Employees' awareness of cyber security by age France 2015

This statistic illustrates clerical employees' awareness of different types of cyber attacks in France in 2015, by age group. It reveals a certain discrepancy in terms of cyber security knowledge between these different age groups, as shown by the 20 points difference between respondents aged 18 to 29 and 50 or more, who claimed to know precisely what phishing is.

Knowledge of types of cyber attacks among clerical employees in France in 2015, by age group

Type of cyber attack	18 to 29 years old	30 to 39 years old	40 to 49 years old	50 years and older
A computer virus	94%	84%	90%	86%
A firewall	87%	78%	84%	72%
A hacker	88%	72%	78%	67%
A cyber attack	83%	74%	84%	59%
Phishing	81%	72%	72%	61%

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Release date

June 2015

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Region

France

Survey time period

May 13 to 26, 2015

Number of respondents

1,010 respondents

Age group

18 years and older

Special properties

clerical employees

Method of interview

Computer-assisted web interviews (CAWI)

Supplementary notes

This question was phrased by the source as follows: "Pour chacun des termes suivants, merci de nous indiquer si vous voyez précisément de quoi il s’agit, si vous en avez une idée mais imprécise ou si vous ne savez pas ce que c’est:
-Un virus informatique
-Un pare-feu (firewall)
-Un hackeur
-Une cyberattaque
-L'hameçonnage ou phishing"

Shares correspond to those who stated that they knew precisely what the corresponding type of cyber attack was.

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