Simplify your security compliance journey
Step up your organization’s compliance alignment with NordLayer. Our solutions will actively contribute to your security checks, regular risk assessments, and help mitigate potential security threats for both on-site and remote employees. All for an easier compliance journey.
NECESSITY
Why do you need to comply with security regulations?
Improve your data management know-how
In today's fast-changing regulatory landscape, it's crucial for your organization to stay up-to-date with the latest cybersecurity solutions. Many modern industries have to meet mandatory regulatory standards with measures such as encrypted network usage, resource management features, and access control tools like SSO, biometrics, 2FA, and user provisioning.
NordLayer offers a comprehensive suite of these solutions, continuously improved to meet the highest compliance standards and maximize efficiency. Our goal is to ensure your business and your customers' data in transit is safe, always.
Maintain your business reputation
Personal information should remain personal. That’s why maintaining the privacy of your employees or clients private data is so crucial. NordLayer provides secure access to information and safeguards data traffic from external threats, preventing potential theft or leaks that could harm your reputation and financial performance.
Assure legal adherence & mitigate risks
Keeping up-to-date with compliance requirements relevant to your industry is essential to protecting your data effectively. However, some obligations can be mandatory, and non-compliance can result in substantial costs. Be mindful of the following common compliance regulations and standards:
- European General Data Protection Act (GDPR)
- California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
- Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS)
- International Standard to Manage Information Security (ISO 27001)
- System and Organization Controls Standard (SOC 2)
MANAGEMENT TRIGGERS
The challenges of security compliance control
Evolving security environments
Security threats and compliance demands are fast to change. They need a proactive response from organizations to combat new threat levels, key issues and adhere to new regulations.
Distributed workforce & endpoints
Network infrastructures are becoming more dispersed as employees move towards hybrid and remote setups. Tracking and managing all of these endpoints is a challenge for any organization
Larger teams
Coordination of teams and infrastructures across a larger working environment can increase the complexity of compliance management. It means the cost will be far higher in the unfortunate case of a data breach.
Multi-country presence
Regardless of their size & industry, a lot of businesses today have employees spread across multiple countries. Since all of those different countries usually have varying regulations, this makes compliance and management a real challenge.
Manual processes
In the past, using spreadsheets, file shares, and documents to manage compliance simply made sense. However, these tools are not designed to keep up with the constantly changing industry regulations, and updating them manually can be very time-consuming.
BENEFITS
How can NordLayer contribute to your organization’s compliance?
With the growing trend of hybrid & remote work, ensuring regulatory compliance on a larger scale is now more challenging than ever. As part of Nord Security, our sole focus is on providing a wide range of top-notch cybersecurity solutions to help you meet, maintain, and exceed compliance.
Encrypting data traffic at all times
Without exceptions, we use advanced technologies to maintain data confidentiality during its transfer. With Shared Gateways that work with advanced VPN protocols like NordLynx, we ensure that your transferring data is encrypted and your IP is masked to the open internet.
Providing efficient monitoring, logging, and auditing solutions
By monitoring your network activity, you’re able to prevent, investigate various incidents and ensure secure communication channels. NordLayer helps to inspect the usage logs to identify who used secured connections and when they used them.
Allowing only compliant devices to access internal network
Constant device inspection helps you better evaluate the network’s overall security & health. Our solutions enable you to monitor devices connecting to the company's network and to restrict access for non-compliant devices based on predefined rules.
Helping implement access segmentation for resource protection
In the event of a breach, network segmentation is vital to limit unauthorized access within your network. Enhance this security measure with our Cloud Firewall, allowing precise control over who can access what resources, ports, and protocols tailored to specific roles within your organization.
Ensuring Zero Trust approach
Additional confirmation is necessary to ensure only authorized users can access data protected under compliance directives. Therefore, NordLayer follows the Zero Trust approach – at each step, it allows you to enforce 2FA, SSO, and biometrics checks, keeping network controls tight & secure.
EVALUATION
Do you know your compliance management level?
Long lists of security compliance standards can be overwhelming, to say the least. However, it's essential to evaluate your current level of safety and plan your next steps to ensure your organization meets various regulations and standards globally.
SOC 2 Type 1 compliance assesses an organization's cybersecurity controls at a specific point in time to ensure sufficient and well-designed internal controls to safeguard customer data.
SOC 2 Type 2 report provides an evaluation of a company's internal controls for safeguarding customer data and the effectiveness of those controls over a 3-12 months period.
SOLUTIONS
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Frequently asked questions
NordLayer helps its clients by providing a handful of cybersecurity solutions and adhering to regulations as a service provider so that NordLayer's clients can pursue various information security certifications. However, regulatory compliance is a complex topic, and our tools alone will not be sufficient to make you fully compliant, but they will still contribute to your bigger compliance picture.
The primary purpose of security compliance is risk management and meeting industry standards. The first step towards this is equipping your business with suitable safety tools that could help you control access and safeguard your resources from potential cyberthreats on the internet.
Companies should continually monitor and review their systems to ensure security and industry standards compliance. Following a few necessary steps will help your organization make strides toward full security compliance:
- Identify any practices or systems that are vulnerable or currently non-compliant.
- Create the next steps towards compliance based on the resource needed and potential impact or severity.
- Efficiently action those steps and address any system issues that require immediate action.
- Log the applied changes and monitor the results.