Nazar, Nauman, Darvishi, Iman and Yeboah-ofori, Abel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8055-9274 (2022) Cyber threat analysis on online learning and its mitigation techniques amid Covid-19. In: 2022 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2), 26-29 Sep 2022, Pafos, Cyprus.

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Abstract

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on face-to-face teaching and learning affected the world, leading to physical and psychological health issues, especially for the visually impaired and autistic users, including threats to healthcare, economies, and education sectors. During this challenging period, online learning and educational tools such as Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and Cisco Webex gained immense popularity in academic institutions. However, these tools provided vulnerabilities for malicious attackers to exploit these online platforms. That posed a cyber threat to the online educational system to continue and survive under such circumstances. The paper aims to explore and analyze the cyber threats to these online learning platforms to understand the security posture and mitigation techniques. The contribution of this paper is threefold: First, we explore the various attacks on online tools such as Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and Cisco Webex and determine how much security and privacy they offer. Secondly, we analyze the encryption capabilities to assess the confidentiality, integrity, and availability level they provide to the users and present the results as a table. Finally, we discussed a common vulnerability framework comprising common threats faced by users and the service provider for the mitigation techniques to improve security.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
ISSN:	2687-8860
ISBN:	9781665485616
Identifier:	10.1109/ISC255366.2022.9922102
Identifier:	10.1109/ISC255366.2022.9922102
Additional Information:	© 2022 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.
Keywords:	COVID-19, Smart cities, Education, Software, Encryption, Internet, Security
Subjects:	Computing > Information security > Cyber security Computing > Information security Medicine and health
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Depositing User:	Dr Abel Yeboah-Ofori
Date Deposited:	23 Mar 2023 15:34
Last Modified:	30 Mar 2023 15:51
URI:	https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/9872

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