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Nile Guest Service removes the need to deploy and maintain on-premise NAC appliance infrastructure
San Jose, CA – October 12, 2023 – Nile, the visionary leader in delivering enterprise Networks as-a-Service, today launched their Nile Guest Service, the industry’s first fully cloud-hosted guest access service designed to simplify and secure the delivery of Internet access for visitors. contractors, and internal BYOD use cases.
Nile Guest Service isolates visitor traffic from internal network resources by automatically tunneling it to a local point of presence (PoP), from where it is forwarded directly to the Internet. IT no longer needs to spend valuable resources on protecting its corporate resources from guest devices and malicious activity. This new capability represents the first of its kind in the enterprise networking industry.
Nile Guest Service is an extension of Nile’s campus Zero Trust principles that are at the core of the company’s award-winning Nile Access Service.
“Today’s IT teams are focused on moving their business forward and do not want to expose their corporate resources while providing guest access. They also don’t want to spend all of their time protecting their infrastructure from every smartphone or tablet that seeks to connect,” said Suresh Katukam, Nile’s Chief Product Officer and co-founder. “Nile Guest Service automatically applies cloud native, Zero Trust principles to guest access and takes one more worry off of IT’s plate without taking a big bite of their budget.”
Guests arrive daily in enterprise environments with a diverse array of unknown devices. These short-term visitors, contractors, vendors, partners, and others expect easy, high-performance connectivity to be productive while on site.
Traditionally, enabling guest Wi-Fi access meant administrative overhead for IT, requiring them to update wireless LAN configuration, VLAN / IP subnet provisioning, firewall updates for traffic and device isolation, and usually manage an anchor controller and DHCP server in their DMZ. This additional cost and administrative overhead is matched with an increased risk profile for IT infrastructure due to potential human error in defining and managing these security rules exposing sensitive corporate data externally.
The Nile Guest Service eliminates this burden on IT networking and security teams. It eliminates the entire workflow with a single activation step from the Nile Control Center, every guest device is isolated, and IP address management, along with secure transport of visitor traffic flows from the Nile network installed within an enterprise building to the closest Nile point of presence (PoP).
With Nile Guest Service, traffic is logged as coming from a Nile IP address rather than a customer IP address block. IT teams no longer need to serve as the front line in responding to inquiries from authorities that may result from improper use of guest access. Instead, those requests come to Nile’s support team.
“Nile Guest Service allows us to provide Internet access while isolating them from internal network resources,” said Albert Jong, senior IT engineer at Carta, a leading equity management platform. “It decreases the possibility of a data breach and accelerates network troubleshooting. I highly recommend the Nile Guest Service to organizations using the Nile Access Service.”
About Nile
Nile is leading a fundamental shift in the networking industry, challenging decades-old conventions to deliver a radically new approach. By eliminating complexity and rethinking how networks are built, consumed, and operated, Nile is pioneering a new category designed for a modern, service-driven era. With a relentless focus on simplicity, security, reliability, and performance, Nile empowers organizations to move beyond the limitations of legacy infrastructure and embrace a future where networking is effortless, predictable, and fully aligned with their digital ambitions. For more information, visit nilesecure.com.
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