Assessing Information Security Awareness among Secondary School Teachers
Kristijan Klasan, Ivan Đunđer, Sanja Seljan · 2024
Every year there is a continuous increase in cyber threats all over the world. Threats appear in both the private and public sectors. In Croatia, state services in the public sector are particularly affected. This is especially pronounced in schools of all levels of education. They are considered sources of confidential information, valuable to hackers, with relatively unprotected computer systems. In addition, insufficient knowledge of school employees and teachers about the dangers of cyber threats does not help either and can result in uncertainty and confusion when crisis situations occur. The level of information security-related knowledge of every computer user is not the same, therefore this paper aims to investigate the awareness of information security among teachers. The authors decided to conduct a focused study on 72 secondary school teachers from 13 secondary schools in Karlovac County, examining their knowledge on potential threats and security measures. This research is based on a survey and subsequent quantitative and qualitative analyses. The results can provide insights into information security awareness levels and the current state of knowledge of employees in the public education system. This may also reveal topics that need to be addressed during lifelong learning activities to increase understanding of potential threats and appropriate countermeasures.