Practitioner Survey Recruitment Text

Email recruitment
Subject line: Human-centered security survey
As a cybersecurity or IT practitioner, your expertise and experience are invaluable in helping to
better connect the human-centered security research and practitioner communities.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is conducting an online, anonymous
survey to discover if and how practitioners incorporate human-centered security insights into
their organizations and daily work. We describe human-centered security as a consideration of
the human, social, and organizational factors – and the interactions between them – related to
security processes, technologies, products, policies, etc.
It is our hope that the survey results will lead to the creation of mutually beneficial “bridges”
between the human-centered research and practitioner communities that result in research
being relevant and actionable to practitioners. Importantly, these bridges should ease much of
the burden currently put on practitioners when trying to find and apply human-centered
security insights.
We understand that your time is valuable, so the survey should only take about 7 minutes to
complete. Your participation is confidential, and your responses will be anonymous.
Responses will be collected through . Click here to access the survey.
To participate in the survey, you must work in a job that involves developing, administering,
implementing, or overseeing technologies, systems, processes, policies, training, etc. that have
some kind of security component.
Contact Julie Haney at julie.haney@nist.gov should you have any questions about the study.
We hope you can participate! Feel free to forward this email to your colleagues who meet the
criteria.

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(will be tweeted by @NISTcyber Twitter account)
Seeking #Security & #IT Practitioners: We need your help!
@NIST is conducting a survey to understand if/how practitioners use human-centered security
insights. Take 7 minutes to take the survey: .