TrainShield: Targeted Awareness for Cybersecurity TrainingIn recent years, cybersecurity threats have increasingly exploited human behaviour rather than purely technical vulnerabilities, exposing the limits of traditional awareness programmes delivered outside real-world contexts.
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10.1145/3800935.3830870
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979-8-4007-2564-7
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TrainShield: Targeted Awareness for Cybersecurity Training
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3800935.3830870
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Giovanni Pizzenti, Alberto Verna, Nikhil Jha, Giuseppe Tipaldo, Marco Mellia, Stefano Traverso
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https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830870
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CC BY 4.0
summary
In recent years, cybersecurity threats have increasingly exploited human behaviour rather than purely technical vulnerabilities, exposing the limits of traditional awareness programmes delivered outside real-world contexts.
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Cybersecurity awareness; Contextual training; Adaptive learning
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2026-09-14
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HT '26: 37th ACM Conference on Hypertext, London, United Kingdom, September 14–18, 2026
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CCS Concepts: • Security and privacy → Human and societal aspects of security and privacy ; • Applied computing → Interactive learning environments ;
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Giovanni Pizzenti, Alberto Verna, Nikhil Jha, Giuseppe Tipaldo, Marco Mellia, Stefano Traverso
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3800935
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2026-09-14
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ACM Reference Format: Giovanni Pizzenti, Alberto Verna, Nikhil Jha, Giuseppe Tipaldo, Marco Mellia, and Stefano Traverso. 2026. TrainShield: Targeted Awareness for Cybersecurity Training. In 37th ACM Conference on Hypertext (HT '26), September 14--18, 2026, London, United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA 9 Pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830870