Establishing Trustworthiness: An Adaptive Governance Approach

Introduction
Modern cyber ecosystems increasingly resemble rhizomatic structures – non-hierarchical, lateral networks of interconnected nodes. With no clear center or periphery, this distributed topology promises resilience and agility. Rhizomatic structures complicate traditional notions of trust and security governance; trustworthiness becomes both paramount and challenging.

Establishing trust in rhizomatic cyber environments requires an adaptive governance approach.

Without a central authority or hierarchy to ground security decisions, practitioners must find new ways to establish and maintain trust across a web of dynamic relationships. Establishing trust in rhizomatic cyber environments requires an adaptive governance approach.

Building on prior work . . .