Information Security of Students in an Educational Organization

Abstract

The relevance of the issue is due to significant changes in the social, political and economic life of modern society under the influence of the process of mass use of information technologies and the active introduction of distance learning technologies into the education system. An important requirement for ensuring the activities of an educational institution today is to maintain a high level of information security. Moreover, the issues of information security in educational organizations have their own specifics. The analysis of existing threats in the field of information security and the dangers of using Internet resources, social networks is carried out. It is shown that the activity in the field of information security is one of the priority conditions for its development in the field of education in the near future. Information security in the education system as a whole and in each specific educational institution should be a systematic set of measures aimed at the implementation of two main tasks. In addition to protecting the institution’s information system, databases, both internal and external, and preventing hacker attacks, it is also important to protect students from any manifestations of illegal propaganda and manipulation attempts. As a result, the construction of an information security system in educational institutions should be provided by qualified specialists equipped with a modern software and hardware complex.