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Connect & Protect – Network Defense for Small Business WiFi Small businesses are just as vulnerable as large enterprises when it comes to cyber risks. The biggest, most widespread threat facing small businesses is phishing attacks. Phishing accounts for 90% of all breaches that organizations face; it has grown 65% over in 2021 and accounts for over $12 billion in business losses. Malware is the 2nd biggest threat small businesses face. Malware usually comes from malicious website downloads or from connecting to other infected devices. Small businesses need to be prepared for these threats and know how to stop them.

Here's the solution - Connect & Protect AP Security Service

Zyxel's Connect & Protect (CNP) has been specifically designed to give small businesses a hassle-free, cost-effective approach to set up powerful network protection to protect their connected clients. Using the Nebula cloud networking platform, users that are connected to a Wireless Access Point with our Zyxel's Connect & Protect service enabled, will benefit from protection against dangerous or malicious internet traffic (e.g. phishing attacks, malware downloads and harmful/malicious website accesses) automatically while maintaining the privacy and safeguarding of personal information/data.

What can Connect & Protect do?

Operating in Nebula cloud managed mode, Zyxel's Connect & Protect (CNP) includes the following services to protect small business WiFi:

Threat protection incorporates both IP reputation and DNS filtering technologies to provide network defense for small business WiFi and prevent phishing or malicious website access.
Application visibility and optimization brings visibility to the applications used in the wireless networks to protect core applications, and the bandwidth management gives you the control to prioritize core applications such as mobile POS, live video streaming, and voice/video calls on devices connected to the access point.
Protecting everything & everyone on your small business WiFi

Start by protecting everything and everyone on your WiFi network - by installing a Zyxel access point with CNP/CNP+ security service to filter out unsafe web contents and malicious websites to prevent security breaches and avoid personal or business data leakage. It ensures the integrity of your small business WiFi network and makes sure everything and everyone that connect to the network is protected.

Security Service on Access Point

The notification warning the WiFi user when accessing the blocked page

User privacy is important.

CNP/CNP+ service provides easy-to-understand visual reports of online activities while protecting WiFi user's privacy. Data in the reports is anonymized, so at a glance you can see the types of the blocked contents and how often they are blocked, provided by CNP/CNP+, while not sharing user identifiable information or specific websites users went to. This makes CNP/CNP+ service ideal for use on public hotspots and guest networks, where users may worry about their privacy in addition to their safety.

Wireless Network Security & Visibility with CNP/CNP+

WiFi Connectivity Optimized.

CNP/CNP+ service provides easy-to-understand visual reports of online activities while protecting WiFi user's privacy. Data in the reports is anonymized, so at a glance you can see the types of the blocked contents and how often they are blocked, provided by CNP/CNP+, while not sharing user identifiable information or specific websites users went to. This makes CNP/CNP+ service ideal for use on public hotspots and guest networks, where users may worry about their privacy in addition to their safety.

Wireless Traffic Usage in Category View

Wireless Traffic Usage in Application View

Where to buy?

If you have a Zyxel access point with CNP service supported model in the cloud-managed mode, you can directly purchase the CNP/CNP+ within the Nebula Control Center (NCC) platform. Follow the prompts in NCC to purchase online:

Solid hotspot guest access management-empowered advanced security gateway. With prevalence of the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) movement, people are expecting to have networking access regardless of time and location. Hotspots are needed in an increasing number of places such as coffee shops, hotels, hospitals, restaurants and other public areas. What businesses require today is a solution to provide secured network connectivity along with easy access management. ZyXEL's Hotspot Management features Billing System, Walled Garden, Multiple Authentications, Third-party Social Login and User Agreement to provide businesses with a unified solution containing all needed functionalities. With ZyXEL's Hotspot Management, venue owners are able to manage all the network hotspots from one place.

Integrate Billing System

The Zyxel Hotspot Management includes an advanced billing feature that generates user accounts and passwords for Internet access with just a press on the device button, which relieves receptionists from complicated operations. Pre-paid billing profiles can be customized with various bandwidth speeds, service duration, traffic quota and level of payment, while the Billing System provides a headache-free environment for venue owners.

The Zyxel Hotspot Management features a Billing System with SMS Ticketing via ViaNett (global SMS provider), which enables venue owners to create different Internet access levels and deliver account information to the customers's mobile phones directly.

Walled Garden and Advertisement

The Zyxel USG/ZyWALL and UAG Series blocks traffic to the Internet until the users sign up for the service to access another network security level. The "Walled garden" can be referred as an environment for user access control, where users are restricted to certain contents on a Web site and are only allowed to navigate specific areas within.

The Zyxel Hotspot Management utilizes walled garden technology to help venue owners to prevent users from accessing some Web sites. Venue owners can specify certain sites or display advertisements that are accessible without agreeing to the terms. Unauthenticated users are asked to set up an account or enter a password to gain access to the contents, and they are allowed to leave the walled garden only when the authentication is valid.

Multiple Web Authentications

The Zyxel Hotspot Management supports internal and external captive portal as well as mobile view pages through multiple Web authentication options. Venue owners are able to customize guest login pages with specific welcome messages and access details for internal captive portal usage, or set up links to direct users to external login pages. With multiple authentications, venue owners can easily control and authenticate access to the Internet to provide highly secured guest access to visitors and other users.

User Agreement

Zyxel's Hotspot Management comes along with a User Agreement feature that supports both internal and external user agreement pages, while the internal user agreement page can retain user information like names, phone numbers, addresses and emails, etc. Once the user agreement is accepted, the customers are granted access to the Internet.

Third-party Social Login

Rather than creating a new login account, Zyxel have support "Purple WiFi" and "Socifi" third-party social service platform and those service platform will offer end customers a simple way to sign in and share their identity data using the existing login information from social networking services such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and more.

The Zyxel Hotspot Management supports Third-party Social Login to makes it easy for Web site and mobile users to register with their existing social network identities as well as to enable facility owners to collect the data for analyzing customer behaviors via Third-party Social Login. With data such as customer interests, activities and media preferences, facility owners can know their customers better and therefore create more relevant xperiences.

Zyxel Security Service - Gold Security Pack for ATP Zyxel security service, empowered by cloud AI intelligence, toughens every cyber fabric in your business network with best-in-breed UTM performance and flexible options not only for business of all sizes but also for various verticals, empowering your network with reliable connectivity, cutting-edge cloud manageability, robust protection against all cyber threats, along with informative analytics and reporting service.

Why Choose Zyxel

Businesses deploy network security appliances for two main purposes: to protect company resources against a multitude of threats and to enable secured communications between multiple locations via Virtual Private Network (VPN).

For many years, Zyxel's highly acclaimed Unified Security Gateway (USG) Series has helped businesses accomplish all these demands. Fortifying businesses against a new generation of threats, Zyxel is offering a new line of ZyWALL ATP Firewall and USG FLEX series that delivers unmatched capacity, performance and protection for businesses of all sizes.

Zyxel Security Cloud

37,000,000,000 URL database for managed category service
4,000,000,000 IP address database for security category service
5,000,000 End users protected by ZyWALL
800,000,000 Domain database for managed category service
1,200,000,000 Unique malware hashes
640% Phishing URL grew
96% of bad IP addresses showed malicious activities more than once
125% Malware targeting Windows 7 increased by 125%
Subscription Services Included Anti-Malware/Virus



Scan files at the gateway for viruses and other threats

Web Filtering/Content Filtering

Block access to malicious or risky web sites

Reputation Filter



Block botnet infection and prevent driveby download from infected websites via IP and URL detection

Sandboxing



230 VAC

IPS/IDP

Deep-packet inspection against known attacks from network

Application Patrol

Automatically categorize and manage the network application usage

Email Security/Anti-Spam

Fast detection to block spam/ phishing mail with malicious contents

SecuReporter

Cloud-based security analytics and report with 30- day log retention

Security Profile Sync



An easy-to-use tool to help business sync up security profiles across multiple networks

Collaborative Detection & Response

Automatically contain threats at the network edge

Secure WiFi



Secure tunnel and managed AP service

Nebula Professional Pack

A full feature set of cloud configuration, deployment, monitoring and management