"I have found the malware protection feature valuable. It is helpful and deliverable and is able to protect my entire organization from getting compromised. It also prevents us from visiting any malicious sites which are not visible to the users."
"What we like most is security and how easy it is to integrate with other appliances."
"Helps block personal email accounts."
"The initial setup is very easy and takes only a few minutes."
"The user interface is great. It's very easy to tailor to our client's environment and needs."
"I haven't found any issues related to latency or any other issue."
"Overall, it is a very good solution. It is a simple solution and very easy to set up."
"Provides dependable DNS monitoring of external devices."
"It was a very easy product to install. It can be deployed very fast."
"Technical support is pretty sharp and very responsive."
"The security aspect of the solution, particularly the malware behind it, is excellent. That's something that really helped us out. It's not just a simple proxy that just blocks the insights of potential threats that come on behind it. They do malware detection and that helps us a lot."
"In the future, they should combine some of the Cisco AMP features that they already have, for anti-malware purposes."
"I would like them to make some videos, practical videos, the kind with steps that people can use to learn and deploy"
"It could be more secure. It would be better if they provided a transferring proxy as an add-on and more integration."
"Cisco Umbrella should introduce an on-premises device."
"The pricing is a bit high. Being outside of the USA, we have issues with the exchange rate."
"I would like to see integration with SecurNX in the future."
"It has happened in the past that Cisco Umbrella has denied us access to secure websites."
"I think it's a very basic solution, and because of that, Cisco Umbrella would not be a suitable solution for large companies."
"The dashboards for local use could be better."
"The solution could be stronger on the integration side and offer more cloud applications like G Suite or Oracle."
"File integrity monitoring would be very advantageous as an additional feature."
Cisco Umbrella is ranked 1st in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 31 reviews while iboss is ranked 9th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 3 reviews. Cisco Umbrella is rated 8.4, while iboss is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Cisco Umbrella writes "Segmenting email and web proxy features stand out but missing pieces leave holes to be filled". On the other hand, the top reviewer of iboss writes "Great security, pretty stable, and has potential to scale". Cisco Umbrella is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection and Prisma SaaS by Palo Alto Networks, whereas iboss is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Netskope CASB, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Prisma SaaS by Palo Alto Networks and Zscaler SASE. See our Cisco Umbrella vs. iboss report.
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