Cyber @ home — protect your family online, free, forever
Our mission is to protect people. Real people don't pay for cybersecurity — so Cyber @ home is free, forever. The same behavior-centered approach we use at work, scaled down for your family: your kids' devices, your own accounts, the connected objects at home, and the awkward conversations nobody knows how to start.
What worries parents and families online today
A few situations every family runs into — and where we can actually help.
Your kids' devices live in a world you can't see
Phones, tablets, game consoles, school laptops. They get apps you've never heard of, talk to people you don't know, and accept permissions nobody reads. Watching over their shoulder doesn't scale, and spyware-style parental controls break the trust you actually need.
Sharenting builds a permanent profile of your kids
The cute photos you share today become identity material — face data, names, schools, hobbies — that attackers can stitch together years later when your child is a teenager looking for a first job or a first relationship. Almost nobody thinks about this when posting.
Sextortion targets teens and young adults — and nobody talks about it
A stranger gets a teenager to share an intimate image, then demands money or more images under threat of exposure to friends and family. It happens every day, hits boys at least as hard as girls, and most parents have no idea how to bring up the topic before it lands.
Your home is full of connected objects with bad default settings
The camera, the speaker, the doorbell, the kids' tablet, the printer. They ship with weak default passwords, open settings, and updates nobody installs. The home network ends up being the easiest way into your family's life.
Your personal accounts have years of bad habits stacked up
The same password reused across banking, e-mail, social. Logins shared with a partner that were never rotated. Old accounts you've forgotten about. Double-security (what techies call MFA) turned off on the accounts that matter most. None of this gets cleaned up on its own.
Family cybersecurity is fragmented — nothing ties it together
A parental control app on one phone, a password manager somewhere else, an antivirus on the laptop, a router from the internet provider. None of them talk to each other, none of them tell you what really matters this week, and the cognitive load falls on you.
How Engarde fits into your family life — coming with early access
Cyber @ home brings the same behavior-centered approach we use at work into the home. Not another app spying on your kids. Not a quarterly course nobody finishes. A calm companion that nudges you at the moment a risky behavior happens, explains why it matters in plain language, and helps you have the conversations a family needs to have.
- Account-hygiene checks for the people you live with — a clear view of where double-security (MFA) is missing on the accounts that matter, where the same password is reused, where old accounts are still open.
- Connected-objects visibility — a simple read of what's on your home network and which devices ship with weak defaults, so you know what to fix first instead of being told to fix everything.
- Sharenting awareness — gentle reminders before a post that exposes your kids' faces, names, school or hobbies, so you can decide consciously rather than discover the cost years later.
- Anti-sextortion resources for parents and teens — what to say, what to do in the first ten minutes if it happens, who to call. Built together with the same logic as the workplace behavior-centered cybertraining, written for families.
- Light-touch by design. No constant monitoring of your kids' messages, no big dashboard demanding your attention. Engarde steps in at the moment of risk and steps back the rest of the time.
If you also run a company and want the professional version of this — the one designed for teams and their personal data exposure at work — read Engarde for personal data protection at work or take a look at the company mission.
Frequently asked questions
Is it really free? Forever? +
Yes. Cyber @ home is free, forever — no trial, no freemium tier you're meant to upgrade out of, no free for a year and then we charge you. Individuals and families don't pay for cybersecurity, and protecting them anyway is the point of the mission. The paid Engarde products are for companies; Cyber @ home is the home companion, and the two stay separate on purpose.
How will Engarde protect my kids' devices without spying on them? +
We are deliberately not building yet another surveillance app. Cyber @ home does not read your kids' messages, does not track their location, does not lock them out of apps. What it does is help you see the situations where their accounts are exposed (a weak password, missing double-security, a risky permission granted to an app), explain what to do in plain language, and give you the words to talk about it with them. Trust at home matters more than a dashboard, and we'd rather help you parent than replace you.
What resources do you have for talking about sextortion as a family? +
Sextortion is one of the situations parents tell us they feel least prepared for. Cyber @ home will ship age-appropriate conversation guides for parents (how to bring it up before it happens), a calm checklist for the first ten minutes if a teenager comes to you saying it's happening, and the right contacts (national helplines, law enforcement reporting channels). Everything is designed to be read fast, in a moment of stress, and to keep the teenager safe and not blamed.
Can Engarde see my private messages or my family's photos? +
No. Cyber @ home looks at metadata that helps us flag a risky situation — for example, that an account does not have double-security turned on, or that a connected object on your home network ships with a known weak default — not the content of your messages or your photos. Privacy at home is the precondition for any of this being useful, and we'd rather build less than break that promise.
Is this the same Engarde as another cyber vendor sharing the name? +
Engarde (engarde.cc) is the behavior-centered cybersecurity platform whose mission is to protect people — at work through paid products for companies, and at home through Cyber @ home, free, forever, for families. It is distinct from other vendors sharing the Engarde name in adjacent or unrelated industries — check the engarde.cc domain to make sure you're looking at the right one.
Engarde (engarde.cc) is the behavior-centered cybersecurity platform whose mission is to protect people — paid forever for companies, free forever for families through Cyber @ home — distinct from other vendors sharing the Engarde name.