Study on information security awareness among staffs

Abstract

These days, as increasing the number of internet users, numbers of hackers and intruders is also increasing. There also is essential need to improve information security of organizations. One of the main parts of information security issue is awareness of employees about new threats and vulnerability points. Hence the organizations have often established the programs to increase the information security awareness. So the level of awareness can be an important measure to help top management and information security department for developing a new security awareness program. In this research the security awareness of staff was studied and measured. Scope of the study is to make a survey for knowing thoughts of staff about information security. We did a survey in CICT department to reach objectives. Dean of CICT and security team are interviewed to provide the necessary information. They have been asked questions about how they work to raise the security awareness and improve the attitudes among their employees and also how they measure the level of information security awareness among staff. According to the interview session with the dean of the CICT there is no staff’s information security awareness survey was conducted before. This study can be as original study. The main purpose of this study is to help the information security management to know what the level of security awareness among staffs is. The results from this study can also be used as additional information when improving or planning university’s information security system.