Security In-a-Box is a collaborative effort of the Tactical Technology Collective and Front Line. It was created to meet the digital security and privacy needs of advocates and human rights defenders. Security in-a-box includes a how-to booklet, which addresses a number of relevant digital security issues. It also provides a collection of hands-on guides, each of which includes a particular freeware or open source software tool, as well as instructions on how to use that tool to secure a computer, protect information, or maintain the privacy of internet communication.

The How to booklet includes:

1. “How to protect your computer from malware and hackers
2. How to protect your information from physical threats
3. How to create and maintain secure passwords
4. How to protect the sensitive files on your computer
5. How to recover from information loss
6. How to destroy sensitive information
7. How to keep your Internet communication private
8. How to remain anonymous and bypass censorship on the Internet
9. Glossary”

Hands-on guides include the following:

1. “Avast - anti-virus
2. Spybot - anti-spyware
3. Comodo Firewall
4. KeePass - secure password storage
5. TrueCrypt - secure file storage
6. Cobian Backup
7. Undelete Plus - file recovery
8. Eraser - secure file removal
9. CCleaner - temporary file removal
10. Riseup - secure email service
11. Pidgin - secure instant messaging
12. VaultletSuite - secure email client
13. Thunderbird - secure email client
14. Firefox - secure Web browser
15. Tor - anonymity and circumvention”

Click here for the web-based contact form for this toolkit. The email address is: security@ngoinabox.org

Arabic, English, French, Russian, Spanish

Women of Uganda (WOUGNET) website accessed on May 5 2009 and email from Tanya Notley to The Communication Initiative on March 3 2009, May 7 2009, and October 9 2009.