New Security Center Boosts Metaverse with Consultant Certification - MSSP Alert

by D. Howard Kass • Dec 1, 2022

The Identity Management Institute has launched the Metaverse Security Center to summation consciousness of metaverse information risks and Web3 information champion practices done a grooming and certification programme dubbed the Certified Metaverse Security Consultant (CMSC).

Polkadot laminitis and Ethereum co-founder Gavin Wood coined the word “Web3” successful 2014, referring to a “decentralized online ecosystem based connected blockchain.” Right now, lone a fewer people, mostly immoderate technologists and task superior firms, are attempting to framework it. “Hazy” is however immoderate others qualify it. Still, the manufacture is expected by immoderate estimates to go a $13 trillion marketplace with 5 cardinal users by 2030. Others peg it to turn from $500 cardinal successful 2020 to $38 cardinal successful 2022, adding $5 trillion to the planetary system by 2030.

400 Million Metaverse Users

There are reportedly immoderate 400 cardinal progressive metaverse users globally and by 2026 astir 25% of the planetary colonisation and 30% of businesses are expected to interact successful the metaverse.

Here’s what the Metaverse Security Center has to accidental astir it:

“The emerging metaverse is astir to situation our mode of beingness and however radical place themselves, interact with 1 another, are entertained, and transact utilizing astute contracts, NFT and crypto. Metaverse is the caller procreation of the net comprised of immersive exertion backed by wide adoption and regulations.

“With the blockchain exertion astatine its core, Metaverse is an precocious Web3 mentation of the existent net which offers 3D enactment and decentralized applications to signifier the adjacent procreation of integer satellite for everything from finance, gaming, business, and amusement to integer spot transactions with the usage of [non-fungible tokens] and crypto.”

Here’s simpler statement of the metaverse from Henry Bagdasarian, Founder of Identity Management Institute:

“Metaverse is simply a postulation of interconnected virtual worlds wherever radical volition beryllium capable to question from 1 satellite to different and interact with 1 different successful shared integer spaces. In the metaverse, radical volition interact with integer twins to behaviour business, be concerts oregon athletics events, spell to school, and store among galore different things done virtual world headsets, augmented world glasses, and different caller devices.”

Becoming a Metaverse Security Consultant

As for the Certified Metaverse Security Consultant, it is simply a caller cybersecurity certification with a absorption connected Web3 and metaverse information for cybersecurity professionals who are funny successful becoming certified metaverse experts.

The CMSC certification people is designed to code evolving information and privateness risks and information topics and solutions related to decentralized individuality and entree management, cybercrime and fraud prevention, astute declaration transaction automation, information security, ethical conduct, privacy, and compliance.

The CMSC certification survey usher and introspection volition screen the pursuing topics:

• Metaverse Security Overview
• Web3 Model and Architecture
• Metaverse Security Threats
• Metaverse Security Risks
• Metaverse Security Countermeasures
• CMSC Certification Process

The Identify Management Institute is encouraging cybersecurity professionals progressive successful metaverse related projects to articulation Identity Management Institute and go a Certified Metaverse Security Consultant (CMSC).