Defend-ID
- Android app
- Not listed
- Free plan
- No
- Paid plans from
- $12.95/mo
- Runs on
- Web
Summary
Defend-ID monitors for identity threats and sends text and email alerts when it finds them. Personal plans include dark-web, Social Security number, criminal-data, address-change, and credit monitoring, with daily alerts on the listed plans. A Recovery Advocate manages the identity-theft recovery process and stays involved through recovery. Gold plans include one-bureau credit monitoring and up to $25,000 in expense reimbursement insurance; Platinum plans include three-bureau monitoring and up to $1,000,000 in that insurance. Monthly prices are 12.95 USD for Gold Individual, 15.95 USD for Gold Family, 16.95 USD for Platinum Individual, and 21.95 USD for Platinum Family. The family plan descriptions include children’s public-record monitoring. Defend-ID also offers defend-id4B breach-response services, including planning, regulatory response, managed fraud recovery, and business-fraud restoration. The company says this service includes regulatory experts, access to an AmLaw 100 law firm, a dedicated fraud specialist, and no deductibles. Services are for the United States and territories where U.S. law applies; credit products are for U.S. residents and territories. Individual, business, and group accounts can cancel through the account portal, subject to the plan process.
Who it is for
Defend-ID suits individuals or families seeking identity monitoring and managed recovery. Its separate defend-id4B offering is aimed at small employers needing breach-response services.
What is good
- Provides a personal Recovery Advocate.
- Gold and Platinum plans include daily credit alerts.
- Platinum plans monitor credit across three bureaus.
- Family plans include children’s public-record monitoring.
- Offers business breach-response services.
What to know first
- Services are limited to the United States and applicable territories.
- Gold credit monitoring covers one bureau.
- No free plan is listed.
- Monthly plans start at 12.95 USD per month.
Verdict
Defend-ID pairs identity monitoring with managed recovery, with plan differences in bureau coverage and reimbursement limits. Check the U.S. eligibility terms and monthly plan price before choosing a personal plan.
Defend-ID plans and pricing
All plansCompared on identity theft protection services
- Free plan
- Nodefend-id.com
- Paid from
- $12.95/modefend-id.com
- Dark-web monitoring
- Yesdefend-id.com
- Bank account monitoring
- Yesdefend-id.com
- SSN monitoring
- Yesdefend-id.com
- Account takeover monitoring
- Yesdefend-id.com
- Identity restoration
- Yesdefend-id.com
- Identity-theft insurance
- Yesdefend-id.com
Facts
- Core service
- defend-id searches for and monitors threats to users' identities and notifies them by text and email when it finds a threat.defend-id.com · 28 Sept 2026
- Recovery
- A personal Recovery Advocate takes over the recovery process and stays with the member until full recovery is achieved.defend-id.com · 28 Sept 2026
- Monitoring
- Personal plans include dark-web, SSN, criminal-data, address-change and credit monitoring, with daily alerts on the listed plans.defend-id.com · 28 Sept 2026
- Credit bureaus
- The service uses Equifax, Experian and TransUnion for identity authentication and credit products.defend-id.com · 28 Sept 2026
- Breach response
- defend-id4B provides pre-breach planning, post-breach regulatory response and notification services, managed fraud recovery, dark-web monitoring and business-fraud restoration.defend-id.com · 28 Sept 2026
- Breach support
- Breach-response support includes regulatory experts, access to an AmLaw 100 law firm, a dedicated fraud specialist, no deductibles and a stated 100% identity-fraud-restoration success rate.defend-id.com · 28 Sept 2026
- Small-business focus
- The company says its products and processes are designed for small employers and that protection can be activated today.defend-id.com · 28 Sept 2026
- Enrollment
- The partner offering provides fully digital enrollment, a stated 10-minute enrollment process and group sizes from 3 to over 100k.defend-id.com · 28 Sept 2026
- Security
- The privacy policy says registration and credit-report areas use SSL with 128-bit encryption and that physical, electronic and procedural safeguards protect information.defend-id.com · 28 Sept 2026
- Support
- The breach-response product lists a 24/7 customer support center, and the site publishes separate sales and recovery-support phone numbers.defend-id.com · 28 Sept 2026
- Eligibility
- The terms say defend-id services are provided in the United States and territories where U.S. law applies, and credit products are for U.S. residents and territories.defend-id.com · 28 Sept 2026
- Cancellation
- Individuals, business and group accounts can cancel through the defend-id portal account, subject to the plan's process.defend-id.com · 28 Sept 2026
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Sources
- defend-id.com/products/personalplans· checked 28 Sept 2026
- defend-id.com/understandingrisks/frequently-asked-que· checked 28 Sept 2026
- defend-id.com/products/breach-readiness-and-response· checked 28 Sept 2026
- defend-id.com/our-company· checked 28 Sept 2026
- defend-id.com/forpartners/· checked 28 Sept 2026
- defend-id.com/privacypolicy· checked 28 Sept 2026
- defend-id.com/terms· checked 28 Sept 2026