I’m Ruel Miller, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and CompTIA Security+ certified dad. I have hands-on Security Operations Center experience from a past role in security analysis and threat response, and I built CyberDadKit to help families protect themselves online.
By every other hour of the day I’m a dad. My family is into YouTube, kids’ channels, and the kind of bright-colored autoplay rabbit holes every parent recognizes.
Those two worlds don’t usually talk to each other. The tools and playbooks I used in the SOC exist to protect large organizations’ networks — not the Wi-Fi router in your living room. But the threats are the same shape: phishing, malware, social engineering, data theft. Just at a different scale.
CyberDad Kit is me bridging that gap.
Every weekday, CyberDad Kit publishes one post about a real, current cybersecurity threat that affects families. Not generic “10 tips” listicles. Specific, current, sourced from the same threat intelligence feeds analysts use in enterprise SOCs — translated into language a parent can actually use.
The pipeline is straightforward:
CISA advisories. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency publishes verified threat intelligence daily. When I worked in a SOC, reading CISA bulletins was part of the job. For this site I subscribe to CISA’s public feed and translate the family-relevant advisories into plain English. Every post based on a CISA alert links back to the original advisory so you can verify the source yourself.
Real incidents I’ve watched. Patterns I saw in the SOC — phishing campaigns, credential stuffing, lateral movement — show up in home networks too. The attacker techniques don’t change just because the target is a Chromebook in a kid’s bedroom instead of an enterprise endpoint.
Built for families like mine. Every recommendation is written for a household like mine: shared devices, busy schedules, and screens in every room. If I wouldn’t run it for my own family, I don’t recommend it for yours.
It’s not a parental control app. It’s not a monitoring service. I don’t sell software that tracks your kid’s location or reads their messages. There are companies that do that, and some of them are decent — but that’s not what this is.
It’s also not generic AI content shipped to a content farm. I use AI as a translation tool — turning dense CISA bulletins into plain English faster than I could do alone — but every post passes through my own editorial review before it goes live. The recommendations come from my own training and analyst experience.
I’m not the most senior person in this field, and I won’t pretend to be. There are 20-year veterans with deeper expertise. But I can bridge the language gap between SOC-grade threat intelligence and the questions a parent actually asks at the dinner table — and that’s the gap this site fills.
I sell one product: the CyberDad Shield Kit — a complete family cybersecurity playbook in PDF format. It’s $47. That’s the whole business model. No subscription, no monitoring fees, no data sales, no upsell ladder.
If the free posts on this site are useful and you want the consolidated playbook, you can buy it. If you don’t, the free content stays free.
Email: ruel@getcyberdadkit.com
I read everything. I can’t promise to reply to every message but I do try. If you spot an outdated app-setting recommendation, an error, or a threat I should be writing about, please tell me. The site only stays useful if it stays current.
Posts get reviewed and updated when something changes. The “Last reviewed” date at the bottom of each post is the actual date I last reviewed it — not the original publish date. If you see a post older than 12 months without a recent review date, take the specific app-setting steps with a grain of salt. UIs change.
— Ruel Miller U.S. Marine Corps veteran | CompTIA Security+ | Founder, CyberDadKit | Dad