Designing and Constructing a Tool for the Evaluation of Cyber Security Culture and Awareness

The current research was conducted with the aim of designing and constructing a tool for the evaluation of cyber security culture and awareness in 1401 in a mixed (qualitative-quantitative) method to answer the question of what items the cyber security culture and awareness evaluation tool consists of? In the qualitative part, the upstream texts of the last three years and the opinions of the experts in this field were used to get the basic structure of the tool, and in the quantitative part, the basic structure of the tool was given to a small sample of the target community to determine the validity and reliability of the tool based on the obtained data. In order to check the validity, content validity, discriminant validity and internal consistency and intra-cluster correlation were used to check the validity of the data. The error percentage of the identification algorithm was 4%, which was calculated with the Holstie coefficient. The findings from the qualitative part showed the number of 75 effective components in cyber security culture and awareness, based on which the initial pool was prepared with 98 items. After placing the initial pool of items at the disposal of the experts, the findings of the content validity check showed that 56 items did not have the required quality and were removed. Examining the differential power showed that the power was higher than 1 for all the items, except item number 41. The validity results showed that item number 8 lacked acceptable correlation, so it was removed from the final form. The upper limit of the ICC confidence interval also indicated a very good agreement between the judges. In general, it can be said that Form 41 of the prepared questionnaires has acceptable content validity and reliability, therefore, it has the necessary conditions for examination at the level of the main sample of the target group and it can be used in a large sample of the target group, in order to achieve the final structure and Norm scores were used..