NETGEAR Armor offers a comprehensive suite of tools to help protect your home network and devices on the go. With AI-powered security, it helps to shield you from scams, viruses, and cyberthreats. Additionally, Armor reduces the risk of identity theft and helps keep your online activity private with robust VPN features.
All Armor plans now include Extended Warranty and Priority Technical Support.
Home Network Protection
NETGEAR Armor helps to protect all of the devices connected to your WiFi, including smartphones, smart TVs, security cameras, and door locks, from cyber threats.
Features:
- Advanced Malware Protection: Helps defend against viruses, spyware, ransomware, malicious links, and other online threats before they reach your network.
- Sensitive Data Protection: Helps safeguard your data, like login, credit card, and social security information by blocking requests to send private information via non-encrypted connections.
- Web protection: Alerts you and blocks access to malicious and potentially harmful websites.
- Network vulnerability assessment: Scans and identifies network flaws to deliver a weekly security report.
- Device detection and management: Allows you to manage or block devices that connect or attempt to connect to your network.
- Anomaly Detection: An AI-powered feature that identifies and blocks unusual behavior on your connected devices, helping to protect them from being hacked.
- Brute Force Protection: Prevents devices from being compromised by repeated failed login attempts and requests from suspicious sources. If a coordinated attack is identified, Armor blocks the connection at the device level and notifies you.
- DDoS Protection: Helps defend your network, cloud, and users against crippling denial-of-service attacks.
- Exploit Prevention/Intrusion Detection System: Helps safeguard your data and devices by blocking attacks that attempt to exploit vulnerabilities in your connected devices or software. Leverages Bitdefender’s malware engines, which enable the detection of more exploits as they are discovered.
- Dark Web Monitoring: Helps you stay in control of your digital identity by proactively scanning the dark web for personal information exposure and alerting you before your data can be exploited. For more information see, NETGEAR Armor Dark Web Monitoring.
Mobile Device Protection On The Go
The NETGEAR Armor app can be installed on up to 50 devices, and is available for Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS. For more information, see How do I install the NETGEAR Armor app on my devices?
Features:
- VPN with Adblocker and Anti tracker: Encrypts your Internet connection to keep your online activity and data more private on any network. Adblocker and anti-tracking technology helps block ads and keep your online activity more private, as well as enhancing performance by loading webpages faster.
- Web protection: Alerts you and blocks access to malicious and potentially harmful websites.
- Account Privacy: Monitors if linked email accounts have been breached and notifies you if it’s time to change passwords.
Note: This feature is available for iOS users only. - Cryptomining Protection: Helps prevent unauthorized cryptomining, ensuring top performance and strong digital security.
Note: This feature is available for Windows PC only. - Chat Protection: Helps safeguard instant messaging apps on Android from scams, phishing, and malicious links, keeping conversations safe and secure.
Note: This feature is available for Android users only. - Scam Alert: A proactive feature that shields iOS users from text message and calendar scams, providing a safer, stress-free mobile experience.
Note: This feature is available for iOS users. - Anti-theft Protection: Tracks the location of your devices. If your device is lost or stolen, you can remotely wipe your data.
Note: This feature is available for Android, PC, and Mac only.
Extended Warranty and Support
Features:
- Extended Warranty: Available for models purchased in US, UK, and Canada within last 3 years. Includes repairs and replacements, accidental damage coverage, and free express replacement service.
- Priority Technical Support: 24/7 Access to expert tech support for issues relating to your NETGEAR router or mesh system, exclusive support via phone, chat, and email.
Due to hardware limitations, a small number of older NETGEAR devices do not support all of the Armor features listed here. For a list of the devices and which features they do not support, see Which Armor features are not supported by some legacy NETGEAR devices?
For more information:
- NETGEAR Armor product page
- How do I install the NETGEAR Armor app on my devices?
- How do I check my NETGEAR Armor protection level?
- How do I subscribe to NETGEAR Armor after my free trial expires?