Automated Information Security Awareness Profiling Framework of Malaysian

With the rapid Internet development, the cases of cybercrime keep increasing year by year and cost hundreds of millions of Ringgits in Malaysia every year. Malaysia government organizations MyCERT and CyberSAFE aim to increase information security awareness (ISA) of the public by providing general security recommendations. The ISA of the public should be measured to provide adequate analysis of the current security awareness level among Malaysians to establish enhancement on security areas. This study concerns profiling users with a computer-based automated ISA measurement by gathering the information in the computer from 5 focus areas of security (password management, email usage, internet usage, networking usage, and information handling). The ISA profile is created based on the result of ISA measurement by successfully implemented the automated ISA measurement. The profile reflects the behavior and attitude of the user on security, which contains useful information that can be further utilized such as the user profile of recommendation system on security.