Not Sure Where to Start With Online Safety? Ask MERENA.
It’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month, so a lot of advice is headed your way. Use strong passwords. Turn on two-step sign-in. Update your devices. Watch out for scams. It’s all good advice, and all at once is a lot.
Most people don’t skip it because they don’t care. They skip it because they don’t know where to start, what steps to take or what “good enough” looks like.
That’s what MERENA is for. MERENA is your personal cyber advisor: one place to bring every online safety question. You ask, it answers in plain language, and in many cases it does the checking for you.
One place for every question
Instead of a different website for every worry, bring them all to MERENA. It knows the accounts and services you use, so the answer fits you, and it tells you what to do next.
“Is my password good enough?”
Ask MERENA. Its Password Checker checks it for you, so you’re not guessing. It’s included with MERENA+ and in the MERENA Android app.
“Which antivirus should I use?”
You don’t need to read twenty review sites. Ask MERENA and get a recommendation for a trusted option that fits your situation, with steps to set it up.
“Has my email been in a data breach?”
MERENA checks for you. Type your email into the free breach check at the top of merena.com. It takes seconds, and you don’t need an account.
“Is this link safe?”
Paste it into MERENA before you click. MERENA checks it against its blocklist and Google Safe Browsing, so you know before you open it.
“Is this message a scam?”
Ask MERENA on merena.com, or chat with MERENA in the Android app on Google Play. You’ll get a straight answer and what to do next.
“Where are all my online accounts?”
In MERENA. Your online profile keeps the accounts and services you use in one place, and MERENA uses it to tailor your alerts and guidance. With MERENA+, your profile, alerts and next steps sit together on one dashboard.
What MERENA does for you
Asking is half of it. Because MERENA knows what you use, it also does a lot of the work in the background:
- Filters the noise. Instead of every security headline, you get alerts about what affects the accounts and services you use, by email and text.
- Tells you how urgent it is. An Immediate Action Alert means do something now. An Advisory Alert means be aware and be ready.
- Gives you steps, not lectures. Answers and alerts come with clear steps you can finish in minutes to limit your online risk.
- Keeps you on track. A weekly personalized report shows where you stand, and MERENA+ reminds you about safety steps you haven’t finished yet.
- Covers your family. MERENA+ for families includes up to 4 additional family members at no extra cost, and shows whose alert is whose.
Start with one question
You don’t have to fix everything this month, and you don’t have to figure it out alone. Pick the question that’s been nagging you and ask MERENA. If you’d like a short list of first steps, our Cybersecurity Awareness Month guide walks you through five.
