An armored shield includes an armor plate, an elongated spine member and a securing snap member. The modular armored shield is formed of the armor plate placed on two resting surfaces of a backside of the spine member with a hump portion of the elongated spine member extending through an armor plate slot and a securing snap member being mounted to the hump portion of the spine member with the hump portion extending through a securing snap slot. A modular armored shield assembly includes a plurality of armor plates joined at edges where at least one of two adjacent plates has threaded studs extending from the surface thereof and the other of said two adjacent plates has edges slots opening to the edge thereof at positions corresponding to positions of the studs. The modular armored shield assembly further includes a securing strip. The armor shield assembly is formed of two armor plates attached to one another by sliding the threaded studs into the edge slots, placing the securing strip on the threaded studs and screwing nuts onto the threaded studs.