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Foreword

Trust is highly dynamic. Decision-making behaviour
is affected by past experience and associated
predictions for the future. The degree of trust in ICT
is the accumulated value of the degree of trust
present in the vast web of relationships that forms
the modern ICT ecosystem.

We are connecting everything, our vehicles, homes,
offices, factories and the rest of the machinery that
makes up our modern lives. A ‘sword-and-shield’
approach to cyber threats will be incapable of
ensuring security and privacy in this
hyperconnected environment. It is clear that,
beyond conventional protections to security and
privacy, the time has come to integrate trust into
the ICT ecosystem.

ITU standardization is prioritizing its support for 5G
systems, the Internet of Things (IoT) and trust.
These three fields are highly interdependent. It is
my firm belief that achieving the great potential of
5G and IoT will depend to a large degree on our
success in building trust into the ICT ecosystem.
ITU is pioneering international efforts to establish
the technical foundations of a trusted ICT
environment. Part of the challenge is defining and
raising awareness of the concept of trust in ICT. We
are both shaping the conversation around the
meaning of trust in ICT and developing technical
mechanisms to move from theory to
implementation.
Chaesub Lee
This publication offers a compendium of the first Director of the ITU Telecommunication
outputs of ITU’s study of trust in ICTs. The
Standardization Bureau
publication aims to build greater understanding of
the concepts, driving forces and key features of
trust in the ICT context. It details technical
approaches with potential to improve trust in ICT
and proposes future directions in related ITU
standardization work.

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