Awareness Level of the Cyber Security and Ethics at Students in University of Ha’il

Abstract

This paper deepens into a serious problem in cyber security, which is measuring the awareness level of people about the cyber security and its related topics. This research will aim to explain the cyber security field extensively, and what does it implies and provides. Additionally, it will clarify why is it important in many aspects: personally, socially and politically. As well, it will cover the different cyber threats and their occurrence rate. Then, it will provide the steps which must be followed to protect the users against them. This research will adapt a quantitative method by conducting a questionnaire which will be adapted and built based on literature review of several papers and resources, and it will be aimed to a specific category which is the Ha’il university’s students in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. And then, there will be another qualitative method used to understand the point of view of some specialist in the security, and to gain benefits from the experiences to address the problem properly. At the end, this research will provide steps to raise the knowledge of the society about the cyber security field; also it is recommended to design an education brochure which has the basic information and guidance for people who are not specialized in computer science, in order to make them more aware and careful with the internet world.