Assessment of the Cultivation and Protection of College Students'

Information Security Consciousness in the Era of Big Data

Rui Su

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, Qianqian Wang

, Lixian Xu

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and Caixia He

Shandong Institute of Commerce and Technology, Tourist road, Jinan City, China

Angeles University Foundation, Metro Manila, Angeles City, Philippines

Department of Computing, Shandong Jianzhu University, Fengming Road, Jinan City, China

Keywords: Information Security, College Students, Cultivation, Protection.

Abstract: The development of information technology brings great convenience to our living environment, but also

brings the problem of information leakage, which has the same impact on the campus environment.The

development of network technology brings a lot of convenience to the campus life of contemporary college

students, but also brings a lot of hidden dangers of information security. Every year, many cases of

information leakage cause losses to college students. Therefore, it is very important to enhance the awareness

of information security of college students. This paper first introduces the importance of carrying out research

on the cultivation and protection evaluation of college students' information security awareness, and sorts out

the relevant research status. This study in order to more than 500 students with different levels of education

as the research object, and using the likert scale method to design the questionnaire, we understand the student

evaluation in self safety awareness, in the face of emergency handling capacity and existing security

awareness training for schools and the relevant work satisfaction and Suggestions to protect the situation, and

the research results on the reliability analysis, The experimental results are good. Finally, according to the

analysis results of the questionnaire, this paper puts forward four suggestions on the cultivation and protection

of college students' information security consciousness, which can provide reference for the relevant work of

colleges and universities.

1 INTRODUCTION

The information technology in the era of big data has

stronger interaction, which brings us a lot of

convenience in daily life and work, but also brings the

problem of information security leakage. With the

development of information technology, the Internet

will produce a lot of data every day, the traditional

information security processing technology has been

unable to meet the information age people's demand

for efficient data information processing, in order to

improve the quality and efficiency of information

security processing, information security processing

technology based on big data emerged at the historic

moment. Of course, the application of these

technologies is based on data. This paper will start

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with the investigation of the research object and the

acquisition of basic data, analyze the current situation

of information security research of college students,

and lay a foundation for the subsequent research on

computer big data information security processing

technology.

College students are a relatively special group in

China. Most of them are adults with independent

thinking and strong sense of individuality. Although

many college students still need to get living expenses

from their parents, quite a large number of students

can get living subsidies through part-time jobs. In

short, they have a greater degree of control over their

money. However, most college students have not had

in-depth contact with the society, so their thoughts are

relatively simple. They are more used to making

Su, R., Wang, Q., Xu, L. and He, C.

Assessment of the Cultivation and Protection of College Students’ Information Security Consciousness in the Era of Big Data.

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judgments on things with emotional thinking rather

than rational thinking. In their view, the social level

is more tolerant and righteous, and some negative

information, such as fraud and theft, is often ignored.

As a result, many criminals treat college students as

targets for their fraud.

In fact, it is a very important duty of colleges and

universities to help college students establish

information security protection awareness. However,

surprisingly, even the teachers often take classes or

class meeting to pass on his knowledge to protect the

safety of personal information, still can't completely

make sure that all the students away from danger,

almost a week at least one will still occur due to

personal information disclosure by fraud case, even,

almost all the universities are facing this problem. For

students to encounter fraud in this matter, in addition

to bring pecuniary loss, more dangerous is likely lead

to distrust and dislike of society, which for the

personality cultivation of college students in the key

period is a bad thing, it can also bring negative factors

to the society as a whole, it is against the direction of

the university for the cultivation of college students.

These facts make me seriously reflect: why college

students' awareness of personal information security

is relatively weak? How should teachers guide

students to establish information security

consciousness more effectively? How do students

need help from schools and teachers?

The answers to these questions need to be based

on in-depth study and analysis of objective data. In

order to further explore the cultivation and protection

of college students' information security awareness

and other related issues, and give teachers better work

suggestions, better help students establish

information security awareness, to ensure that they

stay away from harm, I think it is of very important

practical significance to carry out relevant research.

2 RELATED STUDIES

2.1 Research Status of Information

Security

The concept of "information security" is often

equated with "network security" in some studies.

Although we cannot live without the network now,

and many information security risks are indeed

related to the network, it is not rigorous to directly

regard these two concepts as the same. Some scholars

believe that information security should meet the

requirements of five aspects, specifically, the

information is confidential, the information is real,

the information is complete, the information cannot

be copied illegally, and the information storage

environment is safe. Some scholars believe that

information security refers to the protection of data

storage system and data processing system through

technical means or management means to prevent

them from being infringed.

It can be seen that most definitions of information

security are based on technology and science (Da

Veiga 2015), and the author believes that

"information security" is not just a technical concept,

but should be defined from a wider range, including

ethical and legal levels. Especially for college

students, the establishment and protection of personal

information security consciousness should be paid

more attention to.

2.2 Research Status of Information

Security of College Students in

China

Since 2010, with the increasing popularity of the use

of the Internet in China, the status quo of college

students' information security has gradually received

more and more attention, and many investigations

and papers are based on this (Feng 2020).

Liu Xinyi, a scholar, believes that most of the

domestic research is conducted through the

information security awareness and behavior of

college students. Although there are many research

results, they lack pertinency of problems, so the

application of research results is not good (Liu 2020).

Li Zhiping, a scholar, has analyzed and evaluated the

formulation and implementation effect of relevant

laws and regulations based on the current situation of

network security of College students in China. He

believes that the legal system of information security

in China is not perfect enough, which will have a

negative impact on the information security

protection of college students (Li 2021).

2.3 Foreign Research Status

Abroad for information security research carried out

earlier, the use of the results is better, for example, the

countries of the European Union by information

security related courses, help students to establish

information security protection consciousness, and

the teaching content and social practice, and mental

health, combining the help of information security

related courses has become a comprehensive

discipline, It can get better teaching effect and better

practical application effect (Menard 2017).

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However, most foreign studies on the cultivation

and evaluation of information security awareness take

primary and middle school students as the research

object, and the cultivation and evaluation of

information security awareness of college students

are relatively few.

3 METHODOLOGY

3.1 The Design of Research Process

This paper will combine the current situation of

college students' information security, and on the

basis of detailed analysis of factors affecting college

students' information security consciousness, put

forward the research ideas: determine the survey

object → design the questionnaire → analysis of the

survey results → put forward targeted suggestions.

Figure 1: This caption has one line so it is centered.

3.2 Sample Selection and Sample Size

Design

This research will be carried out from different

dimensions and levels.

First, in order to better to analyze and compare the

education environment of universities on the student

information security awareness training, the author

will be carried out in two different education levels

school related research, finally selected the Shandong

Jianzhu university undergraduates and Shandong

institute of Commerce and Technology students as

the research sample. Second, in order to analyze and

compare the possible differences of information

security awareness among students of different

grades, the author sets questions about the grades in

the questionnaire, which is helpful for the analysis

and comparison of the research results in the later

stage. Thirdly, in order to compare and analyze the

possible differences between male and female college

students in their sensitivity to information security,

the author sets questions in the questionnaire that can

distinguish the gender of the survey samples.

3.3 Questionnaire Design

The survey questionnaire can help us understand the

most real information security status of college

students. For the relevant research work, the survey

questionnaire is a reliable and convenient tool.

Therefore, the reasonable design of the survey

questionnaire is a very key link in the relevant

research.

In this study, likert scale was used to design the

questionnaire. The questionnaire includes 38

questions, which cover four dimensions of the

research content: 1. College students' self-

information security awareness evaluation (including

10 questions); 2. College students' ability to deal with

problems related to information security (including

16 questions); 3. College students on the

effectiveness of information security awareness

training work evaluation (including 7 questions); 4.

College students' evaluation and suggestions for

strengthening information security awareness

channels (including 5 questions). Five options are set

for each question. The questionnaire will be released

to the respondents through the online research

platform, and the surveyed college students can

answer the questionnaire through mobile phone or

computer. This very convenient way of participation

can ensure that we can collect more effective

questionnaires.

3.4 Research and Analysis Methods

Although the author roughly determined the sample

size at the initial stage of the survey, in order to obtain

enough effective questionnaires, the survey scope

was expanded during the actual distribution of

questionnaires. This time, the author sent a total of

540 questionnaires to the two universities and

collected 522 valid questionnaires, with an effective

rate of 96.7%.

Next, the author will analyse the results of the

survey questionnaire from different dimensions,

mainly using quantitative analysis method.

Assessment of the Cultivation and Protection of College Students’ Information Security Consciousness in the Era of Big Data

Table 1: The Design of the Assessment of the cultivation and protection of college students' information security

consciousness.

Dimensional variables

Number of

questions

Percentage

College students' self-information security

awareness evaluation

10 26.3%

College students' ability to deal with problems

related to information security

16 42.1%

College students on the effectiveness of

information security awareness training work

evaluation

7 18.4%

College students' evaluation and suggestions for

strengthening information security awareness

channels

5 13.2%

4 RESULTS AND ANALYSIS

4.1 Survey Object Composition and

Questionnaire Validity Analysis

A total of 540 online questionnaires were distributed

to two different universities, including 330 for

undergraduates and 210 for junior college students.

From the perspective of the effectiveness of the

questionnaires, the total number of valid

questionnaires collected was 522, with a total

effective rate of 96.7%. Among them, 325 valid

questionnaires were collected for undergraduates,

with an effective rate of 98.5%. There were 197 valid

questionnaires for junior college students, and the

effective rate was 93.8%. In this survey, a total of 18

questionnaires were judged to be invalid, mainly due

to short answer time and the same answers. The

remaining 522 questionnaires were of high quality

and could be used as the original data for this survey.

Table 2: Statistical table of education level composition and validity of questionnaire.

Investigated object

Number of questionnaires

issued

Number of valid

questionnaires

Perce-ntage

Undergradu-ates 330 325 98.5%

Junior college student

210 197 93.8%

In total 540 522 96.7%

4.2 Reliability Analysis of Survey

Questionnaire Results

Reliability analysis is generally used to measure the

reliability of survey questionnaire results and is also

an important basis for evaluating the design quality of

survey questionnaire. We usually require the

Cronbach reliability coefficient to be above 0.8.

In this study, we use online SPSS analysis tool to

analyze the reliability of the questionnaire from the

whole and different dimensions. The analysis results

show that the reliability coefficient of Cronbach is

0.93 for the questions related to the "self-information

security awareness evaluation of college students". In

dimension 2, the related questions of "college

students' processing ability assessment in the face of

information security-related problems", Crombach

reliability coefficient is 0.916; In dimension 3, the

Cronbach reliability coefficient is 0.935. For the

questions related to dimension 4, "Evaluation and

suggestions of College students on strengthening

information security awareness channels", the

Cronbach reliability coefficient is 0.856.

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Figure 2: Reliability analysis of survey results.

4.3 Statistics of Frequency Analysis

Results

Frequency analysis can usually objectively and

directly reflect the real opinions of the respondents.

In this survey, frequency analysis method was used to

conduct classified statistics on the answers to

questions of different dimensions, as shown in Figure

Figure 3: Statistical table of frequency analysis results.

The data in Table 4 make statistics on the

investigation of questions from four dimensions.

Taking the analysis of questions related to

dimension 1 in the table "Evaluation of self-

information security consciousness of college

students" as an example, the data means that the

average proportion of "Strongly Agree" is 59.4%, the

average proportion of "Agree" is 30.8%, and the

average proportion of "Neutral" is 8.2%. The average

number of respondents who answered "Disagree" was

0.6 percent, while the average number who answered

"Strongly Dissagree" was 1 percent.

5 DISSCUSSION

Through cross-analysis of the research results of

"information security awareness" and "normative

behavior", it is found that "personal information

security awareness" is closely related to information

protection behavior, as shown in Figure 4.

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Figure 4: Cross analysis results.

And it can be found that in the survey questions of

dimension 1, the proportion of "Strongly Agree" and

"Agree" is as high as 90.2%, which indicates that

college students are very concerned about "self-

information security", and most of them think they

have a good sense of self-information security

protection.

In the survey questions of dimension 2, the

proportion of "Strongly Agree" and "Agree" is as high

as 86.8%. These data show that college students can

make correct decisions in most cases when facing

questions related to information security. Of course,

these answers are obtained when they remain calm. In

many cases, people's minds will be tense and

confused when facing unexpected situations. That is

to say, college students may not perform so well in

dealing with practical problems as they do in

answering questionnaires.

In the survey question of dimension 3, the

proportion of "Strongly Agree" and "Agree" is as high

as 90.8%, indicating that they highly Agree with the

current work carried out by schools to protect and

cultivate students' awareness of information security,

which also provides reference suggestions for the

future efforts of colleges and universities.

In the survey question of dimension 4, the

proportion of "Strongly Agree" and "Agree" is 80%,

which indicates that most students are still

psychologically dependent on the relevant measures

of the school for their personal information security

protection, and they have more expectations for the

work of the school to help them stay away from the

hidden dangers of information security.

From the survey also found that the overall level

of analysis, academic level and the reading grade for

the understanding of the information security

problem almost no difference, but the boys and girls

has significant differences on some issues of

understanding, such as "what do you think of personal

information protection is entirely your own thing and

has nothing to do with school" problem of answer,

The proportion of male students who answered

"Strongly Agree" and "Agree" was 71.12%, while

female students only answered 54.22%. In the answer

to the question "Do you think the security of students'

information should be protected by the school and

there is no need for individuals to do anything",

47.59% of male students answered "Strongly" and

"Agree", while only 68.98% of female students. This

shows that girls have higher requirements for self-

information security awareness, while boys are

worse.

Based on the above analysis, I think it is very

important for universities to find a good way to

cultivate students' personal information security

awareness and protection education. Based on my

own work experience, specific suggestions are as

follows:

(1) Strengthen top-level coordination mechanism

and design clear and complete educational content.

Undertake to the student information security

education is in fact a systems engineering, and if you

want to do it well, the university's management

should stand at a higher level thinking some

problems, for example, combined with the actual

situation of school teachers and students, to design a

personalized, concrete, feasible about "information

security awareness cultivation and protection of"

education content, These should ensure the right

environment for the university and its students.

(2) Formulate supervision and management rules

and master the effects obtained in the education

process.

In order to ensure that the educational links we

design can be well implemented and achieve good

results, there must be a corresponding supervision

mechanism, which can help us quickly find some

good educational methods and experience, and

promote them to more people and schools. In the

same way, we can also quickly discover some bad

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aspects in the education process through the

supervision mechanism, which can help us adjust the

direction and focus of work in time.

(3) strengthen teachers' awareness of information

security, and guide teachers to do a good job in

cultivating students' awareness of information

security.

In the education process for students, teachers are

very important participants, because teachers are the

people closest to students. For students, teachers are

the transmitters of school education concepts and can

represent the school. In fact, teachers pass some

information to students through the teaching process

is very direct, and the effect is very good. Therefore,

it is very important to strengthen teachers' awareness

of information security.

(4) Improve and enrich the campus culture to

achieve a good effect of "using environment to

educate students".

In China, there is a very famous word, called

"moistens everything silently", it mean good

environment can bring people a lot of good changes,

these changes happened secretly, no one can be found,

but in the long run, a good change of this man will be

more and more obvious, like spring rain will bring

many plants moist, no one can find to begin with, But

the plants will gradually become very vigorous, the

flowers will become very beautiful, let people feel

surprised. Just like people, they are more likely to

become a kind and gentle person in a nice

environment.

So, we should pay attention to shaping a good

campus environment, such as through "information

security related events, let more students know the

knowledge of the information security, and by his

own strength to knowledge of the students passed

around, if everyone can turn into" information

security "the spread of the messenger, I think it must

be a very good thing.

6 CONCLUSION

The cultivation and protection of college students'

information security consciousness is a systematic

project. As the main body of this task, college

students' sensitivity to information security is very

important. In addition, because they are still living on

campus, the school and teachers for their influence is

very big, schools and teachers to their influence is

very big, as the main management and training of the

students, the college managers should strengthen the

mechanism of the top design, we hope to find a good

method to guide students to strengthen their

information security awareness at the same time, Also

create a better information security campus

environment. In addition, there is a very important

aspect, that is to improve the teacher information

security education ability, inside and outside the

classroom for students to carry out information

security education, and strive to ensure that all

students away from information security risks.

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