Introduction

Udemy is an online learning and teaching marketplace with over 250000 courses and 80 million students. It follows the basics of  learning programming, marketing, data science and more. Udemy was founded in the year 2010. It was created to make education accessible to everyone, from anywhere in the world.

Services Provided by Udemy

• Udemy provides
• Online video courses
• Lifetime access to purchased courses
• Learning on mobile phone, tablet, or computer
• Certificates of completion

Courses are mainly video based to make learning more productive and interesting. They also include quizzes, notes, and assignments that are provided by the tutor to the students learning it. This makes the learning process easier and also thrives towards research based education.

Course Structure in Udemy

The course structures  are curated based upon extensive research, the currently used format is:-

• Video lectures
• Section wise organization
• Downloadable resources
• Practice tests

Videos are the main content. Because videos are valuable and it provides a place for incentivizing and unique experience of learning. 

Unlawful access of content inside Udemy

To prevent the practice of illegal use of content which has been legally enlisted as intellectual property , Udemy uses strong security methods such as:-

• Encrypted video streaming

Udemy sends videos in encrypted form. The video is locked while traveling from server to user. Only the Udemy player can unlock and play the video. This stops copying and sharing.

• Secure user authentication [Based on Authentication Security Architecture]

Udemy checks user identity before giving access. Only logged in users who bought the course can watch videos. This system follows strong authentication security architecture to block unauthorized users.

• Restricted downloading

Udemy allows downloads only inside its app. Downloaded videos stay encrypted and cannot be played outside Udemy. This prevents illegal copying and reuse of content.

Use of Video Encryption and DRM

Udemy uses encryption and digital rights management (DRM) to protect course videos from unauthorized use. DRM stands for Digital Rights Management. It helps to stop things like copying, screen recording, and saving videos outside of Udemy.

Most Udemy videos are delivered with DRM protection enabled. This means the video stream is encoded and can only be decrypted by devices or software that have permission. Users who try to download these videos without permission will see files that remain encrypted and unreadable.



Identity Management's use in Udemy

Securing access to the data begins with identity controls that align with the company’s policies. Udemy allows each customer to deploy federated Single Sign-On to manage access (and revocation) to users' Udemy Business Web application environment or normal account.  This enables users to centrally manage the authentication and authorization of users so that only authorized users and admins are granted permissions from a central identity system.

Identity Controls are based upon

• SAML-based Single Sign-On (SSO)
• Session duration
• Multi-Factor authentication (via SAML SSO)
• User and Group provisioning and deprovisioning via JIT/SCIM