Impact of Consensus Protocols on the Efficiency of Registration and Authentication process in Self-Sovereign Identity -- Biometric-Based Password Management -- 'State of the Union': Evaluating Open Source Zero Trust Components -- Secure Stitch: Unveiling the Fabric of Security Patterns for the Internet of Things -- Towards a unified abstract architecture to coherently and generically describe security goals and risks of AI systems -- Decentralized Global Trust Registry Platform for trust discovery and verification of e-Health credentials using TRAIN: COVID-19 Certificate use case -- Privacy-Preserving NN for IDS: A Study on the impact of TFHE restrictions -- Analyzing and Improving Eligibility Verifiability of the Proposed Belgian Remote Voting System -- Consent as mechanism to preserve information privacy: Its origin, evolution, and current relevance.