Protecting your online privacy is an impossible task. Even if you use common sense and take protective steps to help safeguard your accounts and data (like using two-factor authentication and a VPN), the rampant spread of third-party data leaks makes complete privacy unattainable.
NordProtect tries to mitigate this reality. While it can offer proactive privacy-minded services, like NordVPN and Incogni, the majority of NordProtect is designed to reduce the problems caused by data leaks that have already occurred. It’s an affordable and easy-to-use service, though it’s hard to gauge how effectively it safeguards your privacy.
NordProtect is not software. It’s also not one service or product. It's a bundle that packages a variety of data privacy and ID theft protection services. The Silver subscription includes dark web and credit score monitoring, plus insurance against ID theft and online fraud (contracted through an insurance company called HSB Specialty Insurance Company). It’s really a bundle of insurance products with a few data monitoring tools on the side.
Upgrading to Gold snags you additional insurance and a subscription to NordVPN. If you move to Platinum, the highest tier, you gain even more monitoring features (like criminal records and short-term loan monitoring) and access to Incogni, a service owned by Nord Security, which tries to prevent data brokers from selling your personal data.
Lots of Alerts, Not Much to Do
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The fact that NordProtect is a bundle of services, some from third parties, made me think it would be confusing to use. Fortunately, that's not the case. NordProtect’s ease of use is the best reason to subscribe.