Cisco Umbrella Easy Protect for MSPs vs. Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cisco Umbrella Easy Protect for MSPs
Score 7.5 out of 10
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Cisco Umbrella Easy Protect is a bare-bones deployment of Cisco Umbrella that offers a baseline of security protection to MSP's customers through network DNS protection. With Easy Protect, the user adds Network identities, have customer change their router's DNS settings to use the Cisco Umbrella global network and that's it. Easy Protect's Default policy is automatically applied and your customers are immediately secured against DNS-based threats.N/A
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
Score 8.6 out of 10
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Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps (formerly Microsoft Cloud App Security) is a multimode cloud access security broker.N/A
Pricing
Cisco Umbrella Easy Protect for MSPsMicrosoft Defender for Cloud Apps
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Cisco Umbrella Easy Protect for MSPsMicrosoft Defender for Cloud Apps
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Cisco Umbrella Easy Protect for MSPsMicrosoft Defender for Cloud Apps
Top Pros
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Small Businesses
Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud
Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud
Score 8.2 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
Druva Data Resiliency Cloud
Druva Data Resiliency Cloud
Score 9.6 out of 10
Avanan
Avanan
Score 8.7 out of 10
Enterprises
Druva Data Resiliency Cloud
Druva Data Resiliency Cloud
Score 9.6 out of 10
Avanan
Avanan
Score 8.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
Cisco Umbrella Easy Protect for MSPsMicrosoft Defender for Cloud Apps
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(1 ratings)
7.5
(10 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Cisco Umbrella Easy Protect for MSPsMicrosoft Defender for Cloud Apps
Likelihood to Recommend
Cisco
If you have a large number of clients that need to access different products within your company it is a good fit. If you just need to protect access within your company, you'd probably just want to look into Cisco Umbrella. The MSP product is specifically tapered to [manage] access from 3rd parties outside of the company.
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Microsoft
It is well suited if your team is working with Microsoft tools and Azure services. but if you are using other cloud service providers and don't want to spend efforts in learning integration with third-party software then this is not a great fit for you. overall we are very satisfied with the product. If your corporation with Microsoft tools then I would recommend it.
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Pros
Cisco
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Microsoft
  • Detect threats based on user activity logs.
  • Set manual and automatic alert remediation.
  • Implement activity policies.
  • Detect threats based on user activity logs.
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Cons
Cisco
  • Analyzing security logs can be challenging as the interface is rather slow and due to the large quantity of logged data.
  • It is not always clear why a resource was blocked as there are 2 types of block lists
  • Clients sometimes have to re-logon in order to get an updated policy rolled out.
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Microsoft
  • In the event of Cloud traffic it is not easy to monitor and identify attacks.
  • Difficult to protect unmatched Cloud devices.
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Support Rating
Cisco
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Microsoft
I have not utilized actual support but the Sales and Product teams have been super helpful in moving our implementation forward and showing us the best practices.
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Alternatives Considered
Cisco
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Microsoft
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps was chosen primarily due to its ability to work perfectly within our mostly M365 environment. Given that this was an added feature of our E5 license, we chose to dive into it and use it due to it's good visibility into user actions and the ability to tie all M365 actions together into one place. We did not see similar visibility with other tools that we vetted
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Return on Investment
Cisco
  • Not always clear which block list caused an access issue. [There are] several places that need to be checked.
  • Client policies take a while to get updated, sometimes need to re-logon
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Microsoft
  • Cloud App Security saves us thousands of dollars finding and rectifying apps security issues
  • Identity Security Posture helps the organization identity stay in shape, saving thousands of dollars on security consultations
  • The cost of suffering a breach cannot be quantified, CAS helps minimize the chances of the attackers succeeding, with excellent historical logging for most operations
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