Security Awareness Investigation for Mobile User Examined by Using Association Rule Mining Method

• Published in: 2016 10th International Conference on Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing (IMIS) pp. 440 - 445
• Main Authors: Hsing-Chung Chen, Pei-Chi Yeh, Ze-Min Lin, Qiu-Hua Ruan
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.07.2016
• Subjects: association rule mining; Data mining; Mobile communication; mobile user; questionnaire; Security; security awareness; Smart phones; Software
• DOI: 10.1109/IMIS.2016.142

Due to the development of mobile communications, some innovation APPs (Applications) provide convenient mobile lifestyle. Smartphone has gradually replaced the traditional cellular phone. The huge usages of smartphones driving the mobile APP have been developed, that the wide use of APPs makes human life more easily. These APPs are not only built-in software, but also sold or free download in online APP stores. User has doubts for unsolicited APPs. Therefore, the smart phone which performs these APPs requires preventing hacker attacks, and the user of smart phone should has some knowledges of information security on when he or she use the kind of APPs. In this paper, the subject of the investigation are the mobile device users who are some university students belonging to different disciplines, grade and gender in Taiwan. We collected total 174 valid questionnaires. Next, the level for mobile security awareness are analyzed by the results collected from questionnaire. The evaluation results of security awareness investigation for the mobile users examined by association rule mining are also revealed in this paper.