Guidelines for improving security awareness courses in technical and vocational training corporation in Saudi Arabia
Information Security Awareness (ISA) is significant for better security behavior. Students may have different level of awareness for security vulnerabilities based on their knowledge, behavior and culture. In Saudi Arabia, studies showed that employees are less aware to security risks due to lack...
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my-utm-ep.484642017-07-27T01:50:29Z Guidelines for improving security awareness courses in technical and vocational training corporation in Saudi Arabia 2014 Almalki, Hassan Mohammed QA76 Computer software Information Security Awareness (ISA) is significant for better security behavior. Students may have different level of awareness for security vulnerabilities based on their knowledge, behavior and culture. In Saudi Arabia, studies showed that employees are less aware to security risks due to lack of knowledge. This paper presents students’ security knowledge and awareness among students of Technical and Vocational Training Corporation (TVTC) regarding security vulnerabilities particularly those that are personally related to them such as risks of guessable passwords, email attachments, junk email, pirated software and hacking. This paper surveyed 352 students from this corporation in Riyadh- Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The results showed there are different levels of knowledge among students regarding security threats. 2014 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/48464/ masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Computing Faculty of Computing |
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Information Security Awareness (ISA) is significant for better security behavior. Students may have different level of
awareness for security vulnerabilities based on their knowledge, behavior and culture. In Saudi Arabia, studies showed that
employees are less aware to security risks due to lack of knowledge. This paper presents students’ security knowledge and
awareness among students of Technical and Vocational Training Corporation (TVTC) regarding security vulnerabilities
particularly those that are personally related to them such as risks of guessable passwords, email attachments, junk email,
pirated software and hacking. This paper surveyed 352 students from this corporation in Riyadh- Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
The results showed there are different levels of knowledge among students regarding security threats. |
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Guidelines for improving security awareness courses in technical and vocational training corporation in Saudi Arabia |
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Guidelines for improving security awareness courses in technical and vocational training corporation in Saudi Arabia |
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Guidelines for improving security awareness courses in technical and vocational training corporation in Saudi Arabia |
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Guidelines for improving security awareness courses in technical and vocational training corporation in Saudi Arabia |
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Guidelines for improving security awareness courses in technical and vocational training corporation in Saudi Arabia |
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guidelines for improving security awareness courses in technical and vocational training corporation in saudi arabia |
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