A Study of Cyber Security Awareness in Educational Environment in the Middle East

Samaher Al-Janabi () and Ibrahim Al-Shourbaji ()
Additional contact information
Samaher Al-Janabi: Department of Information Networks, Faculty of Information Technology, University of Babylon, Babylon 00964, Iraq
Ibrahim Al-Shourbaji: Computer Network Department, Computer Science and Information System College, Jazan University, Jazan 82822-6649, Saudi Arabia

Journal of Information & Knowledge Management (JIKM), 2016, vol. 15, issue 01, 1-30

Abstract: Information security awareness can play an important role in facing cyber-attacks by intruders. The main goal of this paper is to analyse the information security awareness among academic staff, researchers, undergraduate students and employee within educational environments in the Middle East in an attempt to understand the level of awareness of information security, the associated risks and overall impact on the institutions. The results reveal that the participants do not have the requisite knowledge and understanding of the importance of information security principles and their practical application in their day-to-day work. This situation can however be corrected through comprehensive awareness and training programs as well as adopting all the necessary safety measures at all levels of the institution to ensure that the students, academic staff and employees are trustworthy, technology savvy and keep their data safe. Without such training programs and awareness, there will be negative consequences on IT systems and their application usage, as well as on users’ personal security now and in the future. From the weaknesses identified in this survey, some essential recommendations are put forward to remedy the situation.

Keywords: Cyber security; information security; safety measures; security awareness; security training policy; digital forensics; classification and regression tree (CART) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S0219649216500076
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wsi:jikmxx:v:15:y:2016:i:01:n:s0219649216500076

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from

DOI: 10.1142/S0219649216500076

Access Statistics for this article

Journal of Information & Knowledge Management (JIKM) is currently edited by Professor Suliman Hawamdeh

More articles in Journal of Information & Knowledge Management (JIKM) from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Tai Tone Lim ().