TY - JOUR TT - THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INFORMATION LEVEL OF INDIVIDUALS REGARDING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND THEIR PERCEPTIONS CONCERNING INFORMATION SECURITY: UNIVERSITY STUDENTS AS EXAMPLE AU - Berber, Faruk Süleyman AU - Küçüksille, Ecir Uğur PY - 2016 DA - May JF - The Eurasia Proceedings of Educational and Social Sciences JO - EPESS PB - ISRES Publishing WT - DergiPark SN - 2587-1730 SP - 493 EP - 498 VL - 4 KW - Information security KW - perception of information security KW - digital threats N2 - Asa result of the developments experienced in information technology, many suchservices as bill payment, shopping, e-government transactions, access tolibraries and information sources, finding the routes to go are possible tofind in virtual worlds. Transferring all these businesses and operations to theIT environments comes along with the security problems. Because the threats,which come to the information shared in these environments, increse rapidly andshow great diversifications, the importance of works to be done on the securityof information is increasing with each passing day. Today,especially those information and communication devices having internet accessare used extensively by individuals. Every day, many new threats, with whichthe individuals encounter while they are using these devices, and new measuresto be taken against these threats can be added to the present ones. Thissituation requires users to keep up to date constantly their information onthis subject. In this study, the data which is obtained by measuring therelationship between information level of university students concerniniginformation technologies and their perceptions about information security wasshared, and measures which can be taken against information security threatsand solution proposals were presented.  CR - Canbek, G., Sağıroğlu, Ş. (2007).Computer and internet security for children and teenagers. Journal of Polytechnic. Vol:10, No:1, pp. 33-39. Ekim, A. (2013). Forensics and malware analysis in mobile devices, 1st International Symposium on Digital Forensics and Security, pp. 5-10. Information security.(n.d.).In Wikipedia online. Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_security Sağıroğlu, Ş., Bulut, H. (2009). An analysis of information and telecommunication security in mobile environments. J. Fac. Eng. Arch. GaziUniv, Vol:24, No:3, pp. 499-507. Vural, Y., Sağıroğlu, Ş. (2008). A review on enterpriseinformationsecurityandstandards J. Fac. Eng. Arch. Gazi Univ, Vol:23, No:2, pp. 507-522. UR - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/epess/article/334204 L1 - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/334363 ER -