LESSON 14

Project: Build a Personal Security Checklist

Learning objective: Create a practical personal security checklist you will use.

Understand

Turn everything you learned into a checklist you can act on.

Build a personal security checklist covering accounts, devices, and habits: MFA, unique passwords, updates, backups, phishing awareness, and privacy settings. Make it specific enough that you can actually work through it.

Analogy: This checklist is like a pre-flight checklist — a simple routine that prevents big problems.

See It in Action

A starting template to expand:

# My Security Checklist
- [ ] MFA on email, bank, socials
- [ ] Password manager set up
- [ ] Devices auto-update
- [ ] Backups scheduled
- [ ] Reviewed app permissions
How it works: Each item is a concrete defensive action from this course, organized into a routine you can repeat.

Try It Yourself

  1. List your most important accounts and devices.
  2. Turn each security habit into a checkbox.
  3. Work through the list and tick off what you complete.

Quick Quiz

What makes a security checklist useful?

Challenge

Build a personal security checklist and complete at least three items.

Success condition: You have a real checklist and have completed several of its items.