For the Home
Home device & family readiness
Review age settings, apps, gaming, privacy, recovery, spending, Wi-Fi and the family help plan.
Build your starting plan →Layer8 resource library
Know what to ask.
Know what comes next.
Find a starting point, gather useful information and explore practical guides for your organization, including churches and nonprofits.
Better questions make the work more useful.
Start with the question you need to answer. These guides help you gather the right information and prepare for a useful conversation. No registration is required.
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Find your starting point.
Explore twelve priorities across people, systems, records and leadership. Each connects a practical question to evidence, a guide and a Layer8 offering.
Practical resources. Ready to use.
10 resources. Choose the question you need to resolve.
For Defense Contractors
Defense contractor program preparation
Follow contracts and engineering information through access, builds, labs, suppliers, incidents, recovery and owned improvements.
Build your starting plan →Church & nonprofit audit preparation
Prepare a repeatable review of access, sensitive records, children's programs, continuity and accountable evidence.
Churches & nonprofits
Donor & payment data review
Map record categories, exports, permissions, retention and the division of responsibility with payment providers.
Churches & nonprofits
Staff & volunteer access lifecycle
Make joining, changing roles and leaving a repeatable process with approval, ownership and verification.
All organizations
Incident readiness discussion
Practice how your team would make decisions, communicate and keep essential work going during a security incident.
All organizations
Quarterly security review agenda
Give leaders a clear update on progress, remaining concerns and decisions that need their attention.
All organizations
Supplier & SaaS review
Clarify administrative ownership, data handling, continuity, notices and an orderly exit before purchase or renewal.
All organizations
Identity and MFA readiness checklist
Prepare the owners, privileged paths, sign-in methods and removal checks for an identity conversation.
All organizations
Recovery exercise planning checklist
Agree a useful recovery outcome, a safe rehearsal and the evidence that will show what worked.
All organizations
Controlled-data discovery guide
Define data categories, boundaries and the obligations to verify before choosing a framework.
All organizations
Customer service-scoping packet
Prepare for a service discussion with a clear list of needs, responsibilities and checks for completion.
All organizations
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For the Home
Help your family navigate life online.
Review age settings, parental controls, gaming and chat, apps, privacy, purchases and connected devices. Build a practical family plan and a clear path to help when something goes wrong.
Explore Home guidanceFor Defense Contractors
Build a security program around the work you deliver.
Start with contracts, information and ownership. Bring access, engineering, software builds, hardware work, suppliers, incident decisions and recovery into a prioritized plan.
Explore Defense guidanceFAQ & AMA
One place for useful answers.
Search questions about our services and find answers from future Ask Me Anything sessions.
Keep the conversation going.
News & updates
Follow the event. Understand the response.
Browse reported incidents, technology updates and weekly CVE roundups. Incident stories focus on what happened, who was involved, the general cause, the response and practical safeguards.
Browse the year / month / day archive →Bring a useful question to the team.
Use an article as the opening for a staff discussion, then choose a guide or a readiness priority to turn the conversation into an owned action.
Prepare an incident discussion →A library to revisit as your needs change.
First edition · Updated October 4, 2026
Six guides include printable PDFs, alongside resources for identity, recovery, sensitive information and service planning. Use the prompts to plan regular reviews. A completed checklist is a starting point, not proof of compliance or a service agreement.
Prepare categories and redacted or synthetic examples. Keep credentials, donor histories and children’s records in your approved protected storage.
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