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Practical Privacy and Security Tools. No Law Degree Required.

Free assessments, calculators, guides, and a weekly newsletter for tech organizations getting serious about privacy and security.

Three Free Tools. Real Numbers. Instant Results.

Built for tech organizations that want to understand where they stand before bringing in outside help.

Tech Privacy Risk Score assessment
Risk Assessment
Tech Privacy Risk Score

Fifteen questions across five risk areas, with an instant score showing where your organization is exposed and where to focus first. Free, takes about five minutes, and requires no outside expertise to act on.

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SDLC Privacy Risk Assessment
Developer Assessment
SDLC Privacy Risk Assessment

A structured assessment across Governance, Design, Implementation, Verification, and Operations that shows exactly where privacy fits into your development lifecycle. Instant score and personalized breakdown by area.

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Privacy Cost Calculator for development teams
Cost Calculator
Privacy Cost Calculator for Dev

Plug in your team's actual numbers and get a real breakdown of what privacy debt is costing your development organization right now, in engineer hours and dollars rather than hypothetical fines. Free, and useful for building a privacy program business case.

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Guides Written to Be Used

Practical guides and research papers for tech leaders who need something to act on, not another document to file.

Free Checklist
The 5 Point Tech Privacy Checklist

Five practical checks that cover the most common privacy gaps in tech companies. Simple enough to work through in an afternoon, specific enough to make a difference.

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Research Paper
Agentic AI Privacy Management: For Small and Medium Software Companies in the Absence of Automated Tooling

A practical research paper for the majority of companies deploying AI agents without enterprise-grade privacy tooling. What that actually means, what it requires, and how to get it right without a six-figure compliance budget.

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Technically Compliant

A Privacy and Cybersecurity Podcast for CTOs

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Weekly Security Tips for Everyone

Weekly tips and tricks to protect yourself online and offline, accessible to everyone and easy to understand and implement.

How Interesting Are You?
How Interesting Are You?

Automated attacks work from lists, not profiles, which means being boring is not a security strategy.

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Sync vs Backup
Sync vs Backup

Cloud sync is not a backup, and that distinction matters most at the moment you actually need one.

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Public Tea Spilling
Public Tea Spilling

Discussing work in public can breach contracts, derail investigations, and put your own job at risk.

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Hotel Wifi Risks
Hotel Wifi Risks

Hotel wifi is a shared network where other guests are often a bigger risk than the hotel itself.

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