Summary
This chapter taught you how to protect your Moodle system from potential misuse and to keep a regular check on its security. To summarize, here is a short list of best practices in the following checklist. While this list is by no means complete, it gives an indication of the elements you are responsible for as a Moodle administrator:
Figure 13.12 – Moodle security best practices
It is important to stress that Moodle’s security is only a single variable in the overall equation. Ensure that all other underlying software, infrastructure, and hardware components are set up correctly as well.
It is also important to stress the importance of an emergency plan if a security threat arises. This includes a strategy for identifying the problem, measures to resolve the situation, and a list of users to notify, among others.
Most Moodle systems run on the LAMP platform, which has proven to be very secure if configured correctly. Moodle’...
