A Survey on Cyber Security awareness among college students in Tamil Nadu

14th International Conference on Science, Engineering and Technology

自然科学;工业技术

Senthilkumar, K.^1 ; Easwaramoorthy, Sathishkumar^1

VIT Univeristy, Vellore

Tamil nadu

632014, India^1

关键词: College students;    Cyber security;    Personal privacy;    Pop-up windows;    Questionnaire surveys;    Safety measures;    Security issues;    Security threats;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/263/4/042043/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/263/4/042043

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

The aim of the study is to analyse the awareness of cyber security on college students in Tamil Nadu by focusing various security threats in the internet. In recent years cybercrime is an enormous challenge in all areas including national security, public safety and personal privacy. To prevent from a victim of cybercrime everyone must know about their own security and safety measures to protect by themselves. A well-structured questionnaire survey method will be applied to analyse the college student's awareness in the area of cyber security. This survey will be going to conducted in major cities of Tamil Nadu by focusing various security threats like email, virus, phishing, fake advertisement, popup windows and other attacks in the internet. This survey examines the college students' awareness and the level of awareness about the security issues and some suggestions are set forth to overcome these issues.