Authorities issue
Recognized authorities can issue and manage cryptographically verifiable assertions under their own evidence requirements, policies and lifecycle controls.
Emerging Defence Use Case · Supplier Trust
Verify supplier claims across a multi-authority defence ecosystem.
Defence procurement may depend on assertions held by different authorities: supplier identity, program eligibility, certifications, qualifications, controlled-goods status or other framework-specific attestations.
Avato's emerging Trust Exchange architecture is designed to let recognized authorities retain control of what they attest while participating systems verify those assertions against shared governance rules.
The situation
No single organization is authoritative for every supplier claim.
Government departments, regulatory bodies, certification organizations, Indigenous authorities, industry associations and other recognized issuers may each be authoritative for different assertions. Procurement systems need a reliable way to determine what is trusted, who asserted it, whether it remains valid and which policy applies.
How Avato helps
Separate authority, governance and verification while allowing them to work together.
Frameworks define trust
Shared frameworks describe recognized issuers, credential schemas, eligibility rules, lifecycle expectations and verification policy.
Participants verify
Procurement and participating systems can validate signatures, status and applicable policy rather than relying on copied claims or manual reconciliation.
What the end user gains
Faster access to authoritative supplier evidence with clearer provenance.
Without federated trust
- Supplier claims are copied between systems
- Verification is repeated manually
- Authority and provenance can be difficult to establish
- Status changes may propagate slowly
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With a trust exchange
- Authorities remain responsible for their own assertions
- Verification follows shared framework policy
- Credential status and provenance are explicit
- Multiple trust domains can participate without one root authority
Relevant platform capabilities
Trust authority, trust frameworks, verification and federation.
The emerging architecture builds on Avato's security, interoperability, orchestration, audit and customer-controlled deployment capabilities and adds purpose-built trust packages for credential issuance and lifecycle management, framework policy, verification, registry functions and federation between independently operated trust nodes.
Status
Emerging capability under active development and commercialization.
The Trust Exchange architecture defines a multi-authority, multi-framework model for supplier verification and other trust ecosystems. Its defence supply-chain application is a proposed use of that architecture and should be evaluated against the specific procurement, security and assurance requirements of any defence program.