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We closed out 2024 with a host of new enhancements that allow customers to better leverage their Nile Access Service and built-in Nile Trust Service security capabilities. We’ve also ensured that many of these capabilities are automatically enabled, without the need for exhaustive software upgrades and manual tuning.
The goal is to greatly reduce manual interaction and the cost of operations and technical debt when compared to legacy solutions. For example, the DFS capability described below is completely automated, saving valuable time while ensuring your users are receiving the best experience possible.
We also announce the availability of SSE integration with Zscaler. It’s a big step forward as customers adopt a Universal Zero Trust network access strategy that unifies the enforcement of policies for devices connecting remotely or when at corporate, branch, and affiliated sites.
Here’s a summary of what we’ve recently added to our service and link to more detailed information and an audio/video summary.
Nile Trust Service Security Capabilities
1. Zscaler Integration
As mentioned above, the ability to seamlessly use Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA) for traffic inspection from a Nile network is big. The Nile Access Service delivers the isolation of individual compute and IoT devices, with the ability to leverage a universal zero trust network access model for consistency.
Nile’s Trust Service capabilities eliminates legacy network vulnerabilities. Users receive the same experience in the office or while connecting remotely. And IoT devices are secured without complicated add-on solutions or integration projects.
2. Additional zero trust security capabilities
- Enhanced authentication visibility – IT admins can now quickly see the status of any user that has connected via single-sign-on (SSO), dot.1X or MAC address connections.
- Automated passive endpoint device onboarding – You can now automatically detect devices that are using static IP addresses as they connect to your Nile network to ensure they receive proper access to the network.
- Rogue device visibility – The logic used within our intrusion detection implementation can now better determine false positives and eliminate sending unnecessary alerts.
Nile Operations Capabilities
1. Automated DFS Channel Allocation
If your anywhere near an airport Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS) may interfere with radar systems. If not, it’s a way to utilize 5GHz channels reserved for radar systems that improves Wi-Fi performance on your network by reducing interference and making more channels available.
You now can take advantage of Nile being able to smartly utilize DFS channels where applicable without manual intervention.
2. Additional operations capabilities
- Initial Site Location Setup – Customers can now enter their site/building address during the setup process. This overrides issues where if the address was not found automatically by Nile, manual interaction was required.
- Enhanced AP details It’s now easier to see where APs are located, what they’re connected to, and what their status is for faster AP and user connectivity troubleshooting.
- AP Coverage Stats – The signal strength of any Nile can easily be viewed to determine if something has changed, which may be causing intermittent connectivity issues.
- Improved Endpoint Disconnect Visibility – IT Admins can now quickly determine the reason why a wireless client may be having disconnect issues for faster root cause analysis.
- Alert Fatigue Tackled – If your Internet connection is lost, we now only send a single alert versus one for each Nile AP or Ethernet device within your network.
- Troubleshooting Guidance – Alerts will now point out problems and point IT Admins to relevant content that can help resolve the issue!
- Refined Integration with Snowflake – If you’re using Snowflake to capture data, we’ve made it easier to share endpoint, audit, and event details with a simple Nile Control Center config setup.
I look forward to working with all of you throughout 2025 as we tackle legacy network architecture practices and operational inefficiency. I would also like to thank our growing list of customers for their faith in this new way of consuming a wired and wireless network – connectivity, security and performance guarantee delivered as-a service.
Please don’t hesitate to contact Nile or click here to submit your questions or suggestions.
