In practice when designing complex IT-systems the known challenge is to solve the problem of multi-criteria analysis analysis of alternatives in order to select the most preferred choices of specific hardware and software for protection of large sets of solutions offered by the market. In particular, this problem is typical of the process of organizing a trusted session IT-systems of distance learning. The paper proposes a solution to this problem based on the analytic hierarchy process (AHP), which allows to automate the selection of an appropriate option using the visualization results of AHP.