A model on evaluating information security awareness in Majmaah University in Saudi Rabia

Evaluating the Information security awareness is consider one of the key and crucial elements of securing information system in organizations. It has been used widely in many fields such as in business, education, marketing, transportation, medical and many other fields. It plays a vital role and th...

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Main Author: Saud Alharbi, Talal Nasser
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Published: 2018
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spelling my-utm-ep.813862019-08-23T04:06:59Z A model on evaluating information security awareness in Majmaah University in Saudi Rabia 2018 Saud Alharbi, Talal Nasser QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Evaluating the Information security awareness is consider one of the key and crucial elements of securing information system in organizations. It has been used widely in many fields such as in business, education, marketing, transportation, medical and many other fields. It plays a vital role and thus become challenging issue. Thus security managers should be ready installed and resistance to various numbers of potential attacks. The main reason to fail in many assessment information security awareness is the complexity and inflexibility of the existing models. Domain modulars usually spend many times to understand the nature of the domain, which they desire to model. Even though there are many existing method to evaluate ISA levels appears, but to find best suited way which could provide a straight guideline to ISA users based on their own problems are limited. To solve this limitation, this project follows several steps to create a generic model, which can determine the level of ISA, and its solutions through a unified model. This project addresses the issues of information security awareness towards employees and students in Majmaah University by implementing a conceptual model to support information security awareness for employees and students. The proposed model includes some factors such as; Information security awareness, Education, Bad Experience, Guidelines, Roles and responsibility, Behaviour, Knowledge and Attitude. The model is measured by conducting an online survey to collect data to support the proposed project which results these factors affect on Information Security Awareness by 263 employees and students. The proposed research has contributed to gain a better understanding of evaluating information security awareness to support the Majmaah University by using Cronbach’s alpha and regression in the analysis phase. The finding shows the level of information security awareness among students and staff of Majmaah University is moderately aware. 2018 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/81386/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/81386/1/TalalNasserSaudMFC2018.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:119430 masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Computing
institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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language English
topic QA75 Electronic computers
Computer science
spellingShingle QA75 Electronic computers
Computer science
Saud Alharbi, Talal Nasser
A model on evaluating information security awareness in Majmaah University in Saudi Rabia
description Evaluating the Information security awareness is consider one of the key and crucial elements of securing information system in organizations. It has been used widely in many fields such as in business, education, marketing, transportation, medical and many other fields. It plays a vital role and thus become challenging issue. Thus security managers should be ready installed and resistance to various numbers of potential attacks. The main reason to fail in many assessment information security awareness is the complexity and inflexibility of the existing models. Domain modulars usually spend many times to understand the nature of the domain, which they desire to model. Even though there are many existing method to evaluate ISA levels appears, but to find best suited way which could provide a straight guideline to ISA users based on their own problems are limited. To solve this limitation, this project follows several steps to create a generic model, which can determine the level of ISA, and its solutions through a unified model. This project addresses the issues of information security awareness towards employees and students in Majmaah University by implementing a conceptual model to support information security awareness for employees and students. The proposed model includes some factors such as; Information security awareness, Education, Bad Experience, Guidelines, Roles and responsibility, Behaviour, Knowledge and Attitude. The model is measured by conducting an online survey to collect data to support the proposed project which results these factors affect on Information Security Awareness by 263 employees and students. The proposed research has contributed to gain a better understanding of evaluating information security awareness to support the Majmaah University by using Cronbach’s alpha and regression in the analysis phase. The finding shows the level of information security awareness among students and staff of Majmaah University is moderately aware.
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title A model on evaluating information security awareness in Majmaah University in Saudi Rabia
title_short A model on evaluating information security awareness in Majmaah University in Saudi Rabia
title_full A model on evaluating information security awareness in Majmaah University in Saudi Rabia
title_fullStr A model on evaluating information security awareness in Majmaah University in Saudi Rabia
title_full_unstemmed A model on evaluating information security awareness in Majmaah University in Saudi Rabia
title_sort model on evaluating information security awareness in majmaah university in saudi rabia
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url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/81386/1/TalalNasserSaudMFC2018.pdf
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