I’m Ruel Miller. By day I’m a cybersecurity analyst — Security+ certified, with hands-on experience in a Security Operations Center as an Incident Responder and SOC Analyst. I worked as a contractor for L3Harris, monitoring network traffic on the FAA network — the same kind of threat hunting and CTI (Cyber Threat Intelligence) workflows that protect critical national infrastructure.
By every other hour of the day I’m a dad. I have a five-year-old who’s into YouTube, CocoMelon, and the kind of bright-colored autoplay rabbit holes every parent of a small kid recognizes.
Those two roles don’t usually talk to each other. The SOC tools, threat feeds, and incident response playbooks I worked with at L3Harris exist to protect billion-dollar networks — not the Wi-Fi router in your living room. But the threats are the same shape: phishing, malware, social engineering, data theft. Just translated to 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. As an analyst I read CISA bulletins as part of the job. For this site I subscribe to the same 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.
My own household as the test environment. Every recommendation I publish gets tested on my own family’s setup first. If I wouldn’t run it for my five-year-old, 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 Shield Kit — a complete family cybersecurity playbook in PDF format. It’s $67. 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 SOC Analyst | Security+ | Dad of one