Security Tools
Interactive tools that turn our research into personalized guidance. Answer a few questions — get specific, actionable recommendations for your exact situation.
Build My Security Kit
Choose your category — home security, cybersecurity, or personal safety — then answer 4 questions to get a specific, prioritized kit with product picks, links to our reviews, and what to buy first.
Build My Kit →Emergency Preparedness Kit
Answer 4 questions about your household size, budget, disaster region, and special needs. Get a custom emergency kit shopping list with real product links — water, food, power, communications, and more.
Build Emergency Kit →Smart Home Security Guide
Not sure which smart lock, video doorbell, or home automation hub is right for you? Browse our tested picks for smart locks, doorbells, and security-focused automation systems — all compared side by side.
Browse Reviews →IoT & Smart Device Security Guide
Smart TVs, speakers, thermostats, and cameras all share your home network — and most ship with terrible defaults. Learn how to lock down every device in under 30 minutes.
Read the Guide →Security Scorecard
Take the Silent Security Index — 29 questions across physical security, cybersecurity, and emergency preparedness. Get a 0–100 score with your biggest vulnerabilities ranked by risk and specific fixes for each gap.
Get My Score →Do You Need a Security System?
8-question quiz that scores your actual risk level — break-in history, neighborhood, household situation, and more. Get a clear recommendation: self-monitored, professionally monitored, or skip it for now.
Take the Quiz →Home Security Checklist
62 action items across 7 categories — doors, windows, lighting, cameras, alarms, cybersecurity, and habits. Check off as you go, progress saves in your browser, and the page prints cleanly as a PDF.
Open Checklist →Family Emergency Plan
Build a complete printed emergency plan for your household: meeting points, emergency contacts, utility shutoffs, medical info, evacuation routes, go-bag locations, and communication codes.
Build My Plan →Home Inventory Tool
Document your valuables by room for insurance claims — serial numbers, estimated values, purchase dates. Runs in your browser, never uploaded anywhere, and prints as a clean PDF for your safe or cloud backup.
Start Inventory →How These Tools Work
Every tool runs entirely in your browser — no account, no email, no data sent to our servers. Your answers and results stay on your device. We built them this way intentionally: a security-focused site should model the privacy practices it recommends.
Recommendations are based on the same research that powers our product reviews and buyer's guides. The Kit Builder uses a logic engine updated whenever our review database changes. The Scorecard uses weighted risk factors drawn from home security research and real vulnerability patterns.
Need a specific product recommendation without the quiz? Browse our Buyer's Guides by category, or use the Comparisons hub if you've narrowed it down to two products.