Digital Security Checklist

Digital Security Checklist — Everyday digital hygiene for a household or a small business, as printable checklists: the thirty-minute essentials, phishing worked through, devices and backups, family and small-business pages, and what to do when something goes wrong.

Most of the harm that reaches ordinary households and small businesses comes through a handful of ordinary routes, and a handful of ordinary habits close most of them. This is those habits, as checklists you can print, work through and tick off. It opens with the thirty minutes that matter most — a password manager, unique passwords, two-factor authentication on your email before anything else, a lock on every device, and updates switched on — and then works outward: email and phishing with a worked example of a suspicious message annotated line by line, account recovery set up so that losing a phone is an inconvenience rather than a catastrophe, device encryption and safe disposal, home network basics, backups with the restore test almost nobody runs, and public wifi. There are pages written for the people around you: children and shared devices, older relatives and the scam patterns worth talking through before they happen, and a small-business section covering shared accounts, a leavers checklist and invoice fraud. When something has already gone wrong there is a page telling you what to do first, second and third, because the order genuinely matters. One rule runs through the whole thing: nothing in it ever asks you to write down a password, a PIN or a code. The accounts inventory records the service, the login email and whether two-factor is switched on — never the credential, and the page says so.

What's inside

• THE 30-MINUTE ESSENTIALS: the short list that closes most of the common routes, in the order worth doing it
• PASSWORDS: why a password manager rather than a system in your head, how to build the handful you still have to remember, and what to do about the ones you have reused
• TWO-FACTOR AND PASSKEYS: what the different kinds are, which are stronger, and why email comes first
• PHISHING: the red flags, plus a full worked example of a suspicious message annotated line by line, and a page on what to do if you clicked
• ACCOUNT RECOVERY: recovery address and phone, and how to store backup codes properly — deliberately not in this file
• DEVICES: encryption, lock screens, find-my-device, and a wiping checklist before you sell, give away or recycle anything
• HOME NETWORK: the router admin password, guest wifi, firmware and the settings worth turning off
• BACKUPS: three-two-one described plainly as a common practice, with the restore test that is the only real proof
• PUBLIC WIFI AND TRAVEL: what actually matters and what does not
• FAMILY PAGES: children and shared devices, and a page of scam patterns to talk through with an older relative before anything happens
• SMALL BUSINESS: shared accounts done properly without sharing passwords, a leavers checklist, and invoice-fraud awareness
• IF SOMETHING HAS GONE WRONG: what to do first, second and third — the order matters more than the actions
• ACCOUNTS INVENTORY: service, login email, two-factor on or off, recovery set — and never a password field
• AN ANNUAL REVIEW CHECKLIST so this is a habit rather than one good afternoon

How it works

The PDF guide walks you through step by step, with ready-to-use wording you can adapt.

Specifications

• Format: PDF guide + read-me
• Works in: Word, Google Docs, LibreOffice
• License: full rights — use, edit, rebrand & resell
• Updates: free for life

Full rights

Sold with full rights: use it personally or with clients, edit anything, and even rebrand and resell it — keep 100% of the income, no attribution required. Customise before reselling (marketplaces reject identical duplicates).

Please note

Productivity and digital-organisation templates for personal and business use. Example entries are illustrations to adapt to your own setup. Never record passwords, PINs, one-time codes or full card numbers in these files — keep secrets in a dedicated password manager. Any security checklist here is general good practice, not a security audit or professional IT advice. Digital download — delivered instantly, so all sales are final; future updates are free.