IT Systems Engineer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Oct 20, 2023
The interface is well organized, so you can easily find everything. Even if you don't have much experience with Cisco, you can easily navigate the solution and find your way around. Everything has been done well, from the deployment to monitoring.
For us and for customers, it's the ease of integration with Meraki. It's just a couple of clicks. That allows us to deploy very fast, and it doesn't change the way a customer uses his service. It's just more secure.
The reports and notifications are the most useful part of the platform. As soon as you deploy the security layers, the reporting is very comprehensive. It helps you to have, at a glance, a clear view of what's going on.
Senior Network Security Engineer at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
Reseller
Aug 2, 2022
The single-pane-of-glass management is really important. In today's era, administration costs and operational expenses will cost you a lot, and it reduces that as well. You don't need extra resources to manage all your parameter firewalls, looking at every single device to allow resources internal access. By just introducing the single-pane-of-glass management, it has lifted the burden off of management, especially the network management.
IT Operations Manager at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees
Real User
Aug 2, 2022
I was able to implement it myself. It was really easy to install. You could install it on a server locally if you want to. If you have the biggest site, you would do that, but for my site, it was just directing all the traffic out through the Cisco Umbrella DNS. It was really handy. When the owners of the company went overseas, I knew that they would be secure because even if they were not on the company network, they would still go through the Cisco Umbrella servers. It was a complete solution for protecting the company with outgoing data.
The Global Block List is one of the most valuable features because it's really easy to block domain names as well as URLs. Sometimes you don't want to block the whole site, you just want to block one URL. The Global Block and Allow Lists are the best features for us.
If it didn't have a single pane of glass, we would not be using it. The single pane of glass gives you a one-stop shop. It's like going to Home Depot. You find all your stuff there. You can see all your threats and your endpoints. It's a very important feature and makes things very simple.
Vice President Information Security & Compliance at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
May 30, 2022
One of the most important features is the security posture check which Umbrella offers when a user accesses any website. That is one of the most unique features that it offers.
Director Of Information Technology at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
Real User
May 26, 2022
When we have laptops that leave the building, they could connect to public WiFi before they establish a VPN connection back into the company. For that duration or that period of time when they're not docked in the network or on a VPN, they effectively don't have that full layer of security that I provide inside the building. This tool stands in during that period of time, and we extend the security settings through their basic firewall or their cloud-based firewall at that time. So, we do content filtering and control access, but they also are looking at new domains, IP addresses, and bad requests. They're blocking them on my behalf when a laptop is not sitting behind our security appliances.
I like that it integrates with the infrastructure. I also like the kind of data and intelligence that's built-in. It helps create innovative reports for security.
Spider Solutions CTO at a security firm with 11-50 employees
Real User
Jul 15, 2021
It offers good visibility for the Administrator. The administrator has full visibility of what is blocked or has the knowledge of where users go when they are surfing the internet.
We like Cisco Umbrella because of DNS security. It's one step ahead of whatever we are using for regular web filtering. In that way, it's more secure than other web filtering products.
Security BDM UK at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Apr 12, 2021
Its simplicity is most valuable. I can install it and get it up and running, and it can be pervasive across my business within a business day.
It is pretty simple and straightforward to install and configure. Its remit is reasonably clearly defined. When you look at solutions like Darktrace and Carbon Black, the mission objective isn't as clearly defined. Cisco Umbrella, Sophos Central, or some of the other solutions have a more standardized approach to antivirus, which includes enhanced response from the machine learning or deep learning perspective.
Network Consultant at a security firm with 51-200 employees
Consultant
Feb 24, 2021
Cisco Umbrella is a totally different solution. They are the first to come up with this idea of security. It's a totally new concept of security for everybody, for every time, real time, perfectionism.
Senior Manager - Information Technology at Emami Ltd
Real User
Feb 19, 2021
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.
The most valuable feature is the website protection capabilities because it prevents end-users from entering bad sites that potentially have malware or could be used for phishing.
Cisco Umbrella provides fast-deploying DNS-layer security with powerful threat protection capabilities. Trusted by over 30,000 entities, it ranks highly in DNS security and effectively supports secure remote work environments.Cisco Umbrella offers comprehensive DNS security, web filtering, and ease of use, enhancing network security through robust threat protection and malware prevention. It processes over 600 billion requests daily, making it a leader in its field. The seamless integration...
Cisco Umbrella is easy to monitor, manage, and deploy.
The customer experience is very good, and the product improves security posture.
We use Cisco Umbrella for DNS filtering and as a secure gateway.
The interface is well organized, so you can easily find everything. Even if you don't have much experience with Cisco, you can easily navigate the solution and find your way around. Everything has been done well, from the deployment to monitoring.
It blocks malicious DNS queries daily which is very beneficial.
For us and for customers, it's the ease of integration with Meraki. It's just a couple of clicks. That allows us to deploy very fast, and it doesn't change the way a customer uses his service. It's just more secure.
DNS protection, domain blocking, SIP component, and the Cisco Umbrella roaming client are the valuable features of Cisco Umbrella.
The reports and notifications are the most useful part of the platform. As soon as you deploy the security layers, the reporting is very comprehensive. It helps you to have, at a glance, a clear view of what's going on.
We are very new users of the solution and are still in the exploration stages, but we are happy with the product thus far.
I also think that the dashboard view is really helpful. Whenever sites get blocked, we get the details and the users who are connecting to them.
The most valuable feature is the ability to filter malware sites that could infect clients or allow them to download infected files.
The single-pane-of-glass management is really important. In today's era, administration costs and operational expenses will cost you a lot, and it reduces that as well. You don't need extra resources to manage all your parameter firewalls, looking at every single device to allow resources internal access. By just introducing the single-pane-of-glass management, it has lifted the burden off of management, especially the network management.
I was able to implement it myself. It was really easy to install. You could install it on a server locally if you want to. If you have the biggest site, you would do that, but for my site, it was just directing all the traffic out through the Cisco Umbrella DNS. It was really handy. When the owners of the company went overseas, I knew that they would be secure because even if they were not on the company network, they would still go through the Cisco Umbrella servers. It was a complete solution for protecting the company with outgoing data.
You can manage and create policies based on a group of users. It can permit some URLs and block others.
The most valuable features for us include tenant lock, content filtering, and DLP solutions, looking for PII and information being exfiltrated.
It enables us to go granular in the customization of blocking some categories on the DNS.
The Global Block List is one of the most valuable features because it's really easy to block domain names as well as URLs. Sometimes you don't want to block the whole site, you just want to block one URL. The Global Block and Allow Lists are the best features for us.
If it didn't have a single pane of glass, we would not be using it. The single pane of glass gives you a one-stop shop. It's like going to Home Depot. You find all your stuff there. You can see all your threats and your endpoints. It's a very important feature and makes things very simple.
One of the most important features is the security posture check which Umbrella offers when a user accesses any website. That is one of the most unique features that it offers.
When we have laptops that leave the building, they could connect to public WiFi before they establish a VPN connection back into the company. For that duration or that period of time when they're not docked in the network or on a VPN, they effectively don't have that full layer of security that I provide inside the building. This tool stands in during that period of time, and we extend the security settings through their basic firewall or their cloud-based firewall at that time. So, we do content filtering and control access, but they also are looking at new domains, IP addresses, and bad requests. They're blocking them on my behalf when a laptop is not sitting behind our security appliances.
It is a good cloud-based solution for DNS security.
I like that it integrates with the infrastructure. I also like the kind of data and intelligence that's built-in. It helps create innovative reports for security.
It offers good visibility for the Administrator. The administrator has full visibility of what is blocked or has the knowledge of where users go when they are surfing the internet.
The most valuable feature is the ability to block users from reaching places that they should not even try to reach has been a boon.
We like Cisco Umbrella because of DNS security. It's one step ahead of whatever we are using for regular web filtering. In that way, it's more secure than other web filtering products.
Its simplicity is most valuable. I can install it and get it up and running, and it can be pervasive across my business within a business day.
It is pretty simple and straightforward to install and configure. Its remit is reasonably clearly defined. When you look at solutions like Darktrace and Carbon Black, the mission objective isn't as clearly defined. Cisco Umbrella, Sophos Central, or some of the other solutions have a more standardized approach to antivirus, which includes enhanced response from the machine learning or deep learning perspective.
The solution is extremely stable. It has excellent performance.
Some clients only want DNS security, while others want more of the advanced features that it has available.
Cisco Umbrella is a totally different solution. They are the first to come up with this idea of security. It's a totally new concept of security for everybody, for every time, real time, perfectionism.
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.
The most valuable features of this solution are the Web Filtering and the APT.
We've found it to be stable and good for our customers.
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.
Stability-wise, it's good. I have never encountered any bugs.
The most valuable feature is the website protection capabilities because it prevents end-users from entering bad sites that potentially have malware or could be used for phishing.
The implementation is pretty easy.
The user interface is great. It's very easy to tailor to our client's environment and needs.
Cisco Umbrella is absolutely stable.
The security and access control features.
The solution is very easy to manage. We found the initial setup, for example, to be quite simple.
Helps block personal email accounts.
Provides dependable DNS monitoring of external devices.
What we like most is security and how easy it is to integrate with other appliances.
The weekly reportings are great. The investigation is super and the application management is equally great.
It's very stable, reliable and does its job.
It analyzes the domain security helps us implement the securest policy.
The most valuable feature for us is the DNS-based protection.
The most valuable features are the protection against ransomware and phishing.
It will protect, give you more robustness, and faster responses, compared to any firewalls or any of the proxy web servers.
The core business of Cisco Umbrella is non-malware. That's all it does: block the malware on the gateway.
The most valuable feature is that it secures our network against blacklisted or malicious websites.
Using this solution has meant that we've needed to make fewer firewall changes.
The most valuable feature of this solution is its reliability.
It has helped reduce my unit's security events.
It provides centralized, device-agnostic management of the Internet experience.
Threats never come close to your network with security at the DNS level.
They have a wealth of articles in their knowledge base. This has given me the freedom to troubleshoot on my own time.