Overview
What is Threat Prevention?
Threat prevention is the strategy and measures used to identify, mitigate, and defend against potential threats to your network and systems. By integrating NordLayer’s protection and NordStellar’s detection capabilities, you minimize the risks and can act swiftly if threats bypass your defenses. This combination covers every aspect of cybersecurity, ensuring your business is safeguarded from unauthorized access, malware infections, leaked employees' credentials, and other security incidents.
Secure the company network
Implementing multi-layered access controls ensures complete network security—protecting only the perimeter is no longer enough.
Protect devices anywhere
Secure your own devices against outside threats and detect jailbroken devices that can be used for malicious purposes.
Respond to incidents quickly
In the event of a perimeter breach, quick action is needed to narrow the area of attack and limit the scale of infiltration.
COMPREHENSIVE DEFENSE
Protect, detect, and respond with NordLayer & NordStellar
NordStellar is a threat exposure management platform that provides real-time visibility from an external perspective. When combined with NordLayer’s robust network protection, you get a powerful defense system. NordLayer safeguards your network perimeter, while NordStellar detects data leaks and infrastructure vulnerabilities early, allowing you to respond effectively. Together, they ensure you stay protected from all angles.
NORDLAYER’S PROTECTION
Start with prevention: fortify with NordLayer
NordLayer plays a crucial role in threat prevention by securing your network’s perimeter and controlling access. Here’s how:
Data Interception & eavesdropping
Data interception and eavesdropping happen when unauthorized entities capture and read data as it moves through a network, risking your sensitive information.
How NordLayer can help: VPN encryption safeguards your data in transit, ensuring it stays confidential, even on public networks.
Unauthorized network access
Unauthorized network access is when someone enters your network or system without permission, which can lead to data theft or damage.
How NordLayer can help: With strict access control and multilayered authentication, NordLayer prevents unauthorized users from infiltrating your network, securing your sensitive systems from breaches.
Man-in-the-Middle attacks
Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks occur when an attacker secretly intercepts and possibly changes the communication between two parties.
How NordLayer can help: Secure VPN connections block these interceptions, protecting data integrity during transmission and ensuring communication remains private.
Lateral movement within networks
Lateral movement refers to an attacker navigating through a network after gaining access, aiming to compromise more systems and data.
How NordLayer can help: Cloud firewall’s network segmentation restricts lateral movement, isolating breaches and containing potential damage within the network.
Phishing and malware attacks
Phishing and malware attacks trick users into revealing sensitive information or installing harmful software, leading to data theft and other breaches.
How NordLayer can help: DNS filtering blocks access to dangerous sites, reducing the risks. The upcoming Download Protection feature will soon enhance security by detecting malware in downloaded files, protecting user data and credentials.
NORDSTELLAR DETECTION
Threat exposure management with NordStellar
NordStellar offers real-time visibility and actionable insights through threat intelligence to detect and respond to data leaks and infrastructure vulnerabilities before they escalate. It helps you stay ahead by monitoring data exposure and identifying potential risks, enabling swift and confident responses to threats.
Data breach monitoring
NordStellar helps you thoroughly examine the deep and dark web to uncover incidents involving exposed employee and company data. Equip your security team to detect signs of malware, leaked information, and compromised credentials to prevent data breaches and ransomware attacks on your organization.
Account takeover (ATO) prevention
Automatically cross-reference compromised credentials from the deep and dark web with your employee, customer, and partner accounts. This approach allows you to recover compromised user accounts and safeguard against identity theft and online fraud.
Attack surface monitoring
Monitor your organization’s external-facing assets—such as domains, IP addresses, and cloud resources—to identify vulnerabilities and assess risk posture. Gain comprehensive visibility into potential weaknesses by uncovering critical vulnerabilities and tracking suspicious activities.
Session hijacking prevention
Utilize recaptured stolen data from the deep and dark web to identify users affected by info stealer malware. Detect and invalidate compromised active session cookies while marking devices associated with compromised sessions for further action.
Dark web monitoring
Track keywords linked to your business across dark web forums, deep web search engines, illicit markets, and other sources. This proactive monitoring helps you identify data leaks early and prevents them from escalating into significant security threats.
THREAT PREVENTION
Attackers target corporate networks
76%
of businesses experienced a cyberattack in the last year
65%
of companies say data breaches have negatively impacted reputation
65%
of IT admins say the severity of attacks is increasing
SOLUTIONS
Protect your business from cyber threats
FEATURES
Explore our threat protection features
ThreatBlock
Network segmentation
2FA
Smart remote access
Jailbroken device detection
Biometric authentication
SSO
OUR INSIGHTS
Threat Prevention resources
Additional info
Frequently asked questions
Threat Prevention is a term used to describe the way security solutions work together towards protecting the business network from malicious behavior or malicious code. Different features work in different ways to contribute to a multi-layered security offering that integrates into the existing network infrastructure.
Threat Prevention is crucial to organizations because it is in their best interests to protect valuable assets, data, and resources that are stored within their networks. Today, cyberattacks and threats are more frequent than ever and can appear in many different forms. Having a robust and adaptive security solution like NordLayer can prevent these events from happening in the first place, or limit the scale of damage if they do occur.
Businesses have traditionally been a main target for cyberattackers and malicious software that steal data, look to acquire information, or disrupt everyday operations. Whilst it's difficult to forecast the intentions of a cyber attack, we know that data theft for the purpose of leaking it into the public domain is a common occurrence — as is ransomware, which threatens to release sensitive information unless a financial sum is paid. These are common threats to business networks and the kinds of threats that NordLayer’s security features work to prevent.
The tools that are used to prevent imminent threats can include anything from endpoint Threat Prevention for devices connecting from remote locations, secure access management to ensure all users have authorization to reach certain areas of the network, or even a Business VPN to shield activity and data transfer from untrusted users. A full range of security features for Threat Prevention is offered by security solutions for modern businesses — like NordLayer.