User Security in e-Learning System

Security considerations play a very crucial role specially in the field of ICT, like banking sector, railways reservation system, education etc. These areas of information, Internet as well as academic area are the biggest medium. Due to the growth of educating technology, the use of online learning has become more important and comes into practice. However E-Learning systems are being distributed and interconnected. Consequently, the security becomes a very crucial issue to provide the facilities to the authentic users and maintaining E-Learning confidentiality, integrity and availability for the authorized users. The main purpose of this paper is to give in depth understanding of the security issues in E-Learning domain along with security standards and possible threats.