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<p>Traditional cybersecurity awareness programs often fail to produce sustained behavioral change due to their static and non-personalized design. This paper presents CyberSense AI, a behavior-driven adaptive cybersecurity education framework that integrates a personalized learning engine, an interactive phishing simulation module, and a real-time threat intelligence system powered by a custom-trained machine learning (ML) model based on eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost). Beyond system implementation, we formally model the adaptive learning mechanism using a knowledge-state representation and reinforcement-inspired update rule to dynamically align question difficulty with user proficiency. To empirically validate the framework, we conducted a controlled pre-test/post-test study involving 60 participants randomly assigned to a control group and an experimental group. Results demonstrate a statistically significant improvement in phishing detection accuracy for the experimental group (<InlineEquation ID="IEq1"><EquationSource Format="TEX">\(p &lt; 0.001\)</EquationSource></InlineEquation>, Cohen’s <InlineEquation ID="IEq2"><EquationSource Format="TEX">\(d = 1.47\)</EquationSource></InlineEquation>), along with sustained two-week knowledge retention. Behavioral analytics further reveal a monotonic improvement curve across simulation sessions, a strong engagement–performance correlation (<InlineEquation ID="IEq3"><EquationSource Format="TEX">\(r = 0.72\)</EquationSource></InlineEquation>), and progressive reduction in false-negative (FN) rates. A feature ablation and deployment latency analysis confirms that the XGBoost subsystem achieves sub-100 ms response time, validating real-time mobile suitability. Collectively, these results establish CyberSense AI as a theoretically grounded and empirically validated framework for scalable, human-centered cybersecurity training.</p>

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A Data-Driven Adaptive Cybersecurity Training Framework with Behavioral Validation

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    2026年6月3日

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  • Yohannis Admasu Adamu,
  • Shehzad Ashraf Chaudhry,
  • Khiati Zakaria,
  • Khalid Yahya

摘要

Traditional cybersecurity awareness programs often fail to produce sustained behavioral change due to their static and non-personalized design. This paper presents CyberSense AI, a behavior-driven adaptive cybersecurity education framework that integrates a personalized learning engine, an interactive phishing simulation module, and a real-time threat intelligence system powered by a custom-trained machine learning (ML) model based on eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost). Beyond system implementation, we formally model the adaptive learning mechanism using a knowledge-state representation and reinforcement-inspired update rule to dynamically align question difficulty with user proficiency. To empirically validate the framework, we conducted a controlled pre-test/post-test study involving 60 participants randomly assigned to a control group and an experimental group. Results demonstrate a statistically significant improvement in phishing detection accuracy for the experimental group (\(p < 0.001\), Cohen’s \(d = 1.47\)), along with sustained two-week knowledge retention. Behavioral analytics further reveal a monotonic improvement curve across simulation sessions, a strong engagement–performance correlation (\(r = 0.72\)), and progressive reduction in false-negative (FN) rates. A feature ablation and deployment latency analysis confirms that the XGBoost subsystem achieves sub-100 ms response time, validating real-time mobile suitability. Collectively, these results establish CyberSense AI as a theoretically grounded and empirically validated framework for scalable, human-centered cybersecurity training.