NordVPN

About NordVPN

NordVPN is a consumer and business VPN service operated by Nord Security (NordSec Ltd), headquartered in Panama—a jurisdiction with no mandatory data retention laws and no membership of the Five Eyes, Nine Eyes, or Fourteen Eyes intelligence-sharing alliances. This jurisdictional choice is central to NordVPN's privacy proposition: the company cannot be legally compelled by US, EU, or UK authorities to produce user connection logs, and its audited no-logs policy has been independently verified by PwC and Deloitte on multiple occasions. The service covers over 6,000 servers across 111 countries, supporting protocols including NordLynx (based on WireGuard), OpenVPN, and IKEv2. NordVPN's proprietary NordLynx protocol delivers some of the fastest VPN throughput measured in independent benchmarks while maintaining strong encryption. Specialty servers include Double VPN (multi-hop routing through two servers), Onion over VPN, obfuscated servers for bypassing VPN detection in restrictive environments, and dedicated IP servers for organisations requiring a stable egress address. Threat Protection Pro is NordVPN's AI-enhanced security layer that operates independently of the VPN tunnel. It scans files for malware during download, blocks trackers and intrusive advertisements, and prevents connections to known phishing and malicious domains using continuously updated threat intelligence feeds. This adds a meaningful layer of endpoint-adjacent security beyond the privacy protections of the VPN itself. NordVPN Teams (now NordLayer) is the business-oriented product line providing centralised account management, dedicated gateways, SSO integration, and compliance-friendly network access controls suited to SMEs and enterprises. For individual subscribers, NordVPN offers apps for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, and browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox. Up to ten simultaneous connections are supported per account. For privacy-conscious individuals and organisations, NordVPN's combination of Panamanian jurisdiction, repeated independent no-logs audits, fast modern protocols, and AI-powered threat protection represents a compelling and compliance-aware choice. The basic plan starts at $3.99 per month on a two-year commitment, rising to $13.99 per month on a monthly basis.