Web users’ 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.
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English English
Published:	The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. 2016
Subjects:	T58.5 Information technology
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/51288/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/51288/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/51288/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/51288/1/51288_web_user.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/51288/4/51288_Web%20users%E2%80%99%20knowledge%20and%20their%20behavior%20towards%20security%20threats%20and%20vulnerabilities_SCOPUS.pdf

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spelling	iium-512882017-08-14T06:58:14Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/51288/ Web users’ knowledge and their behavior towards security threats and vulnerabilities Aldossary, Alia Ahmed Zeki, Akram M. T58.5 Information technology 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. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. 2016 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/51288/1/51288_web_user.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/51288/4/51288_Web%20users%E2%80%99%20knowledge%20and%20their%20behavior%20towards%20security%20threats%20and%20vulnerabilities_SCOPUS.pdf Aldossary, Alia Ahmed and Zeki, Akram M. (2016) Web users’ knowledge and their behavior towards security threats and vulnerabilities. In: 2015 4th International Conference on Advanced Computer Science Applications and Technologies (ACSAT 2015), 8th-10th Dec. 2015, Kuala Lumpur. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=7478754 10.1109/ACSAT.2015.51
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spellingShingle	T58.5 Information technology Aldossary, Alia Ahmed Zeki, Akram M. Web users’ 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.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Aldossary, Alia Ahmed Zeki, Akram M.
author_facet	Aldossary, Alia Ahmed Zeki, Akram M.
author_sort	Aldossary, Alia Ahmed
title	Web users’ knowledge and their behavior towards security threats and vulnerabilities
title_short	Web users’ knowledge and their behavior towards security threats and vulnerabilities
title_full	Web users’ knowledge and their behavior towards security threats and vulnerabilities
title_fullStr	Web users’ knowledge and their behavior towards security threats and vulnerabilities
title_full_unstemmed	Web users’ knowledge and their behavior towards security threats and vulnerabilities
title_sort	web users’ knowledge and their behavior towards security threats and vulnerabilities
publisher	The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
publishDate	2016
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/51288/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/51288/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/51288/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/51288/1/51288_web_user.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/51288/4/51288_Web%20users%E2%80%99%20knowledge%20and%20their%20behavior%20towards%20security%20threats%20and%20vulnerabilities_SCOPUS.pdf
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