Towards comprehensive information security awareness: a systematic classification of concerns among university students

Ali Farooq; Shamil Alifov; Seppo Virtanen; Jouni Isoaho

doi:10.14236/ewic/HCI2018.117

Towards comprehensive information security awareness: a systematic classification of concerns among university students

Ali Farooq, Shamil Alifov, Seppo Virtanen, Jouni Isoaho

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Abstract

In this paper, we have systematically identified and classified information security concerns (ISCs) of university students into areas where users perceive information security threats. 354 university students were asked to elicit their level of concern on a given set of 74 ISCs using a 7-point scale. Factor analysis (PCA) produced an 11-factor solution, each factor depicting an area of concern. These areas were related to Personal (legal awareness), Social (Sociality), Institutional (Staff member lapses, University networks), Technological (Online social network use, Intrusive service providers, Web browsing and email, Smartphone use, Electronic device use, and Conventional threats), and Non-technological (Cards and wallets security) aspects of student's day-to-day life. The majority of the students (66%) showed concerns related to online social network use, whereas, only 40% of them shown concerns related to sociality. The highest level of concerns was related to service providers, whereas the lowest level of concerns was related to sociality.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2018)
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	1-6
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/HCI2018.117
Publication status	Published - 4 Jul 2018
Event	32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference - HCL2018 - Belfast , United Kingdom Duration: 4 Jul 2018 → 6 Jul 2018

Conference

Conference	32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference - HCL2018
Abbreviated title	HCL2018
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Belfast
Period	4/07/18 → 6/07/18

Keywords

human computer interaction (HCI)
information security awareness
students
information security
principal component analysis
areas of concern
affinity diagram
factor analysis
concerns

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Farooq, A, Alifov, S, Virtanen, S & Isoaho, J 2018, Towards comprehensive information security awareness: a systematic classification of concerns among university students. in Proceedings of the 32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2018). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 1-6, 32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference - HCL2018, Belfast , United Kingdom, 4/07/18. https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/HCI2018.117

Towards comprehensive information security awareness: a systematic classification of concerns among university students. / Farooq, Ali; Alifov, Shamil; Virtanen, Seppo et al.
Proceedings of the 32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2018). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2018. p. 1-6.

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