Tools
Tools
Welcome to the LoughTec Tools suite, a collection of free cybersecurity tools built to give business leaders and IT managers in Northern Ireland and across the UK and Ireland a fast, honest read on their digital risk. No jargon, no lengthy sales process, just immediate answers to the questions every organisation should be asking. Has our data already appeared on the dark web? What would a cyber-attack actually cost us? How strong are the passwords protecting our accounts? Each tool takes minutes to use and delivers results you can act on the same day. Think of this page as a free health check for your business's digital defences, developed by the same LoughTec ISO 27001 certified team that monitors and protects organisations across manufacturing, engineering, construction and professional services every day. Whether you're benchmarking your current position, building a case for investment in cybersecurity, or simply curious about your exposure, or want to start increasing your cybersecurity posture and decrease your attack surface and cyber risk, these tools give you a credible starting point grounded in real threat intelligence and experience.
Check Your Exposure
Cyber Attack Impact Calculator: Put a real number on the risk. This calculator estimates the potential financial impact of a cyber-attack on your business, factoring in downtime, recovery costs, lost revenue and reputational damage. It's the fastest way to translate an abstract threat into a figure your board will understand, and an essential first step when weighing up the cost of protection against the cost of an incident.
Production Downtime Calculator: If your operation runs on uptime, this is the tool that shows you what standing still really costs. Set your annual revenue on the slider and instantly see your average revenue loss for a minute, an hour, a day, a week or a month of downtime. This is a pure production lost revenue cost only figure, with no additional impacts factored in like recovery costs, remediations, ransoms, data breach fines, new security tools implementations or reputational damage impacts on customer churn and future impacts to new customer acquisitions factored in, see the Cyber Attack Impact Calculator for the full cyber-attack cost financial picture.
Password Breaches Dark Web: Check whether passwords associated with your organisation have been exposed in known data breaches and are circulating on the dark web. Compromised credentials remain one of the most common entry points for attackers, and a single reused password can undo every other control you have in place. Find out in seconds whether yours are already out there.
Email Breaches Dark Web: Enter a business email address and discover whether it has appeared in known breaches traded on the dark web. Exposed email addresses fuel phishing campaigns, credential stuffing and business email compromise. Knowing which of your addresses are circulating is the first step towards protecting the accounts behind them.
Website Reputation Checker: Assess the security reputation of any website before you trust it with your data, or check how your own domain appears to the outside world. A poor reputation score can mean blacklisting, malware associations or spoofing risk, all of which damage customer trust and email deliverability long before you notice anything is wrong.
Strengthen Your Defences
How Secure Is Your Password?: Test the strength of a password and see how long it would take a modern attacker to crack it. The results are often sobering. A password that feels complex to a human can fall to automated tools in seconds, while a longer passphrase can hold out for centuries. Use this tool to educate your team on what genuinely strong looks like.
Password Generator: Generate strong, random passwords that meet modern security standards in a single click. Ideal for creating new credentials that resist brute force and dictionary attacks, and a natural next step once the breach checkers or strength tester have shown you where your current passwords fall short.
Cyber Security Maturity Score: Answer a short set of plain-language questions and receive a maturity score showing how your organisation's security posture measures up, along with the areas that need attention first. Built around our ARP® framework of Assess, Remediate and Protect, it turns a complex discipline into a clear picture of where you stand and what to do next.
Why LoughTec Offers These Tools for Free
We believe the first step towards better security should never be a sales call. These tools exist because informed organisations make better decisions, and because we've seen too many businesses discover their exposure only after an incident. Every tool on this page draws on the same expertise behind our 24/7 SOC monitoring, ISO 27001 certified processes and Cyber Essentials accreditation. With over 225 years of combined experience in IT managed services and cybersecurity, our team built these tools to answer the questions we hear most often from managing directors and IT managers across Northern Ireland. If a result surprises or concerns you, that's exactly what they're for. Use it as the starting point for a conversation, with your own team or with ours.
Know your exposure. Fix what matters. Stay ahead.
Try any of our free cybersecurity tools today, explore our Resources Hub for downloadable guides and templates, or contact us for a free cyber-attack assessment or a tailored consultation on strengthening your organisation's security posture.
