Purpose of Research:  The purpose of this research is to gain an understanding of current ethical risk practices at U.S. organizations.  Statistics of interest include distribution of maturity levels and activities with strong and weak statistical values.  Preliminary research results should be available at website: www.cs.uwp.edu/staff/lincke/EthicalRisk.htm available within one week after this event by emailing the professor: lincke <at> uwp.edu.  

Consent:  Participation in this research is voluntary.  If you choose to participate, please complete the appropriate section of this survey related to your current or a recent past employment position: security/risk practitioner, manager, developer/engineer, or legal personnel. 

Whether or not you choose to participate in the survey, copies of the questionnaire are available for download at www.cs.uwp.edu/staff/lincke/EthicalRisk.htm. 
Benefits:  This survey will enable you to evaluate the ethical risk maturity of your organization (with a sample size of 1), against best practices in leading research, and to determine useful options to increase that maturity.  At the end of the Qualtrics survey you may download a copy of your responses in pdf form.  Also know that you are contributing to an initial evaluation of this ethical risk maturity model for research purposes.

Risk:  To ensure anonymity, we are not asking for your name or your organization’s name, and the Qualtrics survey is anonymous (no IP addresses are stored).  All statistics will be provided in research only based on career category.  No statistics will be provided by organization or any other identifier, other than that the survey was conducted at an ‘industry-oriented security conference’.  
Be aware that any written (text) comments may be published verbatim, with identifier based on career category.  If you choose to retract a descriptive comment, you may contact the researcher Susan Lincke by phone at 708-453-2069.
Confidentiality:  These survey results will remain anonymous on Qualtrics.  Aggregated statistics will be published by career category.