Cisco Umbrella Reviews

Generally, we use Cisco Umbrella to prevent DNS attacks within the LAN. As we are a data center, that is our main use case.

Within our organization, there are roughly 500 people using this solution.

It's good for local communication with the data center and LAN.

I have been using Cisco Umbrella for one and a half years.

Stability-wise, it's good. I have never encountered any bugs. 

The technical support is very good.

Actually, we recently switched over to Zscaler because it has more features and it's more scalable than Cisco Umbrella.

I wasn't involved in the initial setup, so I can't comment on that.

I would recommend Cisco Umbrella to other interested companies. It's a very flexible and secure application — it's very good.

Overall, I would give Cisco Umbrella a rating of 10 out of 10.

Web content filtering: Cisco ASA 5505 doesn’t have a straight content filtering feature, so we used OpenDNS and it worked like a charm. It is security beyond the firewall, and hence more beneficial, as it stops the threats before reaching the firewall and enhances security.

We were able to implement web content filtering to block unwanted traffic, and to prevent bandwidth choking and malicious attacks without deploying any hardware/software, within a few hours.

I would like the product to offer more security features, such as IPS, IDS, DDoS prevention, etc.

I have been using it for six months.

I have not yet encountered any deployment, stability or scalability issues.

Implementation was straightforward with minimal changes to existing infrastructure.

It was self-implemented.

We have tried a Linux-based proxy server, but that was complex to manage and wasn’t foolproof.

I highly recommend SMBs and enterprises use it to enhance their network security with minimal cost through the OpenDNS cloud solution.

I think Umbrella is good enough as of now. It has the security of domains. It analyzes the domain security and helps us implement the securest policy. This feature is presently not being provided with other technologies. It's a multi-tenant solution. Multi-tenancy MSSP packages, they're all ready. As well as any cost amounting deployment security coverages with DNS and intelligence policy of production and protocols.

I would like to see integration with SecurNX in the future.

We have contacted Cisco technical support a number of times for Cisco They are two hundred percent. They are very efficient. Any kind of support you can stay with Cisco. We don't have any issues with technical support.

The initial setup is traightforward. There is no complexity in the setup. The setup took minutes only.

Setup and maintenance are done by our own team.

It is not a very expensive product.

Cisco Umbrella is a very good product as of now as there is no competition. It is an excellent product. It is, actually, a must for our organization. It is not a very expensive product. I would rate Cisco Umbrella at a ten on a scale of ten.

It transparently protects users from rogue web sites.

OpenDNS filters DNS query/reply without any software to be installed on the client side, so in my mind, the transparency I was talking about relates to:

• No changes on the client side required, i.e. software or configuration changes
• The complete communication is not proxy’ed as such, only DNS query/response filtered.

It provides native integration into the multiple cloud services, for example, Microsoft OMS.

I used it during a two-week POC (proof of concept).

I have not encountered any deployment, stability or scalability issues.

Technical support is good.

This is the first time we used one of these products, one of the known DNS firewalls.

Initial setup is simple, although some pre-requisites were not communicated to us, and they can make the final solution a bit more complicated.

We implemented it in-house with the support of the vendor.

The product has been rejected by business due to the pricing; no ROI as such.

It is a great product in the company security portfolio. It can be used together with the proxy to provide end-user security. However, the cost of this product is too high for what some businesses can afford.