Cisco Umbrella Reviews

Overall, it's nice to have DNS protection set up and working well, even when there's a good anti-virus or anti-malware program in place on a workstation or server; Cisco Umbrella does that part well. I've seen it stop attempts for malware to phone home out to bad servers, which is helpful.

When you have a number of users accessing your network, particularly if they're bringing their own devices and you're unsure whether they have sufficient security or use good internet practices, Umbrella is a great way to protect your network at the highest level. It's especially nice that it's cloud-based, so you don't have to mess with server-level firewalls (if you don't want to). It's also good for filtering content if you want to be able to do that.

Great product that saves us SO much time by blocking more bad actors than I could ever count.

Cisco Umbrella is well suited as a very first level of defense as it blocks all malicious or returning C&C traffic. It protects on the DNS level which gives us better results as a general Content filter. Also It works well together with other Cisco tools like Cisco AMP. It can be used everywhere. Cisco Umbrella is not very well used if the company is using private and public DNS aliases for one specific IP address. As Umbrella is external resolver it always resolves IP addresses to the external IP, which could sometimes lead to problems. This could be solved by adding IP address into "internal domains" which open a small security hole for the company. If the attacker knows that fact.

The best scenario is end-user protection both on and off the corporate network. The Off-network protection is able to protect the endpoint wherever you are with very low bandwidth requirements (like remote locations or low-performance mobile networks) and without obliging the user to connect via VPN in order to be protected by corporate rules. The worst scenario is if you need to protect and segment your local network. Umbrella is not what you need.

Cisco Umbrella provides insight as to what users are browsing that is unknown to them, like harmful ads, malware infected websites, phishing sites, etc. We can then help educate and train users what to be on the lookout for and improve our first line of defense—our users. We don't use the service as a tool to catch our users, but to train, educate and protect them from the bad actors that lurk on the web.

As the first line of defense against threats from the internet, it does a great job protecting us from current and emerging threats, protects us against the phishing, malware, and ransomware. The product itself is easy to deploy and use. It gives great visibility into devices that are on/off the network which is a great plus. It is suited for any organization that has users/devices that are not necessarily joined to the domain or off the corporate network.

Well suited for organizations with other Cisco products (FirePower/AMP/IPS/etc). Integration with Cisco AnyConnect is a great feature. File monitoring feature just got released that can be utilized via policies.

We use Cisco Umbrella as an additional layer of security for all of our clients. It really shines for mobile users who we still want to be restricted to our web content policies. I don't know if a situation where Umbrella wouldn't be appropriate, unless you just don't use the internet.

OpenDNS Umbrella Web Filtering is well suited for all environments, but in our particular case it is very useful. Our environment is a hybrid setup with some on premise and some cloud. We also have multiple remote locations as well as remote agents that require access to our internal network. This allows us to control what users can browse, even when remote.