Guides

Security and compliance, explained properly

The questions your customers, your insurer and the ICO will ask, answered in plain English, with the rules and the deadlines spelled out and a checklist you can work through. Written for teams that have to get it right, whether that is five people or five thousand.

Incident response

Incident response checklist: the first hour, the 72-hour ICO deadline, and everything after

What to do the moment something goes wrong, when the clock to tell the ICO starts, whether you have to report, and who else to tell.

  • The first hour, step by step
  • Report or not: the risk test, with examples
  • A 24-point checklist you can print
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Cyber Essentials

Cyber Essentials checklist: everything to have in place before you apply

Scope, the five technical controls, the 14-day patching rule, multi-factor authentication on every cloud service, and what fails first attempts.

  • Cyber Essentials or Plus, side by side
  • The seven most common reasons for a fail
  • A 28-point readiness checklist
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Email security

SPF, DKIM and DMARC: how to stop criminals sending email as you

What each record does, exactly what to publish, and how to reach p=reject without blocking your own email.

  • The records, ready to copy
  • Alignment, the part most people miss
  • Check your own domain in seconds
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Do it once, and keep the proof

Walters Sentinel runs the checklists in these guides for you: incidents with the ICO clock, Cyber Essentials readiness with the evidence attached, policies your staff accept, and email protection that reads your DMARC reports. All under one account, for organisations from small teams to enterprises.