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* T: +44 (0)2031087982 <%2B44%20%280%29191%20227%203716> E: *j.blythe@ucl.ac.uk <j.blythe@ucl.ac.uk>* A: UCL Centre for Behaviour Change 8 Hunter Street, London, WC1N 1BN