NordVPN has reportedly passed a third independent no-logs audit
NordVPN, one of the best VPNs around, recently completed a third-party audit of its no-logs claims, the company revealed on Tuesday. The audit was conducted by Deloitte, one of the Big Four auditing companies, between November 21 and December 10, 2022, which then confirmed in its independent reasonable assurance report that NordVPN did not store or record user activity logs during the audit.
What NordVPN has to say about recent developments
“Nord guarantees a strict no-logs policy for NordVPN services, which means that your internet activity while using NordVPN services is not monitored, recorded, logged, stored or sent to any third parties,” NordVPN says in its privacy policy. “We do not store bandwidth used, traffic logs, IP addresses, or browsing data.”
If a The VPN provider does not collect or store logs Regarding the activity of its users, the provider will not be able to provide any kind of data when requested by the authorities. And while a VPN’s no-logs claim can never be fully verified with 100% certainty, a third-party audit can provide ample assurance that the claims the VPN provides are true and is a key feature in providing transparency to consumers.
Inspect Deloitte server configuration and deployment process
And as part of its evaluation of NordVPN’s no-logs claims, Deloitte inspected the server configuration and deployment processes of NordVPN’s Standard VPN, Double VPN, Obfuscated, Onion Over VPN, and P2P servers. As of December 10, 2022, Deloitte found that “the NordVPN service is implemented as described.”
“Our users need to know they can trust us. When people use a VPN service, they need to know That it will not monitor their data“said Vykintas Maknickas, NordVPN’s product strategist. “They need to have confidence in its security and the functionality of its features and infrastructure. That’s what our audit process is all about.”
NordVPN’s no-logs claims were previously audited and confirmed by PwC in 2018 and 2020.
