Cyber Guides
Practical, plain-language guides for IT and security teams. Each one is free to read online, with a clear outline you can work through at your own pace or share with your team.
Burned-Out Admins: The Security Gap No Tool Can Close
Duration: 45 minutes
Format: Self-paced briefing
Level: All levels
Your organization may have invested in EDR, a SIEM, zero trust architecture and a SOC, yet one of its biggest security weaknesses can be the admin answering a fourth incident this week on three hours of sleep. This briefing treats administrator burnout as a security architecture problem, not a personal failing.
Audience: IT and security managers, system administrators, team leads and executives who own security budgets and staffing decisions. No deep technical background is needed.
Read the guide →Data Security & Compliance Deep Dive for Cloud Productivity Suites
Duration: 3 hours
Format: Self-paced workshop guide
Level: Intermediate
A three-hour, demo-style walkthrough of the data protection and compliance tools built into modern cloud productivity suites: finding risky data, labeling and encrypting it, preventing leaks, retaining records, managing insider risk and running an eDiscovery search.
Audience: IT professionals, security professionals and leaders who already understand how their organization's cloud productivity suite is administered and want deeper knowledge of its data protection and compliance features.
Read the guide →Alert Fatigue Is an Attack Surface: Tuning Your SIEM and SOC
Duration: 45 minutes
Format: Self-paced briefing
Level: Intermediate
When analysts face more alerts than they can investigate, real attacks hide in the noise. This briefing shows how to measure alert quality, retire noisy rules and build detections your team can actually act on.
Audience: SOC analysts, security engineers, IT managers who oversee a SIEM or managed detection service, and leaders deciding whether to build or buy security monitoring.
Read the guide →Securing AI Adoption Before Your Data Walks Out the Door
Duration: 60 minutes
Format: Self-paced guide
Level: All levels
Employees are already using AI tools, approved or not. This guide shows how to find that usage, set practical rules, protect sensitive data and review AI vendors without slowing the business down.
Audience: Security and IT leaders, compliance and privacy staff, and business owners who need to allow AI use while managing the risk.
Read the guide →Ransomware Readiness Workshop: Backups, Recovery and the First 72 Hours
Duration: 90 minutes
Format: Self-paced workshop guide
Level: Intermediate
A hands-on walkthrough for preparing before ransomware hits: protecting backups, practicing recovery, deciding who does what, and working through the first three days of an incident.
Audience: IT administrators, security staff, operations managers and executives who would be involved in responding to a ransomware incident.
Read the guide →Zero Trust for Lean IT Teams: A Practical Rollout Guide
Duration: 60 minutes
Format: Self-paced guide
Level: Intermediate
Zero trust doesn't require a massive budget or a large team. This guide breaks it into practical phases, starting with identity and devices, so a small IT group can make steady progress.
Audience: IT managers, system administrators and small security teams at growing organizations.
Read the guide →Phishing and Social Engineering: Building a Human Firewall Without Blame
Duration: 45 minutes
Format: Self-paced briefing
Level: All levels
Punishing people who click doesn't make an organization safer. This briefing covers how to make reporting easy, train in context, and back people up with technical controls.
Audience: Security awareness leads, IT managers, HR partners and executives responsible for security culture.
Read the guide →Third-Party Risk That Actually Reduces Risk: Rethinking Vendor Questionnaires
Duration: 45 minutes
Format: Self-paced briefing
Level: Intermediate
Long vendor questionnaires often produce paperwork instead of protection. This briefing shows how to tier vendors, ask fewer but better questions, and focus on the controls that matter.
Audience: Security, compliance, procurement and IT staff who manage or approve vendors.
Read the guide →Educational guide only. It is not legal, audit or compliance advice, and it is not a certification, accredited training or a credential of any kind. Product and framework names mentioned are trademarks of their owners; DimensionStone Security is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.