Cybersecurity and AI Safety for Everyone
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Individuals & Families
Practical security for your everyday digital life
Guides for Individuals & Families
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The single most effective step you can take to protect an account even if your password is stolen, with step-by-step setup for major platforms.
How malware actually gets onto your devices, the warning signs of an infection, and the everyday habits that stop most attacks before they start.
Photos, documents and memories can disappear in an instant. A simple approach to backing up your phone (Android/iPhone) and computer.
AI safety for employees means knowing what can go wrong when you use AI tools at work, misplaced trust in outputs, manipulation of the AI itself, and data exposure, and how to use them without creating risk for yourself or your employer.
Students & Educators
Building security and AI-safety literacy
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You rely on encryption dozens of times a day without noticing. Here's a practical, non-mathematical explanation of how it works and why it matters for secure design.
Updates don't just add features, they close known security holes. A simple, low-effort routine for keeping your phone and computer current.
Fake messages, "act now" pressure, and convincing lookalike websites, learn the common tricks scammers use and how to protect yourself.
Tabletop exercises and simulations reveal gaps that policy documents never do, and they work best when they reflect the full diversity of the people who will actually respond.
Freelancers
Security that fits a one-person business
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Updates don't just add features, they close known security holes. A simple, low-effort routine for keeping your phone and computer current.
Photos, documents and memories can disappear in an instant. A simple approach to backing up your phone (Android/iPhone) and computer.
You don't need a security team to have a plan. A simple, written incident response plan turns a chaotic security event into a manageable one.
Working from anywhere means your security perimeter now includes home Wi-Fi, video meetings, and the social profiles that reveal more about you than you might think.
Small & Medium Businesses
Protect your team, customers and revenue
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AI tools have made phishing messages more convincing and personalized than ever, and prompt injection adds an entirely new angle. Here's what's changed, and what still works to defend against it.
Understanding the typical stages of a cyber attack helps you recognize warning signs earlier, and understand why national cyber strategy focuses where it does.
Business email compromise causes more reported financial losses than any other cybercrime category. Understanding how it works is the key to stopping it.
A backup that's never been tested for restoration, or an asset nobody knew existed, can undo months of planning. Here's how to build real continuity, not just a backup schedule.
Large Enterprises
Governance and scale for complex organizations
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What a penetration test actually involves, how it differs from a vulnerability scan, and how frameworks and certifications fit into a mature security program.
Business email compromise causes more reported financial losses than any other cybercrime category. Understanding how it works is the key to stopping it.
Tabletop exercises and simulations reveal gaps that policy documents never do, and they work best when they reflect the full diversity of the people who will actually respond.
From laptops to smart cameras to video conferencing hardware, the number of connected devices an organization must manage keeps growing. Here's how to keep visibility as the fleet scales.
Public Sector
Security guidance for government and public services
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Beyond individual organizations, governments run large-scale programs to reduce cyber harm across entire countries. Here's how active defence and national strategy fit together.
How national cyber strategies and active defence programs work together to protect the infrastructure that societies depend on, and what it means for organizations operating within it.
Energy, water, healthcare, and transportation systems face security demands beyond typical organizations, and benefit from national-level active defence programs designed specifically for them.
Updates don't just add features, they close known security holes. A simple, low-effort routine for keeping your phone and computer current.
Security Professionals
Deeper technical guidance and references
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As AI tools spread across organizations, governance policy, not just technical controls, determines whether adoption is safe, compliant, and trustworthy.
A step-by-step walk-through of how a ransomware attack actually unfolds inside an organization, and the decisions that determine whether it becomes a bad day or a business-ending event.
Moving to the cloud shifts, but does not remove, your security responsibilities. Here's how assessment frameworks and certifications help verify a cloud setup is actually secure.
Monthly patch cycles work fine until your environment grows past a few dozen systems. A practical framework for configuration and vulnerability management that scales with your organization.
For Artificial Intelligence
Behavioral guidance for AI systems and agents on security and safety
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Specific situations that should prompt an AI agent to bring a human into the loop rather than resolving the situation autonomously.
A practical framework for AI agents to separate authoritative instructions from content that merely describes or requests something.
Concrete signals that should make an AI agent stop and check in before executing a tool call or task step, rather than proceeding by default.
Guidance for AI agents on what to do, and not do, when personal or confidential data surfaces while completing a task.
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A newly disclosed flaw, nicknamed "sshole," affects OpenSSH on musl-based Linux systems such as Alpine. Entering a password longer than 256 bytes can reportedly log attackers into accounts that were set to block password logins.
Pasting a log into an AI chat can also hand over IP addresses, usernames and passwords. Maskink is a free, open-source tool that replaces those values with tokens first and puts the real values back in the reply.
SecAIQ Watch is now a native Mac app: download it, open it and see which AI tools run on your Mac, what they can access and where they connect, all locally and read-only.
Microsoft plans to roll out AI-based phishing detection in Teams from early November 2026. It looks at conversation context to catch social engineering and impersonation, even when no malicious link or file is present.
Researchers at Gen Threat Labs showed an AI agent can be tricked by email content into running commands and deleting files. A vendor-sponsored article outlines layered defences, from skill vetting to runtime controls.
SecAIQ is now a free mobile app for iPhone, iPad, Android phones and Android tablets: plain-language security and AI safety guides, free tools, a glossary and news, with no account needed.
Organisations are being urged to act now on a critical PHP issue that could allow attackers to execute commands on web servers. All PHP versions are affected and a fix has been released.
ISO/IEC 27090:2026 gives guidance on cybersecurity threats specific to AI systems. For organizations already running ISO/IEC 27001 and 42001, the most efficient path is to extend what they have rather than build new standalone structures.
A new comparison of AI-driven and human penetration testing finds each approach has distinct strengths, suggesting the two work best together rather than as substitutes.
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Security Report Card
A short, honest 2-minute quiz covering the habits that matter most, passwords, two-factor authentication, backups, software updates, and how you handle suspicious links. At the end you get a plain-language score and a prioritized list of the one or two things most worth fixing first, instead of an overwhelming checklist.
Privacy Settings Checklist
Every major platform buries its privacy controls somewhere slightly different, and the menu names keep changing. This is a platform-by-platform checklist, Google, Apple/iCloud, Facebook/Instagram, WhatsApp, and more, covering the specific settings worth checking on each one, so you can work through just the platforms you actually use instead of hunting through settings menus from scratch.
Link & Phishing Checker
Phishing links rely on you not looking closely, a domain that's one character off, a redirect chain that ends up somewhere else entirely, or a file extension disguised to look safe. Paste any link here and this tool breaks down its real structure: the actual destination domain, lookalike-brand detection, hidden redirects, and risky extensions, all analyzed locally without visiting the site.
Screenshot Masker
Blur, pixelate, or block out names, phone numbers, IBANs, or anything else in a screenshot before you share it. Everything happens in your browser.
Glossary Quiz
A quick multiple-choice quiz pulled live from SecAIQ's glossary: you're shown a term and asked to pick its correct definition from a set of plausible-sounding alternatives. It's a fast way to build real familiarity with cybersecurity and AI-safety vocabulary rather than just skimming definitions once and forgetting them.
What Do I Do Now?
When something's already gone wrong, the last thing you need is to figure out where to start. Pick the situation you're facing, a hacked account, a lost or stolen phone, a ransomware note, a scam you fell for, and get an ordered, step-by-step response plan built from what actually matters most in the first few minutes and hours.
Password Strength & Breach Check
Check how strong a password is and whether it has already leaked in a known data breach, entirely in your browser. Your password is never sent anywhere in full.
Phishing Recognition Quiz
Look at sample emails and text messages and decide which are phishing and which are safe, then see a short explanation after each answer.
Cybersecurity & AI-safety glossary
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Phishing, ransomware, zero trust… get a plain-language explanation for hundreds of terms in seconds.
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New: SecAIQ Watch for Mac
See what your AI tools are really doing
SecAIQ Watch is a local, read-only monitor that shows which AI tools run on your computer, what they connect to and what they can access, without ever reading your prompts or files. Get the native Mac app (14-day free trial), or use the free open-source edition.
Mac app: 14-day free trial, then $19.99/year · Open-source edition: macOS, Linux and Windows, MIT licence
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