As a parent, the online world can feel like a vast, uncharted playground for my children—full of wonder, but also hidden risks. As a security professional, I see the same landscape through a different lens: one of data footprints, privacy threats, and digital predators.
The two perspectives are not so different. The core problem is the same: too much exposure, and not enough control.
That’s why the work we’re doing at GlyphAI matters on a deeply personal level. While our core mission is to protect corporate data from future quantum threats, the underlying paradigm is universally powerful: Proactive Minimization of Risk.
So, how does a "quantum security" paradigm protect a child?
Imagine a tool that could:
- Map the Digital Footprint: Automatically discover and identify the sensitive data your child inadvertently leaves across apps and platforms—from their real name and location in a gaming profile to personal photos shared in chats.
- Classify and Alert: Intelligently distinguish between harmless fun and high-risk exposure. Is that a public post revealing their school name? Is a stranger in a group chat trying to extract personal information? GlyphAI’s core intelligence is built to recognize these patterns of sensitive data.
- Enable Proactive "Sanitization": This is the most crucial step. Instead of just flagging the risk, the system would empower parents and platforms to automatically minimize it. It could:
We are not building a surveillance tool. We are building a guardian angel that works in the background. It’s about creating a digital environment where the default is safety—where the "attack surface" of a child's personal life is intelligently and automatically reduced.
The same AI that can find and secure a corporation's "crown jewels" can be tuned to protect a child's most precious asset: their privacy and safety.
This is the future of protection—proactive, intelligent, and rooted in the principle that the greatest security comes from having less to protect in the first place.
I'm incredibly motivated to be working on technology that can secure our financial future and help safeguard our children's digital lives.
What do you think? What are the biggest online safety challenges you see for the next generation?