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Security Check Reminders

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A reminder that comes back

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Habits fade. A short check every three months keeps the important ones in place: reporting a suspicious message, multifactor authentication, updates, who has access, and the team rules for AI tools. This makes a calendar file with the list inside it. Open the file once and your calendar repeats it every three months. For a team, send the file to everyone and each person opens it on their own phone. What you type stays on your phone or computer.

The short answer. Pick the habits to check, choose the first date, and download a calendar file that repeats every three months with your list in it.

How it works, in four steps

  1. Tick the habits to checkRemove any that do not apply and add your own.
  2. Choose the first date and timeIt then repeats every three months.
  3. Download the calendar file and open itYour calendar adds the reminder. What you type stays on your phone or computer.
  4. What this cannot doIt is a reminder, not a check. It cannot tell whether a habit is in place. It only brings the list back on the day.

Habits to check each time

On an iPhone, open the downloaded file and tap Add All. On Android, open it with Google Calendar. On a computer, double-click it to add it to Outlook or Apple Calendar, or import it into Google Calendar.

What you type stays on your phone

The calendar file is made inside this page. The page’s security setting (a Content Security Policy, a rule the browser enforces) blocks it from connecting to any server after it has loaded. The file lives on your device once downloaded.

Why every three months, and why a list

The National Cybersecurity Alliance’s invitation to a 12 November 2026 webinar with Living Security describes the company’s 2026 State of Human Risk research: after targeted action plans, employees spent 68 per cent less time in a risky state, and the improvement held for at least a year, while some behaviours barely changed. That is the company’s own research and UtilForge has not tested it. It points to a pattern this tool follows: a short list of specific behaviours, checked again on a schedule, instead of one long course taken once.

In the 2026 Oh, Behave! report, 88 per cent of people who had received cybersecurity training found it useful, and among them 54 per cent said they had become better at spotting phishing and 49 per cent had turned on multifactor authentication. These are answers people gave about themselves. Only 47 per cent of working people reported any mandatory cybersecurity training.

What this cannot do

It brings a list back on a date. It does not check anything, and it does not send reminders to other people: each person opens the file on their own device.

Questions and answers

Does this send reminders to my team?

No. It makes one calendar file. Send the file to your team by email or message, and each person opens it to add the reminder to their own calendar.

Will it work in my calendar?

The file is in the standard calendar format that Apple Calendar, Google Calendar and Outlook all open.

Can I change it later?

Delete the reminder in your calendar and make a new file here, or edit the repeating event in your calendar.

Why every three months?

It is long enough to be worth doing and short enough that habits have not faded. You can change the repeat in your calendar.

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