Introduction

Parents often spend a surprising amount of time thinking about safety. Not always in dramatic ways, but in quiet, everyday decisions. Making sure a child understands boundaries, teaching healthy habits, creating routines, and trying to prevent problems before they happen—all of this becomes part of daily life. Most parents know one important truth: fixing problems later is usually harder than preventing them in the first place.

Interestingly, people working in technology—especially in cybersecurity and software engineering—think in a very similar way.

At first glance, parenting and technology security may seem completely unrelated. One revolves around raising children, while the other focuses on protecting digital systems. But if you look closely, there are surprising similarities.…