Analysing of the information security awareness of the economic information technology students

Abstract

Aim of this research to analysing the level of the information security awareness of the undergraduate economic information technology students after the information security course. The young generation use smartphones, tablets to keep in contact with friends at home, on public transport, in the school etc. They use different communication forms on the internet like social networks, chat rooms and so on. These applications are protected by password authentication system to keep save the data of the users. We were interested for which systems find the Economic information technology students important in everyday life and what kind of password use for protecting the information. We see almost in every month in the news a service provider was attacked again by hackers and the have put the username and the passwords on the Internet. The success of the attack depends on user error mainly. On the one hand this research is important to see how complicated passwords use the students after the information security course and on the other hand how they will protect the important information at the work. The students filled out an information security awareness questionnaire after the information security course. The students had to say, which communication systems are more important, how long password they are using by the most important systems like e-mail, community sites, and so on, how complicated is the used password, how often change the students these passwords. Are they using same passwords by different systems or one same password? After the analysis could we see how effective was the information security course for the economic information technology students. How could we build the information security awareness by them to help them to keep save the sensitive data?