Free Security Checklists & Templates

These are working documents for security practitioners: checklists, templates, worksheets, and evaluation frameworks you can use in an audit, a tabletop exercise, a vendor evaluation, or a planning meeting. Each one is written for a specific audience, such as CISOs, SOC leads, cloud and platform engineers, AppSec teams, or security awareness owners. Each explains when to use it, walks through the items with a short rationale, and lists the common pitfalls to avoid. Where it helps, they map to established guidance from NIST, CISA, OWASP, and the CIS Controls. Every resource links to a longer article with the background and reasoning, and all of them are free to print or save as PDF.