This toolkit brings together New Harbor’s complete approach to protecting your organization without needing a security team or a technical background.
From the Helia Library — based on the article Cybersecurity Without the Panic, from our Coffee Chat with Giuseppe and Jonathan of New Harbor.
What’s Inside
01 — New Harbor’s Top 8 Things You Can Do to Protect Yourself
Eight concrete actions — most of them free — that cover the most common ways organizations get compromised. Start here before you do anything else.
02 — Data Retention Policy Template
A starting-point template for documenting what data your organization holds, how long you’re keeping it, and whether you need to. Use this when you’re ready to reduce risk by getting clear on what you’re actually storing — and what you can delete.
When Resources and Templates Aren’t Enough
These tools will get you from zero to meaningfully protected on the basics. What they can’t do is help you respond to a security incident in real time, pass a 150-question security questionnaire from a funder or government partner, navigate cybersecurity insurance requirements, or think through the specific risks of the sensitive data your organization holds. If any of those feel relevant — or if you’ve done the basics and still feel exposed — that’s usually when having an expert in your corner makes a real difference.
If you want help with cybersecurity
Giuseppe Morgana and Jonathan Edward co-founded New Harbor to make cybersecurity and compliance actually accessible to organizations that don’t have a security team — which is most of the social sector.
New Harbor is a good fit if:
- You’re trying to close a contract with a large organization or government entity and need to pass a security review
- You want cybersecurity insurance and need to actually qualify for it
- You’re holding sensitive data about the people you serve and want to get ahead of the risk
Connect with New Harbor!
Not sure New Harbor‘s the right fit? Talk to Helia directly!
About Giuseppe and Jonathan
Giuseppe Morgana and Jonathan Edward co-founded New Harbor to make cybersecurity actually accessible to organizations that don’t have a security team — which is most of us in the social sector. Giuseppe got obsessed with this problem while building out New Jersey’s first digital service team and discovering that basic security hygiene was actually hundreds of complicated, time-consuming steps that small orgs couldn’t possibly manage on their own. Jonathan came from Google, where he’d spent years taking complex consumer technology and translating it into things regular people understood and actually wanted to use. He saw immediately that cybersecurity needed that same treatment. The fact that Giuseppe reads privacy policies for fun and Jonathan can explain any of this in plain language is — genuinely rare, and genuinely useful. You can learn more about their work at New Harbor.
