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Held on September 24–25, 2025, Security Field Day 14 gathered independent analysts, technical influencers, and IT thought leaders for two days of live demos, deep dives, and open discussion about the future of cybersecurity.
Nile was a featured presenter on day two of the showcase event, where the team from Nile laid out its vision for delivering built-in Zero Trust principles into wired and wireless enterprise networks via their Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) model. Live demos showed how the
Nile Access Service offers simplified policy management, segmentation, identity enforcement, and operations.
We believe that Zero Trust cannot be achieved by adding one more security system onto a legacy network. A modern NaaS-delivered enterprise LAN is needed to combat today’s evolving threats and compliance demands. The status quo is no longer working in today’s high-risk, highly mobile environments.
Rethinking the Enterprise LAN Network
For decades, enterprise LANs have depended on a patchwork of tools—network access control (NAC), VLANs, ACLs, and manual configurations—to enforce policy and manage risk. Nile’s, Shashi Kiran, opened the presentation by challenging this legacy approach.
“While we’ve modernized data center and cloud security, the campus edge has remained a silo of manual operations and bolt-on solutions. Nile reimagines this foundation with a Zero Trust Fabric that simplifies operations and eliminates vulnerabilities at the core.”
Nile’s Zero Trust Fabric moves away from Layer 2 constructs and instead creates a fully IP-based, identity-driven network. This enforces deny-by-default access, authenticates and isolates every device and user, and continuously verifies trust by default—all without traditional VLANs or complex segmentation schemes.
Under the Hood: A Modern Architecture that Delivers
In the next portion of the presentation, Nile’s Suresh Katukam went into how Nile’s architecture provides both performance and protection. Every connection within the fabric is mutually authenticated and encrypted, while each network element includes a hardware root of trust through a Trusted Platform Module (TPM). Console ports are no longer a source of unauthorized access, as Nile completely did away with them.
By operating entirely at Layer 3, Nile eliminates broadcast domains and bridging—two of the most common sources of lateral movement and configuration drift in legacy environments. Every connection is placed into a segment of one by default for complete isolation. All traffic is designed to pass through an inspection point, thereby minimizing the risk of lateral movement based attacks and threats.
Nile’s AI strategy was also outlined, as our standardized architecture delivers a level of valuable telemetry from each deployment that allows Nile to initiate very accurate automated workflows. This standardization sets the Nile architecture apart from others. Automated workflows in environments where subtle config changes or different infrastructure between sites can deliver unexpected results that cause disruptions or worse.
The result is the industry’s only modern AI-powered network with built-in Zero Trust security principles.
Seeing is believing
In the “Security in Action: Top Use Cases” portion of the showcase, Nile’s Shiv Mehra and Jaswath Kongara demonstrated how identity becomes the anchor for all access and segmentation policies. Every user, IT-managed, or IoT /OT device operates within its own secure isolated segment.
Through a live demo, Shiv showed how policies can be created in just a few clicks to isolate specific device groups or applications, automatically enforcing Zero Trust principles at scale. The Nile Zero Trust Fabric and policy engine governs access dynamically based on attributes such as user role, device health, and security posture.
These capabilities eliminate many of the manual processes tied to traditional network security operations, giving IT teams greater consistency, faster response, and stronger compliance alignment.
The remaining demos underscored ease-of-use: on-the-fly segmentation, isolation by default, and the underlying nature of Nile’s architecture. Delegates got to see, and now you get to see, concrete scenarios rather than just slides.
Industry Impressions
Delegates and influencers responded positively to Nile’s vision. Tom Hollingsworth, Field Day organizer and long-time analyst, highlighted Nile’s focus on eliminating VLAN sprawl and building security directly into the fabric, calling it “a meaningful step toward making Zero Trust achievable in campus and branch networks.”
Others commented on Nile’s clarity of design and simplicity of execution. One delegate remarked that “Nile’s approach finally brings cloud-grade automation and security discipline to the LAN.”
In Summary
Nile’s NaaS model delivers more than subscription-based economics; it standardizes the entire lifecycle—from deployment and updates to monitoring and security policy enforcement. Because the architecture is based on a standardized model, it delivers a consistent wired and wireless experience where organizations benefit from a uniform security posture and enhanced compliance-without legacy vulnerabilities and complexity.
Watch the Sessions On-Demand
All of Nile’s Security Field Day 14 presentations are now available on demand:
