Personal security
Personal security
Most account takeovers and data losses come from a few common gaps: reused passwords, no second factor, no backups. Closing them is not difficult, but it takes an afternoon of careful setup that most people never get round to. I do it with you.
What is covered
- Password manager. Choosing one, setting it up on your devices, and moving your important accounts to long, unique passwords.
- Two-factor authentication (2FA). Turning it on for email, banking, cloud storage and social accounts, and keeping recovery codes somewhere safe.
- Backups. A simple plan along the lines of the 3-2-1 rule: three copies, on two kinds of media, one stored offsite. Then we test a restore.
- Device hardening. Updates, screen locks, disk encryption, and removing apps and access you no longer use, on phones and computers.
- Phishing basics. How to spot suspicious messages and what to do when one arrives.
For small businesses, a team can also agree shared basics, such as who has admin access to what.
How it works
Talk
A short conversation about what devices and accounts you use and what worries you.
Set up together
It is worked through step by step on your own devices. You type every password. They are never requested and never needed.
Write it down
You get a short summary of what we set up and what to keep doing.
If you want to start on your own, the guide personal security you can finish in a weekend covers the basics.
Boundaries
- This is setup and advice. It is not incident response and it is not a guarantee. It lowers your risk; it cannot remove it.
- Accounts that have already been taken over cannot be recovered here; the service provider's official recovery process is the way to do that.
- If you think you have been hacked or are being targeted, contact the affected service and report it through official channels.
- No round-the-clock coverage.
Next step
Choose "Personal security" on the form, or email hello@dekryptsecurity.com.