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Cisco Umbrella
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138 Ratings
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Attribute Ratings
- Cyren DNS Security (Cyren Web Security) is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
Cisco Umbrella
84%
69 Ratings

10.0
Cyren DNS Security (Cyren Web Security)
100%
1 Rating
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
Cisco Umbrella
100%
3 Ratings

Cyren DNS Security (Cyren Web Security)
N/A
0 Ratings
Usability
9.4
Cisco Umbrella
94%
4 Ratings

Cyren DNS Security (Cyren Web Security)
N/A
0 Ratings
Support Rating
7.3
Cisco Umbrella
73%
67 Ratings

Cyren DNS Security (Cyren Web Security)
N/A
0 Ratings
Implementation Rating
9.0
Cisco Umbrella
90%
2 Ratings

Cyren DNS Security (Cyren Web Security)
N/A
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Likelihood to Recommend
Cisco Umbrella
Cisco Umbrella provides another layer of protection on top of firewalls and antivirus. Cisco Umbrella makes whitelisting, blacklisting, and categorical web filtering easier through the use of a single admin portal. Updates to these lists are populated almost instantly to all of your local and remote devices. Cisco Umbrella may be overkill for smaller businesses that do not have a distributed workforce.
Information Technology Team Lead
West Star Aviation, LLCAviation & Aerospace, 501-1000 employees
Cyren DNS Security (Cyren Web Security)
For any form of company control on a larger scale where threats can have a very detrimental effect but not suited to SME scenarios was cost factor would be a key component and not require as much automation.
IT Manager
LV Shipping & TransportTransportation/Trucking/Railroad, 501-1000 employees
Pros
Cisco Umbrella
- Cisco Umbrella protects our devices and users from malicious sites of all kinds.
- Cisco Umbrella allows us to add additional web site types we may want to block for specific users.
- Cisco Umbrella keeps the list of sites blocked current by utilizing data from their entire security platform.
Network Administrator
Plainfield Community SchoolsEducation Management, 501-1000 employees
Cyren DNS Security (Cyren Web Security)
- Category Control in multiple languages.
- Simple interface controls whever I am.
- Swift and experienced support team.
IT Manager
LV Shipping & TransportTransportation/Trucking/Railroad, 501-1000 employees
Cons
Cisco Umbrella
- Keeping up to date on known malicious sites and blocking those is difficult for all vendors, but this could always be improved upon.
- A more detailed descriptions of what is included the Security Categories would be useful. Generic descriptions are provided. For example, state lottery sites could be detailed in the description of the Gambling category.
IT Security Manager
Reynolds, Smith and Hills (RS&H)Design, 1001-5000 employees
Cyren DNS Security (Cyren Web Security)
- Some enhancements to filetype control as PDF's can be flagged wrongly preventing download as executables
- Quicker log updating on the fly error checking.
IT Manager
LV Shipping & TransportTransportation/Trucking/Railroad, 501-1000 employees
Pricing Details
Cisco Umbrella
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Cyren DNS Security (Cyren Web Security)
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Likelihood to Renew
Cisco Umbrella
Cisco Umbrella 10.0
Based on 3 answers
It is a great product. It is easy to manage and is affordable. We are a Cisco shop, so it is easily integrated with our other security suite of products to include Threat Response and SecureX.
IT Security Manager
Reynolds, Smith and Hills (RS&H)Design, 1001-5000 employees
Cyren DNS Security (Cyren Web Security)
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Usability
Cisco Umbrella
Cisco Umbrella 9.4
Based on 4 answers
The product was easy to install and get running. To maintain the product is also a simple matter of maintaining lists of wanted and unwanted domains or URLs. The basic and advanced security features all do what they are intended to do with no known erroneous outcomes
IT Security Manager
Reynolds, Smith and Hills (RS&H)Design, 1001-5000 employees
Cyren DNS Security (Cyren Web Security)
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Cisco Umbrella
Cisco Umbrella 7.3
Based on 67 answers
Our network team mostly works with Cisco support but from what I understand, they were pretty helpful because we're an enterprise company. We use a few other Cisco products, so we do get a pretty good response from Cisco customer support. I'm not a fan of Cisco's SSO because we can't put it behind Okta but that's beyond the scope of this.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 1001-5000 employeesCyren DNS Security (Cyren Web Security)
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Cisco Umbrella
Cisco Umbrella 9.0
Based on 2 answers
Overall, the implementation was smooth with little issues. Testing some of the advanced features and ensuring they did not impact our user population was the greatest challenge
IT Security Manager
Reynolds, Smith and Hills (RS&H)Design, 1001-5000 employees
Cyren DNS Security (Cyren Web Security)
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Cisco Umbrella
We used a product before this called iPrism by EdgeWave and also briefly tried Barracuda Web Security in the cloud. We were having such a large influx of service desk calls about proxy-based layer 7 web filters that we wanted to step back and pick something more at the DNS level, to protect our employees but not hover over their social media use, etc. Cisco will also employ a layer 7 proxy if a site is suspicious, which does require us to push a certificate out should we want that feature. For most policies we have it enabled.
IT Infrastructure Supervisor
Sight and Sound TheatresEntertainment, 201-500 employees
Cyren DNS Security (Cyren Web Security)
Better price point and interface and system thinking ahead to the future and not re-using the same old systems.
IT Manager
LV Shipping & TransportTransportation/Trucking/Railroad, 501-1000 employees
Return on Investment
Cisco Umbrella
- On the positive side, the product does help block known bad sites, resulting in less time that technicians spend cleaning infections.
- On the negative side, the problem that causes Windows to incorrectly report no Internet access has taken a lot of time for many technicians.
- Reporting features for individual clients help us more efficiently provide browsing reports when needed.

Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employeesCyren DNS Security (Cyren Web Security)
- Protected against some dangerous day zero threats.
IT Manager
LV Shipping & TransportTransportation/Trucking/Railroad, 501-1000 employees