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Practical resources

Practical IT resources and guidance.

Complete free cyber security training, review your current IT position and find straightforward guidance for the technology decisions your organisation needs to make.

Free learning

Practical cyber awareness for your team.

Choose the course that fits your workplace. Both run in the browser, need no account and provide a local completion certificate.

Free learning

General Cyber Security Training

Free browser-based awareness training for businesses, charities, non-profits and workplace staff, with no account required and a local completion certificate.

  • Practical awareness for ordinary workplace users
  • No account or central learner tracking
  • Browser-generated completion certificate
Start the free training

Free learning

Education Cyber Security Training

Free practical cyber awareness training for adult school and college staff, including safeguarding, data and the external NCSC training step.

  • Designed for adult school and college staff
  • Includes safeguarding, data and the external NCSC step
  • Local CompTech certificate kept separate from NCSC evidence
View the education training

Review your current position

Turn what you have now into clearer priorities.

A practical review can help you understand the current position before deciding what needs attention now and what can be planned for later.

Review

Free IT Review

Get a practical view of your IT support, Microsoft 365, cyber security and backup. Discuss recurring problems, gaps and upcoming plans, then identify what needs attention first and which improvements can be planned around your budget.

Explore the Free IT Review

Transition

Switch IT Provider

Understand the handover before moving your IT services. Explore our four-week approach to access, documentation, support ownership and the dependencies that affect timing.

Plan your IT provider switch

Certification

Cyber Essentials

Understand Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus, the security controls involved and how CompTech can help you prepare.

Explore Cyber Essentials

Guidance by topic

Find the guidance that fits the question.

Use these routes to understand a subject, compare the practical options and see where CompTech can help.

Microsoft 365

Explore identity, Conditional Access, device management, Secure Score, backup and governance across Microsoft 365.

Explore Microsoft 365 guidance

AI and Copilot Governance

Plan for permissions, oversharing, shadow AI, sensitive data and acceptable use before wider adoption.

Explore AI and Copilot guidance

Managed IT Support

Compare support arrangements and understand how day-to-day help, responsibility, security and improvement can fit together.

Explore managed IT support

Education IT Support

Find practical guidance for school ICT, DfE technology standards, cloud platforms, cyber security and project work.

Explore education IT support

Charity and Non-Profit IT Support

Understand charity support, Microsoft non-profit licensing, cyber security, trustee priorities and practical technology planning.

Explore charity IT support

Microsoft Teams plan comparison

Compare Teams Free, Essentials and Microsoft 365 options, including account ownership and the licences you already have.

Compare Teams options

Five things to avoid on a work computer

Practical account, application and device habits, with clear steps for reporting a mistake.

Read the work-computer guide

Sharing files safely

Choose appropriate sharing methods for documents, sensitive information, large files and technical attachments.

Read the file-sharing guide

New-starter IT checklist

Plan approvals, devices, access, applicable backup and security awareness, with a clear handover and review.

Use the new-starter checklist

Further help

Not sure which resource fits?

If you cannot find the answer or want to discuss your current setup, tell us what you are trying to work out and we’ll point you towards a sensible next step.