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The metaverse is a new reality and a platform that brings both opportunities and challenges. Today’s cybersecurity threats are likely to persist in this new era, presenting a multivalent and challenging threat landscape, which will in turn require robust and innovative security solutions.

To develop security solutions tailored to threats arising from metaverse ecosystems, organizations must work with their IT leaders, CISOs, and CIOs to continuously develop new security strategies and identify the current threat landscape.

New Level of Anonymity

The metaverse offers a new level of anonymity to individuals interacting with each other. With more and more social and workplace interaction taking place in places known as a metaverse, there is a new level of awareness required to ensure you are actually speaking with the individual you think you are speaking with. It looks like, Individuals will be hit by cyberattacks more often than companies, who are aware of the cyberthreats.

Zero-Trust Architecture Needed

Zero-trust architecture and more legal protections are required to ensure the security of experiences and transactions in the metaverse.

According experts, blockchain technology is too authority-averse, and without a central authority backing the purported ironclad data integrity of the blockchain, it will remain vulnerable. Security ratings companies, like there are for third-party risk now, will be important for individuals in the metaverse

Security Focus Should Be on Individuals

John Bambenek, principal threat hunter at Netenrich, a security and operations analytics SaaS company, says ultimately, no cybersecurity problem will ever really be solved until we can protect the individual outside the umbrella of a corporate security program.

“There needs to be entities that are working to make individuals safe as they use social media companies or there needs to be effective laws and regulations on technology companies requiring them to make safe environments,” he says.

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