A Classification of Threats to Remote Online Examinations

Abrar Ullah; Hannan Xiao; Trevor Barker

doi:10.1109/IEMCON.2016.7746085

A Classification of Threats to Remote Online Examinations

Abrar Ullah, Hannan Xiao, Trevor Barker

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Abstract

Summative online examinations is a high stake
process which faces many security threats. The lack of face-toface
interaction, monitoring or invigilation motivates many
threats, which includes intrusion by hackers and collusion by
students. This paper is based on a survey of literature to present
a threat classification using security abuse case scenarios.
Collusion is one of the challenging threats, when a student invites
a third party collaborator to impersonate or aid a student to take
an online test. While mitigation of all types of threats is
important, the risk of collusion is increasingly challenging
because it is difficult to detect such attacks.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2016 IEEE 7th Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-5090-0996-1
ISBN (Print)	978-1-5090-0997-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMCON.2016.7746085
Publication status	Published - 17 Nov 2016
Event	2016 IEEE 7th Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communications Conference - University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Duration: 13 Oct 2016 → 15 Oct 2016 Conference number: 38388 http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/conferencedetails/index.html?Conf_ID=38388

Conference

Conference	2016 IEEE 7th Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communications Conference
Abbreviated title	2016 IEEE 7th Annual IEMCON Conference
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Vancouver
Period	13/10/16 → 15/10/16
Internet address	http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/conferencedetails/index.html?Conf_ID=38388

Keywords

online examination
collusion
impersonation
threats
security

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Ullah, A, Xiao, H & Barker, T 2016, A Classification of Threats to Remote Online Examinations. in 2016 IEEE 7th Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016 IEEE 7th Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communications Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 13/10/16. https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMCON.2016.7746085

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