The World Wide Web is an entire universe filled with great opportunities but also a place with various threats to the normal operation and security of any website. In this chapter we provided a brief overview emphasizing the importance of security in a cyber universe. We learned the basic facts about the secure installation of Moodle and how to quickly make our existing Moodle instance more secure. This, of course, is not all. It is just the tip of the iceberg.

In the following chapters we will focus our attention to all of the fine details of properly configuring and optimizing a Moodle instance and all of the accompanying software.

Next stop—how to transform your server into an impenetrable fortress!