Cyber-Safety Policy Elements in the Era of Online Learning: A Content Analysis of Policies in the UAE

Siyam, Nur; Hussain, Malak

doi:10.1007/s11528-021-00595-8

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“…In addition, phishing is a cyberattack that uses disguised email as a weapon to trick the email recipients into believing that the message is something they want or requested from their bank or their company [10]. According to Check Point Research, cyberattacks on organizations increased by 32% globally compared to the second quarter of 2021, while the UAE detected an average of 970 weekly attacks per organization in the second quarter of 2022, a massive 178% increase year-over-year [11].…”

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Determinants of Cyberattack Prevention in UAE Financial Organizations: Assessing the Mediating Role of Cybersecurity Leadership

Al-Kumaim

Alshamsi

2023

Applied Sciences

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Cyberattack prevention factors have a significant impact on the perception of social and moral values in the business context. Despite leaders’ significant role in encouraging and enculturating cybersecurity practices in their organizations, there is a noticeable gap in the literature to highlight empirically how leaders and top management in organizations foster organizational cybersecurity. Therefore, this study aims to explore the role of cybersecurity leadership in financial organizations in preventing cyberattacks and investigate other human and non-technical factors related to the individual in financial organizations. Based on Protection Motivation Theory (PMT), the research framework was developed with the tallying of new variables focusing on the role of an organization’s cybersecurity leadership, training frequency, and the role of government frequent alerting. This research employed a quantitative research method. The data were collected through a questionnaire from 310 financial executive officers from selected banks in UAE that use digital technology to enhance their daily banking operations. Using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM), the results indicated (1) a significant association between all investigated independent variables and cybersecurity leadership through hypothesis (H8–H14); (2) cybersecurity leadership mediates the relationship between investigated independent variables and cyberattack prevention, from hypothesis (H15, and H16–H22); (3) no significant association between investigated independent variables and cyberattack prevention from hypothesis (H1–H6), except hypothesis (H4 and H7), which show a significant association. The coefficient of cybersecurity leadership in this study is viewed as a prevention element against cyberattacks based on the findings. With greater cybersecurity leadership success, the implementation of cyberattack prevention increases. This study emphasizes the importance of cybersecurity leadership in a cyberspace environment that protects against cyberattacks and promotes cybersecurity awareness within financial organizations and society in UAE.

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Determinants of Cyberattack Prevention in UAE Financial Organizations: Assessing the Mediating Role of Cybersecurity Leadership

Al-Kumaim

Alshamsi

2023

Applied Sciences

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“…The use of technology in classrooms has been a subject of study in past years, which caused a shift in teaching methods and educational processes, as well as reforming curriculum to have more technology integration (Siyam et al, 2022). The UAE Ministry of Education sanctioned the importance of technology and had plans for proper implementation and use of technology in schools (Siyam and Hussain, 2021). Virtual laboratories, for example, are one of the many advancements in learning media as a practical implementation of technology in science education (Anam et al, 2019).…”

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Investigating the Effects of Virtual Laboratories on Students’ Motivation and Attitudes Toward Science

Alnaser,

Forawi

2024

SEI

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Allowing students to practice science inquiry in the classroom is fundamental for science education. Students should master investigation skills, promoting their understanding of science concepts. Virtual laboratories have emerged as a powerful interactive tool that can be a suitable alternative to real laboratories, especially when lacking enough equipment and safety measures. This mixed approach study investigates the effects of virtual science laboratories on students’ motivation and attitude toward science (ATS). Students (n = 237) from grades (7, 8, 9, 10, and 11) were surveyed to evaluate their virtual laboratory experience in an American curriculum private school in Dubai with the theoretical basis of motivation theories. The study reported that virtual laboratories positively impact students’ overall motivation in terms of intrinsic motivation, perceived usefulness (U), effort (E), perceived self-efficacy (SE), and ATS. Students, perceived SE and U significantly impact student attitudes toward science (p < 0.001). Students’ perceived SE is a predictor of their E in the laboratory by 6.1%. Students with high SE put more E into completing a virtual laboratory task than students with low SE.

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“…− the works of scientists of the United Arab Emirates, which indicate the lack of a universal method of preventing cybercrime in schools, offer many global solutions regarding cyberbullying. The Government of the United Arab Emirates has initiated the "Digital Safety of Children" program aimed at educating generations literate in the digital sphere (Siyam, 2021), and the smart security structure of the "Akdar School of Electronic Security" has also been launched (e-Safe School) (6); − research by Portia Pusey and William A. Sadera (Towson University) (Pusey et al, 2011), according to which information security is a concept consisting of three "K"cyberethics, cybersecurity and cyber defense. Cyberethics is a moral choice of people in the use of Internet technologies and digital media.…”

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Parameters and Criteria of the School Educational Environment Expertise

SYRYMBETOVA,

ZH,

KULSHARIPOVA

et al. 2023

Pedagogy and Psychology

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This article substantiates the relevance of the research problem, which consists in the need to solve state tasks in the field of ensuring cybersecurity of social substructures of society, which is the education system. The current legal framework of the problem under study is in urgent need of improvement and development in projection on the educational environment of the school. This is due to the clearly insufficient awareness of its subjects in matters of cybersecurity, cyber defense and cyber ethics. This is confirmed not only by the empirical observations of the authors of this article, but also by the practical lack of clear pedagogical measures of cybersecurity of the school environment. The purpose of the study is to reveal the specifics of cybersecurity of the school environment. To achieve this goal, the authors of the article interpret the concept of cybersecurity in the context of the environmental approach in education, perceived as a methodology of scientific and pedagogical research. Based on these methodological positions, the authors of the article propose a detailed system of parameters and criteria for the examination of cybersecurity of the school environment. The developed system of parameters and criteria for the examination of cybersecurity of the school environment acts not only as a measuring tool, but also as a pedagogical mechanism for the formation of such an environment. Further prospects of the research are connected with the discussion in the scientific and professional audience of the modified methodology of the cybersecurity examination of the school environment proposed by us, its approbation in the real educational process and refinement taking into account the opinions of scientists and teachers. Keywords: cybersecurity, cybersafety, school educational environment, expertise, system of parameters and criteria of expertise.

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Cyber-Safety Policy Elements in the Era of Online Learning: A Content Analysis of Policies in the UAE

Cited by 8 publications

References 25 publications

Determinants of Cyberattack Prevention in UAE Financial Organizations: Assessing the Mediating Role of Cybersecurity Leadership

Determinants of Cyberattack Prevention in UAE Financial Organizations: Assessing the Mediating Role of Cybersecurity Leadership

Investigating the Effects of Virtual Laboratories on Students’ Motivation and Attitudes Toward Science

Parameters and Criteria of the School Educational Environment Expertise

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