NordVPN DIGITAL

Enterprise Technology Stack & Vendor Relationships

• NordVPN states that it is owned and operated by nordvpn S.A., and that Tom Okman and Eimantas Sabaliauskas created the service in 2012 ¹.

• Nord Security identifies affiliated entities in Lithuania, Germany, the Netherlands, and Delaware, while stating that group companies share infrastructure, systems, web hosting, and technology ².

• The disclosed affiliate list is non-exhaustive and does not establish an ultimate parent, complete legal-entity chart, shareholder register, or beneficial-ownership structure for NordVPN or Nord Security ^{1, 2}.

• Nord Security’s announced financing rounds identified Novator Ventures, Burda Principal Investments, General Catalyst, and Warburg Pincus as investors, but the announcements did not disclose ownership percentages or voting rights ^{3, 4}.

• No public evidence identified of NordVPN or Nord Security licensing, procuring, integrating, or otherwise using products or services from the reviewed Israeli-origin enterprise-technology vendors ^{3, 4, 5, 6}.

• No public evidence identified of a major systems integrator, digital-transformation consultancy, or IT-outsourcing partner deploying Israeli-origin technology for NordVPN or Nord Security ^{3, 4}.

Surveillance, Biometrics & Retail Technology

• No public evidence identified of NordVPN or Nord Security using Israeli-origin facial recognition, biometric identification, gait analysis, retail analytics, predictive policing, sentiment analysis, social-media monitoring, or workforce-surveillance products, whether directly or through a managed provider ^{3, 4}.

• No public evidence identified of NordVPN or Nord Security supplying surveillance, biometric, retail-analytics, or population-monitoring technology to Israeli state, military, intelligence, police, prison, or settlement-related actors ^{3, 4, 7}.

Cloud Infrastructure, Data Residency & Sovereign Cloud Participation

• NordVPN advertises Israel VPN servers and states that users can change their IP address to Tel Aviv, although the accessed page displayed 24 Israel servers while its body text referred to 20 ⁸.

• NordVPN states that it operates colocated and RAM-only servers globally, and its Trust Center says that a substantial portion of its VPN-server fleet is owned and managed internally alongside partner-hosted servers ^{5, 6}.

• The reviewed materials do not attribute NordVPN’s global server-operating models to the advertised Israel location specifically ^{5, 6, 8}.

• The advertised Israeli exit location does not establish that customer data is stored in Israel, that the underlying hardware is physically located there, or that all traffic through that exit location is legally accessible under Israeli jurisdiction ^{5, 6, 8}.

• The reviewed sources do not disclose the Israel location’s hosting provider, data-centre address, hardware ownership, virtual-location status, routing topology, transit providers, customer-data storage, or legal-access arrangements ^{5, 6, 8}.

• No public evidence identified of NordVPN or Nord Security participation in Project Nimbus, another Israeli government-cloud programme, or an Israeli state or military contract for data-sovereignty or resilience services ^{3, 4, 7, 9, 10}.

Defence, Intelligence & Security Sector Technology Relationships

• No public evidence identified of a NordVPN or Nord Security contract, partnership, service agreement, procurement award, tender, or other documented relationship with the Israeli Ministry of Defence, IDF, intelligence agencies, police, prison service, or another Israeli security body ^{3, 4, 7, 9, 10, 11}.

• No public evidence identified that NordVPN products were deployed by Israeli state actors for intelligence, law-enforcement surveillance, or operations in occupied territory ^{3, 4, 7}.

• No public evidence identified of NordVPN or Nord Security supplying offensive-cyber capabilities, zero-day exploit tools, digital weapons systems, or related operational technology to Israeli state actors ^{3, 4, 7}.

• No public evidence identified in the reviewed corporate materials or focused searches of an Israeli incorporation, office, R&D site, permanent establishment, or Israel-based Nord Security executive ^{1, 2, 6, 12}.

AI, Algorithmic & Autonomous Systems

• No public evidence identified of NordVPN or Nord Security providing AI or machine-learning systems, computer vision, autonomous decision-support, training-data access, or autonomous-tracking systems to Israeli state, military, or security bodies ^{3, 4, 7}.

• No public evidence identified linking NordVPN or Nord Security to civilian-population data, intercepted communications, or surveillance-derived datasets from Israel or the occupied Palestinian territory for model training or platform provision ^{3, 4, 7}.

• No public evidence identified of an Israeli AI, surveillance, SIGINT, cyber, or military-technology investment relationship involving the publicly named Nord Security founders or the board appointees disclosed in the financing announcements ^{3, 4}.

Technology Ecosystem & R&D Footprint

• Nord Security states that Tom Okman and Eimantas Sabaliauskas founded Nord Security in Lithuania in 2012, while its leadership page identifies Tomas Okmanas, Eimantas Sabaliauskas, and Jonas Karklys as co-founders ^{3, 13}.

• Nord Security’s leadership materials identify senior executives including COO Karina Dirvonskienė, CFO Laurynas Zabulis, General Counsel and Head of Public Policy Dina Lurje, and CTOs Marijus Briedis and Gediminas Lisauskas ¹³.

• A Nasdaq-hosted issuer disclosure describes Tomas Okmanas as CEO of UAB 360 IT, CEO and board member of Nord Security Group since 2017 and 2022 respectively, and founder and co-owner of Tesonet ¹⁴.

• Nord Security announced its acquisition of Atlas VPN in October 2021 and that it joined forces with Surfshark in early 2022, later describing the resulting group of companies with Surfshark ^{3, 4}.

• Neither financing announcement describes an Israeli acquisition, Israeli R&D facility, Israeli technology investment, or Israeli research-institution collaboration ^{3, 4}.

• No public evidence identified of an Israeli NordVPN or Nord Security R&D centre, engineering office, accelerator relationship, strategic investment, patent licence, or co-development arrangement with an Israeli entity or research institution ^{3, 4}.

Civil Society Scrutiny & Regulatory History

• The supplied publisher-verified full-text scan found no mention of NordVPN in the cited UN Special Rapporteur report, which is a document-scoped finding rather than evidence of absence outside that report ⁷.

• The supplied full-text scans found no mention of NordVPN in the 2023 and 2025 OHCHR settlement-business database updates, which is document-scoped and does not establish database-wide or market-wide absence ^{9, 10, 11}.

• The BDS National Committee’s December 2024 priority-target guide did not name NordVPN in the supplied full-text check and instead identified Google and Amazon as Project Nimbus pressure targets ¹⁵.

• No public evidence identified in the bounded review of an NGO or academic investigation specifically addressing NordVPN or Nord Security technology provision to Israeli state bodies or operations in occupied territory, an organised boycott campaign on that basis, or a related export-control, sanctions, regulatory, or legal proceeding ^{3, 4, 7, 9, 10, 11, 15}.

• The reviewed accountability materials did not yield a NordVPN-specific primary contract, Israeli tender award, regulator decision, court docket, parliamentary record, or company response to evaluate ^{7, 9, 10, 11, 15}.