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Price captures verified 2026-08-09; overall scores unpublished

Family Identity Protection Checklist

Use this checklist to harden a household’s identity basics before shopping for monitoring. Free freezes, MFA, and safe password sharing solve a large share of risk. When a leftover job remains, Aura Family showed $32/mo billed annually and Individual $12/mo annual on 2026-08-09; Incogni Family showed $15.99/mo billed annually the same day. Overall scores stay unpublished. Who should not buy: anyone who skipped the free steps or needs a published lab score before deciding.

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  • Checklist · Free-first · ~10 min read

Fastest free path

  1. 1List adults and dependents who need coverage
  2. 2Freeze credit for adults where available
  3. 3MFA on every adult email
  4. 4Stop unsafe password sharing
  5. 5Consider paid monitoring only if gaps remain
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Step-by-step guide

  1. 1

    Household inventory

    Free

    Know who shares devices and which accounts can reset money or email.

    • Adults, teens, and caregivers listed
    • Shared email/banking access noted
    • People-search exposure spot-checked
  2. 2

    Free identity controls

    Free

    Freeze and MFA before any subscription.

    • Credit freezes where available
    • MFA on email and finance
    • Unique passwords on recovery accounts
    • Bank and card alerts on
  3. 3

    Sharing hygiene

    Free

    Texted passwords and shared browser profiles outlive most monitoring plans.

    • Stop sending passwords in chat
    • Use a password manager for family shares if needed
    • Revoke access when someone leaves the household
  4. 4

    Optional paid tools

    Optional paid

    Aura is the pack monitoring shortlist when the household still wants alerts (Family from $32/mo billed annually; Individual $12/mo annual, 2026-08-09). Incogni Family from $15.99/mo annual fits broker-listing cleanup after DIY opt-outs.

    • Run Family Digital Safety Assessment if unsure
    • Affiliate CTAs only via /go/aura or /go/incogni
    • Skip if free checklist items are incomplete
    • Count adults before buying Family seats

What cannot always be removed

  • Guaranteed prevention of household fraud
  • Replacement for free freezes
  • Collection of SSN or children’s identity documents by our tools
  • A substitute for parental device controls

Sources

  • Aura / Incogni claim ledgers, Verified 2026-08-09 Family and Individual starting_price captures; scores unpublished
  • Vendor marketing pages, aura.com / incogni.com / joindeleteme.com / lifelock.norton.com feature and pricing claims, not independent evidence; re-verify same-day
  • Security Checklist methodology, How commercial pages are structured before scores publish, /methodology/
  • Claim ledger (T014), data/claim-ledgers/aura.json, incogni.json, deleteme.json, lifelock.json, surfshark.json: starting prices verified 2026-08-09; overall scores unpublished

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