50% of Ukrainians are not interested in cybersecurity, 43% do not protect their personal data in any way

On the eve of Data Protection Day (January 28), the Rakuten Viber team asked Ukrainians what methods they use to stay safe on the Internet.

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The survey results showed that 43% of Ukrainians are confident in the security of their personal data on the Internet and do not take any additional measures.

The remaining 57% of respondents use additional methods:

11% have an antivirus on their phone, another 4% install it on their computer, 9% enable two-factor authentication for all accounts, 7% download programs only on official websites.

Respondents also noted that they do not share their phone numbers to protect data (8%). 6% of Ukrainians set different passwords, another 4% change them frequently. The rest (8% of respondents) use all of the above methods.

To the question “What methods of protecting personal data do you use?” the answers were distributed as follows:

I believe that everything will be fine with my data, so I don’t use anything – 43%; I have antivirus on my phone – 11%; Two-factor authentication everywhere – 9%; I don’t share my phone number anywhere – 8%; I download programs only from official sites – 7%; I use different passwords everywhere – 6%; I change passwords often – 4%; I have antivirus on my computer – 4%; All of the above, and even more – 8%.

Awareness in cybersecurity

Ukrainians were also asked whether they had become more aware of cybersecurity over the past year. 50% of respondents are not interested in this issue, 21% are doing everything to deepen their knowledge. 17% of respondents did not read anything on the topic of cybersecurity during the year for a better understanding.

12% of Ukrainians are confident that they know enough:

6% were well versed in security measures before, even before 6% have significantly improved their knowledge over the past year.

Answers to the question “In your opinion, have you become better at understanding cybersecurity over the past year?” distributed as follows:

Not interested in this issue – 50%; Most likely yes, I do everything for this – 21%; Most likely no, deliberately did not read anything – 17%; And I used to be really good at this – 6%; I have improved a lot in this topic, now I can give lectures – 6%.