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Cisco now offers OpenDNS Umbrella Web Filtering. Cisco acquired OpenDNS in August 2015, and rebranded the product as Cisco Umbrella.
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What is Cisco Umbrella?
Cisco Umbrella, a key component of Cisco's secure access service edge (SASE) architecture, integrates multiple security services in a single, centrally managed, cloud-native solution to secure access to the internet and control cloud app usage. By unifying secure web gateway, firewall, DNS-layer security, threat intelligence, and cloud access security broker (CASB) solutions, Cisco Umbrella helps reduce the resources required for deployment, configuration,
and integration. And, by delivering this functionality from the cloud, you can scale
to meet the needs of a remote and roaming workforce, shifting network perimeter,
and multi-cloud environment — all while simplifying security. Umbrella can be easily integrated with an SD-WAN implementation to provide a combination of performance, security, and flexibility to delight both end users and a security team.
Cisco Umbrella Features
- Supported: DNS-layer security
- Supported: Secure web gateway (full proxy)
- Supported: Cloud access security broker (CASB) functionality
- Supported: Cloud-delivered firewall
- Supported: Interactive threat intelligence
- Supported: Integrates with SD-WAN
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- Enterprise security and networking are facing a significant transformation as organization embrace SASE, a Secure Access Service Edge. Wide-scale adoption of cloud applications, an increase in remote workers, and expansion of branch offices has rendered the centralized, on-premises security model impractical. The convenience, cost savings, and performance benefits of going direct to the internet is driving a new decentralized approach to networking. Yet with change comes risk and a new set of security challenges. Organizations require a broader set of protection that not only improves security, but simplifies management. Learn more about Cisco Umbrella, a key component of Cisco's SASE architecture.
Cisco Umbrella Integrations
- Cisco Secure Malware Analytics (Threat Grid)
- ThreatConnect SOAR
- ZeroFOX
- FireEye
- Check Point
- Splunk
- ThreatQ
- Umbrella Enforcement API for Custom Integrations
Cisco Umbrella Competitors
- Cloudflare
- Akamai
- Zscaler Internet Access
- Infoblox
- Palo Alto Networks
- Netskope
Cisco Umbrella Technical Details
| Deployment Types | SaaS |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android, Chromebooks |
| Supported Countries | 190 Countries |
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What is Cisco Umbrella?
Cisco now offers OpenDNS Umbrella Web Filtering. Cisco acquired OpenDNS in August 2015, and rebranded the product as Cisco Umbrella.
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What is Cisco Umbrella's best feature?
Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 9.4.
Who uses Cisco Umbrella?
The most common users of Cisco Umbrella are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees) and the Information Technology & Services industry.
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June 22, 2022
Cisco Umbrella - Peace of mind for enhanced security
We use Cisco Umbrella to control website access. Our goal is to detect malicious URLs \ Sites and control content for our employees. It is a great malware tool.
- Malware prevention
- Website content control
- Internet security
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Excellent protection at the DNS layer. Cisco Umbrella protects devices regardless of where they are and prevents any attempts from fraudulent sites.
June 21, 2022
A must have product for your security stack.
I have been using Cisco Umbrella before Cisco acquired OpenDNS. It has been one of the best bang-for-your-buck products any organization can procure no matter which segment you are in. Umbrella protects us on a daily basis from thousands of malware and ransomware-related issues. The reporting features are also extremely easy to use and provide a great insight into your network usage.
- DNS protection.
- Malware protection.
- Trojan detection.
- Real time dashboards.
- On premise agents could be less clunky.
- False positives.
By leveraging the agents on the individual endpoints, users are protected even when they are not in the office. The individual agents sync back up with the Cisco server and keep their databases updated for any new malicious malware or ransomware threats. The remote branches are also connected via the Cisco Umbrella agents and provide detailed reporting.
June 16, 2022
Cisco Umbrella provides great security coverage
Cisco Umbrella is a great internet content filtering tool to have. With Cisco Umbrella we are able to implement the client on all our organization devices. Once we have those devices enrolled on Cisco Umbrella we are then able to provide content filtering to adhere to our organizational enforced policies.
- Content Filtering
- Reporting
- The console interface may be better.
Cisco Umbrella is able to provide great protection for our endpoints that are outside our organizational firewall. The coverage that Cisco Umbrella is able to provide exceeds that of other content filtering services. The protection that we are given with Cisco Umbrella allows us to see any threat and naturalize those threats as soon as they are discovered.
We use Cisco Umbrella as our primary DNS for the organization. We take advantage of the filtration aspects of Umbrella to prevent access to known malicious sites and other sites that may be used to circumvent network protections. One of the most useful aspects of Umbrella is the "newly discovered domain" feature. This allows Umbrella to block websites that it has never seen before automatically and for a limited time. Malicious actors will often create short-lived websites that they use for propagation or infection; this feature provides a layer of protection there. Additionally, we take advantage of the SSL proxy DNS to get insight into encrypted DNS requests.
- Content categorization
- Content Filtration
- Segmented Policy Enforcement
- SSL Decryption
- No integration with Cisco AMP
- Activity Search can be a bit Obtuse
Provided users use a VPN, they receive the same Umbrella filtration and access that they would on-premises. However, we have not expanded Umbrella deployment so that a user working from a remote location without using the VPN would receive the normal filtration. For those users, we are depended primarily on Cisco AMP for protection. It would be great if these products would integrate!
June 13, 2022
Cisco Umbrella
We started using Cisco Umbrella to improve productivity and to prevent users from accessing certain sites they shouldn't. We also use it to try to increase our cyber security stance by preventing users from accessing malicious websites. It gives us a broad view of what users are trying to access and gives us the ability to allow or block the connections.
- Monitor Connections
- Prevent Malware and Phishing
- Smart Search
- More detailed connections
- App for Umbrella
- Upgraded smart search
We currently don't have many employees that work from the outside that would require DNS protection but we do have the ability to re route DNS traffic and monitor their activity. After installing it on specific devices all their traffic is re routed to cisco DNS server then it gets reported on our reports.
March 29, 2022
Umbrella Value Add
I started using Cisco Umbrella for just DNS Security. That alone protected my organization from 95% of the malicious traffic that was being attempted. Later on I moved into full Security Internet Gateway providing fantastic protection for DLP, Full URL, CASB, and Remote Access. The ability to also integrate with my SOAR has saved us countless hours of response.
- Integration with other tools
- Intelligence is 2nd to none
- Phenomenal performance
- Better documentation
With IPAM enforced DNS entries all devices on the network have to go through Umbrella for protection at the edge. This was an easy win for the company. For our remote workforce, we installed the roaming agent with is already part of AnyConnect. This allowed us to protect our employees no matter where they are.
March 19, 2022
Great extra security layer for your remote workers
We started using the Cisco Umbrella way before the pandemics as an extra security layer to protect computers working within our internal network. That had been working really well and it's proven even more important after we had to buy laptops and send people to work from home, where we have much less control over the environment security.
- Protect against various types of malware
- Allow custom policy creation
- Allows endpoint centralized management
- Shows graphs with usage statistics
- More intuitive administrator interface
- AD integration is a bit complicated
- Better pricing
We use Cisco Umbrella mostly to protect our remote endpoints. Once in a while, we receive a request to whitelist a specific website that is being blocked by Cisco Umbrella because it belongs to a specific category that we don't want our users to access but in that particular case it's needed. Other than that, it works really well and we don't usually have issues.
We use Cisco Umbrella on all systems, including servers, firewalls, laptops, cellular devices. Cisco Umbrella offers a unified management portal that allows administrators to scope policies and audit web traffic. By implementing Cisco Umbrella, we increased our visibility and simplified our URL management policies that were independently managed by our firewalls in the past.
- Unified Management Interface is easy to use
- Site based IP address configuration for catch all DNS traffic
- Whitelist and blacklist easy
- Umbrella Virtual Appliances have been buggy in resolving local domain hosts.
- Integration between other Cisco and Meraki products is complicated.
- Reporting is not always accurate; for example, if you configure a Meraki access point to use an Umbrella Virtual Appliance, you lose device reporting. All reporting shows up under the AP's IP.
Remote users are forced to use the Cisco Umbrella roaming client. All web traffic off our network is routed through Cisco Umbrella's DNS, thus giving us full visibility and control over the endpoint URL filtering. By keeping our endpoints safe off-site, we can help mitigate risks that commonly occur on public wifi or unsecured networks.
March 03, 2022
Umbrella DNS
Cisco Umbrella is used across our entire organization. Our organization uses it to secure DNS access to "time-wasting" sites including personal mail which has been a source of malicious files, personal file share sites, monitor and block access to inappropriate sites. While we use it across our entire organization we provide departments with different access to accommodate different needs.
- Reporting.
- DNS Security.
- Unique policy.
- Identifying users.
- Integration was slow.
- Report has limited information.
Cisco Umbrella has been excellent at completing its task both within our office and with roaming, remote, and branch offices. Considering the application is installed on a device, protection is enabled from the device itself. Being that we have protection on the device it has made working from home no different than working in the office as far as DNS and URL protection.
February 18, 2022
Great for DNS monitoring and visibility
We leverage Cisco Umbrella across our offices and endpoints. We implemented this before the COVID-pandemic which really gave us visibility into what domains our systems were communicating with and gave a granular way for us to filter and restrict connections. It helped us find issues and resolve them. They often say, "It's not DNS... ok... it was DNS". This is a great tool to help get to the root cause.
- DNS inspection.
- Threat and anomaly data feeds.
- Good for sending data to 3rd-party monitoring systems.
- Deployment to endpoints is tricky.
- Not really a good solution for Linux. You have to manually set OpenDNS servers.
This was a very good offering for us and a good first step towards DNS protection and URL Filtering. We didn't go with the full URL path because this was our first implementation of DNS Monitoring and it was cost-prohibitive. We could get domain reputation, category, etc without the full URL path. Going forward, the full URL is where we'll go.
December 08, 2021
Cisco Umbrella for data protection
[Cisco Umbrella helps] remote working with utmost care to data security. Ensuring company assets are not compromised while on any network. [It gives the] ease of use for everyone without impacting the productivity with [an] unwanted burden on CPU utilization. We had faced issues with earlier products where application[s] used to eat out CPU while executing. Most updated security application[s] with regular updates for new security vulnerabilities.
- Firewall
- Data security and protection
- Security while on any network
- Web access security
- Slower data access for incident management
- Content filtering functions
- Flushing out old trail account data
DNS filtering is always update[d] in Cisco Umbrella. It provides [an] efficient way to secure IT assets while being used on any data network. Visibility to [the] IT team on DNS accesses ensures that users are not compromised. Cloud application access is also ensured to be accessed securely. Remote login security [occurs] while accessing office network from anywhere.
November 25, 2021
Fast and agile cloud architecture to extend network's protection
Cisco Umbrella is a flexible, fast, and efficient tool that offers cloud-based security whenever and wherever we need it. Cisco Umbrella combines several security features into a single product, allowing us to safeguard devices, remote users, and distant sites from any place. Cisco Umbrella is the quickest and most effective approach to safeguard our users anywhere in the world. It provides our company with a fast, secure, and dependable internet connection. Before a connection is created, it uses the internet's infrastructure to prevent dangerous and undesired sites, IP addresses, and cloud apps to make connections fully secure and trusted.
- Cisco Umbrella effectively detects attacks before they reach our networks or endpoints by processing 180 billion Internet requests per day.
- On and off the network, Umbrella makes it simple to view Internet behavior across all users, cloud applications, devices, and places.
- Anti-phishing, anti-malware, and anti-ransomware security are amazing and for the most extended view, they efficiently stop attacks across all ports and protocols.
- For experts and professionals, the reporting is excellent, but it is not necessarily what our administrators require.
- Many times Cisco Umbrella security solutions flag new websites as harmful even if they are not.
Thanks to Cisco Umbrella, our network is now fully protected, and we can provide the greatest possible experience to our visitors. The reliability, productivity, responsiveness, profitability, and protection of our business networks have all improved. Now it's a lot easier for us to increase the protection of our most valuable data.
November 23, 2021
Protect the remote workers
With most of our employees being remote workers, Cisco Umbrella was crucial in securing our company laptops. When a large percentage of your staff work outside the office and you have no control over the perimeter devices that are monitoring internet traffic, Cisco Umbrella provides ease of mind for those responsible for maintaining the security of the devices and the company's intellectual property. The Administration UI is very easy to use and, at the same time, offers excellent granularity of control over each device. One additional bonus if you are a Meraki user, you can tie your Cisco Umbrella policies to Meraki access points and firewalls.
- Secure traffic to only approved sites.
- Reporting on user traffic.
- Allow for fine grain control of policies and permissions.
- Troubleshooting blocks, legitimate traffic is sometimes blocked, and that is to be expected. Some tools to help administrators find and approve those blocks would be great.
- Ability to mass approve or deny applications in the App Discovery and control center.
Very well, and it is the reason I would suggest anyone with remote workers to make the investment in protecting your company's assets and IP from malicious sites or applications. I was able to deploy it to the end-user laptops with minimal effort, and it worked right out of the box.
November 06, 2021
Our backup to Securely
Currently Cisco Umbrella is being used to web filter our school district. All Windows PCs are set up via DHCP to point to the Cisco Umbrella DNS. This is used as a secondary web filter to Securely. We are mostly a Chrome-based school district and use Securely to filter those. Any device on our network points to Cisco Umbrella DNS.
- Web filter.
- Ease of use.
- Reporting.
- Nutanix AHV support.
- Chrome plugin.
- Interface is not as easy as other products.
With a client for Windows they reach out to the cloud for web filter. We do not have many Windows devices left in our district so we do not implement this. All kids and most staff have Chromebooks. As I have stated I do not believe they have a Chromebook plugin.
November 06, 2021
Cisco Umbrella can save your day.
We use Cisco Umbrella for managed DNS throughout our network. It protects our staff and students from harmful sites and content that may be inappropriate for some of them. It is kept current with the integration with other Cisco solutions across their security platform. We don't have to manage malicious sites on the firewall, Cisco Umbrella does it for us.
- 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.
- Without the higher paid support options, support can be a little lacking.
- The reporting is pretty good for technical people but it isn't always exactly what we need in a school setting for our administrators.
Cisco Umbrella helps protect our users both on premise and off. Many of our students and staff take their devices home daily. By using simple to deploy protections, we extend the same level of protection and monitoring wherever the device goes.
September 24, 2021
Cisco Umbrella's got you covered
We deployed it company wide as a measure of WFH, as the trusted DNS source for where ever you are working from. We found that the upstream provider of some people were suspicious and made errors, this allows people to work a bit more freely.
- Easy to deploy
- Lightweight
- It works
- The sso is a bit of a query mess
The trusted upstream of where ever a user is outside the office is standardized and we can trust it.
September 23, 2021
Cisco Umbrella - It works.
We use Cisco Umbrella DNS services to protect our users on our network at home. We are using it across the entire organization to prevent users from going to dangerous websites.
- DNS Filtering.
- Secure gateway.
- Firewall functionality.
- I wish admins could whitelist via the client rather than loading the website.
- Cisco Umbrella hasn't played well with CATO VPN client in the past.
- It sometimes flags new website as dangerous when they are simply new.
It works very well.
September 13, 2021
SASE architecture which improves security, but simplifies management
Most cyber-attacks happen due to phishing URLs or emails [containing] malicious code which gets executed or force users to redirect to a malicious site. Wide-scale adoption of cloud applications, increasing remote users, and expansion of branch offices have rendered the on-premises security modes. Cisco Umbrella is a cloud-native multi-function security service [that] provides functionality on top of the network layers including firewall, DNS, CASB solution, and all together [with] intelligence from Cisco Talos. Cisco Umbrella blocks the request to malware, ransomware, phishing, and botnet [before the] connection gets established. It is ideally used by the entire organization to get maximum protection from malicious [content].
- Security protection on and off-network - Not required to have a connection with the perimeter gateway in order to get protection from internet threats.
- Scalability across a global network - As the product is self-built into the cloud, scalability based on requirements and user traffic can be extended to the maximum as possible with all license features available.
- Provide protection - Cisco Umbrella works on DNS level. It means whatever request gets resolved by Cisco Umbrella to get visibility into the request, so handling [cloud-level traffic] and sending clear traffic at the perimeter becomes an easy task.
- Cost Efficiency - [Cisco] Umbrella can be considered as a single license product with all functionality available in [the] SIG advantage package because DNS essential licenses don't provide functionalities that [most might want].
For off-network coverage, if you use Cisco AnyConnect, no additional endpoint client is needed.
If [you] don't have AnyConnect, [you] can use a lightweight client that works with any VPN client itself.
The roaming client forwards requests for external internet domains to Cisco Umbrella IPs automatically. It has embedded a unique identifier that matches the device’s hostname and also encrypts the DNS request to prevent man-in-the-middle eavesdropping on the internet.
So users [in the] same network can communicate from the internal domain, and users outside can go directly to the umbrella network.
When crypto virus infections become a new threat a few years ago, implementing Cisco Umbrella gave our company and clients an extra layer of protection against these threats. It is used on an ongoing basis across the entire company and all of our clients to help protect again new and emerging threats. The product also helps filter content that is inappropriate for the workplace.
- The product does a good job of blocking known bad sites.
- Content filtering categories allow us to block material that is deemed inappropriate.
- Roaming client allows for laptops to be protect in or out of the office.
- Often, the roaming agent causes Windows to incorrectly be unable to detect Internet access, causing Office 365 to not work.
- Product support is not very good.
- Reporting across multiple clients is not efficient.
If the Cisco Umbrella roaming client is used, it provides an extra layer of protection for systems, but only as a supplement to traditional antivirus programs. While the protection is helpful, the side effects, such as the incorrect "No Internet" problem may outweigh the benefits of the product. I would recommend a through evaluation period before committing to the product.
September 12, 2021
A happy Cisco Umbrella user with happy end users
We have deployed it to the entire company, in addition to their mobile devices (laptops) when they are offsite. For us, this solves the web filtering that in the past was cumbersome to manage. We did not want a heavy proxy web filter, but a general best effort one based on DNS. This product does that for us as well as generates great security alerts on malware using DNS.
- Security.
- Webfiltering.
- Easy setup.
- Reporting.
- MacOS web filtering IP layer.
- Mobile device - iOS and Android.
- Webhooks.
With the small application, it provides IP layer filtering. On MacOS it is iffy, but on Windows it works great. This helps the system understand what user is on a laptop at that time. If some devices don't support this you can set public DNS to their system and it will provide a very basic level of coverage. With us being more remote the coverage expanded easily to our workforces at home and everyone has been very happy.
July 12, 2021
Cisco Umbrella Great Product and Price!
We use OpenDNS across the entire organization, and it is currently a stop-gap measure until we identify and acquire a secure web gateway.
- Keeps users away from identified spam or malicious sites.
- Easily configured to add blocked sites of your own.
- Great reporting features.
- Timely and valuable response support from Help Desk.
- 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.
We have it deployed with our Cisco AnyConnect VPN client and the Umbrella roaming client module. It has been great at extending the DNS and URL filtering beyond our corporate firewalls. We have not had any reported instances of the protection not working while outside the corporate network. The granular visibility by user is great for incident response functions.
May 21, 2021
Cisco Umbrella Review
In our organization, we use Cisco Umbrella for [a] layer of security.
- Best DNS protection for Business
- Web filtering
- Fast and Reliable
- Sometimes highly expensive
- Logs can be better filtered
- Entry level setup should be free
[Integration] with SD wan. Cloud firewall deliverd.
May 21, 2021
An overarching security solution
Cisco Umbrella is an overarching security solution that we have been using on our IT infrastructure for more than 2 years. Umbrella's coverage and features are varying and [satisfy] our needs without any problems. Mainly we benefit from [the] secure gateway, DNS service, and most importantly Cisco Umbrella's threat [intelligence] which is fed by many users from other companies.
- Continously improved threat intelligience
- DNS layer security for end users
- Improved end point visibility
- None. Everything works fine
Cisco's resource on threat [intelligence] is limitless. Benefiting from this resource, they provide a perfect security solution to us. We advise our colleagues to use OpenDNS (Cisco's subsidiary) on their devices. Also, we imply Cisco Umbrella's DNS layer security to prevent some threats even before reaching our colleagues' devices. Cisco Umbrella provides other protection solutions as well such as [the] SecureX platform.
May 13, 2021
Remote working colleagues are protected
Umbrella as its name presented is an inclusive security product that we use at our company. Mainly, we benefit from its secure gateway and dns layer security service. During the pandemic period, almost all of our colleagues started work remotely with company devices or own devices connected to company network. Umbrella's DNS layer security allows us to protect them everywhere.
- Either on-site or remote, security policies are equally implied
- Secure endpoints on company networks, protected endusers via DNS layer coverage
- Broad threat intelligience fed by all users
- none
DNS layer protection works over all ports and protocols in order to prevent attacks. Their threat intelligence is fed by all users and they process these data with machine learning to define the threat patterns. Their security team filters those outputs and we benefit from this intelligence by just defining proper security policies.
May 12, 2021
Cisco Umbrella is a great product
We have Cisco Umbrella being used across the entire organization, on all computers. The reason we use Cisco Umbrella is to control the website filtering in order to prevent users from accessing potentially malicious sites and/or content not deemed appropriate for work.
- Lots of filtering options
- Small client installer
- Client installer works on remote computers
- Creating a block list is a bit weird
- Certain circumstances can cause a website not to load because of SSL certificate issues
- Filtering rules can be a bit difficult to setup in complex scenarios
The client installer allows web filtering on endpoints that are outside the main firewall. Cisco Umbrella even supports pointing a remote site's DNS servers to Cisco Umbrella's DNS servers and it can be intelligently filtered if it matches a static IP configured in the web console.