Groundwork: Where Your Digital Risk Actually Sits

Most people know their digital security could be better. Far fewer know where to start, so it stays on the list and never gets done.

This file is the terrain. What actually happens when you click something, what the words mean, where your data physically sits, and what is already on record about you before you change a thing. You cannot secure a system you cannot see, and this is the one that lets you see it.

It ends with a decision matrix that sorts every task by what an attacker actually goes after, so you spend your first afternoon on the six things that carry the risk rather than the ten that feel productive.

What is inside

• Six pillars, each classed CORE, HIGH or MED so you work in the right order
• A twelve row decision matrix with a time estimate against every row
• Eight clarity scripts: the exact words for calls, forms and refusals
• A ninety minute working session, timed and ordered, that you follow live
• Six self-tests that prove the work landed, and eight field forms to keep

When you close the file

• You can say where your risk actually sits instead of guessing
• Your six CORE gaps are closed, with dates written against them
• You can explain how a click travels to someone else
• You know what is already on record about you, and who put it there

The format

29 pages, delivered as a downloadable PDF the moment you order. Read it on any device or print it at home. The eight field forms in Annex A are designed to be printed and written on.

Budget two and a half hours to read and work it end to end. Ninety minutes of that is a timed working session you follow live, and 58 minutes of that is the CORE work that closes the file.

Who it is for

Written for a complete beginner. Nothing to install before you start, and no earlier file required.

File 01 of 5 in the GhostNet series. Each file stands on its own, and the five together cover the whole of everyday digital security. Privacy Is Power.