The Influence of Students' Knowledge on Security towards Their Behavior with Security Risks within the Context of Saudi Arabia

Information Security Awareness (ISA) is a considerable break in the wall of information security. People may show different level of awareness for security threats based on their knowledge, behaviour and culture. In Saudi, studies showed that employees are less aware to security risks due to lack of knowledge and the demanded culture. This paper presents the influence of students' knowledge on their behaviour with security risks particularly those that are personally related to them such as risks of guessable passwords, email attachments, junk email, pirated software and hacking. This paper selected students from two Universities from the East of kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The results showed that students are lack or practical knowledge as well as there is a tendency to ignore security procedure for simplicity.