Our Mission

Bring Fortune 500 cybersecurity into every home and small business.

Enterprise-grade protection, redesigned to be affordable, plug-and-play, and accessible to everyone.

5,000+ homes and businesses protected

The threat is real, and it’s already here.

Cameras hijacked
Smart locks spoofed
Bank accounts drained
Identities stolen

The FBI logs over 800,000 internet crime complaints a year. Damages exceed $12 billion. It’s not a future problem. It’s happening right now, every day, to families and small businesses across the country.

The Problem

Enterprise security used to cost $100K+ and require a team. Now it doesn’t.

Before Rio
$100K+ per year
  • Requires a dedicated security team
  • Out of reach for homes and small business
  • Months of configuration
  • Built for boardrooms, not people
With Rio
$249 one time
  • Same caliber of protection
  • Plug-and-play, no IT degree
  • 5-minute setup from the app
  • Built for homes and small business
Same architecture used to defend the Fortune 500, redesigned to work for everyone else.
Rio Router with companion mobile app showing VPN Active on 14 devices.

So we built one.

Rio is enterprise-grade cybersecurity, redesigned to work in any home or small office. No IT degree. No subscriptions. No software to install on every device. Plug it in and you’re protected.

Our mission is to give the people the industry left behind the same caliber of protection the Fortune 500 takes for granted.

John Hui, Founder and CEO of Rio Router
Why we can do this

John Hui

Founder & CEO

John has spent 30+ years in networking and computing hardware. He founded and led eMachines, served as a senior leader at Packard Bell, helped scale Foxconn’s networking division, and built consumer cybersecurity at PC Matic. He has shipped equipment into tens of millions of American homes.

He watched the threats evolve while the hardware stayed the same. He watched families and small businesses get hit because nobody was building real protection for them. So he built Rio.

Prior leadership at
eMachines Packard Bell Foxconn PC Matic

What we believe

Start at the router.

Every packet passes through it. Defend at the router and you defend everything, including the IoT devices that can’t defend themselves.

No expertise required.

Security that needs a degree to operate only protects the people who already have one. We refuse to ship anything that complicated.

Affordable, or it doesn’t matter.

$50K enterprise solutions don’t reach the people most at risk. Rio is $249, plug-and-play, works behind any ISP modem.

By the numbers

5,000+
Homes & businesses protected
$203K
Raised on Kickstarter
30+
Years of networking experience
110
NIST 800-171 controls mapped
Join the mission

Help us close the gap.

Same enterprise-grade security the Fortune 500 takes for granted, now in a $249 router.

Rated 5.0 by 5,000+ customers