Despite being known for its emphasis on information security, banking and insurance sector employees have less knowledge of this area than their peers, a government online quiz revealed yesterday.
On average, financial employees scored 87.7 points in the quiz, lower than respondents in the education sector, which had the highest mark of 92.9 points, according to the latest results released by the Cabinet's Science and Technology Advisory Group.
Government officials scored 91.4 points, with respondents in the IT sector getting 90.9 points. The average score for the quiz was 90 percent.
"The results contradicted our expectation that the banking and insurance industry would be the sector most concerned about information security to safeguard clients' confidential data," researcher Rhonda Chen (陳如芬) said yesterday.
Though the scores showed that respondents on average had a basic knowledge of information security, they might not be able to apply this on daily basis, she said.
Therefore, more education should be initiated to improve knowledge to prevent people from falling prey to Internet scams, she said.
The results also indicated that among all the areas covered, respondents performed most poorly in the areas of Internet phishing, digital signatures and cookies records.
A cookie is a mechanism that allows the server to store its own information
about a user on his or her own computer.
The online survey attracted 8,714 respondents over the past two months, the
majority being students, and those working in financial institutions and IT
firms.
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