Learning with Security

The current higher education, both distance education and traditional campus courses, relies more and more on modern information and communication technologies (ICT). The use of computer systems and networks results in a wide range of security issues that must be dealt with in order to create a safe learning environment. In this work, we study the security status within Swedish Net University, where several universities collaborate in order to offer ICT supported higher education distance courses. The total ICT-security is defined as a combination of computer security and information security, and the focus in this work is on the information security. The four main components of the information security that are used in the study are: confidentiality, integrity, availability and accountability.