Ali's Technology Blog
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…
“I built it because I was tired of carrying a separate app for every calculation I do on a job. Now it’s one app, 173 tools, on every device you own.” – Keith Parsons 173 tools in one app in the palm of your hands, that is pretty cool. As a wireless engineer there are…
This was part of my presentation during the WLPC 2026 in Phoenix towards the end. I have been working on this for a while and learning a lot during the process. Idea behind this is to be able to validate as many items from the checklists created by Keith Parsons located here and do it…
I have written couple of posts before on using Wireshark to troubleshoot Wi-Fi issues. First post I focused on was the Wireshark I/O Graphs. Since I discovered them, I have been using them and seen other people use them to troubleshoot network and Wi-Fi issues. I focused on analyzing and looking at the WLAN traffic…
Mist WLAN Audit ⚠️ Important Notice Use at Your Own Risk. This tool is provided for informational purposes only. No Warranty. Provided “as is” without warranty of any kind. Responsibility. Always verify configurations before making changes. Privacy. Your Mist API key is transmitted securely to Mist via a temporary in-memory proxy and is never stored,…
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 recently saw a post from Keith Parsons on Installing Orb on WLANPi and that sparked my curiosity. I have Ubuntu 25.04 running on one of my devices and wanted to see if I can install Orb on it. And it looks like Orb supports a whole bunch of devices. There is good documentation on…
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…
2024 departs and here we are in 2025. It has been an year full of events for me with a whole lot of learning, networking and getting out of my comfort zone. Got invited to Juniper #MistFits. It was an absolute honor to be selected as a MistFit and be part of an elite technology…