Empowering Students for Cybersecurity Awareness Management in the Emerging Digital Era: The Role of Cybersecurity Attitude in the 4.0 Industrial Revolution Era
The purpose of the study is to examine how cybersecurity knowledge, password security, and self-perception of skill affect cybersecurity awareness issues via the mediating lens of cybersecurity attitude among university students in Bangladesh. A sample of 430 university students from two public and...
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| author | Bulbul Ahamed Mohammad Rashed Hasan Polas Ahmed Imran Kabir Abu Saleh Md. Sohel-Uz-Zaman Abdullah Al Fahad Saima Chowdhury Mrittika Rani Dey |
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| description | The purpose of the study is to examine how cybersecurity knowledge, password security, and self-perception of skill affect cybersecurity awareness issues via the mediating lens of cybersecurity attitude among university students in Bangladesh. A sample of 430 university students from two public and three private universities provided the data in Dhaka, Bangladesh. An approach known as stratified random sampling was used in this cross-sectional study. The positivist approach was used, and a hypothetical statistical induction technique was used. The research constructs, which were adopted from earlier studies, were measured using scales that had undergone validation. Smart PLS-SEM 3.3.9 was used to quantitatively analyze the data. The results indicated a positive and significant association between cybersecurity knowledge and password security with cybersecurity awareness. No conventional association was found between self-perception of skills and cybersecurity awareness. Moreover, the data analysis confirmed that cybersecurity attitudemediates the relationship between cybersecurity knowledge, password security and self-perception of skills with cybersecurity awareness. This study implies that more effort needs to be put into informing the general people likely students about cybersecurity and ethical internet use. Furthermore, the main contribution of this study is to emphasize the need of raising cybersecurity awareness among students. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-001200498d254cd990500437b51bc2412024-02-17T11:06:42ZengSAGE PublishingSAGE Open2158-24402024-02-011410.1177/21582440241228920Empowering Students for Cybersecurity Awareness Management in the Emerging Digital Era: The Role of Cybersecurity Attitude in the 4.0 Industrial Revolution EraBulbul Ahamed0Mohammad Rashed Hasan Polas1Ahmed Imran Kabir2Abu Saleh Md. Sohel-Uz-Zaman3Abdullah Al Fahad4Saima Chowdhury5Mrittika Rani Dey6Sonargaon University (SU), Dhaka, BangladeshSonargaon University (SU), Dhaka, BangladeshUnited International University, Dhaka, BangladeshUnited International University, Dhaka, BangladeshUnited International University, Dhaka, BangladeshSonargaon University (SU), Dhaka, BangladeshSonargaon University (SU), Dhaka, BangladeshThe purpose of the study is to examine how cybersecurity knowledge, password security, and self-perception of skill affect cybersecurity awareness issues via the mediating lens of cybersecurity attitude among university students in Bangladesh. A sample of 430 university students from two public and three private universities provided the data in Dhaka, Bangladesh. An approach known as stratified random sampling was used in this cross-sectional study. The positivist approach was used, and a hypothetical statistical induction technique was used. The research constructs, which were adopted from earlier studies, were measured using scales that had undergone validation. Smart PLS-SEM 3.3.9 was used to quantitatively analyze the data. The results indicated a positive and significant association between cybersecurity knowledge and password security with cybersecurity awareness. No conventional association was found between self-perception of skills and cybersecurity awareness. Moreover, the data analysis confirmed that cybersecurity attitudemediates the relationship between cybersecurity knowledge, password security and self-perception of skills with cybersecurity awareness. This study implies that more effort needs to be put into informing the general people likely students about cybersecurity and ethical internet use. Furthermore, the main contribution of this study is to emphasize the need of raising cybersecurity awareness among students.https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440241228920 |
| spellingShingle | Bulbul Ahamed Mohammad Rashed Hasan Polas Ahmed Imran Kabir Abu Saleh Md. Sohel-Uz-Zaman Abdullah Al Fahad Saima Chowdhury Mrittika Rani Dey Empowering Students for Cybersecurity Awareness Management in the Emerging Digital Era: The Role of Cybersecurity Attitude in the 4.0 Industrial Revolution Era SAGE Open |
| title | Empowering Students for Cybersecurity Awareness Management in the Emerging Digital Era: The Role of Cybersecurity Attitude in the 4.0 Industrial Revolution Era |
| title_full | Empowering Students for Cybersecurity Awareness Management in the Emerging Digital Era: The Role of Cybersecurity Attitude in the 4.0 Industrial Revolution Era |
| title_fullStr | Empowering Students for Cybersecurity Awareness Management in the Emerging Digital Era: The Role of Cybersecurity Attitude in the 4.0 Industrial Revolution Era |
| title_full_unstemmed | Empowering Students for Cybersecurity Awareness Management in the Emerging Digital Era: The Role of Cybersecurity Attitude in the 4.0 Industrial Revolution Era |
| title_short | Empowering Students for Cybersecurity Awareness Management in the Emerging Digital Era: The Role of Cybersecurity Attitude in the 4.0 Industrial Revolution Era |
| title_sort | empowering students for cybersecurity awareness management in the emerging digital era the role of cybersecurity attitude in the 4 0 industrial revolution era |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440241228920 |
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