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CyberGuardians: Improving Community Cyber Resilience Through Embedded Peer-to-Peer Support

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James Nicholson,

Jill McGlassonAuthors Info & Claims

DIS' 20 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Pages 117 - 121

https://doi.org/10.1145/3393914.3395871

Published: 06 July 2020 Publication History

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Older users are rapidly adopting internet-enabled devices, yet are often targeted by cyber attackers with possible disastrous consequences. We describe the CyberGuardians initiative where we train older members of the community to be knowledgeable about cybersecurity so they can spread the information to peers and help protect their communities from cyber harms. Specifically, we focus on a case study evaluating two CyberGuardians and their use of training materials to inform peers in their community about cybersecurity. We discuss the importance of flexible training materials that can be adapted by CyberGuardians for sharing with peers.

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CyberGuardians: Improving Community Cyber Resilience Through Embedded Peer-to-Peer Support
1. Security and privacy
  1. Human and societal aspects of security and privacy
    1. Social aspects of security and privacy

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DIS' 20 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

July 2020

605 pages

ISBN:9781450379878

DOI:10.1145/3393914

General Chairs:
Ron Wakkary
Simon Fraser University, CA and Eindhoven University of Technology, NL
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Kristina Andersen
Eindhoven University of Technology, NL
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Will Odom
Simon Fraser University, CA
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Audrey Desjardins
University of Washington, USA
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Marianne Graves Petersen
Aarhus University, DK

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