Zero Trust solutions
When your company’s offices are located in almost every employee’s living room, maintaining security becomes an ever-growing concern. And it calls for a progressive security strategy. To meet this need, NordLayer brings the standard-setting Zero Trust model. It combines first-rate solutions that are modular, scalable, and easy to integrate, ensuring comprehensive protection for your hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
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Benefits
Why Zero Trust?
Modern businesses require a flexible security model that works for, not against, the complexities of an ever-changing workplace. Embrace your hybrid workforce. Protect your employees, data, and commercial bottom line.
Improves your security posture
In the Zero Trust system, tools are designed to allow users access only to the resources and systems necessary for them to do their work. This makes it way more difficult for anyone to gain unauthorized access to your internal systems and sensitive data.
Reduces possible threat surface
If a data breach occurs, the Zero Trust policy repeatedly checks users and works to minimize data exposure. This approach helps reduce the risk of cyber attacks, stop the spread of leaked information, and prevent the breach from spiraling out of control.
Increases your compliance levels
Zero Trust includes analytical security features such as Network Access Monitoring, Device Posture Monitoring, and centralized enforced controls like Always On VPN. These features make it so much easier for your organization to comply with various data protection regulations and cybersecurity requirements.
Strengthens your endpoint security
With the Zero Trust approach, features like ThreatBlock and DPI help protect your devices from accessing harmful content. Additionally, device posture checks keep admins informed about unprotected or non-compliant devices, even if the user is unaware that their device is rooted or jailbroken.
Protects your on-site & remote workforce
Zero Trust strengthens security for on-site & remote employees by encrypting data tunnels and blocking harmful content. It ensures that the users can securely access internal company resources and sensitive information, even when working miles away from the office.
Boosts agility & scalability
Zero Trust policy can be applied per-user & per-resource basis, allowing your organization to easily adjust security measures as needed. This flexibility helps your company stay agile and responsive to emerging threats and evolving business demands.
PROTECT YOUR BUSINESS
Align your business goals with Zero Trust approach
Zero Trust principles offer wide-ranging protection against various cyber threats while giving admins a variety of customizable options to secure the network. Implement Zero Trust and tackle key security challenges head-on.
Identity & access management
Identity and Access Management (IAM) ensures that each employee has the appropriate verification level, such as single sign-on, biometrics, two-factor authentication, and user provisioning tools, for accessing resources, secure data, and other necessary information. Nothing more, nothing less.
Zero Trust Network Access
A Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) solution applies the Zero Trust model to decrease the likelihood of attacks. It does this by restricting access to certain applications and preventing potential threats from spreading within the network. Additionally, it utilizes device security checks for more efficient security enforcement.
Cloud Firewall
The cloud firewall service allows organizations to carefully control who has access to their internal resources and cloud tools, and how they access them. This extra layer of control and security is particularly beneficial for organizations that rely on a hybrid cloud network for their operations.
REINFORCE YOUR CYBER SECURITY
Start your Zero Trust journey with NordLayer
Want to start with Zero Trust? NordLayer offers a range of solutions to help you level up your security. Whether you have specific business requirements or want to strengthen your current infrastructure — we’re here to make your Zero Trust journey as smooth as possible.
Secure identities
Secure network access
AES 256-bit encryption
We utilize powerful AES 256-bit encryption to safeguard your data from cyber threats.
Diskless servers
NordLayer’s network uses diskless servers, which means we don’t store any data, so it can’t be accessed, copied, or leaked.
Credential separation
Instead of using personal credentials when connecting to the NordLayer cloud, our infrastructure employs service credentials, offering enhanced security for organizations.
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ADDITIONAL INFO
Frequently asked questions
Zero Trust security is a modern approach to network security designed to address shortcomings of legacy networks by transitioning to a model based on the principle of “trust none, verify all.”
In today’s world, workforces are more agile and distributed. Perimeter security is becoming more blurred, and as corporate networks become more complex, legacy security models are becoming less effective. The modern enterprise network spans multiple environments, including on-premise, cloud-based, and remote resources. Protecting these environments against cyberattacks requires the deep visibility and granular protection that Zero Trust provides.
Instead of granting unlimited access to corporate resources, a Zero Trust security strategy provides access on a case-by-case basis. These access decisions are based on Role-Based Access Controls (RBAC), where users are only assigned the access and permission necessary to deliver their job roles effectively.
Benefits of Zero Trust include:
- Enhanced network security
- Safer data
- Protection against new and known cyber threats
- Reduced impact from breaches
- Potential cost reductions
Zero Trust is a strategy or approach rather than a single product and is based on a number of Zero Trust principles. An effective Zero Trust strategy is one that enforces its principles consistently across the entire IT environment. Without the right solutions, this can be difficult to achieve and results in a complex and challenging to manage security architecture. Initial steps include:
- Designing a robust Zero Trust approach
- Phasing out of legacy solutions
- Defining access controls
- Deploying Zero Trust Network Access with other SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) components:
- Secure Web Gateway (SWG)
- Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB)
- Firewall as a Service (FwaaS)
Yes. You can use Zero Trust in a hybrid or fully cloud-led environment, although hosting an application in the cloud is now more cost-effective than a data center. However, these cloud environments are not part of an organization’s network, so the same type of network controls do not apply. This means that data is spread out across multiple sites, and visibility of who is accessing which data (and on what devices) is more difficult to follow.
To address these issues, modern companies are using several access technologies — depending on where their resources and data are located:
Data centers — When storing data on-premises, remote network access or business VPNs are utilized.
Private applications — A Software-defined perimeter (SDP) is used for data kept within company apps.
Public cloud — An inbound proxy or virtual firewall is used to protect resources in the cloud.
SaaS applications — For securing data within software-as-a-service (SaaS) apps, companies will opt for a Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB).