Trend Micro has put together some questions to start asking :
TECHNOLOGY AND AI
Trend Micro ’ s report Global cybersecurity company Trend Micro Incorporated has released a report warning of a ‘ darkverse ’ of criminality hidden from law enforcement , which could quickly evolve to fuel a new industry of metaverserelated cybercrime .
The company says tech companies need to start developing metaverse security
Trend Micro has put together some questions to start asking :
· How will we moderate user activity and speech in the metaverse ? And who will be responsible ?
· How will copyright infringements be policed and enforced ?
· How will users know whether they ’ re interacting with a real person or a bot ? Will there be a Turing Test to validate AI / humans ?
· Is there a way to safeguard privacy by preventing the metaverse from becoming dominated by a few large tech companies ?
· How can law enforcement overcome the high costs of intercepting metaverse crimes at scale , and solve issues around jurisdiction ? models now to protect Metaverse-like applications and the future Metaverse .
Lewis Duke , Sales Engineer at Trend Micro says : “ The metaverse will play a large role in the next era of connectivity and will bring with it a range of security threats , many of which will leverage tactics and techniques of which the industry is already aware . This gives us as a security community the chance to not only predict the likely threats that the metaverse will bring , but also start to prepare how we can protect ourselves and our organisations to avoid the historical disconnect between innovation and security .”
Bill Malik , Vice President of Infrastructure Strategies for Trend Micro , says : “ The metaverse is a multibillion-dollar , hi-tech vision that will define the next internet era .
84 January 2023