Cisco Umbrella vs MikroTik Routers and Switches | TrustRadius

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Score 8.5 out of 10

Based on 105 reviews and ratings

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Score 9.3 out of 10

Based on 11 reviews and ratings

Pros

Filters content at the DNS level. Makes it a little harder for the sneaky ones to make it through.
Since this is at the DNS level, using their DNS servers (as a forwarder to your local DNS) it is extremely fast. Transparent.
Always being updated. Not dependent on "definitions" or algorithms - a site is either blacklisted or whitelisted.
Easy to implement, apply, maintain

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Director of IT

BLDD ARCHITECTS INCArchitecture & Planning, 51-200 employees

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Affordable, it has more features compared to other brand at the same price.
Widely available, by today it's easy to obtained one, even online retailers sell it.
Highly customizable, you may write a powerful script to enhance the function.
Flexible, you can make different configuration approach based on you needs.

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Aerospace IT Specialist

CommunicAVIA Pte LtdAirlines/Aviation, 1-10 employees

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Cons

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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IT Security Manager

Reynolds, Smith and Hills (RS&H)Design, 1001-5000 employees

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Administration dashboard
BGP in Multiple Core

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Gerente

OvnicomTelecommunications, 51-200 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

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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IT Security Manager

Reynolds, Smith and Hills (RS&H)Design, 1001-5000 employees

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Usability

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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IT Security Manager

Reynolds, Smith and Hills (RS&H)Design, 1001-5000 employees

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MikroTik Routers and Switches 9.0

Based on 1 answer

Almost perfect, despite some issue that need to be addressed by the manufacturer. If this issue has been addressed, a full 10 mark will be given.

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Aerospace IT Specialist

CommunicAVIA Pte LtdAirlines/Aviation, 1-10 employees

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Support Rating

Cisco Umbrella 8.2

Based on 54 answers

We have been Cisco fans for quite some time. This product / support team lives up to expectations and the high degree of service we have come to expect from them. Whenever we had any sort of question / issue (which there were not many, as this was fairly seamless to integrate) they were responsive and helpful towards finding a solution

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Verified User

General Manager in Corporate

Financial Services Company, 1-10 employees

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MikroTik Routers and Switches 5.1

Based on 3 answers

There is no SOC, NOC, where you can contact to try to resolve any difficulties. The problems that these devices have are solved largely through the community, with workaround alternatives, or if the support team responds to a request, the response times are too high for the current needs of technological communications.

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Gerente

OvnicomTelecommunications, 51-200 employees

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Implementation Rating

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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IT Security Manager

Reynolds, Smith and Hills (RS&H)Design, 1001-5000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

At the time that we purchased Cisco Umbrella, then OpenDNS, we did not evaluate other products. Since then, several competing products have been released. I intend to evaluate these in the future, as we have not been happy overall with Cisco Umbrella. The unexpected side effects and poor support have been very frustrating.

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Verified User

Manager in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employees

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I am managing lots of different networks for our customers, and the Sophos firewall has been causing me a lot of frustration lately. For every feature, there is another license you need to buy. Not as reliable as the MikroTik routers, too many updates or just service stops.Netgear is as inexpensive at MikroTik, but not reliable and not as performant.Cisco products are expensive compared to MikroTik, but as reliable.

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Infrastructure Engineer

X-Net SolutionsInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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Return on Investment

Saved us lots of technician time dealing w/ Malware and virus issues, I don't think we've had a malware incident this year for example. This was the main reason we bought the product in the first place. We've renewed 2 times because we see the value.
Umbrella helped us reduce the risk of CryptoLocker variants infecting our clients.

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VP Operations

Realtime, LLCInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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First of all it's cheaper than Cisco routers.
It has more functionality than Cisco routers that cost 4 times more.
It has a GUI. But it has CLI too.

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Marcin Chabowski

Teacher

Zespół Szkół Elektronicznych in BydgoszczPrimary/Secondary Education, 51-200 employees

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Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

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