Secure and trusted cloud of things

Cloud based Internet of Things or Cloud of Things has emerged as a platform to allow intelligent usage of collection of applications, information and infrastructure in a cost-effective way. Security is one of the key factor which hampers growth of it. Effective implementation of this framework needs removal of a variety of security threats. In this paper, an insight has been presented for the security issues related to CoT environment. This paper focuses on security and trust issues arising from the usage of cloud services in IoT domain. Secure trusted things as a service has been proposed here to reduce majority of the challenges in Cloud of Things environment. The main focus is on encryption mechanism with less overhead besides a trust model to enable real time decision making authentic.