We performed a comparison between Cisco Umbrella and Quad9 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Internet Security solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I haven't needed to reboot the servers for years due to their excellent stability."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its reliability."
"The most valuable features are the protection against ransomware and phishing."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to detect if a URL has malware or is vulnerable."
"It has certainly saved us time. If we go and look at what's rejected on the requests from the hospital itself, it has saved about 5% or 6% time."
"We use Cisco Umbrella for DNS filtering and as a secure gateway."
"It is a good cloud-based solution for DNS security."
"The implementation is pretty easy."
"The most valuable feature of Quad9 is that it is a free solution."
"Setting up Quad9 is straightforward if you know what you're doing, and it's easy to use overall."
"They need to improve analytics so they report on more of the specifics of user activity."
"User interface could be a little smoother and more intuitive."
"Data reporting could be improved."
"Although Cisco Umbrella has an excellent global network footprint, there is still room for improvement and growth in this area. Additionally, there are bandwidth limitations associated with the connectors that need to be addressed. To be a viable solution for larger offices, Cisco Umbrella must continue to expand and improve its capabilities in these areas."
"There are a couple of different pieces that have different portals. I know they're working on getting them all into one portal, but that's probably the biggest thing that needs improvement right now. It's not a single pane of glass yet."
"In the future, they should combine some of the Cisco AMP features that they already have, for anti-malware purposes."
"The integration with Cisco could be better."
"Something on our end that might make it better is alerting going to our ticketing system. It's not something that we have discussed, but that would be a proactive option for us to provide a learning experience for the staff."
"Quad9 could improve by having more free features, such as custom DNS filtering."
"It used to work fine for all the devices, but it started to slow and become non-responsive. I would have to reload the page two or three times before all the pages loaded. With OpenDNS, I only need to load the page once."
Cisco Umbrella is ranked 1st in Internet Security with 108 reviews while Quad9 is ranked 11th in Internet Security with 2 reviews. Cisco Umbrella is rated 8.8, while Quad9 is rated 6.0. The top reviewer of Cisco Umbrella writes "Protects endpoints wherever they are, always pushing people to the right locations to avoid malicious intent". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Quad9 writes "It's easy to use and set up, but I've faced performance problems ". Cisco Umbrella is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Palo Alto Networks DNS Security and Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway, whereas Quad9 is most compared with Cloudflare DNS, Google Cloud DNS, Verisign Public DNS, Neustar UltraDNS and Hurricane Electric Free DNS. See our Cisco Umbrella vs. Quad9 report.
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