EL METAVERSO Y LAS NUEVAS AMENAZAS A LA SEGURIDAD DEL ESTADO

Abstract

The article presents a broad description of the metaverse and cyberspace, as well as the utility that these technologies provide to face the new threats to the security of the Ecuadorian State, called hybrid threats. In the same way, an approach is made to the related crimes of drug trafficking and how the harmful use of cyberspace has allowed the strategic infrastructure of the State to be affected. The objective of this research is to carry out a descriptive analysis of the aforementioned technologies, and provide valid arguments that show that illegal activities in the metaverse and in cyberspace constitute a hybrid threat. Likewise, it raises the need to promote the development of a national system capable of operating in cyberspace; and in this way, achieve an effective and timely response from the State to these new threats to security.