Free IT tools for small business owners

Choose a free tool

• Free SPF, DKIM and DMARC checker

  Check the public records that help protect your email domain against impersonation. Allow about 1 minute.

• Small business cyber security self-assessment

  Review six parts of your business security with 20 plain-English questions. Allow about 5 minutes.

• Cyber Essentials readiness check

  Check how prepared you are across the five Cyber Essentials controls. Allow about 5 minutes.

• Free business continuity plan template for small businesses

  Turn your essential activities and fallback arrangements into a short working plan. Allow about 10–15 minutes.

• How much does an hour of IT downtime cost your business?

  Estimate the staff cost and revenue at risk when IT stops working. Allow about 2 minutes.

• Work out your recovery time and recovery point targets

  Choose how long your business can cope without each system and how much recent work it could redo. Allow about 3 minutes.

• Find your single points of failure

  List who supplies your systems and who controls their administrator access. Allow about 5 minutes.

• Which Microsoft 365 licence do I need?

  Answer five questions for each type of staff member to narrow down a Microsoft 365 licence. Allow about 3 minutes.

• IT support cost calculator

  Build an itemised estimate from our published service starting prices. Allow about 3 minutes.

• Has this password appeared in a data breach?

  Check whether a password appears in the Have I Been Pwned password collection. Allow about 1 minute.

• Can you spot a phishing email?

  Practise spotting suspicious messages in ten invented email examples. Allow about 5 minutes.

• IT checklist for new starters and leavers

  Build a practical IT checklist for someone joining or leaving your business. Allow about 3 minutes.

Earlier tools

Simple support estimate, about one minute. Continuity arrangements checklist, about two minutes.

No contact details needed

Time estimates are a guide, not a limit. Use a tool, read the result and download the reports offered. If you want a copy emailed to you, the optional form sends your contact details and result summary to our support team for your enquiry, not the full worksheet. We do not add you to a mailing list.