The information security awareness of the Slovakian kindergarten teacher students at starting and finishing the study in higher education

Abstract

In this paper we have analysed the changing of the kindergarten teacher-education students' awareness of information security at J. Selye University in Slovakia. Because there are sensitive data about children stored in the kindergarten (e.g. home address, parents' details, medical records, etc.), it deeply matters how careful is the data stored. Thorough data protection is important in order to avoid the digitally stored information to be viewable by other persons, who can use them for malicious purposes (e.g. social engineering, kidnapping, murder). This requires appropriate care and protection of storage and handling. In our research we wanted to know what level of information security awareness characterizes the kindergarten teacher-education students, whether they are aware of the basic data protection aspects. We want to see the higher education without any information security course have gained the information security awareness of the kindergarten teacher-education students or not.