Users' awareness of and perception on information security issues: a case study of kulliyyah of ICT postgraduate students

Information security (IS) simply implies the protection and preservation of information, with its central purpose being to protect and preserve the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information. It may also involve protecting and preserving the authenticity and reliability of informati...

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Main Authors: Hamid, Habiba, Zeki, Akram M.
Format: Proceeding Paper
Language:English
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Published: IEEE 2015
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description Information security (IS) simply implies the protection and preservation of information, with its central purpose being to protect and preserve the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information. It may also involve protecting and preserving the authenticity and reliability of information and ensuring that entities can be held accountable. Additionally, putting the educational setting such as International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) into consideration, information security awareness (ISA) implies educating the campus community about the inherent risks of the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of systems" & data, and how all individuals/students can protect their systems" & data. The purpose of this research therefore was to examine users' awareness of and perception on IS issues amongst the Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology (KICT) post graduate (PG) students of IIUM. To this end, data collection was elicited through the administration of questionnaires and interviews. Data analysis was performed by using the SPSS version 20 on the questionnaire and a qualitative study method that involved breaking the interview into themes was employed for the interview data by determining the commonality among their views.
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spelling iium-426212017-09-19T08:01:25Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/42621/ Users' awareness of and perception on information security issues: a case study of kulliyyah of ICT postgraduate students Hamid, Habiba Zeki, Akram M. T Technology (General) Information security (IS) simply implies the protection and preservation of information, with its central purpose being to protect and preserve the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information. It may also involve protecting and preserving the authenticity and reliability of information and ensuring that entities can be held accountable. Additionally, putting the educational setting such as International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) into consideration, information security awareness (ISA) implies educating the campus community about the inherent risks of the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of systems" & data, and how all individuals/students can protect their systems" & data. The purpose of this research therefore was to examine users' awareness of and perception on IS issues amongst the Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology (KICT) post graduate (PG) students of IIUM. To this end, data collection was elicited through the administration of questionnaires and interviews. Data analysis was performed by using the SPSS version 20 on the questionnaire and a qualitative study method that involved breaking the interview into themes was employed for the interview data by determining the commonality among their views. IEEE 2015 Proceeding Paper PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/42621/8/42621-Users%27%20awareness%20of%20and%20perception%20on%20information%20security%20issues.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/42621/9/42621-Users%27%20awareness%20of%20and%20perception%20on%20information%20security%20issues_SCOPUS.pdf Hamid, Habiba and Zeki, Akram M. (2015) Users' awareness of and perception on information security issues: a case study of kulliyyah of ICT postgraduate students. In: 3rd International Conference on Advanced Computer Science Applications and Technologies (ACSAT 2014), 29th-30th December 2014, Amman, Jordan. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7076883/ 10.1109/ACSAT.2014.31
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Hamid, Habiba
Zeki, Akram M.
Users' awareness of and perception on information security issues: a case study of kulliyyah of ICT postgraduate students
title Users' awareness of and perception on information security issues: a case study of kulliyyah of ICT postgraduate students
title_full Users' awareness of and perception on information security issues: a case study of kulliyyah of ICT postgraduate students
title_fullStr Users' awareness of and perception on information security issues: a case study of kulliyyah of ICT postgraduate students
title_full_unstemmed Users' awareness of and perception on information security issues: a case study of kulliyyah of ICT postgraduate students
title_short Users' awareness of and perception on information security issues: a case study of kulliyyah of ICT postgraduate students
title_sort users' awareness of and perception on information security issues: a case study of kulliyyah of ict postgraduate students
topic T Technology (General)
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http://irep.iium.edu.my/42621/8/42621-Users%27%20awareness%20of%20and%20perception%20on%20information%20security%20issues.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/42621/9/42621-Users%27%20awareness%20of%20and%20perception%20on%20information%20security%20issues_SCOPUS.pdf