This 1-pager summarises the five most important IT hygiene steps for solo professionals and micro-SMEs. You can work through them in one evening — closing roughly 80 % of standard attack vectors.
Alex Sokolov · IT Security & Data Protection
Cyber-hygiene 1-pager
Five IT hygiene steps for solo professionals and micro-SMEs — free download, one evening to implement.
Five steps, one evening
What it contains
- Password manager — replace all passwords with randomly generated ones
- Two-factor authentication for every business account (mail, banking, cloud, social)
- Backup strategy 3-2-1 — three copies, two media, one off-site
- Software updates as a weekly habit (operating system, browser, applications)
- Phishing detection — three indicators you will not forget again
Plus: recommended tools (all EU providers with DPA), per-step time effort, common pitfalls.
Languages
- DE (original) — see /checkliste/
- EN — this page
- RU — see /ru/checklist/
Download
→ Cyber-hygiene 1-pager (PDF, EN)
Note: download file made available in Phase 1.
Newsletter sign-up (optional)
If you want monthly updates on data protection and IT security, you can sign up to my newsletter — one email per month, one-click unsubscribe.
Source
The 1-pager is based on BSI recommendations for citizens and solo professionals (2026 update), extended with SME specifics from my own engagements.