Small-business digital safety, in plain language.
Own the accounts. Protect the data. Practice the recovery.
A free public library for the technology habits that keep a small business moving: safer sign-in, current devices, verified payment changes, usable backups, clean access, and a first-hour incident plan.
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Safety baseline
Choose general practice levels across accounts, devices, scams, and recovery.
Find the first priorityCHECK 02Account ownership
Check whether the business can control and recover its critical accounts.
Review eight foundationsCHECK 03Recovery practice
Separate a real restore and incident exercise from an untested assumption.
Review eight practicesThe recovery chain
Six links the business should be able to see before pressure arrives.
Each link needs an accountable owner, an observed practice, a review date, and a route to qualified help. Open a definition to see what belongs in the record and what it cannot prove.
- 01Critical account ownershipWhat is critical account ownership for a small business?
- 02Strong authentication routineWhat is a practical strong-authentication routine?
- 03Trusted second channelWhat is a trusted second channel for business verification?
- 04Maintained device baselineWhat is a maintained device baseline for a small business?
- 05Recovery evidenceWhat counts as recovery evidence for a small business?
- 06First-hour incident planWhat belongs in a small-business first-hour incident plan?
Seven habits worth making visible
Start with the routine most likely to fail under pressure.
Own the access
Name an owner for every critical business account
Strengthen sign-in
Make everyday sign-in safer without making work impossible
Close known gaps
Keep devices and software current with a visible routine
Break the scam path
Verify payment and account-change requests on a second channel
Practice recovery
Make backups you can actually restore
Close the old door
Remove access when people and vendors change
Know who calls whom
Write a first-hour incident plan before the first hour
Practice on paper before an emergency
Six structures to move into your own approved system.
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PRACTICE KIT / 01
Critical account ownership card
A protected reference for the accounts that control identity, money, customers, records, and recovery.Open practice kit02PRACTICE KIT / 02
Access change checklist
A repeatable joiner, role-change, departure, and vendor-exit record.Open practice kit03PRACTICE KIT / 03
Device care calendar
A small recurring record for updates, support dates, protection checks, and retirement.Open practice kit04PRACTICE KIT / 04
Payment-change verification script
A short second-channel script for money, payroll, password, and sensitive account changes.Open practice kit05PRACTICE KIT / 05
Backup restore drill record
A dated record that proves a safe sample could be restored and identifies remaining recovery work.Open practice kit06PRACTICE KIT / 06
First-hour incident card
An offline contact and decision card for the first hour of a suspected technology incident.Open practice kitOfficial sources. Original routines. Visible limits.
NIST, CISA, FTC, and SBA resources anchor the safety context. The sequences and practice structures are original editorial synthesis, not a security assessment, product test, certification, compliance conclusion, or guarantee.
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