If it happens

The first ten minutes.

Written to be read on a phone, in the dark, by someone who is a bit stressed. Each page says how likely it actually is, then what to do, in order.

The ordinary emergency. Everything else on this site is really a longer version of this.

The one thing you genuinely cannot improvise. Which is why it is the first thing on our list.

This is what most people mean now when they say cyber. It is much more boring, and much more manageable, than it sounds.

The advice is the same in every country we cover, and it has been the same for fifty years, because it works.

Almost everyone who has done this says the same thing afterwards. They wasted the first twenty minutes.

The scenario people imagine when they hear the word preparedness. In practice it is a very boring week indoors.

For a lot of households, this is the only part of preparedness that genuinely matters.

The part of modern conflict that reaches your house first, and the only part you can beat without buying anything.