[Air-L] Cyber Hygiene and the Internet of Things: Invitation to participate in a consensus exercise

[John Blythe]

Dear colleagues,



If you have expertise in security and Internet of Things, you may be
interested in taking part in our latest research project.



At the UCL Centre for Behaviour Change, we are currently recruiting experts
to contribute to the ‘Cyber Hygiene Project’. The project is part of the
multi-disciplinary PETRAS research hub exploring critical issues in
privacy, ethics, trust, reliability, acceptability, and security in
Internet of Things environments. More information about the project and the
hub can be found here (http://www.petrashub.org/).



The Internet of Things will bring many benefits for consumers, businesses
and government but alongside these benefits will be a heightened risk to
threats. Cyber Hygiene refers to the security, privacy and safety
behaviours end-users need to engage in to protect themselves in IoT
environments. Our goal is to identify intervention strategies and develop
guidelines for developers, companies, and end-users on improving Cyber
Hygiene.



To achieve this goal, we are looking to work with experts to establish
consensus on potential IoT threats and mitigating behaviours that end-users
should engage in to maintain their Cyber Hygiene. This would provide us
with an understanding of the key user behaviours before we identify
intervention strategies.  Expert consensus studies are particularly useful
when there is limited research and clarity around a topic. IoT research is
well in its infancy and there is currently a lack of guidance on Cyber
Hygiene behaviours. Establishing consensus in this area will be an
important first step before establishing behaviour change strategies.



Working with us would involve three online questionnaires sent to you
between July to October 2016 (approx. 15-20 minutes each time) to obtain
your opinions on these issues.



In receipt of your time, we will be running a *free bespoke behaviour
change and networking event* covering theory and practice related to a
topic of interest from recruited IoT and information security experts (ran
by our specialists at the UCL centre for behaviour change.



If you are interested in participating, we would be grateful if you could
complete the brief survey available at the following link (
https://t.co/8neHiQ7hTN) *within two weeks* of receipt of this email, in
which you will be asked to confirm your interest in participation and
answer some short questions in relation to your field of work and
background, and choose your preferences for the behaviour change event.
This will help ensure our final sample includes people from a wide range of
countries, disciplines and areas of study.



*Furthermore, please feel free to share this email with anyone you feel may
be interested in taking part. *



Best wishes



John Blythe on behalf of the Cyber Hygiene team (Jeremy Watson, Carmen
Leferve & Susan Michie)



*__________________________________________________________________________________________________________*

*Dr. John M Blythe*

*Research Associate, UCL Centre for Behaviour Change*



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