Umbrella DNS Security Advantage
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Great product for DNS Security and intrinsic component for Cisco's Zero Trust - SASE infrastructure.
What do you like best about the product?
Implemented Cisco Umbrella as our de-facto DNS security solution for outbound internet traffic. Saw immediate wins, by seeing drastic reduction in number of the DNS requests towards crypto mining sites, CnC sites. Helped enforce domain based filtering, providing domain reputation scores (which fed into TPRM assessments) for partners. Ease of use (all you need to do is configure Cisco Umbrella as DNS forwarder) .Easy to implement as all you need to do is configure the Cisco Umbrella anycast IPs as DNS forwarder. Cisco's customer support is proactive, however there are typically no issues considering the platform is fairly stable. The domain whitelisting / re-categorization turn around time is typically quick between 24-36 hours, for most of the cases we had. Easy to integrate with Cisco SIG, easy to implement the Cisco VAs, on different form factors - vSphere / AWS cloud, etc.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is no integration between Cisco Umbrella with third party next generation firewalls such as Palo Alto firewalls / Prisma Access or Fortinet firewalls, which implies that the encrypted channel established between Cisco Virtual Appliances (VAs) and Umbrella cloud cannot be decrypted if SSL decryption is enabled on the perimeter firewall.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Securing DNS for both data center, cloud workloads and users in the corporate offices and remote users - roaming clients. Helped implement a uniform security posture for users and workloads irrespective of the location. Integrated with Cisco Talos which ensures real time threat intel feeds.
Reliable Cloud Security and DNS Protection with Easy Deployment
What do you like best about the product?
Cisco Umbrella is very effective at providing DNS-layer protection, blocking malicious domains before threats can reach users or devices. The cloud-based approach makes deployment and scaling extremely simple, with minimal infrastructure overhead. The reporting dashboards are intuitive and provide valuable insights into threat activity, allowing administrators to act quickly. Integration with other Cisco products also strengthens the overall security ecosystem and enhances visibility across the network.
What do you dislike about the product?
While Cisco Umbrella is powerful, the pricing can be a barrier for smaller organizations, as costs increase with scale. Some advanced policy configurations require additional expertise to fine-tune properly. In addition, reporting customization could be more flexible to allow deeper drill-downs. Despite these points, the platform remains highly effective for enterprise-level protection.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Cisco Umbrella helps our organization block malicious domains at the DNS layer, reducing the risk of phishing, malware, and ransomware attacks before they ever reach users or endpoints. It also provides secure web gateway capabilities, ensuring that all internet-bound traffic is inspected and controlled, even for remote or roaming users. This has improved our overall security posture, minimized incidents, and simplified policy enforcement across distributed teams. The centralized dashboard also provides valuable insights and reporting, which saves time during investigations and compliance audits.
A good system for protecting against browsing malicious websites
What do you like best about the product?
When the system is implemented, there is automatic protection against malicious traffic from within the internal network.
What do you dislike about the product?
The management console is slow,There have been no improvements to the system over the years.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Protection against browsing to malicious websites from the internal network
Umbrella for DNS
What do you like best about the product?
I like that it can go hand in hand with Cisco firewalls with protecting your network.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is nothing that I dislike about Umbrella.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Umbrella is helping us by keeping users from going to restricted websites.
Dns protection
What do you like best about the product?
Dns protection while surfing web. Protection against online attacks.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it can block pages sven if they are good.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Protection against spam, phishing, known bad urls
Cisco Umbrella a n umbrella which protect from a malicious rain
What do you like best about the product?
Its strong guidelines and its management software.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it block some sites that are not really malicious.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Cisco umbrella helps us to create different profiles by which we can give the access to different websites to different job roles just like in our company we can avoid our employees to use social media sites .
An awesome product! Multiple useful features.
What do you like best about the product?
Best thing to say would be the updates that they keep coming up with which keeps our systems updated and provides a great protection.
What do you dislike about the product?
An expensive one, will need a great net connection since without internet there will be limited protection.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Since maritime fields require remote and mobile workplaces, it's a great tool for securing our data which relies heavily on cloud based services.
Cisco Umbrella is Okay
What do you like best about the product?
Umbrella is easy to use and configure it the way we needed it to be.
What do you dislike about the product?
The portal has improved, but it still takes awhile to learn how to customize for our environment.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Umbrella really helped us to help our users to work efficently
Cisco Umbrella SWG and Secure Client are excellent products
What do you like best about the product?
It reduces complexity within the organisation and using simply policies to protect, clients and endpoints. It also integrates well with other products. It was fairly easy to implement, as we migrated from the old Scansafe offering
What do you dislike about the product?
The User Roles isn't very good. It can sometimes we difficult to remedy certain blocked websites. Also it would be nice if Umbrella, could simply allow the M365 whitelist urls, instead of havig to put them in yourself. The same applies with other well known products.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It protects clients and endpoints, from threats and malicious downloads, etc, whilst on the web
Umbrella
What do you like best about the product?
Umbrella is a light program that does a good job. It definetly helps us limit what our staff can get into
What do you dislike about the product?
We had a couple of issues where umbrella wasnt functioning correctly. It was more of a timing problem because we were going into an audit.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Its helping us limit what our users are able to get to. Its helping to secure our network by limiting access.
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