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Score your screen, print, device, network and people habits in a shared workspace, with a per-category breakdown of the gaps.
The Coworking Space Security Checklist scores twenty habits across five categories — screens, printing and paper, devices, the shared network, and people and access — and reports each category separately so a weak area is visible instead of averaged away. It is built for the actual threat model of a shared office, where the people around you have legitimate access to the floor, the printer tray and the door, rather than for a network attacker. The overall index scales with where you sit and how busy the space is, because an open hot desk on an event day is not the same as a lockable cabin on a quiet morning.
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Screens, print, devices, network and people are graded separately, so you fix the weak one.
Auto-lock and disk encryption outrank AirDrop settings, and the ranking reflects that.
Hot desk versus private cabin, quiet day versus open day, changes the score rather than the advice being generic.
People with legitimate access to the same floor — which makes an unlocked screen and an unattended laptop the two highest-impact gaps. A one-minute auto-lock plus full-disk encryption covers the majority of realistic loss scenarios, well before anything network-related matters.
Treat it as a network you share with every other member company in the building: join the operator's WPA2 or WPA3 SSID verified at the front desk, mark the network Public with sharing and discovery off, and reach work systems over your company VPN or zero-trust client. Avoid open SSIDs entirely, since a lookalike hotspot on a shared floor takes minutes to set up.
Use secure release — where the job only prints after you enter a PIN or tap a badge at the device — and if the space does not offer it, walk to the printer before you press print. Send scans only to your own typed-in address rather than the device address book, and put confidential paper into a locked shredding bin, never open recycling.
You do not have to confront anyone: badge in for yourself, let the door close, and point the person to reception. Access control is the operator's responsibility, and a genuine member or visitor will not be offended by being asked to sign in.