Abstract
Theoretical and empirical insight notes that cyber security awareness is a topic of particular interest in cyber security. Humans are the central figures in cyber security and the way to reduce risk in cyberspace is to make people more security aware. While there have been numerous studies about various aspects of cyber security awareness, they are both inconsistent and environment-dependent. The main aim of our research is to analyze cyber security awareness in depth, and to try to discover how various factors such as socio-demographics, cyber security perceptions, previous cyber security breaches, IT usage, and knowledge may individually or together impact on cyber security behavior. To prove that we conducted our research on students, as they are the most technologically active part of the society. We discovered that knowledge proved to be the dominant factor for cyber security awareness, and although students are digital natives, they do not feel safe in the cyber environment; they do not behave securely and do not have adequate knowledge to protect themselves in cyberspace.
Highlights
Today, life can hardly be imagined without information technology; more than half of the world’s population (58.8%) used the Internet in 2019 with 73.4% Internet users in Serbia [1]
We could see that the effects of cyber security perceptions, knowledge, and experiences are stronger than the effects of socio-demographics, 12% in comparison to 6.3%
The analysis showed that there is no significant prediction in either step, i.e., that password related behavior cannot be predicted on socio-demographics (r2=0.013; F=0.967; df=2, 142; p=0.383) or by combined socio-demographics and cyber security perceptions, knowledge, and experiences (r2=0.04; F=0.961; df=6, 138; p=0.454)
Summary
Life can hardly be imagined without information technology; more than half of the world’s population (58.8%) used the Internet in 2019 with 73.4% Internet users in Serbia [1]. The questionnaire used consisted of two sections: the first section was a vocabulary test and the second evaluated the respondents’ behavior They found the use of the vocabulary test for the assessment of awareness levels to be a useful tool and a significant relationship between knowledge of concepts (vocabulary) and behavior was shown. Al-Janabi and Al-Shourbaji [13] carried out research to analyze information security awareness levels and associated risk, as well as the overall impact on institutions, among students and staff within the educational environment in the Middle East. The participants were presented with definitions of threats and were asked to state how familiar they were with each According to their responses, three clusters were identified; the first cluster included those participants who were knowledgeable about all threats (both new and familiar), the second cluster comprised participants more familiar with new threats, while the third cluster consisted of participants more familiar with well-known threats. The authors showed that time spent on the Internet and the length of Internet experience were predictors of familiarity with Internet threats, which are a further predictor of computer security use
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