Abstract
This Case Study reports the preliminary results of a quantitative survey aimed to identify students' awareness and enthusiasm to learn cybersecurity in Nigerian Universities. The objective of the survey was to see how students in this developing country are aware of cyber-attacks and how they can mitigate the attacks and to find out if cybersecurity awareness program is part of the University program. The preliminary results indicated that the students claimed to have basic cybersecurity knowledge, but are not aware of how to protect their data. It also appears that most Universities do not have an active cybersecurity awareness program to improve students' knowledge on how to protect themselves from any threats. The surveyed students also show interest in learning more about cybersecurity.
Highlights
The research objectives are to identify the level of basic knowledge of cybersecurity among university students in Nigeria, To identify if cybersecurity is among their curriculum or a seminar class and to identify if the cybersecurity awareness program is needed or not, to understand if cybersecurity awareness program is required
The results of the survey indicate that university students lack the basic knowledge of cybersecurity, even when the results on the questions shows that students have basic knowledge around 193 said yes and 82 said No and other are not sure answered maybe which is 90, but the subsequent questions indicated the lack of cybersecurity awareness
This results obtained from this survey it indications, cybersecurity awareness program is not conducted in Nigerian tertiary institutions, it indicates lack of basic cybersecurity knowledge, the survey indicates students are demanding such cybersecurity awareness
Summary
The research objectives are to identify the level of basic knowledge of cybersecurity among university students in Nigeria, To identify if cybersecurity is among their curriculum or a seminar class and to identify if the cybersecurity awareness program is needed or not, to understand if cybersecurity awareness program is required. This quantitative research will be significant to other researchers as a baseline for carrying other research, e.g. going straight on conducting the cybersecurity awareness program among university students in Nigeria without any assessment.
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