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Security Tools for Canadian Businesses

Free cybersecurity tools for Canadian businesses to check email security, DNS health, domain security, SSL certificate expiry, website security headers, Microsoft 365 readiness, phishing exposure, ransomware readiness, downtime cost, and overall cyber risk.

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Business-focused security checks built to turn confusing technical gaps into clear next steps.

Use these free security tools to benchmark email security, website security, DNS health, SSL health, Microsoft 365 readiness, ransomware resilience, phishing exposure, downtime risk, and overall cybersecurity posture before minor gaps become expensive operational problems.

Free Email Security Tool

Email Security Grader

Check SPF, DMARC, MX, MTA-STS, TLS-RPT, and BIMI for your business domain. Get an email security score, phishing exposure guidance, and next steps.

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Free Web Security Tool

Website Security Header Checker

Check whether a website uses HTTPS, HSTS, CSP, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy, and Permissions-Policy headers.

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Free SSL Tool

SSL Certificate Checker

Check SSL certificate issuer, expiry date, days remaining, hostname match, and HTTPS availability for a business domain.

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Free Microsoft 365 Tool

Microsoft 365 Security Readiness Score

Measure Microsoft 365 security readiness with a practical checklist covering MFA, conditional access, forwarding rules, backups, device management, and phishing controls.

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Free Cybersecurity Tool

Cybersecurity Risk Score

Answer a practical cybersecurity checklist covering MFA, endpoint protection, patching, backups, email security, firewalls, device management, and awareness training.

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Free Continuity Tool

Business Downtime Cost Calculator

Estimate the cost of IT downtime using employee impact, hourly wage, downtime hours, lost revenue per hour, and recovery cost assumptions.

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Free Email Awareness Tool

Phishing Email Risk Checker

Paste suspicious email text to review urgency, impersonation, fake invoice language, suspicious links, and other phishing indicators.

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Free Resilience Tool

Ransomware Readiness Checker

Measure ransomware readiness across endpoint protection, offline or immutable backups, MFA, patching, least privilege, email filtering, and response planning.

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Free IT Operations Tool

IT Support Readiness Checker

Measure whether your IT environment is documented, organized, maintained, monitored, and ready to support business growth.

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Free DNS Security Tool

Domain Security & DNS Health Checker

Check nameservers, DNSSEC, CAA, MX, SPF, and DMARC for your business domain. Review DNS health, email authentication, and domain security posture with plain-English guidance.

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Why publish free tools?

These tools help business owners, operations leaders, and internal IT teams understand where cyber risk, DNS issues, email security gaps, or Microsoft 365 weaknesses may exist before they become expensive incidents.

What to do after you run one

If a score looks weak, exposed, or incomplete, the next step is a practical review that confirms the root issue, the order of operations, and the business impact of leaving the gap unresolved.