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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cisco Umbrella

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ACisco now offers OpenDNS Umbrella Web Filtering. Cisco acquired OpenDNS in August 2015, and rebranded the product as Cisco Umbrella.N/A

    Cloudflare Access

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/ACloudflare Access is a Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) solution that secures internal applications by verifying identity, device posture, and context for every request. It replaces legacy VPNs with a faster, more secure alternative that lives at the network edge.N/A

    Splunk Enterprise Security

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/ASplunk Enterprise Security is an analytics-driven SIEM that helps to combat threats with actionable intelligence and advanced analytics at scale.N/A
    Pricing
    Cisco UmbrellaCloudflare AccessSplunk Enterprise Security
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
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    Cisco
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    Key User Insights
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Cisco UmbrellaCloudflare AccessSplunk Enterprise Security
    Identity Management
    Comparison of Identity Management features of Cisco Umbrella and Cloudflare Access and Splunk Enterprise Security
    Feature
    Cisco Umbrella
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    Ratings
    Cloudflare Access
    10.0
    2 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Splunk Enterprise Security
    -
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    Multi-Factor Authentication00 Ratings10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Endpoint Security
    Comparison of Endpoint Security features of Cisco Umbrella and Cloudflare Access and Splunk Enterprise Security
    Feature
    Cisco Umbrella
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    Cloudflare Access
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Splunk Enterprise Security
    -
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    Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Threat Intelligence
    Comparison of Threat Intelligence features of Cisco Umbrella and Cloudflare Access and Splunk Enterprise Security
    Feature
    Cisco Umbrella
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    Cloudflare Access
    8.8
    2 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Splunk Enterprise Security
    -
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    Network Analytics00 Ratings4.92 Ratings00 Ratings
    Threat Recognition00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Vulnerability Classification00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated Alerts and Reporting00 Ratings6.42 Ratings00 Ratings
    Threat Analysis00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Threat Intelligence Reporting00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated Threat Identification00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Zero Trust Security
    Comparison of Zero Trust Security features of Cisco Umbrella and Cloudflare Access and Splunk Enterprise Security
    Feature
    Cisco Umbrella
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    Cloudflare Access
    9.2
    2 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Splunk Enterprise Security
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    Continuous Verification00 Ratings10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Secure Web Gateways00 Ratings10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network Flow Control00 Ratings10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network Traffic Analysis00 Ratings6.42 Ratings00 Ratings
    Segmentation Leveraging00 Ratings10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Admin Access Control00 Ratings7.82 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network Data Encryption00 Ratings9.32 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network Topology Mapping00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
    Comparison of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) features of Cisco Umbrella and Cloudflare Access and Splunk Enterprise Security
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    Cloudflare Access
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    Splunk Enterprise Security
    8.4
    107 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Centralized event and log data collection00 Ratings00 Ratings7.1105 Ratings
    Correlation00 Ratings00 Ratings8.9104 Ratings
    Event and log normalization/management00 Ratings00 Ratings8.9105 Ratings
    Deployment flexibility00 Ratings00 Ratings7.9106 Ratings
    Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools00 Ratings00 Ratings8.9101 Ratings
    Custom dashboards and workspaces00 Ratings00 Ratings9.8107 Ratings
    Host and network-based intrusion detection00 Ratings00 Ratings7.9101 Ratings
    Data integration/API management00 Ratings00 Ratings7.9103 Ratings
    Behavioral analytics and baselining00 Ratings00 Ratings8.899 Ratings
    Rules-based and algorithmic detection thresholds00 Ratings00 Ratings7.9100 Ratings
    Response orchestration and automation00 Ratings00 Ratings7.992 Ratings
    Reporting and compliance management00 Ratings00 Ratings8.9100 Ratings
    Incident indexing/searching00 Ratings00 Ratings8.0106 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Cisco UmbrellaCloudflare AccessSplunk Enterprise Security
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (124 ratings)
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    7.1
    (109 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (15 ratings)
    -
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    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    7.5
    (10 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.0
    (12 ratings)
    Availability
    8.7
    (11 ratings)
    -
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    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    Performance
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    7.0
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.9
    (63 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    7.3
    (8 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
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    -
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.0
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    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.5
    (11 ratings)
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    9.1
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    Configurability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
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    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
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    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.5
    (10 ratings)
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    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    8.7
    (98 ratings)
    Professional Services
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.1
    (3 ratings)
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    8.2
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    8.1
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    User Testimonials
    Cisco UmbrellaCloudflare AccessSplunk Enterprise Security
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    When a company has a distributed workforce, the produce works very well to unify a set of policies to apply against web bound traffic. Areas we have struggled with is getting value out of our cloud delivered firewall due to requirements to fully use it
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    Cloudflare
    I wanted to securely connect to my servers without getting tracked by malicious attackers, even though I was on public Wi-Fi. Security was my top priority, and I also wanted a setup that was easy and quick to start and provided great network performance. Cloudflare's Zero trust matches my criteria for becoming my first choice.
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    Cisco
    Based on my experience, Splunk is a strong git for some environments and a poor match for others. The distinction is primarily based on infrastructure complexity and budget. It's perfect for large enterprises with a mix of on-prem/cloud infrastructure. It's not a perfect match for small teams with restricted resources.
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • As many companies think—they’re afraid of firewalls, but they want to keep something secure—and what it does best is it simplifies the approach from a cybersecurity perspective, especially from the user perspective. Users spend a lot of time on the web, trying to access sites, clicking links, scanning QR codes, and doing whatever. You can’t really stop them unless you have something in between that can check whether those links lead somewhere safe, or potentially run them in a sandbox if there are threats or specific use cases.
    • So I think one of its strongest points is that it’s very simple, and it’s not expensive compared to if you buy a firewall and licenses from other brands, where you have to configure it and spend engineer work hours or outsource the work. It’s the simplicity, and I think it just works. I had some issues five years ago, four years ago, but now it just works. I’m pretty happy.
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    Cloudflare
    • Block access to known bad, risky, or unwanted destinations at the DNS or HTTP level.
    • Excellent protection for remote users.
    • Best in class browser isolation techniques.
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    Cisco
    • Writes Powerful Queries: The queries that can be written using the Splunk Query Language are very powerful and highly customizable to meet every need. Ex: Writing queries to search the intersection of two different sources like Network and Endpoint Logs.
    • Offers Dashboard Abilities: Helps build complex panels for Dashboards in addition to providing several out-of-the-box panels. Ex: creating panels to calculate the performance of analysts in a given timezone.
    • Helpful Search Aids: It helps to set up complex custom alerts very easily. The interesting fields section is very helpful while threat hunting. Ex: It shows all the users and the frequency of each in a failed login event. The user list on the interesting fields is useful to look for suspicious logins.
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • So we had in the past very general rule sets, very detailed rule sets for security rules. Like you can access this page but not this IP range and so on. So hundreds of specific rules for specific machines and the rule management in Cisco Umbrella is not that granular. So it was not possible to build up these rule sets in Cisco Umbrella, but now we see to access it's much better already. So that's why one reason why we are migrating to CQ access to have better API based possibility to manage these rule sets and synchronize them between different products that we are using and in the cloud. So yeah, we hope that with secure access it's a little bit more granular like with Cisco Umbrella currently.
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    Cloudflare
    • Cloudflare still need to improve CASB direction to complete set of SASE tools.
    • More integrations with the third-party agents to check device posture in the Zero Trust framework.
    • More granularity in firewall rules for full replacement of on-premise solutions.
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    Cisco
    • Improved User Interface Customization: While the interface is generally intuitive, providing more options for users to customize their dashboards and views would enhance the overall user experience. Tailoring the interface to specific roles or use cases could be a valuable addition.
    • Simplified Alert Management: Streamlining the process of managing alerts, such as grouping or categorizing them based on severity or type, would make it easier for security teams to prioritize and respond to incidents effectively.
    • Expanded Threat Intelligence Feeds: Increasing the variety and sources of threat intelligence feeds available within ES would provide a broader context for identifying and mitigating emerging threats, ensuring a more comprehensive defense against evolving attack vectors.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cisco
    First off I never give anything a "10" unless it's perfect. LOL - I grade on the curve. I think OpenDNS/Umbrella is a very good product. I think that fact that Cisco absorbed them is one of the proofs of that. I have used the product back when it was free for companies our size. I have not always appreciated the cost - but in the post pandemic cyber chaos, I believe the cost benefit ratio is still very high. I have honestly not looked at other products because Umbrella continues to work to my satisfaction. I consider Umbrella to be one of the key layers in my cyber security strategy.
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    Cloudflare
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    Cisco
    We are very happy with Splunk and would advise anyone to take a serious look at it. It might look pricey but the rewards Splunk offers seem endless.
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    Usability
    Cisco
    Better features and easy to manage system with great customer support and overall usability is great as it works for hybrid environment with ease as it is having features for on prem users as wells as cloud users with great customer support and great team of trained engineers to support our opeartions.
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    Cloudflare
    Within a few hours, new engineers are trained in basic tasks and are quite happy they are able to resolve issues independently. After SSO is configured, onboarding is as simple as signing into m365 via a web browser popup.
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    Cisco
    Maintaining hundreds or even 1000+ SOC use cases is really difficult, considering that the Data sources may not always send the data. A module that detects data freshness issues and detect data format changes would be a great help. the main challenge today using Splunk Enterprise Security is making sure that the detection rules are still working properly given all the changes that occur in data source applications. Also, maintaining the data collects on tens of thousands of servers and more than 100k workstations is a real company IT challenge: the splunkbase forwarder may not support old OS anymore, while these are the most important to monitor. Moving to the Open Telemetry collector has become essential so that only 1 agent is required for both SIEM and application observability.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Cisco
    Cisco umbrella services in the cloud are always available. However, the weakness is the VM installed in the data center that are the first resolvers. If the VMs become unavailable for any reason or the vSphere goes down, then all DNS is affected
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    Cloudflare
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    Cisco
    I don't think I've ever seen Splunk ES go fully offline or have any downtime greater than a few minutes on rare occasions.
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    Performance
    Cisco
    our experience with cisco products has always been awesome and same is the case with cisco umbrella .Under umbrella cisco provides flexible and scalable software solution to use across different dept and sites . These softwares are very user friendly ,pages load quickly as these applications are designed for minimum latency and reports are also provided quickely
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    Cloudflare
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    Cisco
    It takes a long time for items to load if you are just generally searching through logs. It is best to use the data models which load faster but can be strange in terms of what is coming from which logs where. Yes, you can look it up, but this also requires familiarity with where things are and how to look them up.
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    Support Rating
    Cisco
    Whilst the support is good once you get through to them, it's email only and the response is slow. This is a issue, because its a core system that needs to work. We have had issues in the past where several of our companies have gone down due to Umbrella and support is nowhere to be seen. It is very difficult to know whether Umbrella is having service issues, since they do not regularly update customers on the status of their services, such as is seen by providers such as Microsoft (status.umbrella.com just seems to show up all of the time, I'm not sure it's even updated)
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    Cloudflare
    Good chat support from the portal for basic questions and minor issues. The enterprise support line is provided as well.
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    Cisco
    It's good when it's responsive, but I've had times where I had to wait quite a while for a response. But these are typically the exceptions rather than the rule. When you do get a response it is always well-informed and appropriate. I would say they've been trending better over time with this.
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    In-Person Training
    Cisco
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    Cloudflare
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    Cisco
    I experienced only on-line training, but the trainers were very professional and competent. Maybe it could be more useful if they also have an experience in projects because sometimes they didn't have a real project experience to communicate to the students. Anyway, it was very interesting and I learned many thing that's very difficoult (or maybe impossible!) to have by myself, aven if I have more than 10 years of Splunk activity experience.
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    Online Training
    Cisco
    Quite easy to understand training modules prepared by knowledgeable trainers. Training modules have included all the desired features of these softwares and the content delivery is very good from the respective module trainers and it explains in details the features and apart from that further training material support is also provided if needed.
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    Cloudflare
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    Cisco
    It was very interesting and I learned many thing that's very difficoult (or maybe impossible!) to have by myself. The only problem was that, when I worked with the Splunk Professional Services, I found some difference between the training contents and the information from PS. In addition is required a long experience on Splunk Enterprise for the data ingestion part, in other words I'm able to work with ES because I'm worling on Splunk since 11 years, otherwise I'd some problem.
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    Implementation Rating
    Cisco
    At the time we were forced to move from Cloud Web Security to Cisco Umbrella, Cisco Umbrella was far from being a direct replacement. It was frustrating and difficult to migrate due to the lack of functionality. This has since been addressed, however we now have legacy rulesets that were built as bandaids that cannot be removed. Hopefully the migration to Secure Access will address this.
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    Cloudflare
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    Cisco
    It's a fantatic product and it was very useful the presence of Splunk Professional Services for the Design Phase and the final Health Check.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    Umbrella checked all the boxes for us (at the time) because it supported multiple domains and multiple IPs to protect (we have 20+ offices), and its configuration and policies cover a lot of different options for us. We used another product prior, and it worked well, but it didn't have all the features we needed at the time.
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    Cloudflare
    Cloudflare was both the most feature-rich and cost-effective of comparisons. Presales engagement understood our challenges and was keen to solve them.
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    Cisco
    Splunk enterprise is the only solution that we’ve been able to identify that provides risk based alerting, which allows our SOC to reduce analyst fatigue which would be a huge problem without it. Before RBA, there were thousands of alerts a day and it was impossible to review all of them
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Cisco
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    Cloudflare
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    Cisco
    for my exterience, unit pricing and billing frequency are correct. As I already said, I hint to have more discount flexibility, expecially with new customers, because there are competitors less expensive and very aggressive that are dangerous. In addition the possibility to don't pay the license for the development period could be a very interesting feature for the final customers.
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    Scalability
    Cisco
    Cisco umbrella provides fleaxible and scalable software solutions which are easy deploy across multiple departments and sites wherever needed and this softwares are very easy to use and provides the best interface along with cisco support for other devices apart from cisco infrastructure but still there is scope for improvement on the inclusion of latest features
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    Cloudflare
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    Cisco
    - 8 out of 10 and took 2 for the data pipeline and administration part. Even if you'd like to improve yourself or your team, you have to pay a lot of money and it could be more than GIAC education + cert. - Normalization for Data models and CPU-based searches can be a problem sometimes.
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    Professional Services
    Cisco
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    Cloudflare
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    Cisco
    I had a fantastic experience with Splunk Professional Services: they worked with us in our last SON project (a SOC migration for a very large customer) and helped to build a multi tenent environment even if ES isn't a multi tenant platform. Th Splunk PS was a very professional and competent people, he is italian and was able to speak with our italian customers.
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • It's a costly product and we have to admit that, but security breaches are costlier, and they can take more than we can afford so we always had positive mindset over our security purchase and Cisco Umbrella had overall positive impact.
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    Cloudflare
    • The cost of Cloudflare Zero trust is much lower, hence reducing spending on infrastructure security.
    • The Network performance is improved thanks to Warp protocol.
    • Requires less maintenance and hence saves time.
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    Cisco
    • We have a 100% success rate on all our ES implementations due to the amazing documentation and Splunk enablement on the subject.
    • Our Splunk ES business has grown 100% YoY for the last 3 years.
    • In terms of long term management and maintenance, ES has been highly stable and predictable, reducing our overhead on costly services team for ad hoc maintenance work.
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