Study among Rural area citizen regard to Cyber Security awareness & Factors relating to it

Cyber Security is an emerging topic in today’s world, but still the rural area security concerns are left behind. Cyber security awareness among rural area Vavuniya of Sri Lanka was studied in depth with yielded new findings and recommendations made to alleviate this issue. Rural area awareness was found to be high in a very general level, but application of such security prevention principles in their day-to-day life were extremely low. 2FA (Two Factor Authentication) awareness was only one-tenth of the population. There was significant positive co-relationship with Marital status (single) and Educational attainment, while negative co-relationship with age. Improving educational levels, organizing cyber security programs for professionals, housewives, retirees and pensioners were recommended to improve rural area cyber security awareness.