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Cybersecurity awareness and cyber hygiene trainings are becoming standard practice for employees of election administrations. Election Management Bodies (EMBs) have specific needs: elections are cyclic with regards to the tasks and their associate risks, they are high value targets during a short time window, and they suffer from high turnover of staff making sustainable training difficult. With lots of training methodologies and training programs targeting election observers, officials, etc., there are limited quantifiable measures for the efficiency of this type of training. Evaluating the adequacy of the training objectives and methodologies to the specific needs of election administration is becoming a necessity. We propose to use constructive alignment for designing and evaluating cybersecurity awareness trainings.
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Chanussot, T., Schürmann, C. (2021). Cyber Awareness Training for Election Staff Using Constructive Alignment. In: Krimmer, R., et al. Electronic Voting. E-Vote-ID 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12900. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86942-7_5
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