Web user' knowledge and their behavior towards security threats and vulnerabilities

Most of web users today are university students. They become more familiar with Information Security (IS) because it is a taught course in the university curriculum. However, there are many students whose level of awareness on this subject is still not enough considering the occurrence of security r...

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Main Authors: Aldossary, Alia Ahmed, Zeki, Akram M.
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Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2016
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spelling my.iium.irep.543872017-10-19T07:03:05Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/54387/ Web user' knowledge and their behavior towards security threats and vulnerabilities Aldossary, Alia Ahmed Zeki, Akram M. T10.5 Communication of technical information Most of web users today are university students. They become more familiar with Information Security (IS) because it is a taught course in the university curriculum. However, there are many students whose level of awareness on this subject is still not enough considering the occurrence of security risks and their frequent usage of the internet. Many studies have been conducted to assess students and to raise their level of IS awareness. This study concerns about students' knowledge and their behaviour or action towards IS. This study investigates whether students' knowledge influence positively over their cultural habits of ignoring things in IS environment. This study inspects students' knowledge about risks that face them daily particularly when they deal with their emails, social network accounts, software downloading and installing and public network. This study selected students from two universities from the eastern part of Saudi Arabia (Dammam and King Faisal University). The results of this study confirmed the research questions and indicate that students' knowledge and culture is associated with their behaviour. Students with more knowledge of IS are less exposed to security risks. © 2015 IEEE. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2016-05-25 Conference or Workshop Item REM application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/54387/2/54387_Web%20User%27%20Knowledge%20and%20Their%20Behavior_SCOPUS.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/54387/3/54387_Web%20User%27%20Knowledge%20and%20Their%20Behaviors.pdf Aldossary, Alia Ahmed and Zeki, Akram M. (2016) Web user' knowledge and their behavior towards security threats and vulnerabilities. In: 4th International Conference on Advanced Computer Science Applications and Technologies, ACSAT 2015, 8th-10th Dec. 2015, Kuala Lumpur. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7478754/ 10.1109/ACSAT.2015.51
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Web user' knowledge and their behavior towards security threats and vulnerabilities
description Most of web users today are university students. They become more familiar with Information Security (IS) because it is a taught course in the university curriculum. However, there are many students whose level of awareness on this subject is still not enough considering the occurrence of security risks and their frequent usage of the internet. Many studies have been conducted to assess students and to raise their level of IS awareness. This study concerns about students' knowledge and their behaviour or action towards IS. This study investigates whether students' knowledge influence positively over their cultural habits of ignoring things in IS environment. This study inspects students' knowledge about risks that face them daily particularly when they deal with their emails, social network accounts, software downloading and installing and public network. This study selected students from two universities from the eastern part of Saudi Arabia (Dammam and King Faisal University). The results of this study confirmed the research questions and indicate that students' knowledge and culture is associated with their behaviour. Students with more knowledge of IS are less exposed to security risks. © 2015 IEEE.
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author Aldossary, Alia Ahmed
Zeki, Akram M.
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Zeki, Akram M.
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title Web user' knowledge and their behavior towards security threats and vulnerabilities
title_short Web user' knowledge and their behavior towards security threats and vulnerabilities
title_full Web user' knowledge and their behavior towards security threats and vulnerabilities
title_fullStr Web user' knowledge and their behavior towards security threats and vulnerabilities
title_full_unstemmed Web user' knowledge and their behavior towards security threats and vulnerabilities
title_sort web user' knowledge and their behavior towards security threats and vulnerabilities
publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
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