  The COVID19 pandemic has helped amplify the importance of Cyber Hygiene. As
the reliance on the Internet and IT services increased during the pandemic.
This in turn has introduced a new wave of criminal activities such as
cybercrimes. With the emergent of COVID19 which lead to increase in
cyberattacks incidents, the pattern and sophistication, there is an urgent need
to carry out an exploratory study to find out users level of cyber-hygiene
knowledge and culture based on gender, employment status and academic
discipline. Above this, with many organisations providing for dual mode work
pattern or remote and in-person as the pandemic subsides, this study remains
very relevant and hence the aim to investigate the cyber hygiene knowledge and
compliance of university students and employees of the University of Nigeria,
Nsukka (UNN). In addition, it attempts to verify the relationship between
demographics such as gender, employment status and academic discipline on cyber
hygiene culture among students and employees. The sample population is made of
employees and students of UNN, where the employees are either academic staff or
non-academic staff. The sample size consisted of three hundred and sixteen
(316) participants, one hundred and eight-seven (187) of whom were females and
one hundred and twenty-nine (129) were males. The results offer some useful
insight on cyber hygiene practices at the university.
