Small business cybersecurity: a practical 10-point checklist.
Use this free cybersecurity checklist to review accounts, devices, updates, recovery, and ownership in your small business.
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Start with evidence, not a security score.
This checklist gives you a useful agenda for a conversation with your IT team. Check an item only when you can explain how it is handled and who owns it. An unanswered item is a question to resolve, not a reason to panic.
CISA identifies phishing awareness, strong passwords, multifactor authentication, and software updates as core starting points for smaller businesses. The prompts below combine those fundamentals with practical ownership and recovery questions.
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Turn the unknowns into a work list.
Choose the three questions most closely tied to your important business systems. For each one, record an owner, a next action, and the evidence that would show progress. A short, maintained list is more useful than a long report nobody revisits.
This is a self-check, not a scan, audit, compliance assessment, or promise that your business is secure. The answers stay on this page; they are not uploaded or saved between visits.
Need help deciding what comes first?
Our managed cybersecurity program can turn an agreed set of priorities into routine reviews and follow-up work. Start with a conversation before granting technical access.