Importance of information security awareness

Far today's Word, information security is one the most important topic for every steps in life and every country. To keep the information organizations and countries spend many resources, forces and moneys. Based on this, to know much more about how to keep the information safety we must know what security is and how we can apply this in our systems. By using the standards and the good security structure, every company and organization, even regular persons can keep their information in safe. But only security programs and standards are not enough to protect. At the same time awareness education and training are really important. Because if there is a security in the system, but user cannot know about how to use it usefully, we cannot get full performance. For this reason, every certain period's organizations should prepare seminars to aware them. At this point, Information Security Awareness Programs involve the situations. When a company apply the security program and use the standards then it must prepare security awareness program for every person. With this method everyone learns how to protect the data. With long period awareness programs, people are used to apply the program details and provide continuity to protect the data. In the thesis, first of all, information security and which standards can be used in information security systems are explained. Then, to aware the people for protecting the data from dangerous, different types of information security awareness steps and applying awareness methods to people are explained. For the awareness methods, there are some examples that companies and other organizations are used in. In the thesis, we give some examples of companies and awareness programs usage percentages. Using this information we can see that, which companies or organizations can really protect their data from dangerous. By using this result, we can see that, how many companies can use the information awareness programs. How many of them really know about any information about awareness programs and if they can use these programs, what kind of awareness methods they can use. Having this results, we get some idea for our country. Are we really aware of dangerous, or do we really use the methods and protect the information. Besides, if the companies or regular persons don't know anything about protecting data, it doesn't mean that they cannot learn anything. From the past to today, everyone has progress for information security. Every year, through the seminars, many companies, organizations and people learn more about protecting information. Preparing more information security awareness programs, many people learn more about security too. And after several years, there are no such big hole in the information security area. On the other hand, in the thesis it is emphasized that why information security is so important for companies. There are five examples for companies which are lose big moneys because of losing information. In this thesis, some questions related to information security are answered and got some ideas about what can be done for the future period to protect the information and to understand how the information security awareness is so important to use for everyone. Finally, "Information Security Awareness Survey" was applied with different group of people with different learning levels and places. We measured knowledge levels with this survey. People have learned new information during the survey. Through this survey, the level of knowledge of people in different groups were compared.