Cyber Security Behaviour among Higher Education Students in Malaysia

Abstract

This study explores the current state of cyber security behaviour among higher education students in Malaysia. The respondents’ cyber security behaviour was assessed in the following aspects: password usage, phishing, social engineering, online scam and malware. A questionnaire comprised of the aforementioned five cyber security issues was distributed to students in a well-established university college located in the Northern region of Peninsular Malaysia. The returned questionnaires were analyzed to identify the cyber security behaviour among Malaysian students. The study shows that cyber security behaviour among respondents was generally unsatisfactory in all five cyber security issues that had been studied in this research. Keywords: