For individuals
Feel more comfortable protecting the devices and accounts you use every day.
- Protect email and personal accounts
- Understand updates, backups, and Wi-Fi
- Review privacy and device-sharing habits
Take a free, plain-language checkup for your personal devices or small business. Discover practical next steps you can understand, prioritize, and save.
A simple way to see where to focus first.
Different technology needs, one straightforward approach. Each path includes questions and action steps relevant to your situation.
Feel more comfortable protecting the devices and accounts you use every day.
Find everyday gaps in a business that doesn't have a dedicated IT team.
Answer based on what you know today. “Not sure” is a useful answer—this is about learning, not passing a test.
Choose who you're answering for.
A practical review of everyday account, device, and home-network habits. Use “Explain it to me” if a term is unfamiliar.
This action plan is based only on your answers. It is not a security scan, professional audit, compliance assessment, or guarantee of protection.
Cybersecurity terms should not be a barrier. Look up a topic, see what it means, and learn a small action you can take.
Click “Explain it to me” beside any checkup question for a more specific explanation.
An extra sign-in check beyond a password, like an authenticator or security key.
Try this: Start with your primary email account.
A sign-in method that uses your device to prove it's you, often with a fingerprint, face unlock, or PIN.
Try this: Use passkeys when supported by a trusted service.
A separate copy of important files that you can recover if a device breaks or information is lost.
Try this: Back up one important file, then confirm you can restore it.
A message that tricks you into clicking a link, opening a file, or giving away information.
Try this: Verify urgent requests using a phone number or website you already trust.
Common security protections used to help keep strangers off a Wi-Fi network.
Try this: Check your router's security settings; don't share the router-admin password.
A software change that may fix known weaknesses and improve protection.
Try this: Check whether your devices still receive supported updates.
Rules that determine who can open, change, or share certain information.
Try this: Remove access that old users or apps no longer need.
Ways to regain access if you forget a password or lose a device.
Try this: Confirm your recovery options are current, and keep recovery codes private.
Software designed to harm, interfere with, or gain unauthorized access to devices or data.
Try this: Use trusted protections and avoid unexpected downloads.
A checkup based on your answers is educational; a professional audit uses evidence and a defined assessment scope.
Remember: This website does not scan or certify your security.
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Possible future remote services for everyday technology problems. These are proposed pilot offers—not currently available to book or purchase.
Guided support for basic computer, software, or connectivity issues on your own device.
Proposed pilot: $39 / 30 minutes
Guidance for updates, multifactor authentication, password-manager setup, or backup routines.
Proposed pilot: $69 / up to 60 minutes
A guided review of basic practices, including access management and backup responsibilities. Educational only—not a certified audit.
Pilot scope and pricing: to be determined
Services are not yet accepting appointments or payments. Any future service must have a confirmed scope, clear customer consent, appropriate terms, and secure payment handling. Never grant unsolicited remote access to your device.
Start with the free checkup and save a list of your highest-priority questions.
Tech Readiness Checkup is an independently developed educational project intended to help people understand common digital-security habits in plain language.
The creator has a CompTIA A+ certification, an associate degree in IT and cybersecurity, and is pursuing a bachelor's degree in information technology. The product draws on publicly available guidance from trusted organizations.
Technology should be something you can learn to manage—not something that makes you feel left behind.
Recommendations are educational and designed to support informed choices. Paid assistance, if introduced, will be limited to clearly scoped work.
This is a working inquiry-draft builder. Describe a general tech issue and it will prepare a message you can copy or save. It does not send a message, create a support ticket, book a session, or collect your personal information on a server.
You should understand how the tool works and what it does with your information before using it.
No. The checkup and inquiry-draft tools run in your browser. This site does not send those answers or drafts to a business inbox or database, set marketing cookies, or load third-party analytics. Your web host may process normal connection information such as IP address and request logs. If you choose to copy, save, print, or later share a report, you control where that copy goes.
No. It uses your self-reported answers to recommend basic safeguards. It does not inspect your device, verify settings, or identify vulnerabilities.
Yes. Choose “Download .txt” for a text file, “Copy action plan” for clipboard text, or “Print / Save as PDF” using your browser's print dialog.
Not yet. Service examples and prices are proposed pilot concepts only. There is no scheduling system, live contact inbox, remote-access connection, or payment processing on this website. The inquiry-draft builder makes a message you can copy or download but does not send it.
Select “Not sure.” The checkup will list that safeguard for review. You can also generate a report with unanswered questions, which will be flagged for follow-up.
See the FTC small-business cybersecurity resources, NIST cybersecurity basics, and CISA resources.