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FACTSHEET | Dec. 20, 2023

DoD Online Identity Protection Guide

DoD Identity Awareness, Protection, and Management Guide

Twelfth Edition, March 2021

The guide is divided into chapters detailing key privacy considerations on popular online services, mobile apps, and consumer devices available in the market today. Each section provides you with tools, recommendations, and step-by-step guides to implement settings that maximize your security. The guide is updated periodically.

While some of the chapters in the IAPM Guide deal with technical issues, they do not require a technical background to follow.

The U.S. Department of Defense creates this guide to provide recommendations for readers to keep their identities private and secure online. Please note the information presented here is subject to change.

As of posting, this guide is the most recent version.

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