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Cisco Umbrella
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138 Ratings
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Attribute Ratings
- Cisco Umbrella is rated higher in 2 areas: Likelihood to Renew, Usability
- Forcepoint URL Filtering is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
Cisco Umbrella
84%
69 Ratings

9.0
Forcepoint URL Filtering
90%
4 Ratings
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
Cisco Umbrella
100%
3 Ratings

9.0
Forcepoint URL Filtering
90%
1 Rating
Usability
9.4
Cisco Umbrella
94%
4 Ratings

8.0
Forcepoint URL Filtering
80%
1 Rating
Support Rating
7.3
Cisco Umbrella
73%
67 Ratings

Forcepoint URL Filtering
N/A
0 Ratings
Implementation Rating
9.0
Cisco Umbrella
90%
2 Ratings

Forcepoint URL Filtering
N/A
0 Ratings
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
Forcepoint URL Filtering
If you need granular user and computer reporting, Websense is very reliable. It will provide strong protection and filtering once set up. If you aren't savvy with the technology involved, engage support early in your configuration, as it is complicated. The hybrid mobile client works well for your laptop users that you need protected and reporting out in the real world, but again is complicated to initially set up. Once you get it set up, the websense product is very solid. If you don't need the reporting and don't need it to be accurate to the person/computer, then it is more inline with the web filtering offered integrated by the various firewall providers out there and you can decide whether you want to have a separate appliance for web filtering or have it as part of the all in one firewall solution.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Higher Education Company, 501-1000 employeesPros
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
Forcepoint URL Filtering
- It tracks user activity, which means our HR department has a tool to report on certain users' activities when their productivity vs. internet surfing habits are in question. The reports are pretty simple to create and view and the ability to export to Excel has been useful. The ability to automatically generate and email these reports on a schedule has been useful at times too.
- The ability to set quotas, such as users are allowed to spend 30minutes per day on Facebook or 30minutes a day on shopping sites, which displays the quota for the user when they enter such a site, has been a valuable reminder of our company policies for such activity.
- The ability to prevent certain types of protocols for certain groups of users, such as group xyz is not allowed on FTP sites, or only https, has allowed to consider and set security parameters for different groups of users.
- The ability to easily override any group policy setting for a certain individual if an immediate need for something outside the box arises has been useful. If a certain user is temporarily filling in for another person on vacation and needs additional internet access with less restrictions, we just call out that user specifically in the software and apply a different policy, then easily remove that the following week.
Technology Systems Manager
Gentry LockeLaw Practice, 51-200 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
Forcepoint URL Filtering
- It needs the ability to measure bandwidth. I want to know how much a user is taking up. The fact that he/she has 17,000 hits doesn't help.
- Clients, Policies, Filters can be confusing. Maybe it's too complicated and can be simplified?
Director of Information Technology
The Children's Home of CincinnatiNon-Profit Organization Management, 201-500 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
—Cisco Umbrella Editions & Modules
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Additional Pricing Details
—Forcepoint URL Filtering
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
$0
Forcepoint URL Filtering Editions & Modules
Edition
Forcepoint User Advantage | Contact sales team |
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Forcepoint Data Advantage | Contact sales team |
Forcepoint Edge Advantage | Contact sales team |
Forcepoint Advantage | Contact sales team |
- none
Additional Pricing Details
—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
Forcepoint URL Filtering
Forcepoint URL Filtering 9.0
Based on 1 answer
It's easy to use, easy to setup and maintain and their new Forcepoint hosted solution includes new security features that will sandbox a website and test it for malicious code prior to passing it through to the user machine. This is an excellent cyber security prevention technique and we will be upgrading to this shortly.
Technology Systems Manager
Gentry LockeLaw Practice, 51-200 employees
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
Forcepoint URL Filtering
Forcepoint URL Filtering 8.0
Based on 1 answer
It's pretty easy to use but does take some getting used to. After an hour of using the software, you will be good to go.
Director of Information Technology
The Children's Home of CincinnatiNon-Profit Organization Management, 201-500 employees
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 employeesForcepoint URL Filtering
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
Forcepoint URL Filtering
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
Forcepoint URL Filtering
Forcepoint is focus on content filtering as compare to other product which has more accurate filtering centralize database
Deputy General Manager - Technical(ISD)
PILTransportation/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 employeesForcepoint URL Filtering
- The websense filtering has helped us to reduce and eliminate productivity losses from some gaming and streaming services.
- We have been able to lower our liability from illegal streaming services and also adult content viewing (and also reduced the internet uses related to those services).
- The filtering service has helped us to prevent virus spread on the network and also helped as a layer to pinpoint affected endpoints, that had gone unnoticed by our antivirus solution. By alerting to those early infections, we can quarantine the device before the infection spreads or affects other endpoints.
- The solution has given the HR department reporting they needed when employees were under review without having to pull any local logs or have any local solutions installed.
- The hybrid client has worked well in a few remote offices, meaning we didn't need a separate proxy service to filter and protect that traffic.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Higher Education Company, 501-1000 employees