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Expanding our work to bring modernized, technology-based tools that serve the full spectrum of military family online safety needs, Aura initiates a partnership with WeSalute to bring the industry’s largest military discount (more than 60% off!) to American heroes and their families. Aura’s family, couple and individual online safety plans are now available through the marketplace, which offers exclusive benefits and discounts for active duty, retired military, veteran, guard, reservist and family members. Get the discount.

Just in time for Veterans Day, Aura appointed Lieutenant General Charles L. Moore Jr. to the position of Chief Military Advisor. Moore, a decorated F-16 pilot who retired from the United States Air Force in 2022, joined Aura’s Advisory Board to lead the company’s military community engagement strategy at every level – from consumer outreach to government advocacy. Read More

Aura and Andre Rush host an intimate dinner at Amali, New York City-based restaurant with Veteran chef. The hosts invited New York-based news media, local nonprofit partners and others to hear Aura Founder and CEO speak about the cybercrisis plaguing military families.

In honor of Military Appreciation Month 2023, Aura expands its military discount to offer military families one month free of Aura protection plans. Read More

Aura and Celebrity Chef Andre Rush launch campaign to spotlight the crisis of online crime plaguing the country. Together, Aura and Chef Rush encourage families to protect themselves in exchange for a chance to win tickets to the 2024 Army v. Navy football game, on December 9 at Gillette Stadium in Aura’s home state of Massachusetts. Read more.

As any military family knows, when a loved one is deployed, normal communication and connectivity can be disrupted or delayed. Unfortunately, that can mean a heightened risk to digital threats. Aura publishes a financial & online safety checklist for military families to explore before a loved one is deployed or stationed anywhere where normal connectivity may be disrupted. Download the Checklist.

Aura Head of Partnerships & Public Affairs Hilary Donnell joins Carla Sanchez-Adams from the National Consumer Law Center to help military families avoid identity theft, fraud and other cyber threats in honor of Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Watch the Webinar.

More than half a million military families relocate to a new duty station every year. Moving puts anyone at risk of digital crime, but with military families’ already higher-than-average vulnerability to online crime, they are especially susceptible. For the second year in a row, Aura partners with nonprofit Blue Star Families to bring military families around the country and in New England, the educational resources and technology based tools they need to stay safe during a PCS (Permanent Change of Station). Download the PCS Online Safety Guide.

Building upon our work with the national team, Aura announces a three-year partnership with the Blue Star Families chapter in our home community. This expansion deepened Aura's support of active-duty service members, veterans and military families, with Aura releasing new research on military families’ vulnerability to online crime, Founder and CEO Hari Ravichandran joining the organization’s local Advisory Board and expanding our focus on our local military community. Read more.

In honor of Military Appreciation Month, Aura Founder & CEO Hari Ravichandran and Blue Star Families CEO Kathy Roth-Douquet publish an op-ed advocating that the federal government to expand identity theft protection for military families, offering it for life as well as to all current, reserves and retired members of the military and dependents. The piece also encourages the government invest in modern tools that better serve the wide and growing spectrum of military family online safety needs. Read the Op-Ed.

In honor of the Month of the Military Child, Aura promotes children’s online safety resources in collaboration with Blue Star Families, through its national and New England Chapter channels. Download Aura’s Military Kids Online Safety Guide and Visit the Digital Talk.

Aura authors a letter of formal support for U.S. Representatives Elise Stefanik and Andy Kim’s Service member Credit Monitoring Enhancement Act (H.R.1521), voicing approval for their leadership on this critical consumer protection issue. Read the Proposed Legislation.

Aura CIO JR Tietsort joins Blue Star Families to talk about the disproportionate rates of online crime affecting military families in the organizations Money Mondays series. The series supports Blue Star Families’ fellowship program for military spouses from underrepresented backgrounds and is hosted by Lydiah Owiti, JP Morgan Chase Financial Wellness DEPLOY Fellow. Watch the Conversation.

With their clean and often unmonitored credit histories, many cybercriminals consider children to be an easy target. Given than Veterans, active-duty service members and their families are already at higher-than-average risk of cybercrime, Aura releases a guide to military children’s online safety — just in time for the holidays.  Download the Military Kids Online Safety Guide.

In honor of National Veterans and Military Families Month, Aura releases research highlighting how the American cybercrisis disproportionately affects Veterans, active-duty service members and their families. Read more.

Aura CMO Kristin Covi and Blue Star Families New England Chapter Executive Director share tips for military families to protect themselves online in honor of National Military Family Appreciation Month. Watch the Segment.

On Veterans Day, Aura CMO Kristin Covi and Blue Star Families New England Chapter Director Jeff Chin explain why military members are 40% more likely to be victims of cybercrime and what they can do to protect themselves. Watch the Segment.

In partnership with Cut, Aura interviews military couples separately to ask them about their relationships and how the military has changed their view of online safety. Watch the Video.

It’s no secret that military families are at higher than average risk of cybercrime. But within this community, there’s one specific group that data shows is especially vulnerable: Veterans. Of more than 200,000 reports to the FTC in 2021, over 78 percent were made by military retirees and Veterans. Aura releases insights on the Veteran cybercrisis and recommendations for how this group can better protect itself. Read the Research

To help protect the hundreds of thousands of military families that relocate to a new duty station every year, Aura releases a comprehensive guide to online safety during a Permanent Change of Station, including checklists for protective measures to take before, during and after a move. Download the Online Safety During PCS Guide and Checklist.

Aura and Blue Star Families announce the next evolution of their partnership. The expanded collaboration aims to address the higher-than-average rates of identity theft, fraud and other types of digital attacks among active-duty service members, Veterans and their families by delivering educational resources and intelligent safety tools to the organization's more than 1.5 million military family members. Read more.

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Aura, the leader in intelligent safety for consumers, announced that it will be offering a 50 percent discount on its family plan to current and former members of the military and their families in honor of Military Appreciation Month. Read More.

In honor of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Aura releases a comprehensive guide to avoiding digital threats, including background on the scale of the problem, reasons for military families’ higher-than-average vulnerability and tips for how they can better protect themselves in their online lives. Download the Guide.

Aura announces partnership with the nation's largest military family support organization, Blue Star Families, to reduce the risk of digital crime and financial fraud among the organization's network of more than 1.5 million military family members. Read more.

Aura establishes Aura Cares, the company’s Corporate Social Responsibility platform to support its mission of creating a safer internet for everyone. The programs pillars include innovation, to foster evolutions in online safety; inclusion, to support a more diverse industry and workforce that can support the needs of consumers and families of all backgrounds; and education, to support communities at higher-than-average risk of online crime — including military families — with resources and information to help them stay safe in their digital lives.