Abstract
In this paper we have analysed the changing of the kindergarten teacher-education students' awareness of information security at J. Selye University in Slovakia. Because there are sensitive data about children stored in the kindergarten (e.g. home address, parents' details, medical records, etc.), it deeply matters how careful is the data stored. Thorough data protection is important in order to avoid the digitally stored information to be viewable by other persons, who can use them for malicious purposes (e.g. social engineering, kidnapping, murder). This requires appropriate care and protection of storage and handling. In our research we wanted to know what level of information security awareness characterizes the kindergarten teacher-education students, whether they are aware of the basic data protection aspects. We want to see the higher education without any information security course have gained the information security awareness of the kindergarten teacher-education students or not.
Highlights
The young generation use smartphones, tablets to keep in contact with friends at home, on public transport, in the school etc
Our research aims to examine the changing of the information security awareness of graduate teachers, assessing whether they will be able to use the right level of data protection in their work
The students filled out a questionnaire, which asked what kind of online services they use, about the importance of used online services and the students’ user password habits. With this information we can get a notion about the level of information security awareness they have, which will affect the protection of sensitive data they will manage in the future
Summary
The young generation use smartphones, tablets to keep in contact with friends at home, on public transport, in the school etc. Kindergarten teachers take records about the child's home address, medical information, personal information of parents, etc If these data get to untrained hands it is possible to use them to bad purpose through social engineering [1]. We have analyzed of the IT knowledge level of Slovakian students before the final exam [2, 3, 4] In this case want we measure the information security awareness at the beginning and at the end of the higher education. The students filled out a questionnaire, which asked what kind of online services they use, about the importance of used online services and the students’ user password habits With this information we can get a notion about the level of information security awareness they have, which will affect the protection of sensitive data they will manage in the future. The question is the following: has any influence of the higher education on the information security awareness of the kindergarten teachers without any information security course?
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