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Cisco Umbrella vs Guardicore Centra

Cisco Umbrella
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138 Ratings
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Guardicore Centra
2 Ratings

Cisco Umbrella

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Score 8.6 out of 100

Based on 138 reviews and ratings

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Guardicore Centra

2 Ratings
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Score 8.5 out of 100

Based on 2 reviews and ratings

Attribute Ratings

  • Cisco Umbrella is rated higher in 2 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Usability
  • Guardicore Centra is rated higher in 1 area: Support Rating

Likelihood to Recommend

8.4

Cisco Umbrella

84%
69 Ratings
8.0

Guardicore Centra

80%
1 Rating

Likelihood to Renew

10.0

Cisco Umbrella

100%
3 Ratings

Guardicore Centra

N/A
0 Ratings

Usability

9.4

Cisco Umbrella

94%
4 Ratings
9.0

Guardicore Centra

90%
1 Rating

Support Rating

7.3

Cisco Umbrella

73%
67 Ratings
9.0

Guardicore Centra

90%
1 Rating

Implementation Rating

9.0

Cisco Umbrella

90%
2 Ratings

Guardicore Centra

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.

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Guardicore Centra

This is the best possible solution for enterprise-level organizations where server counts will be in the thousands. To manage these and understand the communication can be very cumbersome without this tool. Ease of creation map zone and application-wise can be relaxing to OS teams and support teams as well. There is no limit to labeling schema of servers and it gives the freedom to do so.

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Harmesh Trivedi | TrustRadius Reviewer
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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.

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Guardicore Centra

  • Network traffic flow within environment of organization.
  • Creating maps for visibility and drill down is a key feature.
  • Labelling of servers can be done via running script.
  • Alerts can be sensitized for the traffic not seen.

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Harmesh Trivedi | TrustRadius Reviewer
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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.

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Randy Zuehlke | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Guardicore Centra

  • Limited support to legacy infrastructure.
  • Integration with third party is a bit tedious.
  • Awaiting support for Kubernetes in the next version.

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Harmesh Trivedi | TrustRadius Reviewer
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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

—

Guardicore Centra

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.

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Randy Zuehlke | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Guardicore Centra

No score
No answers yet
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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

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Randy Zuehlke | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Guardicore Centra

Guardicore Centra 9.0
Based on 1 answer
The solution is deployed throughout the organization. Teams are working and integrating it with the help desk tool wherever required. Helps in identifying the network traffic flows in lateral movement and east and west as well. Allows policies by default and later fine-tuning to be done to narrow it and enforce blocking action. Exporting reports from the tool is easy and can be observed for any issues.

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Harmesh Trivedi | TrustRadius Reviewer
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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.

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Guardicore Centra

Guardicore Centra 9.0
Based on 1 answer
Support has been available 24*7. It also depends on criticality but support is available. Also, the right expertise from the team helps in identifying the issue quickly and this helps in less production downtime if required. The ticket is resolved with RCA.

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Harmesh Trivedi | TrustRadius Reviewer
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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

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Randy Zuehlke | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Guardicore Centra

No score
No answers yet
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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.

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Guardicore Centra

1) No limit to labeling schema.2) Ease of creating maps with respect to zone, environment, subnets, etc.3) Ease of creating policies and publishing the same.4) Deception 5) Integration with monitoring tool (grafana)6) Changes in the agent can be considered if there are legacy systems, time-consuming but can be achieved with the right information.

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Harmesh Trivedi | TrustRadius Reviewer
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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.

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Guardicore Centra

  • Blocking unwarranted traffic can really boost security of organization.
  • Alerts can be triggered to SIEM servers and help in timely action.
  • Need to be very careful before configuring and publishing block policies in the production environment.

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Harmesh Trivedi | TrustRadius Reviewer
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