The Essential Security Kit

Format: ZIP download containing PDF and editable Word guides, Excel workbooks and Python tools.

A practical guide to protecting the accounts, devices and work your business depends on.

I learned the difference between knowing security advice and checking a real account the hard way. This free kit turns that lesson into a clear route you can follow: identify the accounts that control your business, protect access and devices, check where the work lives, check that you can recover the work you tested, verify risky requests and prepare for an incident.

What you get

• A coherent 20-page PDF guide and editable Word version, with more than 7,000 words of practical explanation.
• A running fictional two-person business example: lost-phone recovery, supplier access, backup failures, payment-detail changes and practice for a security problem.
• Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Windows, Mac, phone checks and checks for the device connecting your network to the internet within the main route, rather than a separate pile of tips for individual systems.
• A 60-point progress checklist, a nine-tab working-record workbook, seven-page action worksheets and a one-page habits poster.
• Two optional programs written in Python, each for a specific job, with instructions for running their checks and clear limits.
• A thirty-day plan, checked source links and a situation-based next-step section with optional routes to Tidy Desk Digital kits, blog and technical writing.

The free kit is useful on its own. No purchase, subscription or video is needed to follow it.

Published by William Baptist | Tidy Desk Digital.

General guidance, not legal advice, professional diagnosis, official security approval or a promise that you meet legal or security requirements. Not endorsed by cited organisations. Workbook formulas were recalculated and checked in LibreOffice, an office-program suite, not tested in Microsoft Excel itself. The optional Windows-checking program was tested with made-up test cases, not on a Windows computer. Software and device providers' screens and features vary; check the current official guidance. Decisions about information identifying people need current guidance from the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK data protection regulator, and appropriate advice.