Shield is the same calm hardware in every household. The difference is what it quietly takes care of for you.
The kids are watching something on the lounge-room TV, the parents are on the laptop in the kitchen. Shield quietly filters the whole house. Ads, trackers, adult content, threats. No one needs to reach for an app or sign into a portal. Pause the kids' iPad without touching the rest of the network.
Shield Core for households
If you do legal, journalism, healthcare or executive work from home, the network is part of your professional surface. Shield is a calm, sovereign appliance you can put behind your modem to keep filtering and management on your network. No vendor cloud. No telemetry pipeline back to anyone.
Read the threat model
If your default is to choose Australian where you reasonably can, Shield is a small home network appliance designed and engineered in Australia, by a small team you can email. We tell you exactly what's underneath: Pi 5, Debian, AdGuard hardened, signed updates. And what we do with it.
About WOMBATS
Architects, accountants, design studios, small clinics. Five to twenty devices, sensitive data, no IT person, and no appetite for a vendor cloud sitting in the middle of every DNS lookup. Shield is the appliance you put on the wall once and keep there for years.
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Real Pi 5 hardware. Debian 12 base. Hardened AdGuard Home. Signed update path. Secure-element-backed unlock. The local UI doesn't require an account anywhere. Open underneath, calm on top.
How it works
Shield Vault's Wi-Fi access point mode gives you your own filtered Wi-Fi network on hotel Ethernet. For the family devices, the work laptop and the kids' iPad. None of it routes through a hotel captive portal you don't trust.
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