Computer Security Risk Analysis In Distance Learning

Abstract

The Covid-19 vastly affected the education sector. There was only one way to keep the study going and that was to take the education completely online. Technologies including different learning managements, video calling apps, cloud computing, whose value was yet to be used in the education field, got its importance. They are now the most important part in the education sector. Anyone can learn anything from anywhere and that makes these technologies the best part of E-learning during pandemic till now and will continue. But with everything being online, there is a huge risk of cyber attacks and leaking of important data, which happened with many higher Educational Institutes. Illegal data transfer, infection and virus from malicious applications started harming the personal data of the user. In this paper, we are discussing the various threats of keeping everything online and also how we can improve the technologies and protect them. It may include updating systems, checking for malware, encryption decryption processes during file transfers over the network and so on. This paper will be based on security issues in different networking sitesusedforelearning.