NordLayer has released a new feature called Device Posture Monitoring, which allows companies to determine whether a device is compliant with existing cybersecurity policies and can be trusted to access company resources.
Device Posture Monitoring (DPM) is a part of the company’s zero trust network access (ZTNA) technology.
This solution helps determines a device’s compliance with the company’s security rules no matter where the device is located, increasing the security of the company’s network. With a set of predefined rules, an IT admin can monitor access to company resources and conduct regular virtual checks for updates of the already approved devices.
Main Features of Device Posture Monitoring include:
- Alerts for any devices unknown to the network: If the company policy requires use of only trusted/known devices, DPM enables verification of each device separately, and if an unknown device is used in the network, an alert is activated.
- OS-based limitations: If a company is using, for example, Windows devices only, the IT admin can create an alert for using any other device (Linux or macOS). The same goes for an OS version if the admin has imposed version-based limitations.
How Device Posture Monitoring Works
“DPM is a tool to collect information about whether devices that meet certain requirements are being used to connect to the network,” says Andrius Buinovskis, a product manager at NordLayer. “Factors taken into account include whether these are devices known to administrators, whether the device is configured properly, and whether the expected operating system is used. In the case of mobile devices, it checks if the device has been jailbroken (iOS) or rooted (Android). Having this monitoring tool is important because based on mentioned triggers and alerts, it will then be possible to block access when the device fails to comply with predefined rules.”
