Mean Failure Cost as a Measurable Value and Evidence of Cybersecurity: E-Learning Case Study

2. Security Challenges In E-Learning Systems

E-learning concept is the use of technology to deliver information for training. This modern education is useful and interesting as it creates interactions between learners and instructors, or learners and learners regardless of time and space (Sun et al., 2008). E-learning is an educational system where the instructor and the learner are at distance, collaborate and communicate using the technology. E-learning is the delivery of a learning, training or education program by electronic means as it involves the use of a computer or electronic device in some way to provide training, educational or learning material (Stockley, 2008). Nowadays, e-learning has become a popular way of learning for schools and businesses, it has increased exponentially in recent years (Sun et al., 2011).

The E-learning has gone through a spectacular development during the past years. In today's Internet age, education requires the share and the distribution of information. We need a system or a platform, and then we call this an e-learning system or distance learning system or the e-learning platform which supports the online and / or the live and / or the blended learning processes. When they support live learning they can be an electronic support for course.