INFORMATION SECURITY AWARENESS AND E-RESOURCES USE OF LECTURERS IN FACULTY OF EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN, NIGERIA
Abstract
Information security awareness as a state of consciousness where users are committed to the rules, recognize the potentiality, understand the importance of responsibilities and act in accordance. Information security awareness enables people, irrespective of their professions, to understand their roles and to behave securely against the threats. The level of information security awareness of lecturers can be influence lecturers’ information literacy skills. This study, therefore, was carried out to investigate information security awareness of lecturers in the Faculty of Education, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria. The descriptive survey design of correlational type was adopted. The Faculty of Education, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria were enumerated with a population of 250 lecturers. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select 50.0% of departments in the University. The disproportionate stratified random sampling technique was used to select 120 lecturers (fifteen per department). The instruments used were Information Security Awareness (α=0.79) and Information Literacy Skills (α=0.81) scales. Data were analyzed using Descriptive statistics and Pearson product moment correlation at 0.05 level of significance There was a high level of lecturer’s information security awareness (x=2.67) as against the threshold of 2.50. There is a significant positive relationship (r = 0.569**; df = 1,020; P < 0.05) exists between information literacy skills and information security awareness of lecturers in the Faculty of Education, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria. Information library skills influenced information security awareness of lecturers in the Faculty of Education, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria. Universities should priorities the implementation of ongoing faculty development programs that focus on enhancing information security awareness.
Keywords: Information literacy skills, information security awareness, lecturers in University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria
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