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."The insight into what our users are doing via Cisco Umbrella is valuable. Knowing that we're protecting our users as they leave our network is also valuable now because we've got more hybrid working."
"The feature that we find most valuable is to be able to filter out those web requests that you don't want."
"It is a good cloud-based solution for DNS security."
"Overall, it is a very good solution. It is a simple solution and very easy to set up."
"The user interface is great. It's very easy to tailor to our client's environment and needs."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the Web Filtering and the APT."
"Stability-wise, it's good. I have never encountered any bugs."
"The most valuable features are the protection against ransomware and phishing."
"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."
"Network connectivity was a bit of a challenge at the beginning, but we were able to get the right help from Cisco."
"The firewall capabilities could be better. Cisco is starting to introduce some layer 7 capabilities now, but there's still some room to grow. They should continue with the development of Umbrella so that it is a full-blown cloud-managed firewall solution."
"User interface could be a little smoother and more intuitive."
"They should provide more integrations and bring things together so that there is a more standard feel to their platform. We also use Cisco ISE, and it has a very different feel from Cisco Umbrella."
"Looking at the full umbrella suite in the light of SASE, Secure Access Service Edge, they are clearly lacking in the inline CASB."
"There should be a way to monitor traffic at the user level."
"It's easier for us to have support features with companies who are Cisco representatives, but sometimes, it's hard for us to get the help we need without having to use our contacts within Cisco."
"I would like to see more integrability with other products."
"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."
"Quad9 could improve by having more free features, such as custom DNS filtering."
Cisco Umbrella is ranked 1st in Internet Security with 55 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 "We can see all of our locations in one place and only have to make changes once for all our locations". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Quad9 writes "No maintenance required, free service, but more free features would help". 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 FortiSASE , 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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