Importance of cyber security awareness and e-learning motivation for cyber security in reshaping the education

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Abstract

Everyday use of information and communication technologies by the global society that was accelerated by the virus COVID-19 pandemic has led to a drastic increase in the number of cyber-attacks, frauds and other security threats in cyberspace. Society as a whole has faced lack of cyber security professionals, low knowledge of threats in the cyber spaces and depths of the web with no existence of effective way of gathering cyber security intelligence and informing and warning the public on the threats.

This paper will present the possibilities of boosting information security and cyber security awareness in the education and e-learning that will motivate future cyber security professionals to take their career path. We will also preview how we can use information on cyber-attacks and with machine learning models for security analytics that will contribute to better understanding of threats and threat intelligence. The aim of this paper is to show the possibilities of cyber security education and importance of awareness on the security threats in the process of reshaping the education. Paper should provide an overview of current state in cyber security area and technologies in this area as well as a proposal for the possible development of cyber security educational strategies based on machine learning and security analytics models.

Keywords: Security, cyber security, information security, security analytics, threat intelligence, e-learning, machine learning

1.Introduction

Everyday use of information and communication technologies by the global society that was accelerated by the virus COVID-19 pandemic has led to a drastic increase in the number of cyber-attacks, frauds and other security threats in cyberspace. There are problems that the global community is facing and some of them are:

* Society as a whole has faced lack of cyber security professionals,

* low knowledge of threats in the cyber spaces and depths of the web,

* no existence of effective way of gathering cyber security intelligence and informing and warning the public on the threats,

* there is a large use of multiple terms related to security in I(C)T that can bring confusion to public as well to the potential candidates that would take career path in these areas.

There is average of 40 000 000 cyber-attacks daily and 82% of employers report a lack of cybersecurity...