Personal Security Checklist

Personal Security Checklist is a comprehensive, plain-language checklist for improving personal digital security and privacy across devices, accounts, and everyday workflows. It’s organized so that complete beginners can make quick, high-impact changes, while advanced users can dig into deeper hardening steps. The guidance spans topics like passwords, 2FA, device encryption, browser hygiene, network safety, backups, and incident response planning. Each section breaks recommendations into actionable, bite-sized items with brief explanations, helping you understand the “why” as well as the “how.” The repository is continuously refined by a large community, which keeps the content practical, vendor-neutral, and up to date with evolving threats and best practices. It also encourages threat modeling, matching the steps you take to the risks you actually face, so you can prioritize effectively without getting overwhelmed.