SECOVAL: the IEEE/CREATE-NET workshop on the value of security through collaboration

Security is usually centrally managed, for example in a form of policies duly executed by individual nodes. This workshop will cover the alternative trend of using collaboration and trust to provide security. Instead of centrally managed security policies, nodes may use specific knowledge (both local and acquired from other nodes) to make security-related decisions. For example, in reputationbased schemes, the reputation of a given node (and hence its security access rights) can be determined based on the recommendations of peer nodes.