Article comparing three countries’ higher education students’ cyber related perceptions and behaviours during COVID-19
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2021Author
Tick, Andrea
Cranfield, Desireé J.
Renaud, Karen V.
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: In 2020, a global pandemic led to lockdowns, and subsequent social and business restrictions. These required overnight implementation of emergency measures to permit continued
functioning of vital industries. Digital technologies and platforms made this switch feasible, but it
also introduced several cyber related vulnerabilities, which students might not have known how to
mitigate. For this study, the Global Cyber Security Index and the Cyber Risk literacy and education
index were used to provide a cyber security context for each country. This research project—an
international, cross-university, comparative, quantitative project—aimed to explore the risk attitudes
and concerns, as well as protective behaviours adopted by, students at a South African, a Welsh and
a Hungarian University, during the pandemic. This study’s findings align with the relative rankings
of the Oliver Wyman Risk Literacy and Education Index for the countries in which the universities
reside. This study revealed significant differences between the student behaviours of students within
these universities.