Journal of Cybersecurity and Information Management JCIM 2690-6775 2769-7851 10.54216/JCIM https://www.americaspg.com/journals/show/1019 2019 2019 American University in the Emirates, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Abedallah Abedallah School of Theoretical & Applied Science, Ramapo College of New Jersey, USA Ali A. Alwan The province of wireless sensor network (WSN) is increasing continuously because of wide-ranging applications, namely, monitoring environmental conditions, military, and many other fields. But trust management in the WSN is the main objective as trust was utilized once cooperation among nodes becomes crucial to attaining reliable transmission. Thus, a new trust-based routing protocol is introduced to initiate secure routing. This study focuses on the design of Trust Aware Aquila Optimizer based Secure Data Transmission for Information Management (TAAO-SDTIM) in WSN. The presented TAAO-SDTIM model mainly intends to achieve maximum security and information management in WSN. The presented TAAO-SDTIM model determines optimum set of routes to base station (BS) utilizing a fitness function involving three parameters like residual energy (RE), distance to BS (DBS), and trust level (TL). The incorporation of the trust level of the nodes in the route selection process aids in appropriately selecting highly secure nodes in the data transmission procedure. For ensuring the enhanced performance of the TAAO-SDTIM model, a wide range of experiments are executed and the results pointed out the improved outcomes of the TAAO-SDTIM model over the other recent approaches.  2022 2022 40 51 10.54216/JCIM.090104 https://www.americaspg.com/articleinfo/2/show/1019