Online learning platforms have revolutionized the teaching landscape, but with this comes the imperative of securing your students' private data in the digital realm. Have you taken every measure to ensure their data's security? Are you aligned with your organization’s cybersecurity standards? What about your insurer and your country’s data protection regulations?
This book offers practical insights through real-world examples to ensure compliance. Equipping you with tools, techniques, and approaches, Moodle 4 Security guides you in mitigating potential threats to your Moodle platform. Dedicated chapters on understanding vulnerabilities familiarize you with the threat landscape so that you can manage your server effectively, keeping bad actors at bay and configuring Moodle for optimal user and data protection.
By the end of the book, you’ll have gained a comprehensive understanding of Moodle’s security issues and how to address them. You’ll also be able to demonstrate the safety of your Moodle platform, assuring stakeholders that their data is measurably safer.
Measure a tutoring company’s security risk profile and build a threat model
Explore data regulation frameworks and apply them to your organization’s needs
Implement the CIS Critical Security Controls effectively
Create JMeter test scripts to simulate server load scenarios
Analyze and enhance web server logs to identify rogue agents
Investigate real-time application DOS protection using ModEvasive
Incorporate ModSecurity and the OWASP Core Rule Set WAF rules into your server defenses
Build custom infrastructure monitoring dashboards with Grafana