Blockchain technology ensures data security through an integrated system whereby it collects, arranges, stores, and disseminates information in different blocks. This technology thus enables adding the data to the network. Once data has been added to the network, no one can alter the data set either by adding or deleting it. Further, this technology also helps to track and check the changes if anything is made to a blockchain, as the changes remain in the database forever. Since this technology uses lots of systems in a blockchain, it will regularly download its data, arranging, and keeping the copy locally. Locating the data errors and cyberattacks in advance by analyzing the data documented, it employs the consent of various participants and accomplishments in cryptography. With this backdrop, the chapter has attempted to disclose the basics of blockchain technology in data security, why blockchain in cybersecurity, how it ensures cybersecurity, its benefits, its innovative uses, and the future of cybersecurity in the online business platforms.

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aggregata, globosa, ad 215µm diam.; ascosporae oblongae vel ellipsoideae, 4-septatae, constrictae, raro cellula centralis magniora, 41-45 x 18-21µm. Colonies epiphyllous, dense, up to 2mm in diameter. Hyphae straight to substraight, branching opposite to irregular at acute angles, loosely to closely reticulate, cells 16-20 x 6-8µm. Appressoria alternate, about 2% opposite, antrorse to subantrorse, 16-21µm long; stalk cells cylindrical to cuneate, 3-7µm long; head cells ovate, clavate, globose, entire, 12-14 x 11-13µm. Phialides mixed with appressoria, alternate to opposite, ampulliform, 16-20 x 8-10µm. Mycelial setae few to numerous, simple, straight, about 2% curved to uncinate, acute, dentate to cristate at the apex, up to 600µm long. Perithecia scattered to loosely grouped, globose, up to 215µm in diameter; ascospores oblong to ellipsoidal, 4-septate, constricted at the septa, rarely central cell larger, 41-45 x 18-21µm. RemarksHaving acute to dentate mycelial setae, M. smilacacearum can be compared with M. smilacis Stev. known on Smilax spp. from Porto Rico, Honduras and Taiwan (Hansford, 1961) but differs from it in having only epiphyllous colonies, longer, straight but few uncinate mycelial setae and smaller ascospores.

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