Zero-Trust Socio-Technical Orchestration
Definition
A security and management framework that assumes no inherent trust within a network, requiring continuous verification of all data and system interactions. It integrates technical controls with organizational governance to manage manufacturing environments as complex socio-technical systems, specifically designed to ensure verifiable compliance within adversarial global supply chain environments.
Key Characteristics
- Continuous Verification: Mandates authentication and authorization for every interaction, regardless of whether it originates inside or outside the network perimeter.
- Socio-Technical Integration: Bridges the gap between technical security controls (e.g., identity management, encryption) and organizational governance policies.
- Agentic Compatibility: Designed to support autonomous agent architectures that require secure, verifiable data exchanges.
- Supply Chain Trust: Enables secure information sharing across disparate, potentially adversarial entities in a global supply chain.
Applications
- Industrial Data Spaces: Operationalizing reference architectures for secure data sharing within manufacturing ecosystems.
- Compliance Automation: Ensuring automated, tamper-proof verification of regulatory requirements in complex supply chains.
- Agentic Infrastructure: Providing the underlying security fabric for autonomous AI agents collaborating in industrial environments.
Mentions in Source
- “This paper addresses this challenge by introducing a zero-trust socio-technical orchestration framework that operationalizes a six-layer SSbD reference architecture within trustworthy industrial data spaces.” — sources/_id-372_current_version|_id-372_current_version