College students information security awareness: a comparison between smartphones and computers
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College students information security awareness: a comparison between smartphones and computers Nashrawan Taha 1
& Laila
Dahabiyeh 2
Received: 16 March 2020 / Accepted: 9 September 2020/ # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract The rapid technological developments associated with the decrease in the cost of smartphones made the latter more accessible and convenient to be used. In an educational setting, students are increasingly bringing their smartphones to classrooms, this could have serious security implications, particularly when students are less aware of smartphone information security threats. This paper is set out to provide an empirical comparison in the level of information security awareness among college students in terms of knowledge and behavior. The main aim is to find the difference between students’ awareness level of information security using smartphones vs. computers. A descriptive research design was adopted and an online survey method was employed. Research findings showed that students were highly aware of some information security concepts, however, they behaved differently in protecting their smartphones compared to computers. Training campaigns are suggested to be conducted aiming to educate students with possible information security risks related to smartphone usage in educational settings. Keywords Information security awareness . Information security knowledge . Smartphone
information security awareness . Educational setting . Computer security
1 Introduction The Internet has become an integral part of our everyday life and the number of internet users is massively increasing. With the advancement of information and * Nashrawan Taha [email protected] Laila Dahabiyeh [email protected]
1
Library and Information Science Department - School of Educational Science, The University of Jordan, Amman 11942, Jordan
2
Management Information Systems Department - School of Business, The University of Jordan, Amman 11942, Jordan
Education and Information Technologies
communication technology and the prevalence of cheap and easy to access devices, more data is being produced and more information is being used. This opens up new concerns in terms of information security threats and causes serious security issues. The increased reliance on using smartphone devices has also become an issue that has been particularly prevalent among young people (Alothman et al. 2017; Lau et al. 2017; Mi et al. 2020), who seem to be “constantly connected” and less keen to worry about the security setting in their smartphone devices (Breitinger et al. 2019; Koyuncu and Pusatli 2019). Data in smartphones can be easily breached and stolen (Allam et al. 2014), which raises security risks and causes serious threats to its users (Androulidakis and Kandus 2011). Furthermore, the appearance of “BYOD” culture has also become an issue that could weakens the security of organizations’ networks (Parker et al. 2015). User behavior plays an important role in mitigating or increa
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