Home – Home – Jornals – Professional Education in the Modern World 2019 number 2

Digital security in the modern world is one of the leading practical and theoretical trends. Many practitioners and theorists deal with improving digital security, almost ignoring the costs spent on this relevant and necessary process. The dangers of «digital security» in education are highlighted by applying point-rating system for teachers» assessment and tendency of applying cloud and other technologies in order to create University digital environment that is widely used in education in Russia. This «virtual university» faces huge security problems: relationships in a real environment are partially developed whereas ones in a virtual-digital environment are absent. The feeling of permissiveness gives rise to the cases of intra-organizational espionage and violation of the rights of employees in their private life: the boundary between professional and personal spheres of information in such «clouds» almost does not exist, which serves as the basis of numerous abuses (abuse of power, ethical and legal conflicts in the form of violation of the right to privacy, etc.) In addition, along with the point-rating system, supposedly created only to stimulate the work of workers, cloud technologies are used to find the causes and methods of punishment and reprisals: a typical situation is the illegal hacking and illegal use of information about a person, including within its wide spreading inside and outside the university in order to substantiate a disciplinary action leading to economic, social and moral, and sometimes legal losses of employees.