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Information Security Awareness in Educational Institution: An Analysis of Students' Individual Factors

Ali Farooq, Johanna Isoaho, Seppo Virtanen, Jouni Isoaho, Information Security Awareness in Educational Institution: An Analysis of Students' Individual Factors. In: Lisa O'Conner (Ed.), The 14th IEEE international conference on trust, security and privacy in computing and communications, 1, 352 – 359, IEEE CS Press, 2015.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/Trustcom.2015.394

Abstract:

The purpose of this paper is to study information security awareness (ISA) among university students and analyze the effect students’ individual factors have in their attained ISA level. Through descriptive case study survey approach, a questionnaire consisting of 30 items was circulated in our university, resulting in 614 usable responses. We consider ISA as a combination of knowledge and behavior. Factors such as age, gender, education level, field of study, nationality, area of living, working experience and ISA training are considered as individual factors. Perceived ISA level among the students is also examined. For overall study, we use mathematical mean and for analyzing effect of different individual factors, Pearson’s coefficient of correlation is computed. We find that factors such as gender, living place and information security related training show statistically significant correlation with attained ISA level, whereas, factors such as age, nationality, educational discipline and educational level do not show statistically significant correlation. Furthermore, gender and training show statistical significant correlation with the perceived ISA as well as constituent dimensions of ISA, that is, knowledge and behavior. Factors such as age and experience have significant correlation with perceived ISA, whereas, living area has significant correlation with knowledge only.

BibTeX entry:

@INPROCEEDINGS{inpFaIsViIs15a,
  title = {Information Security Awareness in Educational  Institution: An Analysis of Students' Individual  Factors},
  booktitle = {The 14th IEEE international conference on trust, security and privacy in computing and communications},
  author = {Farooq, Ali and Isoaho, Johanna and Virtanen, Seppo and Isoaho, Jouni},
  volume = {1},
  editor = {O'Conner, Lisa},
  publisher = {IEEE CS Press},
  pages = {352 – 359},
  year = {2015},
  keywords = {Information  Security  Awareness,  Demographic  Factors,  Educaitonal  Disciplines,  Age,  Gender,  Knowledge,  Behavior,  Security,  Threats,  Miscellaneous  Security  Issues},
  ISSN = {2324-898X},
}

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