Security, Trust and Privacy – A New Direction for Pervasive Computing

-Information which used to be privileged only for the rich and powerful few has become crucial part of our life. Everyone is now very aware of the need to protect sensitive and valuable information from unintentionally being presented to other individuals or organizations. In the open environment such as the internet, there are suspicious individuals with insincere motives who are cautiously trying to get personal gain or trying to meet political propaganda. Clearly, there is a need for a framework for data to travel uninterrupted, unchanged and unseen by unscrupulous recipients. This framework should address issues in security, trust and privacy in a unified form. We present our proposed framework in a holistic approach. This paper discusses the global phenomenon of information security divide, major security, trust and privacy (STP) challenges, related works by past researchers and the proposed STP framework. The Framework, when implemented in pervasive computing environment would address how sensitive personal data could travel uninterrupted, unchanged and unseen by unscrupulous recipients.