Learn more about Nth's most important asset – its people. What’s your job title? Sr. Networking Consultant How many years have you been with Nth? 3 years, 10 months What does a typical day for you at Nth look like? Customer calls, customer visits, and consulting on various networking technologies and manufacturers, i.e. switching, routing, wireless, cellular, firewalls, network access control (NAC), etc. Some vendors I work with include Aruba, Cisco, Meraki, Extreme, Ruckus,

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), Secure Service Edge (SSE) – What are these all about? They sound similar, so why does Gartner make so many Magic Quadrants with seemingly overlapping capabilities? Let’s examine the differences and commonalities. SASE is a Gartner specification term coined in 2019 that explores cloud security products more as a framework; whereas SSE, coined in 2022, looks at a group of Cloud Security products within a single management domain. SSE also remo

Why Segmentation? Security, Security, Security!!!! Some say, “It is not if, but when” you will experience devices infected with malware such as ransomware or BIT mining. Opening a file in an email or a link on the web that the Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) or Antivirus (AV) has not detected could infect your machine and attempt to move laterally within your network, looking for valuable data and high-profile servers to attack. This means it can encrypt all your files for ra