Will there be Security Threats to Online LMS?

Without a doubt, any LMS needs to be designed keeping in mind that sensitive data must be protected. Only intended users should have access to viewing and/or editing rights for particular material, and learners should be able to trust that their privacy will be safeguarded. With no dearth of troublemakers spawning the worldwide web, any organization or entrepreneur must be aware of the security risks posed to their LMS, and take timely action to prevent breaches.

SSL, short for Secure Sockets Layer, ensures that our http web protocol is encrypted. This means that our data is safe from anyone who is trying to intercept our connection to gain access. The green padlock with https browsers is the easiest way for users to know that they can safely use a particular website. SSL is mandatory for all credit card transactions and is increasingly important for all other sites also. Google ranks insecure (non-SSL) sites poorer than those that are secure. Make sure your LMS provider gives you SSL, both for using their default application as well for any customized version you use.

SSO, or Single Sign-On, allows you to centralize authentication management. This means that you only use one username and password for all of you linked applications, including third-party ones. More simply put, this is like having the same high-level of security for all of the accounts you use at your organization. Users will thus not have to write down passwords to remember them all (making them vulnerable to physical hacking), and users, roles and permissions will be within easy access for management by your security or IT team.

User Settings refer to users, roles, and permissions. You will want to make sure your LMS allows you to define secure login mechanisms for users, so that only the right people get in. Beyond secure login, you will want to control who is assigned what role, and as a result, what permissions (possible actions) in accordance with that user role. This ensures that only the right people are allowed into your system, and that among these people, each can only perform certain appropriate actions (thus not wiping out administrative information or meddling with other peoples' data).

Authentication is important to make sure your LMS is being not being taken advantage of. For instance, other than ensuring secure login, you will also want your system to disallow multiple logins from the same user, to limit people from sharing your service without paying. Other more creative authentication systems may attempt to limit the devices upon which a service can be used, or require other tests of identity. Similarly, stronger passwords are also critical for authentication. Your system should not let users keep simple-to-guess passwords by having a criteria for invalid passwords and strong ones.

Together, these are some of the basics. Of course, a lot more can be said on the issue of LMS security. The very nature of such a system is that it carries sensitive information that must be protected under all circumstances; hence, the threat of a breach always looms. However, you can start off by taking these steps, and do further research to ensure that you have taken all possible physical, software-related, and social-training steps to make sure your data is safe.

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