NordLayer in review: why do you think it’s good?

Discover the edge that NordLayer's advanced security brings to businesses worldwide, straight from the industry's vanguard and users like you.

NordLayer review

Forbes Technology Council

Forbes Technology Council

Official member 2022

Cyber Security Global Excellence Awards

Cyber Security Global Excellence Awards

By Globee Business Excellence Awards 2022

Next Gen Cybersecurity-as-a-Service

Next Gen Cybersecurity-as-a-Service

By Global Infosec Awards 2022

Best-Of Enterprise VPNs

Best-Of Enterprise VPNs

By Expert Insights Spring 2022

EXPERT ENDORSMENTS

Industry experts give their nod to NordLayer

When it comes to securing digital assets, savvy businesses listen to the top names in cybersecurity. NordLayer earns consistent praise for its robust security features and intuitive design, underlining its reputation as a trusted ally in the business tech landscape.

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The user-friendly design, compatibility with popular IAM providers, and the option to customize according to business requirements make NordLayer a recommendable choice. The anticipation of the Cloud Firewall feature hints at NordLayer's ongoing commitment to advancing and adapting to the ever-changing cybersecurity landscape.

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NordLayer makes it easier to manage the task of securing a network, especially for small businesses. If your company needs access to its resources for workers or wants to establish secure connections between different office locations, then NordLayer is highly recommended. It's a solution for medium-sized businesses that have smaller IT teams.

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CYBERSECURITY SIMPLIFIED

What is NordLayer?

NordLayer provides flexible and easy-to-implement cybersecurity tools for businesses of any size or work model developed by the standard of NordVPN.

We help organizations secure networks in a stress-free way. NordLayer enhances internet security and modernizes network and resource access with technical improvements aligning with the best regulatory compliance standards. Helping organizations to adopt FWaaS, ZTNA, and SWG principles, NordLayer is focused on the Security Service Edge of cybersecurity services.

Quick and easy to integrate with existing infrastructure, hardware-free, and designed with ease of scale in mind, NordLayer meets the varying growth pace and ad-hoc cybersecurity requirements of agile businesses and distributed workforces today.

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We are compliant — what about you?

GDPR Compliance

GDPR Compliance

HIPAA Compliance

HIPAA Compliance

ISO 27001 Compliance

ISO 27001 Compliance

PCI-DSS Compliance

PCI-DSS Compliance

Soc 2 Type 2 Compliance

Soc 2 Type 2 Compliance

NIS2 Compliance

NIS2 Compliance

TECHNICAL BENEFITS

Why choose NordLayer?

Experience a collection of superior, tech-focused features meticulously designed to maximize optimization, fortify security, and simplify network management, making it exceptionally suitable for IT administrators.

Technical benefits

BUSINESS EDGE

Elevating your business with NordLayer

Simple setup & scalability

Simple setup & scalability

NordLayer effortlessly integrates with your existing infrastructure as a cloud-based, hardware-free solution. Deployment takes just 2 minutes, and it easily adapts to your technology stack, allowing you to scale users and servers seamlessly, ensuring that your workflow is never interrupted.

Tailored to every business size

Tailored to every business size

From startups and SMBs to enterprises, NordLayer offers adaptive solutions that scale effortlessly. Its agile services start with a minimum of five seats, offering robust security that evolves with your business size, accompanied by flexible pricing plans and dedicated account management for enhanced guidance.

Streamlined network management

Streamlined network management

NordLayer’s intuitive Control Panel centralizes network access control, enabling effortless management and quick implementation of security measures. It ensures simplicity and efficiency in navigation, rule creation, and restrictions, making the task easier for IT administrators and end-users.

Continuous expert support

Continuous expert support

NordLayer prides itself on a customer support team that is knowledgeable, responsive, and available 24/7. They provide swift and efficient solutions, ensuring that customer queries and issues are addressed promptly and professionally.

Comprehensive decision-making tool

Comprehensive decision-making tool

We provide a wealth of supporting materials and tools, simplifying every stage, from decision-making to security implementation and team onboarding. It ensures that choosing and adapting the SSE solution to your organization is a smooth and well-guided process.

Unlock global business potential

Unlock global business potential

With NordLayer, enhance your global business strategies by securely accessing and analyzing geo-specific content. It enables teams to mask IP addresses, facilitating secure browsing and testing from selected countries, opening doors to global market insights.

Flexible pricing options

Flexible pricing options

NordLayer offers a range of pricing plans—Lite, Core, Premium, and Custom—each meticulously designed to meet distinct business challenges and needs, ensuring that you receive a tailored service that aligns perfectly with your requirements.

Expansive gateway locations

Expansive gateway locations

Opt for NordLayer and access a growing network of over 30 shared gateway locations. This constant expansion ensures sustained service quality, offering businesses a wide range of locations to choose from for enhanced connectivity and performance.

USE CASES

What NordLayer is best for?

Secure employees access to internet with NordLayer

Secure internet access

  • Prevent online threats while browsing the internet using ThreatBlock.
  • Encrypt communication channels on public Wi-Fi in an airport, cafe, or hotel — anywhere your connection isn’t secure.
  • Protect your online presence by hiding your location with a masked IP address.
  • Provide a more secure and productive browsing experience by filtering specific content categories online.
Manage Private Access to resources with NordLayer

Manage network & resource access

  • Segment your user base & allocate resource access rights for hybrid network infrastructures.
  • Establish secure remote connections to sites, such as corporate and branch office networks.
  • Configure remote connection between two devices for remote control or file sharing.
  • Ensure that every device trying to access your network complies with your company security guidelines.
  • Secure third-party access to critical on-premise or cloud resources.
  • Deliver a smarter, more personalized experience to protect consumer privacy and enable secure interactions with your brand.
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Stay compliant

  • Monitor connectivity activities and device posture within the organization.
  • Restrict unauthorized third-party access to company resources.
  • Maintain the compliance requirements of ISO27001, GDPR, HIPAA, SOC Type 2, PCI-DSS, etc.

SECURITY APPROACH

NordLayer: singular SSE vendor

Zero Trust security

NordLayer provides modular and easily integrable Zero Trust solutions, safeguarding your hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Zero Trust security

Firewall as a Service (FWaaS)

Our cloud firewall service enables selective access, enhancing control and security in hybrid cloud networks.

Firewall as a Service (FWaaS)

Secure Web Gateway (SWG)

NordLayer’s Secure Web Gateway solutions enforce compliance and business policies, diligently filtering web content to protect against various online threats.

Secure Web Gateway (SWG)

INDUSTRY RECOGNITION

NordLayer shines on Gartner's ZTNA Peer Insights

NordLayer has earned a spot among the elite on Gartner's Peer Insights, recognized as a top-tier provider of Zero Trust Network Access with an impressive 4.6 out of 5 rating.

PLANS & PRICING

Find your fit: security solutions at every level

Lite

Lite

Essential internet access security with basic internet threat prevention features.

Core

Core

A suite of advanced internet access security & basic network access control solutions.

premium

Premium

A powerful blend of network access control solutions with more granular network segmentation and the ability to interconnect sites & devices.

Custom

Custom

Represent a large company with specific security needs? Let’s discuss tailoring our solution to your requirements!

SIMPLE TO BEGIN

How to get started with NordLayer?

  1. Sign up

    Follow a few quick & easy steps to create an account for your organization and receive access to our Control Panel.

  2. Explore

    Get a feel of our intuitive platform: try setting up teams, gateways, and see all capabilities. The best part? All of this is completely free!

  3. Choose your plan

    After browsing the Control Panel, activate your subscription by purchasing the most suitable pricing plan and start protecting your network!

Confidence in every click

Explore success stories from businesses leveraging NordLayer to boost their productivity, secure their operations, and ensure compliance with ease.

The less stress of my team has, the less questions come in, means the more of our time we can dedicate to improving the infrastructure for just being operations all the time. Because the NordLayer platform works so well, we don't need to address maintenance issues.

Stephen Boone

Stephen Boone

FastSpring

No more struggle with unexpected disconnections, constant re-logins, lost logs & client conversations once we onboarded NordLayer.

Dainius Kudarauskas

Dainius Kudarauskas

Eldorado.gg

Configuration was within 20 minutes — blocked public access and changed the IP address. It was as easy as it sounds.

Thomas Vodrazka

Thomas Vodrazka

DataWalk

With NordLayer, you don’t have to care how often your team scales or how many additional seats need to onboard. No extra network security technical integrations are required when a company is expanding. The solution covers all needs and escalates if the security goes in-depth for global optimization — everything is safe & sound within minutes.

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FROM THE NORD SECURITY ECOSYSTEM

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NordLocker

Powerful end-to-end encryption tool for storing, syncing, and sharing files securely.

Additional info

Frequently asked questions

Yes, NordLayer is completely safe to use. We employ AES-256 and ChaCha20 encryptions, which are highly trusted in the security community, for protecting data. Our array of protocols, including NordLynx, and OpenVPN ensures robust security across different devices. The focus on a Zero Trust framework further enhances NordLayer’s safety credentials.