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Confident yet Concerned: Inconsistencies in Computing Students'' Attitudes on Cybersecurity

◐ medium · 2026-06-18higher-ed, student-experience, ai-literacy, academic-integrity, engagement-metrics

Confident yet Concerned: Inconsistencies in Computing Students' Attitudes on Cybersecurity

Computing students show inconsistencies between confidence in cybersecurity knowledge and actual safe practices; educational interventions are needed to close the gap.

Synthesis

Confident yet Concerned: Inconsistencies in Computing Students' Attitudes on Cybersecurity investigates computing students show inconsistencies between confidence in cybersecurity knowledge and actual safe practices; educational interventions are needed to close the gap. This work connects to existing research on student-experience by demonstrating that Abstract:Today's young adults are most immersed in technology, leading in feelings of powerlessness in managing online privacy across many platforms, and particularly susceptible to phishing attacks. This raises questions about their general, wide-ranging attitudes towards and management of cybe....

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    • Citation

    Victor Adama, Robert Biddle, Nalin Arachchilage, Danielle Lottridge (2026). Confident yet Concerned: Inconsistencies in Computing Students' Attitudes on Cybersecurity. arXiv:2606.18541.