- First move
- Pause, record the basics, and use a trusted route.
- Preserve
- Time, messages, notices, settings, and relevant account details.
- Escalate
- Provider, bank, employer, or specialist if recovery is blocked or impact grows.
Version 0.1 ยท reviewed August 23, 2026
Security Action Index
The Security Action Index routes a symptom to safe first actions, evidence cautions, and escalation triggers. Start with the situation you can observe. The index is a guide for choosing a sensible first route, not automated diagnosis.
- First move
- Pause, record the basics, and use a trusted route.
- Preserve
- Time, messages, notices, settings, and relevant account details.
- Escalate
- Provider, bank, employer, or specialist if recovery is blocked or impact grows.
- First move
- Pause, record the basics, and use a trusted route.
- Preserve
- Time, messages, notices, settings, and relevant account details.
- Escalate
- Provider, bank, employer, or specialist if recovery is blocked or impact grows.
- First move
- Pause, record the basics, and use a trusted route.
- Preserve
- Time, messages, notices, settings, and relevant account details.
- Escalate
- Provider, bank, employer, or specialist if recovery is blocked or impact grows.
- First move
- Pause, record the basics, and use a trusted route.
- Preserve
- Time, messages, notices, settings, and relevant account details.
- Escalate
- Provider, bank, employer, or specialist if recovery is blocked or impact grows.
- First move
- Pause, record the basics, and use a trusted route.
- Preserve
- Time, messages, notices, settings, and relevant account details.
- Escalate
- Provider, bank, employer, or specialist if recovery is blocked or impact grows.
- First move
- Pause, record the basics, and use a trusted route.
- Preserve
- Time, messages, notices, settings, and relevant account details.
- Escalate
- Provider, bank, employer, or specialist if recovery is blocked or impact grows.
- First move
- Pause, record the basics, and use a trusted route.
- Preserve
- Time, messages, notices, settings, and relevant account details.
- Escalate
- Provider, bank, employer, or specialist if recovery is blocked or impact grows.
Each route is maintained with a source trace and review date. See how the index is updated.
When the suspicious event is physical rather than a message, a device plugged into a port you did not choose, start with a device that can read memory and the same record-first habit.
Further afield
- 01API des races de chiens
A French structured dataset from an entirely unrelated field, and a clean example of the dated, queryable reference work this index is trying to be.
- 02How Security, Applied works
The review rules that decide when a row above is allowed to change.