Cisco Umbrella is an integral component of the Cisco SASE architecture. It integrates security in a single, cloud-native solution, unifying multiple features like DNS-layer security, threat intelligence, and cloud access security broker solutions.
Cisco Umbrella works extremely well, and you can deploy it to all your organization’s devices, including laptops and tablets. Cisco was a better solution for us than a web filter, which can be heavy. Umbrella provides web filtering and generates malware security alerts using DNS. It is easy to install and use. I think the product works best for companies that are already fully on the cloud.
One downside of Cisco Umbrella for us is that it doesn’t support mobile devices. It would be nice to extend the mobile functionality to support iOS and Android.
Microsoft Cloud App Security (MCAS), provides data protection, data loss protection, and threat detection for SaaS applications. It inspects data at rest and in motion. One of its advantages is that it enables content inspection of SaaS file stores, automating detection and classification of the content. It also protects from data exfiltration and identity-related threats with its threat-detection features.
MCAS is useful for companies with a large stack of SaaS services in use. For organizations struggling to detect and protect thousands of SaaS services, MCAS is a comprehensive solution.
It does leave some room for improvement, though. For instance, while other platforms are trending toward having a single pane of glass for management, with MCAS, you still need many dashboards to make the most of the product. The reporting feature also could use improvement.
Conclusions
In our experience, Cisco Umbrella is a superior solution. It is more comprehensive, easy to use, and in touch with the user experience needs. And it consumes fewer resources.
We compared Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps and Cisco Umbrella across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps excels in seamless integration with other Microsoft services and provides centralized security management. However, users find its interface overwhelming and need better integration with other security tools. Cisco Umbrella is noted for fast deployment, ease of use, and...
Cisco Umbrella is an integral component of the Cisco SASE architecture. It integrates security in a single, cloud-native solution, unifying multiple features like DNS-layer security, threat intelligence, and cloud access security broker solutions.
Cisco Umbrella works extremely well, and you can deploy it to all your organization’s devices, including laptops and tablets. Cisco was a better solution for us than a web filter, which can be heavy. Umbrella provides web filtering and generates malware security alerts using DNS. It is easy to install and use. I think the product works best for companies that are already fully on the cloud.
One downside of Cisco Umbrella for us is that it doesn’t support mobile devices. It would be nice to extend the mobile functionality to support iOS and Android.
Microsoft Cloud App Security (MCAS), provides data protection, data loss protection, and threat detection for SaaS applications. It inspects data at rest and in motion. One of its advantages is that it enables content inspection of SaaS file stores, automating detection and classification of the content. It also protects from data exfiltration and identity-related threats with its threat-detection features.
MCAS is useful for companies with a large stack of SaaS services in use. For organizations struggling to detect and protect thousands of SaaS services, MCAS is a comprehensive solution.
It does leave some room for improvement, though. For instance, while other platforms are trending toward having a single pane of glass for management, with MCAS, you still need many dashboards to make the most of the product. The reporting feature also could use improvement.
Conclusions
In our experience, Cisco Umbrella is a superior solution. It is more comprehensive, easy to use, and in touch with the user experience needs. And it consumes fewer resources.