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Small Charity Guide

The advice in the Cyber Security: Small Charity Guide will significantly increase your protection from the most common types of cyber crime. The five topics covered in the guidance are easy to understand, and are free or cost little to implement.

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Cyber Incident Response Toolkit

Cyber incident response toolkit to help organisations develop plans for responding to the threat of cyber attacks.

Cyber Security for Schools

Practical resources to help schools improve their cyber security. The NCSC has created a dedicated webpage of resources designed to help: Governing boards & senior leaders Staff IT teams/procurers/providers Other useful resources

Multi-factor authentication for your corporate online services

This guidance describes how administrators responsible for managing access to online digital services for their organisation can apply the strongest types of multi-factor authentication (MFA). It describes the various types of MFA that are commonly available, explains some pitfalls to […]

SIM Swap Guidance

This guide explains how criminals can hijack your mobile phone number by tricking your provider into switching your service to a SIM card under their control. Once they have your number, they can intercept calls and texts – including the […]

Social Media Guide

This guide describes how to use online platforms safely by showing the benefits alongside the risks. It offers practical steps like setting strong passwords, enabling two‑factor authentication, reviewing privacy settings and being thoughtful before posting. In essence: social media can […]

Check Your Cyber Security

This free government service for UK organisations performs a range of simple online checks to identify common vulnerabilities in your public-facing IT. All checks are remote, without the need to install software and uses the same kind of publicly available […]