USING SOCIAL MEDIA AND PASSWORD MANAGEMENT ON CYBER SECURITY AWARENESS OF PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS

Social media is a growing platform for student interaction and communication. The password is considered a basic and important security aspect that protects data and information
and provides access to authenticated systems. The study aimed at presenting a proposed model to raise awareness of cybersecurity among prospective teachers in education. The descriptive analytical approach was used to achieve the goal of the study, based on the nature of the study and its questions. Data is collected from the student teachers of both the course B.Sc. B. Ed and
B. Ed student teachers of the final year were chosen for the study. Nearly 80 student teachers were taken for the study as a population. The tool was constructed by the investigator and the research
supervisor. Result revealed that using different brand of social media namely Whats app,
Instagram, Twitter and Others type had significant difference in social media, password management and cyber security awareness. Moreover it is also reported that laptop user and B.Ed
final year students have better usage of social media, password management which directly enable the positive approach towards the cyber security awareness among the prospective teachers. Recommendation were made to the teacher educators, stack holders and academician.