Monitor the health of your online protection to improve your security and stay safe online. Included in McAfee Total Protection plans.
Take control of your online safety with Protection Score
Monitor the health of your online protection to improve your security and stay safe online. Included in McAfee Total Protection plans.
Here's an example of how
Protection Score works
Step 1:
Check your Protection Score to see how safe you are online.
Step 2:
We’ll alert you if we find your information in a data breach, so you can take immediate action.
Step 3:
We assist you in resolving the breach. Once resolved, your Protection Score goes up.
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What is Protection Score?
Protection Score checks the health of your online protection and provides simple steps to improve your security. Knowing how safe you are is the first step toward a safer life online.
How you’re protected with password manager
See how safe you are online
A quick assessment checks the strength of your online protection.
Fix security weak spots
Simple instructions make it easy to set up and fix gaps to improve your online security.
Improve your security
Personalized feedback helps you maintain healthy online protection.
Where can I find Protection Score?
Protection Score is included with McAfee Total Protection. You can access your score in the McAfee Protection Center.
What affects my Protection Score?
Activating McAfee protection on other devices will increase your score.
Running an antivirus scan will increase your score.
Scanning Wi-Fi for threats and activating VPN will increase your score.
Installing web protection to your preferred browser will increase your score.
Adding personal identifiable information (PII) to your identity monitoring will increase your score.
If your email is found in a data breach, your score will go down.
If your government ID or any financial info is found on the dark web, your score might drop more than an email or phone number.
When you resolve any identity breaches we find, your score will go back up.
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