SoftwareBlockchain & CybersecuritySIH26125

Blockchain-Based Secure Platform for Identity,Access Control, and Digital Asset Management

Bharat Electronics Limited

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Organisation: Bharat Electronics Limited
Department: Bharat Electronics Limited
Category: Software
Theme: Blockchain & Cybersecurity
Submission deadline: 20 September 20262026-09-20
Ideas submitted: 0/500
Serial number: 125
Data captured on: 2026-08-23
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Problem brief

Background Organizations today rely heavily on centralized identity and access management systems, which create significant security and operational risks. These systems are vulnerable to cyber attacks, identity theft, unauthorized access, and single points of failure. Additionally, digital and physical asset ownership is often managed through disconnected or semi-centralized systems, making verification of authenticity, access rights, and ownership history difficult and unreliable. There is a growing need for a decentralized, tamper-proof system that can securely manage user identities, control access permissions, and ensure transparent ownership of digital assets
Detailed Description The system aims to introduce a blockchain-based framework that integrates decentralized identity management, access control, and NFT-based digital asset ownership. Each user is assigned a decentralized identifier, which serves as a secure and verifiable digital identity independent of centralized authorities and authenticated using cryptographic proofs. Digital assets are represented as Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs),ensuring each asset is unique, traceable, and permanently recorded on the blockchain.These NFTs are directly allocated to user identities, establishing verifiable ownership that cannot be altered or duplicated.Smart contracts govern all operations within the platform, allowing only authorized administrators to mint NFTs and assign them to user identities, ensuring controlled asset creation and secure distribution. The system also implements Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), where administrators define roles such as Admin, Manager, Auditor,and User and assign specific access rights to each identity. These permissions are enforced automatically by smart contracts during all operations. Every activity, including identity creation, NFT creation, asset allocation, access rights assignment, ownership transfers, and permission updates, is immutably recorded on the blockchain, providing a transparent and tamper-proof audit trail for verifying ownership, authenticity, and access history.
Expected Solution The expected solution is a decentralized blockchain-based platform that integrates secure digital identity management, NFT-based asset ownership, and access control into a unified and trustless system. It utilizes decentralized identifiers to provide users with self-sovereign, cryptographically verifiable identities that function independently of centralized authorities. Digital assets are issued as Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), ensuring uniqueness, traceability, and immutable ownership, with each NFT directly linked to a user’s decentralized identity to establish a permanent and verifiable connection between assets and their owners.The system should be governed by smart contracts that enforce strict rules for NFT creation, allocation, transfer, and validation. Only authorized administrators are allowed to create NFTs and assign them to identities, ensuring secure and controlled asset governance while preventing unauthorized duplication or reassignment. Additionally, the platform should implement Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), where administrators define roles and assign access permissions that determine user privileges within the system. All identity operations, NFT transactions, and access control updates are permanently recorded on the blockchain, ensuring complete transparency, auditability,and tamper-proof verification of ownership, permissions, and transaction history.