Developing Effective Mitigation Strategies for Data Privacy in the Metaverse

Abstract

As powerful head-mounted displays (HMDs) have become widely available, virtual reality (VR) has entered the mainstream and the concept Delivering fully immersive virtual reality adventures inside the Metaverse, a system that permanent and communal virtual world, has been proposed. Businesses are rushing to purchase virtual reality (VR) gear in the hopes of becoming early adopters and capitalizing on the industry's enthusiasm for VR and the Metaverse. Virtual reality (VR) applications and peripherals collect data, which raises unique privacy and security issues.  Now that virtual reality head-mounted displays (HMDs) with intrusive sensors are available, it is more important than ever to include security and privacy considerations into the application development lifecycle to prevent the collection of sensitive biometric data, such as eye movements and facial expressions.  As this case study shows, we assume that a tech company has lately turned its focus to the Metaverse, and that a group of cybersecurity specialists and programmers have been assigned the duty of creating new virtual reality apps for this company. This case study takes a page out of the development, security, and operations (DevSecOps) playbook by having participants think about how to build virtual reality (VR) applications securely, model potential threats, and implement privacy and security measures. By highlighting possible privacy and security concerns linked to this quickly developing technology, The findings of this study contribute to the existing literature on IS education. It also demonstrates how DevSecOps methods may deal with software development security challenges.