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Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain for Cybersecurity Applications

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Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain for Future Cybersecurity Applications

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The convergence of Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain is growing very fast in everyday applications and industry. In centralized systems and applications like healthcare, data access and processing in real-time among various information systems is a bottleneck. Blockchain’s decentralized database architecture, secure storage, authentication, and data sharing would offer a solution to this problem. Besides, Artificial Intelligence can live at the top of Blockchain and generate insights from the generated shared data used to make predictions. Blockchain is a high-level cybersecurity technology that forms chains that connect the existing blocks stored in nodes and the new block chronologically by mutual agreements between nodes. Technology convergence accelerates various industries’ growth, such as banking, insurance, cybersecurity, forecasting, medical services, cryptocurrency, etc… The more digital systems are adopted and services provided by these industries, the greater the risk of hacking these systems. Combining blockchain power and artificial intelligence can provide a strong shield against these attacks and security threats. In this chapter, we will study the convergence of AI and Blockchain in cybersecurity. We will expand on their role in securing cyber-physical systems.

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This research is supported by the Texas A&M University Chancellor Research Initiative (CRI) grant awarded to Texas A&M University-San Antonio, TX, USA.

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    Fadi Muheidat

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    Lo’ai Tawalbeh

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Muheidat, F., Tawalbeh, L. (2021). Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain for Cybersecurity Applications. In: Maleh, Y., Baddi, Y., Alazab, M., Tawalbeh, L., Romdhani, I. (eds) Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain for Future Cybersecurity Applications. Studies in Big Data, vol 90. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74575-2_1

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