Identity Protection Takes An Interesting Turn With Credit Sesame’s Gratis Solution


Identity Protection has always been one of the most critical aspects of online existence. Credit Sesame might have just introduced a highly appealing option.

Though unimaginatively named ‘Identity Theft Protection‘, the product is anything but. The product offers online safeguard against identity theft. The standard, no-cost identity theft protection service comes with $50,000 worth of Identity Theft Insurance to protect against financial losses. In addition, the service offers the ability to talk with an Identity Restoration Specialist if needed. People who are already members simply need to go into their account and activate the free Credit Monitoring feature to get the identity theft service. Additionally, for the paranoid, Credit Sesame also offers a premium ID theft protection service which comes with $1 Million worth of identity theft insurance for just $9.95 a month.

Identity Theft and in turn Identity Protection are more important than ever in the online world. In the recent past, multiple companies, including big brand Target, have been effectively broken into and hackers have successfully made away with financially sensitive data of 40 Million people. This data is then put up for sale. Though the data may not be as valuable as Social Media accounts in the long run, such incidents continually emphasize the importance of securing oneself before the need arrives and one is left with nothing to safeguard.

By offering its comprehensive Identity Protection solution, Credit Sesame has upset the balance and livelihood of companies like LifeLock, Bankrate and Credit Karma. In fact, for the time being, it appears the company has completely replaced LifeLock, reports SavingAdvice. Credit Sesame’s CEO, Adrian Nazari, firmly believes that introducing free Identity Theft Protection to consumers will be extremely disruptive to companies like LifeLock.

However, Identity Protection is never a surefire solution to ‘prevent’ Identity Theft in the first place. It is essentially a continually monitoring solution that helps detect abnormal patterns which can be indicative to identity theft in progress. In other words, ID theft protection can possibly help detect identity theft much more quickly, than if the person was on a constant vigil and kept track of one’s credit.

Quite recently, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) had its datacenters breached and 27,000 employees had sensitive data like names, addresses, dates of birth and Social Security numbers exposed. UPMC is said to be closely working with Internal Revenue Service, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Secret Service and Information Technology (IT) professionals to help ascertain the damage. Products from Credit Sesame & the like do that for a subscriber independently & autonomously.

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