Title: Cybercrime – raising awareness for future professionals

Authors: Margaret Ross, Geoff Staples, Mark Udall

Addresses: Faculty of Technology, Southampton Solent University, East Park Terrace, Southampton S014 6RD, UK. ' Faculty of Technology, Southampton Solent University, East Park Terrace, Southampton S014 6RD, UK. ' Faculty of Technology, Southampton Solent University, East Park Terrace, Southampton S014 6RD, UK

Abstract: One of the many approaches to enable businesses and individuals to protect themselves from the ever-increasing amount and range of cybercrime is by education of future computing professionals. This is relevant to students studying different aspects of undergraduate and postgraduate computing. This paper discusses the results of surveys relating to the views of computing undergraduate students on the potential risks of social networking and on other relevant issues. The approaches used to raise this awareness, from first year IT undergraduates to Master students, none of whom are cybercrime or security specialists, are considered. These students specialise in different aspects of computing from business information systems, through software development to networking.

Keywords: cybercrime; future computing professionals; raising awareness; risks; social networking; student views; surveys; internet crime; electronic security; UK higher education; United Kingdom; MSc students; computing education; digital forensics.

DOI: 10.1504/IJESDF.2009.024906

International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics, 2009 Vol.2 No.2, pp.228 - 238

Published online: 03 May 2009 *

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