hatti

Founder, Director - Pure ID

Ajit Hatti is a serial inventor and innovator and founder of PureID. He has been developing enterprise class security products over a decade and a half. Ajit regularly presents his research & tools at conferences like Black Hat, COCON & DEF CON. He is also the co-founder of Null - Open Security Community & is the founder of Blockchain Village which he organizes at DEF CON.