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What are the primary cybersecurity risks of the metaverse?

The security of an identity and your avatar or your avatars is crucial. If you think of the way that business email compromise works, it is often used in phishing attempts within the organization. If I can compromise somebody’s user identity in the metaverse and therefore get their avatar I’m functionally them. So if the CEO of a company is in a metaverse business meeting meets with the other avatars, or at least their avatar meets with the other avatars in the metaverse and it directs them to conduct financial transactions, it becomes verifiably difficult to say that wasn’t them.

What is post-quantum cryptography?

The term post quantum cryptography refers to cryptographic algorithms that are believed to be secure against an attack by quantum computers.

For consumers, what’s the risk of reusing passwords?

The average consumer has more passwords and accounts than anyone can remember. In most cases, consumers are reusing those passwords across services, and those services are allowing the use of passwords that have previously appeared in breaches. Second, the relative ease of a threat actor to compromise multiple services based on a single password produces problems for consumers, as not all websites will have rapid consumer notifications.

Kayne McGladrey IEEE Senior Member

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