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European Cybersecurity Atlas

Trust Management and Accountability

Trust issues related to digital and physical entities such as applications, services, components, or systems. Trust management approaches can be employed in order to assess assurance and accountability guarantees.

The subdomains for this knowledge domain are:

  • Semantics and models for security, accountability, privacy, and trust
  • Trust management architectures, mechanisms and policies
  • Trust and privacy
  • Identity and trust management
  • Trust in securing digital as well as physical assets
  • Trust in decision making algorithms
  • Trust and reputation of social and mainstream media
  • Social aspects of trust
  • Reputation models
  • Trusted computing
  • Algorithmic auditability and accountability (e.g. explainable AI)