The Context and Data Quality Challenge
Traditionally, network infrastructure and related solutions stream unstructured event data to Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems without local context or filtering. This overwhelms today’s cloud-based SIEM solutions, floods security analysts with false positives, and triggers adding a dedicated pre-ingestion layer that adds unnecessary overhead.
An Intelligent Alternative
The integration between CrowdStrike Falcon® Next-Gen SIEM and Nile’s Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) bridges the gap, eliminating traditional telemetry bottlenecks through a unified, contextual data flow. Nile automatically correlates network events, policy alerts, and audit logs at a service-level, directly delivering clean data.
This empowers network and security IT teams to detect and contain issues and potential threats faster without digging through extensive noise generated by today’s traditional network architectures.
Key Capabilities & Benefits
Unified Context and Visibility
Endpoint telemetry merged with network context in a single view — no blind spots across managed and unmanaged devices.
Accelerated Threat Response
Simplified investigative workflows link active endpoint data with real-time network access containment controls.
Optimized Ingestion and Costs
No redundant, raw syslog overhead — Nile sends pre-correlated, contextual network data directly to Falcon Next-Gen SIEM.
Unified Context & Visibility across Managed and Unmanaged Assets
Using CrowdStrike with Nile’s network access visibility ensures IT can more easily see network events, security alerts, and audit logs in greater detail within the Falcon Next-Gen SIEM. This gives IT teams network, endpoint telemetry, and context without additional sensors or manual log collection, reducing investigation times from hours to minutes.
Enhanced Detection and Investigation Data
Nile natively streams pre-filtered, structured network telemetry, including physical layer location, micro-segmentation status, continuous device fingerprinting, and user identity directly into CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM. Correlating network data with SIEM event logs gives security analysts instant, cross-domain visibility to scope threats faster, dramatically reducing business impact across managed and unmanaged assets.
Optimized SIEM Economics and IT Resources
Legacy networks flood SIEMs with raw, redundant syslog data, driving up licensing expenses. Nile eliminates this bloat by pre-filtering and sending only correlated, high-value network context directly to CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM. This simple step dramatically reduces ingestion costs and prevents wasted hours stitching together raw syslog data.
Smarter Signals, Complete Context
Every device, fully identified
Nile sends events with user info, MAC, IP, SSID or switch port, and timestamp for all onboarded devices, even those that can’t run agents. Analysts see when devices join, owner, and where connected — wired or Wi-Fi.
No spoofing
Nile detects/blocks unapproved static IPs, IP and MAC spoofing right where the device connects. Built-in IDS flags rogue and evil-twin APs that copy SSIDs. CrowdStrike receives one unified alert, not raw ARP and DHCP logs to piece together.
Every access decision recorded
Trust Service sends policy logs to CrowdStrike SIEM, ensuring allow and deny decisions for all requests. Data includes source and destination, user and device group, IPs, MACs, port, matched rule and action.
IT Needs a Next-Gen SIEM and Network Architecture
Can you really afford not to eliminate coverage blind spots, reduce ingestion costs, and enable instant, cross-domain troubleshooting? CrowdStrike Falcon® Next-Gen SIEM with Nile’s secure NaaS allows organizations to easily replace raw noise with pre-filtered, contextual telemetry across managed, unmanaged, and IoT devices.
About CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRWD), a global cybersecurity leader, has redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced cloud-native platform for protecting critical areas of enterprise risk — endpoints and cloud workloads, identity and data.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Nile natively streams pre-filtered, structured network telemetry, including physical layer location, micro-segmentation status, continuous device fingerprinting and user identity, directly into CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM. Nile correlates network events, policy alerts and audit logs at the service level before delivering the data.
Yes. Nile sends events with user info, MAC, IP, SSID or switch port, and timestamp for all onboarded devices, including those that do not run agents. Analysts in CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM see when a device joined, its owner and where it connected, wired or Wi-Fi.
Nile pre-filters network data and sends only correlated, high-value network context to CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM instead of raw, redundant syslog data. This reduces ingestion costs and saves the hours analysts spend stitching together raw syslog data.
Nile detects and blocks unapproved static IPs, as well as IP and MAC spoofing right where the device connects. Built-in IDS flags rogue and evil-twin APs that copy SSIDs. CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM receives one unified alert instead of raw ARP and DHCP logs.
Nile Trust Service sends policy logs for allow and deny decisions to CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM. Each log includes source and destination, user and device group, IPs, MACs, port, matched rule and action.
No. Nile’s native network access visibility gives IT teams network and endpoint telemetry and context in CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM without additional sensors or manual log collection, reducing investigation times from hours to minutes.