IBM Blockchain Testing Service

2019: Start of service

At the beginning of March, 2019 division IBM X-Force Red which specializes in software cracking for the purpose of search and elimination of vulnerabilities started service for testing corporate a solutions blockchain.

The product under the name IBM Blockchain Testing Service is intended to help the companies to test own blokchen-systems for security and also to protect them in case of need.

IBM started service for testing corporate a solutions blockchain

In IBM X-Force Red consider that new development will promote safe implementation of such fast-growing technology as a blockchain. Though the concept of a blockchain assumes security, it can be lost when using third-party technologies in the project.

By estimates of the company, 70% of the solutions including a blockchain rely on traditional technologies for internal processes, such as authentication, data processing and application programming interfaces (API).

IBM Blockchain Testing Service allows to estimate all implementation, including the code of a blockchain, server processes, a public key infrastructure, applications and the equipment which are used for access control and management a blockchain system. Besides, service will check how permissions during the adding or change of information in a blockchain are controlled, will study a password policy and will find faults of smart contracts.

The blockchain comes to the technology world a little from other input. Its main task — to create trust and security for information and processes which are in it — noted in IBM X-Force Red.

The analyst of Constellation Research Holger Müller (Holger Mueller) considers that testing a solutions blockchain is not a simple task for the companies as in terms of the sequence of such transactions, and the testing environment.^[1]

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