Cisco Umbrella is a cloud-delivered security service that provides the most secure, reliable, and fastest internet experience to more than 100 million business and consumer users every day. It enforces security at the DNS layer and blocks requests to malicious domains before a connection is even established, effectively stopping threats over any port or protocol before they reach your network or endpoints. Cisco Umbrella protect your enterprise from malware, phishing, ransomware, and more at DNS layer.

DNS-layer security proactively blocks malicious requests before they reach your network or endpoints. Umbrella can prevent devices from connecting to malicious sites in the first place, before a malware file is downloaded, or an IP connection is even established.

The Umbrella DNS Security Essentials package includes core DNS-layer security capabilities, to block requests to malicious domains before they reach your network or endpoints. You gain off-network protection and mobile support in this base package, as well as access to Umbrella APIs (policy, reporting and enforcement), log exporting, the multi-org console, integration with Cisco Threat Response, and identity- based policies (virtual appliance + Active Directory connector). Additionally, this package provides discovery and blocking of shadow IT (by domain) with the App Discovery report.