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Distributed trust is a nebulous concept that has evolved from different perspectives in recent years. While one can attribute its current prominence to blockchain and cryptocurrency, the distributed trust concept has been cultivating…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Sin Kit Lo , Yue Liu , Guangsheng Yu , Qinghua Lu , Xiwei Xu , Liming Zhu

With the increasing number of connected devices and complex networks involved, current domain-specific security techniques become inadequate for diverse large-scale Internet of Things (IoT) systems applications. While cross-domain…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Xiaoyu Ma , Fang Fang , Xianbin Wang

The Zero-trust (ZT) model is an increasingly popular model that relies on the idea that no trust should be granted to any entity (network, persons, devices) by default. ZT model is gaining attention from both research and practice, with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Laurent Bobelin

The abilities of traditional perimeter-based security architectures are rapidly decreasing as more enterprise assets are moved toward the cloud environment. From a security viewpoint, the Zero Trust framework can better track and block…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Ivana Kovacevic , Milan Stojkov , Milos Simic

Recent cybersecurity events have prompted the federal government to begin investigating strategies to transition to Zero Trust Architectures (ZTA) for federal information systems. Within federated mission networks, ZTA provides measures to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Keith Strandell , Sudip Mittal

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) face growing cyber threats but often lack the resources and expertise needed to adopt Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA). This pilot study examines the drivers and barriers shaping SME perceptions of ZTA…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Yu Deng , Anushia Inthiran

One of the most promising applications of the IoT is the Smart Grid (SG). Integrating SG's data communications network into the power grid allows gathering and analyzing information from power lines, distribution power stations, and end…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Mohammad Ali Alipour , Saeid Ghasemshirazi , Ghazaleh Shirvani

This paper focuses on Zero-Trust Foundation Models (ZTFMs), a novel paradigm that embeds zero-trust security principles into the lifecycle of foundation models (FMs) for Internet of Things (IoT) systems. By integrating core tenets, such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Kai Li , Conggai Li , Xin Yuan , Shenghong Li , Sai Zou , Syed Sohail Ahmed , Wei Ni , Dusit Niyato , Abbas Jamalipour , Falko Dressler , Ozgur B. Akan

The proliferation of autonomous AI agents represents a paradigmatic shift from traditional web architectures toward collaborative intelligent systems requiring sophisticated mechanisms for discovery, authentication, capability verification,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Sichao Wang , Ramesh Raskar , Mahesh Lambe , Pradyumna Chari , Rekha Singhal , Shailja Gupta , Rajesh Ranjan , Ken Huang

This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the shift from the traditional perimeter model of security to the Zero Trust (ZT) framework, emphasizing the key points in the transition and the practical application of ZT. It outlines the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Abraham Itzhak Weinberg , Kelly Cohen

Zero-touch network is anticipated to inaugurate the generation of intelligent and highly flexible resource provisioning strategies where multiple service providers collaboratively offer computation and storage resources. This transformation…

Internet-of-things (IoT) is perpetually revolutionizing our daily life and rapidly transforming physical objects into an ubiquitous connected ecosystem. Due to their massive deployment and moderate security levels, those devices face a lot…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Najmeddine Dhieb , Hakim Ghazzai , Hichem Besbes , Yehia Massoud

Zero-Touch Networks (ZTNs) represent a state-of-the-art paradigm shift towards fully automated and intelligent network management, enabling the automation and intelligence required to manage the complexity, scale, and dynamic nature of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Li Yang , Mirna El Rajab , Abdallah Shami , Sami Muhaidat

As the computing landscape evolves towards distributed architectures such as Internet of Things (IoT),enterprises are moving away from traditional perimeter based security models toward so called zero trust networking (ZTN) models that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-27 Brian Lee , Roman Vanickis , Franklin Rogelio , Paul Jacob

To securely control access to systems, the concept of Zero Trust has been proposed. Access Control based on Zero Trust concept removes implicit trust and instead focuses on evaluating trustworthiness at every access request by using…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Koudai Hatakeyama , Daisuke Kotani , Yasuo Okabe

The computing continuum introduces new challenges for access control due to its dynamic, distributed, and heterogeneous nature. In this paper, we propose a Zero-Trust (ZT) access control solution that leverages decentralized identification…

In modern internet-scale computing, interaction between a large number of parties that are not known a-priori is predominant, with each party functioning both as a provider and consumer of services and information. In such an environment,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Christos-Minas Mathas , Costas Vassilakis , Nicholas Kolokotronis

Small-Medium Businesses (SMBs) are essential to global economies yet remain highly vulnerable to cyberattacks due to limited budgets, inadequate cybersecurity expertise, and underestimation of cyber risks. Their increasing reliance on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Ahmed M. Abdelmagid , Barry C. Ezell , Michael McShane

Cheating is a real problem in the Internet of Things. The fundamental question that needs to be answered is how we can trust the validity of the data being generated in the first place. The problem, however, isn't inherent in whether or not…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-10-05 Yunpeng Zhang , Xuqing Wu

Many systems today distribute trust across multiple parties such that the system provides certain security properties if a subset of the parties are honest. In the past few years, we have seen an explosion of academic and industrial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Emma Dauterman , Vivian Fang , Natacha Crooks , Raluca Ada Popa