Security Science Journal, Vol. 2 No. 2, 2021.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.37458/ssj.2.2.4
DIGITAL EDUCATION: SECURITY CHALLENGES AND BEST PRACTICES
Lourdes Cecilia Ruiz Salvador
orcid.org/0000-0002-3649-6226
; Óbuda University, Doctoral School on Safety and Security Sciences
Carlos Lenin Alvarez Llerena
; Doctoral School on Education, Hungary
Huu Phuoc Dai Nguyen
; Óbuda University, Doctoral School on Safety and Security Sciences
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic and the rapid development of technologies have forced restructuring education at all levels. This change from traditional to digital learning demanded
that teachers and students possess higher digital literacy. Moreover, it required them to be aware of the importance of security and its countermeasures to protect e-learning systems. The aim of this paper was twofold. First, it focused on security issues when using Moodle, Zoom. Blackboard, and edX. Furthermore, it offers best practices to address security threats and cyber attacks from the outside network to e-learning systems. From this study, a cryptography mechanism arises as the best technique to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and authentication (CIA) of data on the e-platforms. However, it is not strong enough to mitigate cybersecurity attacks in e-learning systems. For that reason, it is suggested that the cryptography mechanism needs to be combined with other techniques such as biometric authentication, firewalls, IDS, digital watermarking, and security process models.
Keywords
Digital education, security, challenges, countermeasures
Hrčak ID:
349052
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Publication date:
13.12.2021.
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