**6. Conclusions and Future Work**

Cybersecurity awareness is one of the most significant aspects of modern life that should be recognized and improved, particularly at educational institutions due to their direct connection to the network and the internet. Therefore, awareness of cybersecurity concepts and mechanisms should be improved, such as establishing solid passwords, upgrading systems, and employing antivirus software with the main aims of preventing data leaks and device hacking. Therefore, this quantitative study was conducted on trainees at the TVTC institution in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia utilizing questionnaires. The results indicated that the majority needed an appropriate foundation in cyber security expertise and statistical analysis. Therefore, awareness must be raised among TVTC trainees and training on cyber security strategies that help them protect their devices and data should be implemented. Furthermore, a focus should be placed on developing plans and strategies for cybersecurity awareness among students and trainees of educational institutions to enable users to understand the threats and factors that lead to weaknesses on their devices and data, and their effectiveness should be tested continuously. Based on the survey in our paper, we suggest the following:


A more scalable questionnaire can be implemented to increase the sample size and include more than one educational institution for comparison. Furthermore, another study could be conducted after providing a cybersecurity awareness course to measure its impact of on the respondents. The questionnaire also can be expanded to include members, employees, and trainees of industrial sectors to compare the results with academic institutions. **Author Contributions:** Conceptualization, S.A. (Shouq Alrobaian) and A.A.; methodology, S.A. (Shouq Alrobaian); software, S.A. (Shouq Alrobaian); validation, S.A. (Saif Alshahrani) and S.A. (Shouq Alrobaian) and investigation, S.A. (Saif Alshahrani); resources, A.A.; writing—original draft preparation, S.A. (Shouq Alrobaian); writing—review and editing, A.A.; visualization, S.A. (Shouq Alrobaian); supervision, A.A.; project administration, A.A.; funding acquisition, A.A. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

**Funding:** The authors extend their appreciation to the Deanship of Scientific Research at King Khalid University for funding this work through large group Research Project under grant number RGP.2/550/44.

**Data Availability Statement:** data is unavailable due to privacy or ethical re-strictions.

**Conflicts of Interest:** The authors declare no conflict of interest.
