Critical Analysis and Improvement on Block-chain's Security and Auditing Concerns

TSE Woon Kwan Daniel ； WANG Yanbing

《電腦稽核》 40期 (2019/08) Pp. 49-59

摘要

Because of keen business competition nowadays, enterprises have found ways to improve efficiency of their business operations. One of the improvement tools is Financial Technology (FinTech). However, FinTech is too new that the use of it requires careful planning, implementation as well as monitoring. In this paper, the nature of FinTech is explored and then critical analysis on its security and auditing concerns. Finally, some improvements in these two concerns are provided.

關鍵字

Financial technology ； Distributed ledger ； Block-chain ； Security ； Auditing

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