Secure information system for international distance education

This article analyses the problems related to distance education in native universities as well as problems encountered in the development and operation of information systems in general and distance education information systems for universities. Modern higher education is subject to close merging of high-quality educational content and advanced educational information technologies. Distance learning enables studying in an individual educational trajectory with a convenient location, time and form. Network and international forms of training programs are taking particular significance and becoming widespread, especially at higher educational level. Fundamentally new priorities are formed in the field of higher education and science: cross-cutting informatisation of management and scientific activities in educational organizations. The increasing requirements to the volume, quality and pace of the educational process lead to the development of the distance and online learning in higher education, which is the most vital trend in the Russian educational system. Purpose: Analysis of the usefulness of distance education, ways and means of its development and implementation, identification of problems and threats. Scientific novelty: Presented an example of a model for a remote education information system based on threats, issues and risks. The authors analysed the situation of distance education in Russian Federation, researched one of the distance education information systems and examined the threats of information systems and ways to prevent them. © 2020 Copyright for this paper by its authors. Use permitted under Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org)