Web security awareness of it graduate students: case study

• Main Authors: Attarbashi, Zainab, Yuen, Chin Yi, Che Mohamed Arif, Ahmad Suki
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English; English
• Published: Fakulti Teknologi dan Sains Maklumat Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2022
• Subjects: H61.8 Communication of information; Q350 Information theory; T58.5 Information technology; T61 Technical education. Technical schools
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/97007/2/E-Proceeding%20SIRKM22-1-7.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/97007/13/97007_Web%20security%20awareness%20of%20it%20graduate%20students%20case%20study.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/97007/; https://www.ftsm.ukm.my/sirkm2022/images/E-Proceeding%20SIRKM22.pdf

Nowadays, the security of web applications has a serious importance as Internet publication is increasing rapidly with huge variety of activities. The functionality of web applications should be insured beside the immunity from many types of vulnerabilities. There are many attackers who can bring harm to the operation of the web application and the safety of the users’ information. Checking the web application vulnerabilities can be easily done using the penetration tools from Kali Linux. In this research, we tried to study the level of security awareness of final year students in IT related fields at University Utara Malaysia (UUM). Qualitative and quantitative analyses were done to evaluate the level of awareness of a selected group of users and web admins. Based on the results obtained, most of the users are aware of the importance of web application security and cares about their own personal information but they do not know how to insure that they are safe online. As for web admins, after seeing a live demo on their websites using Kali Linux’s tools, they were aware that their websites should be secured but they did not know how to achieve this goal and the preliminary outcomes of this quantitative survey identified admins' enthusiasm to learn cybersecurity skills.