In recent years, the use of Internet has increased exponentially and most of the users are from adolescents. Internet technology has facilitated cyber threats activities and many of the cases are from adolescents. Users at this age need parental guidance and support because they are still naïve or immature to understand the risks of Internet. Hence, many developed countries have imposed on clear guidelines on the Internet to control and guide the users and understand the risks they will encounter when they are online. The guidance on how to use the Internet or social media begins at home and requires parental involvement to educate the children. Therefore, this study attempts to investigate on the parental knowledge and readiness whether they aware of the risks of Internet to their children. The level of parental awareness can be correlated with cyber safety at home. It is important to identify the awareness as one of the early cyber threat prevention. This study employed survey and questionnaire as the data collection techniques. The sample consisted of 872 parents with children aged 17 and below. A statistical analysis was performed using SPSS software. A mixture of descriptive and inferential statistics were used during the analysis method. The finding shows that parental awareness of the cyber threats is at the medium level and still need to be improved to promote cyber safety. Early exposure to parental awareness on cyber threats would aid in opening up knowledge about cyber security among parents.

Soft skills are important in virtually every profession in the workplace. Therefore, when evaluating employees, organizations will look for graduates with soft skills in addition to technical skills. However, in-depth studies on the extent these skills have been acquired by students in local higher education institutions have not been fully explored. Thus, this paper discusses this issue based on a study on 165 students’ soft skills assessment forms completed by industry supervisors during 2011 industrial training. Data was analyzed descriptively and inferentially using t-test. Findings of this study found that generally, teamwork skills, professionalism, social responsibility, and ICT skills were generally at high level. However, communication and problem solving skills were found to be at a moderate level. The study also found that skills in using ICT hardware, accept criticism, respect for others' views, and time management skills were effective differentiators in explaining genders differences. The research has brought meaningful implications for undergraduate students, employers and policy makers.

Abstract-Policies are high-level statements that are equal to organizational law and drive the decision-making process within the organization. Information security policy is not easy to develop unless organizations clearly identify the necessary steps required in the development process of an information security policy, particularly in institutions of higher education that largely utilize IT. An inappropriate development process or replication of security policy content from other organizations could fail in execution. The execution of a duplicated policy could fail to act in accordance with enforceable rules and regulations even though it is well developed. Hence, organizations need to develop appropriate policies in compliance with the organization regulatory requirements. This paper aims to reviews policies from selected universities with regards to ISO 27001:2013 minimum requirements as well as effective online presentation. The online presentation review covers the elements of aesthetics, navigation and content presentation. The information on the security policy document resides on the universities' website.

In drip irrigation agriculture or fertigation technique, sufficient amount of water and nutrients are crucial for a plant's growth and development. An electronic timer is usually used to control the plant watering automatically and the scheduling is set according to different levels of plant growth. The timer has to be adjusted frequently since the required amount of water is different according to the growth stages. In power outage-prone regions, the problem with scheduled irrigation using timer becomes worsen since the watering schedule is disrupted by occasional black-outs, leading to an insufficient supply of water and nutrients, which leads to poor crop yields. Typical solution for such problems is by hiring field works to monitor the functionality of the automated system, plant health, and to re-adjust the timer once a power outage occurs. However, this solution is ineffective, time-consuming, and acquires high overhead costs. This paper proposes a systematic irrigation method using the internet-of-things (IoT) framework in order to improve the monitoring of plant growth and consequently improves the efficiency of the workflow. This systematic fertigation monitoring system consists of power outage alerts, and on-line notifications of plant irrigation, pesticide delivery, and polybag cleaning schedule. As a result, by using the proposed system, higher efficiency in farming management is achieved, with a 40% reduction in manpower, as compared to a typical fertigation-based farming system. This system demonstrates greater control over irrigation scheduling, plant growth, recording of pesticide scheduling automatically, and polybag cleaning, all of which will improve crop yields significantly.

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