Cloudi-Fi

Cloudi-Fi is the first cloud-based guest Wi-Fi solution that helps customers ensure secure network access for trusted devices and users while extending such access to an increasing number of open Wi-Fi and guest devices.

Partner Level: Solution Vendor Qualified
Partner Solution: WiFi Infrastructure, Stellar, WiFi Management
Region: Worldwide
Industry: Hospitality, Finance and Insurance, Retail

Cloudi-Fi is a cloud-based SaaS solution that manages Internet access for guests and BYOD, whether at the office or in hotspots. The solution addresses key challenges by securely onboarding, identifying, and authenticating unmanaged devices, respecting compliance obligations with existing local regulations, user data privacy, and personalized digital services through a personalized cloud-based captive portal.

Cloudi-Fi centralizes and unifies guest and BYOD access management and acts as an on-demand authentication gateway for Guests and BYOD. It onboards untrusted users, identifies them, and refines Internet security to comply with local regulations while reducing the associated complexities and costs.

Cloudi-Fi

Cloudi-Fi is a cloud-based SaaS solution that manages Internet access for guests and BYOD, whether at the office or in hotspots, with a personalized captive portal.
Cloudi-Fi centralizes and unifies guest and BYOD access management and acts as an on-demand authentication gateway for Guests and BYOD. It onboards untrusted users, identifies them, and refines Internet security to comply with local regulations while reducing the associated complexities and costs.

In today's digital landscape, enterprises face a dual challenge: ensuring secure network access for trusted devices and users while extending the significance of open Wi-Fi to accommodate an increasing number of devices gravitating towards this network.
This poses potential legal liabilities, security challenges, and resource allocation concerns.
Many countries have stringent Internet access, log storage, and data privacy regulations. Legacy security systems need to be equipped to safeguard IoT devices connected to the cloud, especially by adopting local Internet breakout solutions, rendering centralized architectures obsolete.

Cloudi-Fi answers those challenges by offering a global cloud-based service with a comprehensive solution for onboarding untrusted users and devices.

Benefits

With the emergence of cloud services and enterprise cloud adoption, the Internet is becoming the new corporate network. As local internet breakouts are deployed, Wi-Fi is massively used by a rising number of untrusted devices—such as guest devices or BYOD—needing to connect to the Internet quickly and easily to operate. Corporations face new security risks and challenges, and it is crucial to onboard those users and devices with controlled, secured, and compliant access to the Internet.

The customer’s network admin team will be able to provide:

Plug-and-play cloud-based captive portal solution offers an easy instant deployment through an automated wizard
A scalable Cloud-based network admin interface accessible across all sites
Secure internet access for all devices: Guest, BYOD, and IoT
Customizable captive portal design and features
Optimal user experience for users and administrators
To deploy, administrate, and monitor multiple sites with one admin access.
Offering global compliance with data privacy regulations on all five continents (+60 countries covered)
Multiple authentication modes, social media, SMS, as well as corporate frameworks such as Microsoft Azure, Okta, Google, and ADFS for BYOD
Opt-in user data collection for the CRM integration
Drastically simplify the overall network architecture and maintenance with one unique SSID serving as a unique entry point for all devices and user types

The Cloudi-Fi captive portal solution can be deployed without installing any specific hardware or additional ALE Licenses.

Features

Cloudi-Fi offers an all-encompassing solution, ensuring it comprehensively covers all customer needs while extending its capabilities to adapt to the evolving landscape of enterprise Wi-Fi and wired Local Area Networks.

Captive Portal for Guest On-boarding

Various authentication methods are supported for registering visitors. Depending on privacy, security concerns, and user experience, multiple authentication methods can be used on the same captive portal. Authentication methods include Declarative, Email, SMS, Social Networks, Sponsor, and SAML.

Guest Policy Profiling

Profiling the guests allows the use of different policies for different categories of guests. Depending on the customer’s security solution, this profile can be used differently. It can include a URL filtering policy, additional protocols and applications policy, quotas, time ranges, and override capabilities.

Security and Compliance

Security can be delivered via DNS, cloud firewall, and cloud Web proxy, which give visibility, management, and security based on individuals, profiles, applications, and sites. Cloudi-Fi comes standard with CleanBrowsing DNS security, cloud proxy, and firewall. As an option, Cloudi-Fi can embed a cloud-based web proxy and firewall synchronized with Cloudi-Fi.