Our entire channel is about finding the best way to protect your identity from cyber crimes, and in this video I walk you through how I decide what the “best identity theft protection” actually looks like in 2025. I break it down into the boxes that matter: monitoring all three credit bureaus, scraping as much PII off the internet as possible (which means dealing with data brokers), catching what’s already been exposed in breaches, and having a real insurance policy for when the worst happens. I also answer the question I get constantly: can you do this for free? Yes—but I don’t recommend it. Free means freezing all three bureaus yourself, using a free scanner like Optery to find where your info is posted, then manually submitting takedown requests over and over because brokers rescrape and repost your data. That’s why I point people to Aura as a one-stop shop: three-bureau credit monitoring, dark web monitoring, automatic data broker removal, a vault that continuously monitors whatever you add, and simple credit locking—plus the standout features for me: $1M insurance per adult and 24/7 knowledgeable human support.