Migrating from passwords or shared secrets to certificate-based authentication (e.g., EAP-TLS) is often difficult. It requires complex rules, certificate distribution, and managing user/device issues across platforms, a burden that weighs even heavier on lean IT teams.
Traditional NAC appliances and RADIUS servers (e.g., NPS, FreeRADIUS) require complex configuration steps for redundancy, failover, and geographic scale. Maintaining on-premises infrastructure and software updates has also become costly and cumbersome, often leading to missteps.
Zero Trust is often a complex and confusing initiative that is difficult for IT and users to grasp. Lean IT teams struggle to ensure strong authentication without hampering user productivity or minimizing security risk. Authentication must deliver a consistent experience and outcome that is seamless for all.
A purpose-built and easy-to-rollout service that natively leverages core Nile Access Service features such as a simple UI, built-in authorization and enforcement, and per-device visibility.
When access control is designed into your network fabric, it provides a single dashboard for everything needed to fingerprint devices, leverage a simple RADIUS Service for authentication, and take advantage of built-in authorization and enforcement capabilities.
Buying, distributing, and maintaining a cluster of appliances is replaced with a highly available cloud instance that scales up or down depending on your immediate needs. Lean IT teams no longer face the traditional interoperability and deployment challenges of the past
Appliances that may be compromised, taken down for repair or software upgrades, or are no longer supported by the original vendor are eliminated. Reliable cloud access also means separate teams no longer need to perform changes or updates if virtual machines are used.
As-a-Service benefits include automated software updates, instant access to new features, and built-in Zero Trust capabilities with every Nile Access Service deployment, delivering time and resource savings that third-party NAC or cloud RADIUS add-ons can’t match.
Organizations of all sizes and types instantly gain cloud provider-enforced encryption, compliance, and access controls not available via on-premises appliances, which require manual intervention, unnecessary complexity, or an exhaustive strain on internal or external IT resources.
Authentication Without NAC Appliances
Once the Nile RADIUS Service is active, no manual tasks are required to begin. All transactions are secured automatically via gRPC tunnels. The sole configuration step is defining Policy rules. The Chaining of Policy rules even makes it easy to use existing identity stores or IdP and/or MDM solutions, and supports the following enhanced authentication requirement:
Rules based on Policy Chaining that include:
Because the Nile Access Service and Nile RADIUS are vertically integrated, the “Restricted Policy” will automatically quarantine a device that is not recognized. With a redesign of outdated legacy principles, Nile eliminates the need for third-party integrations and the complexity that comes with them.
Industry-leading as-a-Service delivered wired and wireless networks with built-in Zero Trust security, forming the foundation for all Nile service extensions, including the Nile RADIUS Service.
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Highlights the capabilities of the Nile Access Service with built-in enterprise-class LAN Zero Trust features for securing your data and IT-managed, BYOD, IoT/OT, and Guest devices in campus and branch environments.
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Securing a network today requires rethinking decades-old legacy models. A purpose-built architecture that combines continuous authentication, authorization, and enforcement without complexity is the new bottom line.
Read the BlogNile customers can take advantage of our Core Trust Service features, such as per-device isolation, built-in authorization and policy creation, device fingerprinting, colorless ports, and a single point of management to eliminate complexity and the support of third-party NAC and RADIUS solutions.
The Nile RADIUS Service is designed to exclusively operate with the Nile Access Service as it utilizes.
Nile’s customers will continue to use their existing Certificate Authority (CA) to distribute and update certificates, such as Windows Servers and Group Policy Objects (GPOs) or MDM services such as Microsoft Intune.
