This thrust focuses on ensuring the security, privacy, and trustworthiness of computing systems at all levels, from hardware to distributed infrastructures. Research includes privacy-preserving machine learning, federated data sharing, secure cyber-physical systems, and blockchain-based decentralized security models. Representative topics include:

• Data privacy and secure AI
• Secure cyber-physical systems
• Privacy-preserving distributed learning
• Blockchain and decentralized systems
• Trust in autonomous and financial systems