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The Stuff We Give Away

Everything here is free and none of it needs an email address. Some of it is what we install on our own client machines, some of it is what we hand people who want to sort their own IT out. A few of the product pages have affiliate links (we say so on the page), which pays for the coffee but doesn’t change what we recommend.

What’s In HereNo signup
Office posters12, free PNGs
Software we useSecurity and backup
Tech bag kitTools and licences
Office hardwareWhat to buy
Self checkRisk assessment
Everything we publish

Pick what you need

Five pages, updated when something changes or when a product we listed stops being worth listing.

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Free Security Awareness Posters

Twelve printable posters for the breakroom wall. Scams, passwords, ransomware, public wi-fi. Free, no signup.

Browse the posters
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Security and Backup Tools We Recommend

Four tools we are comfortable pointing small businesses at, with an honest note about which ones pay us.

See the tools
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IT Technician Tools and Licences

Six things worth carrying in the bag or the van, plus the licences that earn their keep.

See the kit
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Small Business IT Equipment

Six pieces of hardware that cover a small office. UniFi, Synology, and the reasoning behind every pick.

See the gear

Cybersecurity Risk Assessment Checklist

Forty nine things to check, grouped the way a real assessment runs. Work through it yourself or have us do it.

Open the checklist
Why we bother

Most of this started as a client email

Someone asks what backup software we like, or what to put in a new tech’s bag, and we type out the same answer for the fourth time. At some point it’s easier to write it once and send a link. That’s what these pages are.

If you want something here that isn’t here yet, tell us and we’ll probably write it. The risk assessment checklist happened because a dental office in Cape Coral asked for one before their insurance renewal, and it turned out half our clients wanted the same thing.