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Create random-word or random-character passwords in your browser, with NCSC guidance.
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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 security tools.
Generate passwords locally in your browser, or check a domain, suspicious link or email address against known breach records. External checkers load only with your separate permission.
Email breach checker
Check an address you own against known breach records and understand what to do next.
Check your emailEmail domain security checker
Review email authentication and explore SPF, DKIM, DMARC and BIMI with CompTech.
Check your domainPhishing link checker
Check a suspicious public link for warning signs before opening it. Results are not a guarantee of safety.
Check a suspicious linkFree learning
Practical cyber awareness for your team.
Choose the course that fits your workplace. Both run in the browser, need no account and provide an optional 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
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
Put cyber awareness into practice.
Download free editable incident contact cards, response guidance, manager briefings and induction checklists.
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 ReviewTransition
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 switchCertification
Cyber Essentials
Understand Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus, the security controls involved and how CompTech can help you prepare.
Explore Cyber EssentialsGuidance 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.
Cyber Security
Understand how identity, devices, email, DNS, vulnerabilities, staff awareness and recovery work together.
Explore cyber security guidanceMicrosoft 365
Explore identity, Conditional Access, device management, Secure Score, backup and governance across Microsoft 365.
Explore Microsoft 365 guidanceAI and Copilot Governance
Plan for permissions, oversharing, shadow AI, sensitive data and acceptable use before wider adoption.
Explore AI and Copilot guidanceManaged IT Support
Compare support arrangements and understand how day-to-day help, responsibility, security and improvement can fit together.
Explore managed IT supportEducation IT Support
Find practical guidance for school ICT, DfE technology standards, cloud platforms, cyber security and project work.
Explore education IT supportCharity and Non-Profit IT Support
Understand charity support, Microsoft non-profit licensing, cyber security, trustee priorities and practical technology planning.
Explore charity IT supportMicrosoft 365 and Copilot Training
Explore practical Microsoft 365 and Copilot workshops, course formats and training for your team.
Explore training for organisationsMicrosoft Teams plan comparison
Compare Teams Free, Essentials and Microsoft 365 options, including account ownership and the licences you already have.
Compare Teams optionsBacking up Microsoft Teams data
See where Teams files and conversations live, what a backup may cover and which restore questions to ask.
Read the Teams backup guideProtecting IT during a power cut
Review UPS runtime, safe shutdown, resilient storage and a practical recovery plan for important onsite IT.
Read the power-outage guideFive things to avoid on a work computer
Practical account, application and device habits, with clear steps for reporting a mistake.
Read the work-computer guideSharing files safely
Choose appropriate sharing methods for documents, sensitive information, large files and technical attachments.
Read the file-sharing guideChanging or reassigning a mobile number
Check account recovery, MFA and business handover before giving up a mobile number.
Read the number-change checklistNew-starter IT checklist
Plan approvals, devices, access, applicable backup and security awareness, with a clear handover and review.
Use the new-starter checklistFurther help
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