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3 Trust in ICT

Figure II.2 shows a brief categorization of WGs into trust technical issues.

Figure II.2 – Trust domains of IETF WGs

2 Activities in Online Trust Alliance (OTA) for IoT

OTA is a non-profit organization with the mission to enhance online trust and address IoT risks
comprehensively. The framework presents guidelines for IoT manufacturers, developers and retailers to
follow when designing, creating, adapting and marketing connected devices in two key categories: home
automation and consumer health and fitness wearables.
Through extensive research, this taskforce concluded that the safety and reliability of any IoT devices, Apps
or services depend equally on security and privacy, as well as a third, often overlooked component:
sustainability.
Although the IoT framework of OTA has identified various requirements, most of them can be seen as
reinterpretation of traditional security and privacy issues. Therefore, it is noticed that trust in OTA includes
more broad range of scope covering security and privacy as well as regulatory issues [b-Gilson, b-OTA-2015].

3 Activities in Trusted Computing Group (TCG) for Interoperable Trusted Computing
Platforms

TCG is a not-for-profit organization formed to develop, define and promote open, vendor-neutral, global
industry standards, supportive of a hardware-based root of trust, for interoperable trusted computing
platforms.

TCG technologies do not provide an immediate solution to all IoT device and service security needs, but they
enable existing and new IoT solutions to be fundamentally far more robust than today’s state-of the art.

Solutions developed by TCG includes authentication, cloud security, data protection, IoT, mobile security and
end-to-end security. Similar to OTA, TCG has also focused on various solutions from existing security and
privacy issues while taking into account additional concepts of trust.

TCG has provided the following concepts for trust related terminologies in the architecture’s guide for cyber
security [b-TCG 2013, b-TCG 2015].

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