Architecture of Combined e-Learning Environment and Investigation of Secure Access and Privacy Protection

Abstract

The contemporary digital world based on network communications, globalization and information sharing outlines new important targets in the area of privacy and personal data protection which reflect to applied principles of secure access to proposed information structures. In this reason the aim of secure access to all resources of an e-learning environment is very important and adequate technological and organizational measures for authentication, authorization and protection of personal data must be applied. Strong security procedures should be proposed to protect user's profiles, designed after successful registration and all personal information collected by educational processes. The goal of this article is to present an idea to combine traditional e-learning technologies with new opportunities that give mobile applications, cloud services and social computing. These technologies can endanger data security since they make possible remote access to resources, sharing information between participants by network communications. In order to avoid data vulnerabilities users must be identified and authenticated before, i.e. to be allowed to access information resources otherwise integrity and confidentiality of e-learning system could be destroyed. In order to propose solution basic principles of information security and privacy protection in e-learning processes are discussed in this article. As a result, an organizational scheme of a system for information security and privacy is proposed. Based on these principles a graph formalization of access to the system resources is made and architecture for combined (heterogenic) e-learning architecture with secure access to the resources is designed. Analytical investigation based on designed Markov chain has been carried out and several statistical assessments delivered by Develve software are discussed.

Business virtual system in the context of e‐governance: Investigation of secure access to information resources

“…The main goal of each business ISMS is to protect the corporative (private) information resources and to regulate the access to them. The implemented procedures must be realized on the basis of strong strategies and policies for information security and data protection in the hierarchical order “Security Policy” → “IT Security Policy” → “Data Protection Policy” (Romansky, ; Romansky & Noninska, ). This is very important especially when a company takes part in the e‐governance activities and communicates with other partners, because the ISMS must guarantee successful data protection during input, remote access, processing, archiving, and transfer via the Internet of different types of corporative information, including personal data and supported customers' personal profiles.…”

Deterministic Model Investigation of Processes in a Heterogeneous E-Learning Environment

“…Specifically, a general architectural concept of an e-learning system called Heterogeneous e-Learning Environment (HeLE) is proposed as a new concept. The study proposed here can be taken as a continuation of the problems discussed in (Romansky & Noninska, 2016) and (Romansky & Noninska, 2019). The contribution of the article can be determined by defining the functionality of the main subsystems, expressed in a set of procedures for regulating access to different resources (internal and external), the defined formalization of processes and proposed conceptual model, as well as in the organization of deterministic model investigation using the apparatus of a Petri net with discussion of the obtained analytical results.…”