The Role of Secondary Education in Enhancing the Information Security Culture among Students in Saudi Arabia

Abstract

The culture of information security is one of the important issues that have received the attention of all educational institutions, to educate students and inform them of the risks and threats they are exposed to while using the Internet. Thus, the study tries to identify the secondary education role reality in enhancing information security culture among students in Saudi Arabia, its obstacles, and the requirements to be activated. The study applied a questionnaire to a stratified random sample of (267) male and female teachers in secondary schools. The study concluded that the role of secondary education in enhancing information security culture among students is weak. In addition, there are significant obstacles that limit its role in enhancing information security culture among students. Hence, the necessary requirements must be provided to activate its role in enhancing information security culture among students. There are also statistically significant differences between males and females regarding the secondary education role reality in enhancing the information security culture and its obstacles in favor of females at the significance level (α ≤ 0.05), in favor of males at the significance level (α ≤ 0.01) in the requirements for enhancing the information security culture.