Cyber Security Awareness and Challenges: A Study of Undergraduates at Adeyemi Federal University of Education, Ondo State, Nigeria

Cyber security education is the process of receiving or giving systematic justification in a school or university or online on the proper use of technological processes, networks and data from cyber-attacks. This study investigated into cyber security education, awareness and challenges among undergraduates at Adeyemi Federal University of Education (AFUED), Ondo, Ondo State, Nigeria. The descriptive survey was adopted for this study. The population comprises of all undergraduates at Adeyemi Federal University of Education, Ondo, Ondo State, regardless of their levels, gender and departments. The respondents were selected using simple random sampling technique and the sample size consisted of 560 undergraduates selected from the five faculties in the universities. 102 respondents were selected from Faculty of Arts, 140 were selected from Faculty of Education, 120 from Faculty of Social Sciences and Management, 93 from Faculty of Sciences and 105 were selected from Faculty of Vocational and Technical Education. The Instrument for data collection was the researcher’s self-developed questionnaire titled “Cyber Security Awareness and Challenges: A Study of Undergraduates Questionnaire. “CSACASUQ”. The instrument was validated by 3 lecturers from Department of Computer Science, Adeyemi Federal University of Education, Ondo, Ondo State. The reliability Coefficient was obtained using Cronbach Alpha 0.85 value for awareness and 0.91 values for challenges for using cyber security. Research questions were answered using mean and standard deviation. The finding of the study showed that Nmaps was the most used cyber security tools and that the awareness of cyber security was very high among undergraduates. The study therefore recommends that the cyber security facilities should be adequately provided, and workshops, conferences and seminars should be organized to increase the awareness level of undergraduates