Cisco Umbrella vs Untangle NG Firewall

• 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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• Web Filtering is strong, and can also do application fingerprinting to allow Facebook, but not Facebook games. Secondly, a separate partition called a "rack" can be set up to give one subnet or group of users different web filtering policies than another. For example, teachers would get more freedom to browse the web than students at a school.
• Built-in SD-WAN connectivity as part of your license. IPSEC tunnel creation is also amazingly easy.
• Will install on any x86 hardware created in the last 5-10 years. Ram and processor requirements per user are very low.
• Reporting is phenomenal, however you can get death by details very easily.

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• 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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• The dashboard could be a little more customizable.
• I've run into situations where custom reports do not save correctly.
• It's not always clear where certain configurations are located, but it's still easy to find them quickly.

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• 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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• Before my installation, I was getting called 3-4 times a week to clean malware infections. Now I am getting called 3-4 times a year.
• Employees are far more productive when they can't access their social media from their work computers.
• Spam has been blocked and quarantined from hitting our users' inboxes, drastically reducing the time it takes to sort through daily email.

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