# Security sub-layer

**Focus:** Protection and integrity across chains.

**Objective:** Enable secure and trusted cross-chain integrations.

**Description:** This layer ensures cross-chain integrations have appropriate security protections, resilience, and risk mitigation. Provides standards, protocols, and mechanisms to ensure security, privacy, trust, and integrity for interoperability across multiple blockchain networks. The Security Layer maintains the trustworthiness, reliability, and integrity of the crosschain interoperability framework, ensuring all operations are protected against threats and are compliant with security and privacy regulations.

**Layer owner:** Developers, Cryptographers, security experts, organizations providing blockchain security solutions, and regulatory bodies setting security standards for crosschain operations in regulated contexts.


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