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Few years back in my career, I recall having to configure 10, 20, 30 switches, controllers, at times multiple autonomous access points. This required separate configuration for each device. Editing configurations in notepad, duplicating and customizing them for each device, copy paste into multiple devices was a pretty common thing. I am all about efficiency…
Guest Wi-Fi has become a crucial part of many businesses, but you can’t simply spin up a WLAN and let users on it. It needs to be secure and segmented not only from corporate traffic but from other guests as well. A misconfigured guest network is one of the easiest lateral movement vectors into your…
Long awaited and it is finally here and I was able to get my hands on it for some testing, “Nile Trust Service and Nile Cloud RADIUS“. This post is going to be all about Nile Cloud RADIUS, I will get into the Nile Trust Service in another post because there is a bunch there….
I have written about setting up SSO using Okta to access Nile Portal and Wi-Fi access using SSO using Okta. With this setup I ran into a scenario with Two Factor Authentication, where Wireless users were having to go through the Two Factor Authentication as well since that was the default setting in Okta. While…
Many organizations are allowing BYoD and figuring out ways to secure those devices. What are some ways I have seen this done: Previously I have written up on setting up Nile – Okta SAML integration and SSO for the dashboard login. I had to setup SSO with Nile for some BYoD stuff and would like…
Guest Wi-Fi access is something users demand and expect these days when they visit retail, healthcare, offices and other locations. Deploying an enterprise grade secure guest Wi-Fi solution can be complicated, time consuming, resource intensive and costly. Below is a very high level guest traffic setup using some of the traditional methods. Niles Differentiation and…
When refreshing your LAN/WLAN and/or bringing up a new site, there is the install phase and then there is post install validation, coverage survey for Wi-Fi and then at times things need to be fixed, for example if the APs got installed in the wrong location, or not mounted properly, cabling issues, switches aren’t in…
“AaS”, and “As a Service” is the common buzzword these days and we are all familiar with them. Lots of companies and vendors are offering some form of their product, tech “As a Service”. So when I say “Wireless as a Service” or “Network as a Service”, we aren’t new to these terms. When I…