At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

At&t Global Network Services Belgium Luxembourg Sprl

Catherine Lefèvre

Eric Martin Zavesky

James H Pratt

Christophe Closset

Gervais-Martial Ngueko

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting communications between a source device and a destination device, wherein the communications relate to a particular context and are facilitated over a first network associated with the destination device, determining a state or trust level for the particular context based on reference data, detecting a change in behavior of the source device, updating the state or trust level based on the detecting the change in behavior of the source device, resulting in an updated state or trust level, identifying a loss of trust condition based on the updated state or trust level, restricting communications between the source device and the destination device, and performing a trust rebuild process in an attempt to address the loss of trust condition and to enable the source device to resume communications with the destination device. Other embodiments are disclosed.

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Corroy-Le-Chateau, Belgium

Catherine Lefèvre