www.cloudi-fi.com Open in urlscan Pro
2a06:98c1:3121::c  Public Scan

Form analysis
0 forms found in the DOM

Text Content

Solutions
EnterpriseRetail & BrandFinanceHotelRestaurantHealthcareEducationTransport
Technology
Captive portalIoTDeploymentSecurity & complianceAnalyticsMarketingSD-WAN
Ecosystem
Technology partnersResellersConsulting partners
About us
Our companyCreative labKnowledge baseBlogJoin us
LoginGet a quote



BLOGS

February 17, 2023

CHAPTER 1: HOW DOES IOT DEVICE SEGMENTATION BENEFIT YOUR WI-FI INFRASTRUCTURE
NETWORK?

We share our vision and why we believe IoT network segmentation is a solution to
explore, if not the answer.


Read more
February 17, 2023

CHAPTER 2: WHAT ARE THE IDENTIFIED IOT VULNERABILITIES THAT COULD HAMPER YOUR
IOT OPERATIONS?

In this article, we will dive deep into what makes an IoT infrastructure weak in
the first place.


Read more
February 17, 2023

CHAPTER 3: THE MIRAI BOTNET CASE: IS IOT NETWORK SEGMENTATION THE SOLUTION?

In this use case, you will learn how IoT network segmentation could be a
potential solution to prevent similar Mirai Botnet attacks and help secure your
IoT devices and network.


Read more
February 17, 2023

CHAPTER 4: HOW CAN IOT NETWORK SEGMENTATION HELP SET BOUNDARIES FOR A SECURE IOT
FRAMEWORK?

It seems evident that security risks should be addressed, and IoT network
segmentation will be a central part of future IoT security Platforms. Here’s
what you can do to secure your network.


Read more
January 12, 2023

UNEI NOW WORKS WITH CLOUDI-FI TO SIMPLIFY ITS IT OPERATIONS AND ENSURE EXCELLENT
USER EXPERIENCE

UNEI today announced a collaboration to deploy a single secure internet access
solution for guests in Spain to help the non-profit social enterprise apply a
cloud-based approach to enhance compliance and security of the network while
providing a better customer experience.


Read more
January 5, 2023

CLOUDI-FI AND ZSCALER WORK TOGETHER TO AUTHENTICATE GUESTS, BYOD, AND IOT
DEVICES, ENABLING ZERO TRUST NETWORK ACCESS (ZTNA) BY DESIGN!

This article will explore how Cloudi-Fi and Zscaler can now enable
authentication for guests, BYOD, and IoT devices. We’ll also discuss how this is
integrated in the Zscaler platform, the key features offered to deliver a
cutting edge user experience for businesses campuses and retail locations.


Read more
December 1, 2022

HOW CAN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) EMPOWER SD-WAN SOLUTIONS?

SD-WAN (Software-Denied Wide Area Network) is the cornerstone of the widely
applied SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) architecture. It brings all traffic,
regardless of connection type, to a single network platform where IT
administrators can centrally manage it. SD-WAN allows enterprises and SASE
vendors to collect innumerable amounts of networking and cybersecurity data. How
can you unleash the power of this unprecedentedly large data tank? That is where
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) come into play.


Read more
October 10, 2022

THE RISE OF INTERNET OF THINGS - IMPACT ON DIFFERENT SECTORS AND INDUSTRIES

The internet of things is fundamentally altering how organizations do business,
and maturing underlying technologies will make IoT easier to implement and help
investors and companies seize new opportunities. By connecting devices and
sensors to the internet, we are entering an age where data analytics,
connectivity, and automation are creating innovations and progress previously
out of reach. As the Industry 4.0 and home automation movements gain more
traction, we will see IoT devices and embedded systems become more and more
prevalent in our daily lives. The businesses that understand the use cases and
potential of IoT are the businesses that will likely drive innovation over the
next 10 years. After years of hype, anticipation, and steady uptake, the
Internet of Things (IoT) seems poised to cross over into mainstream business
use. The number of businesses that use IoT technologies has increased from 13%
in 2018 to about 25% today. And the worldwide number of IoT-connected devices is
projected to increase to 43 billion by 2023, according to a report by Ericsson.
This level of uptake is both a result and an impetus of the developing
technologies that underpin the IoT. For one, technological advancement means
that IoT technology will become easier to implement, opening the door for a
wider variety of companies to benefit from IoT applications. Indeed, although
large enterprises began to invest their sizable resources in IoT technologies
years ago, the beneficiaries of this latest wave of IoT maturity will be small
and medium-size enterprises.


Read more
September 15, 2022

ATOS PARTNERS WITH CLOUDI-FI TO SUPPORT ITS CLOUD TRANSFORMATION FOR ITS GLOBAL
OFFICES

Atos is the global leader in digital transformation with 111 000 employees in 71
countries. For Atos, welcoming and securing their guests and employees was
challenging with their legacy hardware-based solution. They decided to move to
an innovative cloud-based solution to improve the level of service and scale
with the group's growth. Atos chose Cloudi-Fi as their official provider for
their guest WiFi project.


Read more
September 12, 2022

TOP 3 CLOUD SECURITY CHALLENGES IN CLOUD COMPUTING

According to the definition by the European Network and Information Security
Agency (ENISA), cloud computing is an on-demand service model for IT provision,
often based on virtualization and distributed computing technologies. Cloud
computing architectures have characteristics, including highly abstracted
resources, near-instant scalability, and flexibility, near instantaneous
provisioning, shared resources, service on demand, etc. While cloud computing
brings many benefits, cloud security has consistently been the top concern when
enterprises immigrate to the cloud. In this article, we will discuss the top 3
cloud security challenges enterprises are facing. You can then understand how
these 3 issues make cloud security different. 


Read more
August 16, 2022

HOW DO CHINA’S NEW DATA PROTECTION REGULATIONS IMPACT MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES?

In November 2021, China announced the rollout of the new Personal Information
Protection Law (PIPL). With the Cybersecurity Law and the Data Security Law, the
PIPL is the third of three Chinese laws designed to provide a comprehensive
approach to cybersecurity, data security, and data privacy. With this law coming
into effect from November 1, 2021, it is expected to alter how multinational
companies outside China interact with their Chinese customers and this also has
implications for Global data privacy advocacy since China enjoys a major share
of the global markets. The PIPL is the first comprehensive, national-level
personal information protection law in China. However, the PIPL does not replace
but enhances and clarifies, earlier personal information laws and regulations.
In this article, we will have a brief overview of the Chinese data privacy laws
and we will discuss in detail the implications of these laws on companies
processing their data in China.


Read more
June 29, 2022

RETHINK NETWORK ACCESS CONTROL (NAC) IN THE ERA OF IOT

Network access control (NAC) is the process of controlling users’ and devices’
access to a corporate or private network. NAC ensures that only authenticated
and authorized devices can get connected and communicate with the network in a
secure and compliant manner. Today, the increasing prevalence of IoT devices
poses large security risks to the corporate network. IT teams are tasked with
onboarding those unmanaged devices securely, determining the level of access
allowed, and monitoring devices’ behavior on the network.The traditional NAC
solutions have three fundamental capabilities - authentication, authorization,
and accounting (AAA). In this blog article, we will discuss how NAC solutions
can evolve to offer more robust capacities that meet the need for IoT security. 


Read more
May 23, 2022

GDPR AND COOKIE CONSENT: WHAT CAN YOU STILL COLLECT?

With the internet becoming more regulated and secure for users, organizations
and websites want to stay ahead of the regulations while providing their
prospects and customers with the best digital experience in a compliant manner.
Cookies are an essential tool that can help businesses get a detailed insight
into their users' online activity. Hence they can aid businesses in presenting
the correct propositions to their customers. Technically speaking, cookies are
small text files that websites place on your device while browsing. They are
processed and stored by your web browser. In and of themselves, cookies are
harmless and serve crucial functions for websites.


Read more
April 15, 2022

HOW TO SECURE THE ENTERPRISE NETWORK IN THE ERA OF IOT?

Internet of Things (IoT) is the new trend that has fueled the transformation of
many industries and reshaped our enterprises today. The variety and volume of
connected devices grow on a daily basis. According to a new forecast from
International Data Corporation (IDC), there will be 41.6 billion connected IoT
devices by 2025, generating a staggering 79.4 zettabytes (ZB) of data in 2025.


Read more
March 1, 2022

PHYGITAL: 3 EXAMPLES OF HOW IT CAN REVOLUTIONIZE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE 

‍In a phygital world, the online and offline channels are no longer substitutes
but good complementaries. Physical experiences can be enhanced with the
convenience and excess of information the internet holds, whereas digital
experiences can be enhanced with human connections or physical enhancements.
Through blending the physical and digital worlds, retailers can streamline and
personalize their customer journey and ultimately create immersive, immediate,
and interactive customer experiences.


Read more
February 21, 2022

CLOUDI-FI SIGNS A FIVE-YEAR AGREEMENT WITH FM LOGISTIC TO FACILITATE GLOBAL
GUEST WIFI MANAGEMENT

Cloudi-Fi to securely connect users and devices to applications and services
across over 150 warehouses and offices of FM Logistics globally. Today,
Cloudi-Fi and FM Logistic announced a five-year agreement under which Cloudi-Fi
will help FM Logistic manage its guest WiFi with worldwide carrier-grade
authentication and compliance. Through this agreement, Cloudi-Fi will provide a
cloud-based connectivity service in FM Logistic’s warehouses globally, helping
the company deploy a single secure Internet access solution for guests worldwide
while complying with local regulations.


Read more
February 8, 2022

BREXIT AND GDPR: DO THE COMPANIES IN THE UK STILL NEED TO COMPLY?

On January 1, 2021 as the UK formally left the European Union, the UK is now a
“Third World Country” under the EU’s GDPR, hence the EU-GDPR is a European
regulation and does no longer apply to the UK. The general data protection
regime under UK law has been modified to address the EU-GDPR's removal from
domestic applicability. The regulations amended the Data Protection Act (DPA)
2018 and merged it with the EU GDPR requirements to form a new, UK-specific data
protection regime that works in a UK context after Brexit. This new regulatory
framework for UK data protection is known as UK-GDPR. On January 1, 2021 as the
UK formally left the European Union, the UK is now a “Third World Country” under
the EU’s GDPR, hence the EU-GDPR is a European regulation and does no longer
apply to the UK.


Read more
January 14, 2022

DATA ENCRYPTION: HOW CLOUDI-FI SHIELDS SENSITIVE DATA AND ENSURES DIGITAL
SECURITY

In today’s world, digital information is increasing exponentially. Cyberattacks
are nearly unavoidable and data breaches can be devastating and costly.
Organizations that fail to protect data security could face hefty fines from
regulators and expensive lawsuit settlements with customers. Thus, it becomes
unprecedentedly significant to prevent unauthorized access to data and the leak
of personal data. Albeit not exclusive, encryption as a concept that is
explicitly mentioned as “one possible technical and organizational measure to
secure data” in GDPR, plays a prominent role to secure personal data for privacy
and compliance. 


Read more
December 22, 2021

AN ECOSYSTEM PERSPECTIVE OF THE CHALLENGES AND POTENTIAL OF 5G DEPLOYMENT

In recent years, 5G adoption has been viewed as a race, with the earliest
adopters seen as the "winners" — of the biggest business opportunities and the
first chances to sell the new technology to customers. But an array of 5G issues
and challenges have caused deployment to play out a bit differently than
anticipated. Rather than a marathon progressing deterministically toward a
finish line, it's been more like a puzzle to be put together piece by piece.


Read more
December 9, 2021

THE PROMISE AND POTENTIAL OF THE 5G ERA - HOW TO REALISE MAXIMUM VALUE?

The promise and potential of 5G has captured the attention of business leaders,
telecommunication giants and technology policy makers alike. With the first band
of 5G services already out in the market, this article explores more about what
is 5G technology? Research on digital evolution has shown that advances in 5G
technology deployment in mobility, healthcare, manufacturing and retail alone
could boost global GDP by $1.2-2 trillion by 2030. We discuss some strong
underlying trends boosting the 5G adaptation.


Read more
November 9, 2021

SASE: CLOUD-SECURITY SOLUTION FOR DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

With an increasing number of people working from home and the wide adoption of
the cloud, enterprises are facing several challenges when shifting to the cloud.
One of the toughest hurdles enterprises will see is to facilitate direct,
secure, and controlled internet access on any device, on any network, from any
location, and on any cloud. In this context, Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) -
a term originally coined by Gartner in a 2019 report - has become a buzzword
among vendors, enterprises, and consultants alike as it enables a secure and
fast cloud transformation.


Read more
October 2, 2021

CLOUD & DATA PRIVACY REGULATIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST

In order to have a sustainable business in today’s world, protecting customers’
privacy is key and it comes with securing their data. In the Middle East, the
privacy landscape has been flourishing in the last ten years with privacy laws
and regulations emerging across the region, especially with the implementation
of GDPR in Europe.


Read more
September 9, 2021

WIFI NETWORK DESIGN: A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION

Once upon a time, wireless network design planning involved grabbing a floor
plan and plotting locations for access points with a protractor. This was a
tedious and time consuming activity. Access points no longer require manual
power and channel settings.


Read more
August 2, 2021

HOW IS TECHNOLOGY HELPING THE HOSPITALITY SECTOR TO SURVIVE IN THE UNITED ARAB
EMIRATES?

Today, the travel and tourism industry in the United Arab Emirates is facing a
significant change with the rising technology trends that are enabled thanks to
the daily mobile phone usage, especially by millennials. In fact, the smartphone
penetration in UAE reached 78% in the last 3 years, one of the highest in the
world.


Read more
July 6, 2021

THE RIGHT SET OF ANALYTICS TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES FOR YOUR BUSINESS

You may be selling online and furiously trying to engage your customers in the
digital world, you’re taking risks by discarding the fact that consumers still
love to shop in stores. The brand experience is much more enjoyable when the
website experience is consistent with the experience in store.


Read more
April 12, 2021

LEVERAGING WIFI TO REALISE THE UNIVERSITIES OF TOMORROW

The emergence of wireless networking and advanced broadband - especially
scalable technologies based on the cloud, has revolutionised how universities
view education. Education has transformed - from a one off activity of taking
classes, to a comprehensive ecosystem of services.


Read more
January 14, 2021

2 YEARS OF GDPR COMPLIANCE: NAVIGATING A DATA PROTECTED WORLD

The General Data privacy regulation (GDPR), passed in May 2018 has been a
significant milestone in protecting user rights and ensuring data privacy.


Read more
January 7, 2021

EXPLORING NEWER GROUNDS: A TECHNOLOGY-FOCUSED APPROACH TO EV INFRASTRUCTURE
TRANSFORMATION

While the “tipping point” in the market for electric vehicles (EVs) will not be
reached for some years, continued investments by both new companies and
established automotive players promise that EV models will displace internal
combustion engine (ICE) vehicles and gain a major share of the global market in
the next 10 years.


Read more
December 4, 2020

A TRANSFORMATION BEYOND COVID, TECHNOLOGY IS HERE TO STAY!

COVID-19 is one of the greatest challenges the world has faced in centuries. It
has transformed the lives of millions of people all across the globe, severely
impacting industries across multiple sectors.


Read more
November 1, 2020

HOW CAN DATA HELP BRANDS REMAIN RESILIENT AND RELEVANT IN TIMES OF CHANGE?

The recent worldwide pandemic has brought unprecedented changes in the global
socio-economic order. Brands are no different, with a trend towards an increased
focus on customer personalization, only the brands that shall anticipate,
observe and act will come out victorious in these testing times.


Read more
October 6, 2020

HOW GOING DIGITAL HAS TRANSFORMED THE RESTAURANT INDUSTRY

If digital transformation is the core of many strategies today, especially
during this pandemic, as many companies are looking to reinvent themselves,
restaurants are not an exception.


Read more
September 9, 2020

HOW WILL LUXURY BRANDS REBOUND IN THE PHASE OF “NEW NORMAL”?

According to Bain and Boston Consulting Group, due to Covid-19 luxury brands’
sales could fall up to 35% this year.


Read more
August 6, 2020

TOP 10 CITIES WITH THE BEST HOTSPOTS

Are you staying in your hometown during this summer break? Or are you going to
visit other cities in your country or overseas? In any case, you probably want
to stay up to date with the world news and just have a free access to Internet
while wandering.


Read more
July 7, 2020

THE NEW CHALLENGES OF RETAILERS TO ENGAGE CUSTOMERS IN-STORE

A recent report written by 99 firms regarding the Mobile Marketing statistics
for 2020 showed that nearly 80% of smartphone users rely on SMS opt-in to make a
purchasing decision while shopping.


Read more
June 3, 2020

CLOUDI-FACTS #2 - HOW REOPENING STORES HAS ALREADY IMPACTED GLOBAL ECONOMIES?

Last week we gathered unique data to have a global overview regarding the
situation of the pandemic and its impact on the businesses all around the world.


Read more
May 25, 2020

CLOUDI-FACTS #1 - HOW GOING BACK TO THE "NEW NORMAL” WILL SHAPE OUR BUSINESSES?

Covid-19 has hit mankind hard and lockdowns of half of the population has stroke
the economy globally. Despite previous historical crises, this pandemic is a
unique event in our era and needs to be understood distinctly.


Read more
May 5, 2020

HARDWARE VS SOFTWARE GUEST WIFI

Today, WiFi has become essential in our daily lives for our own personal use but
also for businesses. Moreover, with the introduction of the Internet of Things
or “IoT”, devices need to have a frictionless WiFi network to be connected.


Read more
April 6, 2020

WHY ANY COMPANY MUST HAVE A COMPLIANT GUEST WIFI?

Since May 2018, there were over 145K complains about data privacy in Europe.
Therefore, businesses all over the continent felt the urge to review their
policies and to deal with this issue.


Read more
March 20, 2020

CLOUDI-FI SERVING HOSPITALS DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC

We are currently facing an unprecedented situation. Since the beginning of the
COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals are working hard to provide the most adapted
healthcare services for their patients and to ensure them the best stay during
their care.


Read more
March 4, 2020

CLOUDI-FI AMONG THE TOP 10 FRENCH TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES

The Financial Times 1000 Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies report is out! And
guess what, Cloudi-Fi is ranked in the Top 10 of the French companies in the
Technology sector!


Read more
February 3, 2020

2020 TECHNOLOGIES TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT

Last January, the number of daily mobile users have reached 67% which represents
5 billion people all around the world. As this trend increased by 100 million
between 2018 and 2019, we can estimate that it will continue to grow during the
next year...


Read more
January 31, 2020

DISCOVER THE FUTURE OF RETAIL IN NEW YORK

This month, our Cloudi-Fi team had the opportunity to participate for the second
time to the NRF 2020 Retail’s Big Show along with Business France at the French
Tech Pavilion in New York. During these three days of exhibition, we
participated to a Store...


Read more
January 8, 2020

CLOUDI-FI MEETS THE NEEDS OF CHINESE TOURISTS ALL AROUND THE GLOBE!

With around fifteen social network connectors to date, Cloudi-Fi officially
opens its doors to the Chinese customers by providing a transparent connection
to the guest WiFi thanks to the WeChat connector...


Read more
June 5, 2019

WIFI ANALYTICS, THE PHYGITAL KNOWLEDGE OF VISITORS

WiFi analytics, the phygital knowledge of visitors Today, more than 90% of store
visitors use their smartphone while shopping. Indeed, the mobile has become a
privileged extension for customers as they hardly disconnect from their digital
bubble even in-store. It is a...


Read more
April 19, 2019

LOYALTY PROGRAMS IN RETAIL

According to The Research Insights, the Customer Loyalty Software Market is
expected to increase by +23% between 2019 and 2025. Nowadays, customers are
overwhelmed by the multiplicity of choices: Where to shop? How to shop? Which
brands to...


Read more
March 7, 2019

WHAT ARE THE LATEST TRENDS OF 2019 IN DIGITAL?

What are the latest trends of 2019 in Digital? Did you know that nearly 70% of
the world population use their mobile phone everyday? We Are Social and
Hootsuite have gathered some interesting figures as well as international trends
of digital, social media, mobile and...


Read more
September 18, 2018

HOW TO AVOID YOUR EMPLOYEES TO USE THE WIRELESS GUEST SERVICE?

How to avoid your employees to use the wireless guest service? When designing
wireless services, I.T departments usually create one service/SSID for employees
and one for visitors (check my tips to deploy this). The wireless service for
visitor usually...


Read more
September 18, 2018

5 KEY POINTS TO UNLOCK GUEST WIFI

5 key points to unlock guest wifi You have deployed your Wireless infrastructure
for your employees and your are considering enabling a guest SSID for people
visiting your premises. Here are a few tricks to make it easy! Preamble: Don't
mistakenly consider...


Read more
May 15, 2018

DO YOU NEED TO LAUNCH A MOBILE APP?

Do you need to launch a mobile app? Saying that mobile is more and more used
won’t change your life. But did you know that 66% of the global population
(source : wearesocial 2017) has its own mobile phone nowadays? A trend that
won’t cool down, especially...


Read more
May 6, 2018

EXPORT HOTSPOT DATA

When deploying an hotspot solution, your company may consider to export the data
generated to your internal application. In this article I will describe some
example of technical manner to implement data export.


Read more
April 5, 2018

HOSTPOT LEGAL OBLIGATION

Deploying Hotspot service can be very easy from a technical point of view, more
tricky from a marketing point of view but clearly a nightmare from a legal
standpoint.Discussions with the legal department are usually very tense, you
would like to move on but you see their feedback as a brake to the project.In
this article, I’ll list some questions you should ask to your legal department
before deploying any Hotspot solution. This should be more effective that the
eternal question “I need to deploy <put your new service here>, are you OK?”.


Read more
March 4, 2018

HOTSPOT DEPLOYMENT TOPOLOGIES

In my first article, I gave some steps to choose the right hotspot solution
matching with your network constraints and business needs. I will develop
hereafter the different possible topologies to deploy WiFi hotspot in your
organisation. But first, let me define some interesting terms. Central
Switching/Local Switching. This term is related to the way the Wireless
infrastructure will manage the traffic from your guests to Internet. Local
switching means that the WiFi Access Point will send the guest traffic to the
local LAN/WAN/Firewall infrastructure. In Central switching, the Access Point
will send this traffic to a central collection point (usually the wireless
controller hosted in Data Center) in order to be centrally managed (in term of
routing and security).


Read more
February 3, 2018

WHY YOU SHOULD DEPLOY A GLOBAL UNIQUE HOTSPOT SOLUTION

Deploying WiFi hotspot in on site can be very easy. There are plenty of local
providers in the market that will install a box in your premises for a few dozen
dollars a month. If you are a multinational company, you can choose to iterate
the same choose-negotiate-sign-order-deliver process in each country (each
city?) or you can choose a global Hotspot provider for all your locations. You
got it, this is the good choice but let me argue.


Read more
January 2, 2018

HOTSPOT: FROM AN IT PROJECT TO A BUSINESS ENABLER

Hotspot, wireless guest, free WiFi… however you name it, there is a big trend to
propose Internet connectivity via WiFi all over the world. Cisco says the number
of public Hotspot will reach +500M in 2020 and nearly half of them will be in
Asia Pacific.


Read more
December 5, 2017

HOW TO NAME YOUR GUEST WIFI?

If some companies or stores are not very keen on having a lot of people using
their WiFi. At the opposite, you should want to get more users on
yours. Depending on your goals, some tips are very useful to choose the best
name for your SSID and then get more visitors on your WiFi. 


Read more
Solutions
 * - Enterprise
 * - Retail & Brand
 * - Finance
 * - Hotel
 * - Restaurant
 * - Healthcare
 * - Education
 * - Transport

Technology
 * - Captive portal
 * - IoT- Deployment
 * - Security & Compliance
 * - Analytics
 * - Marketing
 * - SD-WAN

Ecosystem
 * - Technology partners
 * - Resellers
 * - Consulting partners

About us
 * - Our company
 * - Creative lab
 * - Knowledge base
 * - Blog
 * - Join us

 * 
 * 
 * 

Confidentiality policy - © Cloudi-Fi 2021