The analysis of security and privacy risks in smart education environments

Abstract

The contemporary smart educational environment uses different information technologies like social networks, virtual laboratories, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, big data, and so on. Each of these technologies has its security and privacy threats profile, but their integration in one system can lead to completely new challenges. The article analyses the technological development of smart educational environments from the point of view of their security and privacy issues. Any technological or legislative security control could be broken as the result of one mistake caused by human factors. People with different levels of competence are interacting every day with each other in educational environments. The risks of personal data leaking or hacking of educational services should be minimized during this interaction. Therefore, not only the key technologies that form the architecture of the educational environment but also the main points of interaction between the users and the education environment should be taken into account in the analysis. The article provides a basic analysis of security and privacy risks for smart education environments. As the result, the analysis identifies key information security technologies development of which is necessary for the sustainable development of a smart educational environment as part of a smart city.