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Comparison of Security and Risk awareness between different age groups
Blekinge Institute of Technology, Faculty of Computing, Department of Software Engineering.
Blekinge Institute of Technology, Faculty of Computing, Department of Software Engineering.
2017 (English)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

The Internet have become a 'necessity' in the everyday life of just below 50\% of the world population. With the growth of the Internet and it creating a great platform to help people and making life easier, it has also brought a lot of malicious situations. Now a days people hack or uses social engineering on other people for a living, scamming and fraud is part of their daily life. Therefore security awareness is truly important and sometimes vital.We wanted to look at the difference in security awareness depending on which year you were born, in relation to the IT-boom and growth of the Internet. Does it matter if you lived through the earlier stages of the Internet or not? We found that the security awareness did increase with age, but if it was due to the candidates growing up before or after the IT-boom or due to the fact that younger people tend to be more inattentive is hard to tell. Our result is that the age group, 16-19, were more prone to security risks, due to an indifferent mindset regarding their data and information.

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2017. , p. 54
Keywords [en]
Cyber security, Security, Risk, Awareness, Social engineering, Age groups
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Interaction Technologies Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
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URN: urn:nbn:se:bth-14552OAI: oai:DiVA.org:bth-14552DiVA, id: diva2:1111123
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PA1445 Kandidatkurs i Programvaruteknik
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PAGPT Software Engineering
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Available from: 2017-06-22 Created: 2017-06-17 Last updated: 2017-06-22Bibliographically approved

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