Improve Information Security Awareness of Economics and Management Students

In recent years, while Vietnam’s information system has experienced strong development, cybercrime is a massive challenge in all sectors. As rates of usage of internet-connected devices continue to increase, cyber awareness turned to be increasingly urgent. Economics-Management (EM) students who will be the workforce and managers in the future, need to be fully equipped with information security knowledge. However, in current EM universities, very few majors have subjects to equip information security knowledge in their curricula. This leads to a question: “Should the subjects of information security knowledge be included in the curriculum for students majoring in EM”. This article will answer this question by focusing on measuring the level of awareness of EM students towards untrained students and trained students about subjects related to information security through a survey on knowledge, self-perception, and practical information security behavior with 465 students in EM majors. The analysis results have shown that the students who received the training had a much better level of information security knowledge, self-perception, and behavior than the untrained students. And training in information security for EM students is more necessary than ever.