Preventive Measures for Digital Learning Spaces’ Security Issues

The COVID-19 pandemic affected humanity and changed impacted people’s habits worldwide. The necessity for social distancing has led to increasing remote working and online learning. As a result, many schools, institutions, and universities quickly adopted online learning to ensure the continuity of their training. Unfortunately, security was not a significant factor during the migration to digital learning. Consequently, security risks increased significantly with the advent of COVID-19 and cyberattacks do not spare education systems. This paper highlights security issues of digital learning spaces from the perspective of the Learning Management System and video conferencing tools. Also, we propose preventive measures to overcome each vulnerability. In addition, beyond the prevention measures, digital learning stakeholders need to be aware of the security principles and best practices to adopt before, during and after the sessions.