This Case Study reports the preliminary results of a quantitative survey aimed to identify students' awareness and enthusiasm to learn cybersecurity in Nigerian Universities. The objective of the survey was to see how students in this developing country are aware of cyber-attacks and how they can mitigate the attacks and to find out if cybersecurity awareness program is part of the University program. The preliminary results indicated that the students claimed to have basic cybersecurity knowledge, but are not aware of how to protect their data. It also appears that most Universities do not have an active cybersecurity awareness program to improve students' knowledge on how to protect themselves from any threats. The surveyed students also show interest in learning more about cybersecurity.
Cybersecurity is growing exponentially day by day in both the public and private sectors. This growth also comes with a new and dynamic cyber-threats risk that causes both sectors' performance to halt. These sectors must update their cybersecurity measures and must understand the capability and maturity of their organization's cybersecurity preparedness. Cybersecurity maturity models are widely used to measure how ready an organization is when it comes to cybersecurity. The main aim of this article is to conduct a comprehensive review of the current cybersecurity capability maturity models using a systematic review of published articles from 2011 to 2019. A comparative study was conducted based on Halvorsen and Conradi's taxonomy. The review indicated almost all the cybersecurity maturity model consists of similar elements like maturity levels and processes but significantly lacks the validation process, it was observed each of the models were predominantly designed for a specific purpose and also for different organization size and application domain.
<p>The world economy today has adopted the internet as a medium of transactions, this has made many organizations use the internet for their daily activities. With this, there is an urgent need to have knowledge in cybersecurity and also how to defend critical assets. The objective of this paper is to identify the level of cybersecurity awareness of students in Northeastern Nigeria. A quantitative approach was used for data collection and cyberbully, personal information, internet banking, internet addiction, and Self-protection were the items ask for cybersecurity awareness level identification. Descriptive analysis was performed for initial result findings using SPSS and OriginPro for graphical design. the preliminary result shows of the students have some basic knowledge of cybersecurity in an item like internet banking, while other items like cyberbully, self-protection and, internet addiction result show moderate awareness, the students' participation based on gender, males constitute 77.1% i.e. (N=340) and females constitute 22.9% i.e. (N=101). Future research would concentrate on designing awareness programs that would increase the level of their awareness especially the students in the Northeastern part of Nigeria.</p>
This study was carried out to examine the effect of entrepreneurial competencies on the performance of small and medium scale enterprises in Benue State, Nigeria. The study focused on selected SMEs in Makurdi Metropolis, Benue State. The study specifically examined the effect of strategic competencies, conceptual competencies and opportunity competencies on the performance of SMEs in Makurdi Metropolis, Benue State. A survey design was adopted for the study and questionnaire was used as instrument for data collection. The population consists of 210 owners of SMEs in Makurdi Metropolis and census sampling was adopted for the study. The study used simple percentages, mean ad standard deviation for data presentation and analysis while regression analysis was used for test of hypotheses. Findings of the study revealed that strategic competencies have significant effect on the performance of SMEs in Benue State. The study also revealed that conceptual competencies have significant effect on the performance of SMEs in Benue State. Finally, the study indicated that opportunity competencies have significant effect on the performance of SMEs in Benue State. The study concludes that entrepreneurial competencies are important for the every entrepreneur. The study recommended that owners of SMEs in Benue State should constantly monitor their customers in order to have a clear understanding of customer needs. Keyword: Entrepreneurship, Performance, Competencies, Benue, Nigeria.
Cyber-threat is now a global concern to all internet users, as the rate of crimes has tremendously changed from physical to virtual. Implementing awareness programs at various organization levels is required, Also there is a need to know the methodologies used in measuring cybersecurity awareness program effectiveness. The paper aims to review and explore the previous methodologies applied, target organizations, and application of Machine Learning techniques in the assessment of awareness programs. Systematic literature review techniques were used to conduct the search using pre-defined keywords and published papers from 2006 to 2019, the information was used in providing an answer to the research questions. The finding shows questionnaire was widely used as a method of evaluating cybersecurity awareness and also organizations implement more awareness programs, the gap found is the lack of using ML in assessing the effectiveness of design, and implemented cybersecurity awareness programs
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