Description
The emergence of the metaverse introduces digital environments where users interact, transact, and share data across virtual platforms. As these systems evolve, traditional cybersecurity models prove inadequate against emerging threats like identity theft, data manipulation, virtual asset fraud, and privacy breaches. Next-generation security frameworks address these challenges by integrating advanced technologies like AI, blockchain, zero-trust architecture, and decentralized identity management. These frameworks secure virtual interactions and digital assets while establishing trust, interoperability, and user privacy within highly dynamic and decentralized environments. As the metaverse reshapes social, economic, and technological landscapes, adaptive security mechanisms ensure safe and sustainable virtual experiences.
Next-Generation Security Frameworks for the Metaverse explores the cybersecurity challenges and risks associated with virtual environments in the metaverse, including threats to user identity, privacy, digital assets, and platform integrity. It examines how advanced security technologies and modern frameworks create secure, trustworthy, and resilient metaverse systems. This book covers topics such as virtual reality, software engineering, and zero-trust architecture, and is a useful resource for engineers, security professionals, academicians, researchers, and scientists.
Author's/Editor's Biography
Mishall Al-Zubaidie (Ed.)
Mishall Al-Zubaidie
(Member, IEEE) received a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Basrah University, Iraq, in 2004, and a master’s degree in the security of the wireless network from Basrah University, Iraq, in 2010. He received his Ph.D. degree from the School of Agricultural, Computational and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Health, Engineering, and Sciences, University of Southern Queensland, Australia in 2020. He has authored many peer-reviewed research in different journals in the field of communications and network security. In addition, he provided review and evaluation services for more than 1180 research papers in various respected journals. Moreover, he is an editor or editorial board member for more than 15 journals at various publishers. His current research interests includes - Network communications - Authorising and authenticating users in Electronic Medical Record (EMR) - Authorising and authenticating users in Electronic Health Record (EHR) - Incorporating security and privacy into Health Wireless Sensor Network (HWSN) - Public-Key cryptography - Lightweight hash functions - Anonymity and pseudonymity techniques - XML/XACML policies and authorisation - Keys exchange and session keys - WSN performance - Protection of MAC address - Routing protocols (LEACH/SPIN/DEEC/PEGASIS) - Keys exchange/agreement algorithm in health systems -security, and privacy challenges in smart cities, security and forensics, blockchain and integrity techniques, quantum cryptography keys and signatures, multi factors authentication for modern applications. He has published many research papers in the field of security and privacy in addition to reviewing more than 1325 research papers for different journals and publishers. Also, he worked as an editor role for over 69 assignments.