Understanding Awareness of Cyber Security Threat Among IT Employees

Cyber-attacks have been an increasing threat on people and organisations, which led to massive unpleasant impact. Therefore, there were many solutions to handle cyber-attacks, including Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS). These solutions will provide a huge number of alarms that produce more are false positives. Therefore, the IDS tool result should be operated by a human intelligent be filtered effectively the huge amount of alerts to identify true positive attacks and perform accordingly to the incident response rule. This requires the IT employees to have enough knowledge and competency on operating IDS, IPS and incident handling. This paper aims to examine the awareness of cyber security threat among all IT employees, focusing on three domains: Knowledge, Monitoring and Prevention.

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http://hdl.handle.net/10454/16652

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Accepted manuscript

Citation

Al-Mohannadi H, Awan IU, Al Hamar J, Al Hamar Y, Shah M and Musa AS (2018) Understanding Awareness of Cyber Security Threat Among IT Employees. The IEEE 6th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud Workshops, FiCloudW 2018, 6-8 August, Barcelona, Spain.

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https://doi.org/10.1109/W-FiCloud.2018.00036

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Conference paper