Our mission: making digital safety accessible to everyone.
Webnestify Education teaches people how to protect themselves online. We are a Slovak nonprofit, registered as an občianske združenie on 13 February 2026. We work with schools, families, seniors, and anyone who does not have ready access to cybersecurity knowledge.
Webnestify Education did not come out of a boardroom. It came out of watching the same avoidable things happen to the same kinds of people, year after year.
The training session
Simon was running a multi-day cybersecurity training for one of his business clients. Threat recognition, basic hygiene, secure tools. The session was being recorded.
On the screen behind him, a Salesforce dashboard was wide open. Customer data. Active deals. Sensitive information. On camera. Being recorded. Nobody caught it. Not even Simon, at first.
When it clicked, it hit hard. He was standing there teaching cybersecurity while a live data leak ran behind him for everyone to see. That moment is the whole thing in miniature: people don't see the risk until someone points at it, and by then the damage is often already done.
The insurance agent
Simon went to renew his vehicle insurance. The agent was friendly and efficient, running his whole working day off his personal laptop. Work email, client data, personal life, all on the same machine.
Before Simon left, the agent asked him to send some details by email. Simon sent it from a different address with a link to a small test page. When the agent clicked, it displayed one sentence:
“If this had been malicious, I would have stolen every cookie and login in your browser, insurance company logins included.”
The agent called the next day. Not angry, grateful, and wanting to know how to fix it. Simon walked him through a password manager, proper endpoint protection, and a clean split between his work and personal setups. He later rebuilt the agent's home network with a firewall, VLANs, and a DMZ.
That one conversation turned into Simon presenting to the whole insurance branch. The agent is now a close friend.
The pattern
These weren't one-offs. Over years of managing infrastructure, Simon watched the same story repeat. Clients got hit by attacks that five minutes of plain training would have caught: a phishing email, a reused password, an unpatched plugin. The damage was always real, and always avoidable.
Most of the people on the receiving end had never sat through a single cybersecurity lesson.
AI changed the math.
Scams got harder to spot almost overnight. There are deepfaked phone calls. There is phishing written by an LLM that reads like your actual colleague. There are automated attacks that adjust as you push back. Even people who do this for a living get caught off guard.
The gap between the attacker's toolkit and the average person's instincts widens every month. Teaching people has never been more worth doing.
What bothered Simon most.
The people who actually understand cybersecurity tend to be well-off, technical, or both. Everyone else is on their own. Kids bump into threats before anyone explains what they are. Seniors get drained by scams nobody warned them about. And the communities with the least digital literacy end up absorbing most of the damage.
Being safe online should not depend on where you grew up, how much you earn, or what school you went to.
That is the sentence Webnestify Education was built around.
Six values, no small print.
Digital safety is a right.
Not a premium feature. Not something only the technical crowd gets to have.
Education beats technology.
A person who knows what to watch for is harder to fool than any firewall.
Knowledge should be open.
Open materials, open books, open-source habits. If people can't check what you do, there's no reason for them to trust you.
Independence.
What we teach is driven by what people need to know, not by what some vendor is trying to move off the shelf.
Honesty over fear.
No scare tactics, no hype. We say what we know and admit what we don't. We treat readers like adults who can handle it.
Protecting humans, not devices.
Technology is supposed to work for people, not against them. Our measure of success isn't a dashboard; it's whether the people we reach feel less on edge online.
The bigger goal we keep pushing toward: cybersecurity as a proper subject , in every school.
Webnestify Education exists to help real people today: talks at schools, free materials, workshops in communities that usually get overlooked.
Slovakia is where we start. Europe is the realistic next step. The world is the long view.
The bigger change will take years. Every country has its own way of writing a curriculum, and none of them hurry. We're in year one. Every talk, every workshop, every bit of evidence adds one rung to the ladder.
See the plan →- Evidence. Every talk counted.
- A curriculum whitepaper.
- Coalition with NGOs and teacher unions.
- Pilot programmes inside real schools.
- Policy work. Slovakia first, then EU, then further out.
Who is behind this.
Cloud and security engineer based in central Slovakia. Founded Webnestify s.r.o. in 2021 and has since spent a lot of hours running infrastructure for agencies and businesses across Europe, Asia, and a handful of odd places in between.
He started Webnestify Education because the same pattern kept showing up: people only learned about security after something already went wrong. That felt like something worth fixing upstream.
They're not part of day-to-day operations, but Webnestify Education would not exist on paper without them.
Supported by Webnestify s.r.o. · operated independently.
Cloud infrastructure and security services. Lends its expertise, hands, and reach to the nonprofit at no cost.
Runs its own decisions about content and direction. Nobody on the commercial side gets a vote on the teaching.
Nobody on the commercial side gets to shape the teaching. That is the rule we run by, and we put it in plain writing because donors and schools deserve to know where they stand.
Both organisations care about the same things: openness, security, privacy, and helping people hold their own around technology.
Referrals do happen. A university that books a free talk might, later, hire Webnestify s.r.o. for something commercial. If they do, it's because the work earned it, not because of a funnel. The connection is here in plain sight, and we're not awkward about it.
Read more on transparency →The early honest note.
Webnestify Education is only a few months old. We're writing the first materials, booking the first talks, and recording the first podcast episodes right now.
Listen to the podcast when it launches. Read the guides as they land. Judge us by the work, not by the promises.