Abstract:

Information technology has influenced all areas of life, especially in education, and has caused significant changes. The most influenced groups of this change are high school students. It is not known how much information technology is used at home, but it is not known how much students are prepared for this change. The aim of this study is to measure the awareness of information security of high school students within the information society that is formed by rapidly developing technology. The examples of the study consist of 400 students studying in the fifth, sixth and seventh classes of Akkapı Şehit Kemal Yüzgeç High School in the 2019-2020 educational year. The "Information Security Awareness Survey" applied to students consists of 30 questions and two sections. The first part is about questions that determine the socio-economic levels and personal information of students, and the second part is about information security survey questions. The applied survey was analyzed using the SPSS program. The pilot application has determined the reliability ratio of the survey as 0.699 . A reliable measurement was found to be done because the reliability ratio of the study was above 0.50. T test and one-way ANOVA analysis for independent samples have been implemented in order to determine whether the use of technology and information security awareness of students differ according to gender, age and class, time of use of the internet and the purpose of use of the internet. To identify the groups where the difference is meaningful, the Scheffe test was used. According to the results of the analysis, the difference between the information security awareness of the participants is significant according to gender, age, class, time spent on the internet and the purpose of the use of the internet.

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