Analyzing the effects of information security achievements of university students on awareness: Afyon Kocatepe University sample

Notion of information as the meaning of processing the raw data has been an important for the people until the past. Related with the developing technology and the changed requirements of the people, the increase of the amount of the information is resulted as keeping it in digital systems and transferring and sharing via these systems. This result caused to increase the variety of threats to capture the information by malevolent people heartsomely. Because these threats target the defenseless and unconscious people, increasing the information security achievements and awareness of the society is the most important precaution for the threats. In this study, its analyzed whether the achievements and awareness differ for the demographic features and relations between these achievements and awareness are modeled via Structural equation modeling by determining the university students' achievements and awareness towards information security. As the result of analyzing the data, obtained from the students via a questionnaire at Afyon Kocatepe University, the information security awareness of the students is formed in five subdimensions as; internet security, social media usage, internet browser and network security, password generation and social media traps while the general security knowledge is formed in two subdimensions as threats and precautions. Its determined that the general security knowledge of the students differs for their gender, age and internet using experiences while information security awareness differs for their age, department, class and whether they think that the internet is safe or not. On the other hand, the results of the models indicate that the most effective sub dimension on "internet security awareness" is "internet security".