Networks of Trust in a connected world

The Internet of Everything is aiming to connect 1.5 billion devices by 2022.
But what is happening now that the protocols are closed source or the devices have to talk with centralized private clouds? The need for trust in the Internet of Everything protocols is palpable and the IOTA Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) is striving to solve this trust issue with innovative bio-mimicking research in the field.