Edge network environments are critical to deploy applications in e.g., disaster response, smart farming, and biomedical applications. Inherently, these environments may comprise of Denied, Disrupted, Intermittent, and Limited Impact (DDIL) and voluntary resources. Thus, there is a need for novel resource-aware security and computing approaches to enable real-time data processing and critical decision-making. This talk will be organized under two parts, one focusing on security and the other focusing on trust in edge network environments. Related to security, the relevance of Zero Trust (ZT) security paradigm will be detailed to enable strict access controls, continuous entity verification, and mitigation of unauthorized access, tampering, and data integrity issues. A discussion will be presented on the ways to transform ZT security principles that are typically developed for unconstrained data center environments with reliable networking and abundant computing power for securing constrained resources in an edge network setting. Related to trust, an architecture and related methods will be presented for trusted resource allocation in volunteer edge computing for supporting scientific data-intensive workflows. The talk will conclude with future research directions that will leverage AI and CloudDevOps technologies for actively managing security and trust in edge network environments.

Prasad Calyam is the Greg L. Gilliom Professor of Cybersecurity in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of Missouri-Columbia, and Director of the Center for Cyber Education, Research and Infrastructure (Mizzou CERI). His research and development areas of interest include: Cloud Computing, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, and Advanced Cyberinfrastructure. Previously, he was a research director at the Ohio Supercomputer Center/Ohio Academic Resources Network at The Ohio State University. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers in various conference and journal venues. As the Principal Investigator, he has successfully led teams of graduate, undergraduate and postdoctoral fellows in Federal, State, University and Industry sponsored R&D projects totaling over $30 Million. His research sponsors include: National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Energy (DOE), National Security Agency (NSA), Department of State (DOS), Army Research Lab (ARL), VMware, Cisco, Raytheon-BBN, Dell, Verizon, IBM and others. His basic research and software on multi-domain network measurement and monitoring has been commercialized as ‘Narada Metrics’. He is a Senior Member of IEEE. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management.