Cisco Umbrella Reviews

Nowadays, Connext as a part of Migesa Group has been using Umbrella across all the company even in its partner companies (capta, Migesa, SoftM). Because we have more than 7 branch offices in Mexico and a lot of travelers and home workers, Umbrella is a MUST in each computer to ensure security inside and outside of our organization.

In our company, we have been using Cisco Umbrella to protect each site in Argentina and Brazil (+160 locations) for more than 2 years and in more than 2500 roaming clients.

In our case, for what are large offices we have a virtual server like DNS to host Umbrella queries. In the case of the smallest offices, these queries go to our DC. For remote users we have the roaming client installed on each device.

This is being used enterprise-wide for both our internal endpoints as well as our guest-WIFI networks. Umbrella allows us to provide a consistent policy to all these endpoints without requiring all traffic to pass through my entire security stack. In addition, we are able to apply this policy to managed endpoints when they would otherwise be considered off-net.

Extension to endpoints outside the firewall requires the installation of an agent, either a dedicated Umbrella agent or the AnyConnect Roaming Security module. Once that agent and an organization-specific config file are deployed there is no more touch required on the endpoint as all policy management/reporting is accessed via the cloud management dashboard.

We are using Cisco Umbrella globally for the whole organization and divide policies by departments. It protects our office and remote (roaming) computers against malicious domains. For manufacturing sites, we have a policy to restrict internet access (use allow-only policy). We are trying to use all features of the Cisco Umbrella and connect ThreatGrid and ThreatResponse.

We use Roaming Security Module for Cisco AnyConnect. The integration is really straightforward and can apply user-based and group-based policies for endpoints outside the firewall, roaming users, and remote branch offices.

Cisco Umbrella is used across our entire organization. We utilize the Umbrella Roaming Client to protect all of our computers, whether on- or off-network. Cisco Umbrella gives the ability to push Internet protection policies to all of our users, no matter where they may be working. Cisco Umbrella protects 100% of our users 100% of the time.

We use Umbrella as a content filter and for malware protection across the whole organization when endpoints are not behind one of our central firewalls. I like the ease of deployment, the rich statistics it supplies, and the great AMP integration. It also protects our VPN users when they are not connected.

We are using Cisco Umbrella for DNS Security and URL filtering. Our entire organization uses DNS forwarded to Cisco Umbrella. Our mobile users use the Cisco Umbrella profile loaded into the Cisco Secure Mobility Client to protect both inside and outside the firewall. Cisco Umbrella adds another layer of security to our multi-layered setup at an affordable price.

First - Cisco Umbrella used to be called OpenDNS. Cisco bought them. And of course had to rename it - especially since it had OPEN in the name. LOL! I work as the director of IT for a mid sized architectural firm. The architects were used to going about anywhere they wanted on the web and when I started here I knew I had to find a way to "protect" them without being too pushy. OpenDNS, aka Umbrella has been a lifesaver. Using their selection list I was able to whittle down the content available to my users while still having the ability to customize and whitelist sites they needed to have access to. This product - in case you don't know - filters traffic at the DNS level. They have whitelist/blacklist DNS entries and for the most part it is totally transparent and extremely fast.

We are using Cisco Umbrella to protect our work stations as we have a massive portion of our employees working remotely and outside our company network. Cisco Umbrella is allowing us to avoid using the VPN Connection to access specific company sites or applications, simplifying the way our non-IT users work.

We use Cisco Umbrella to secure our organization tarting with DNS-layer protection. Cisco Umbrella helps us starting at the Internet layer to block malicious and unwanted domains, IP addresses, and cloud applications before a connection is ever established. We have the ability to approve apps for or organization and see what is being blocked in real time.

We are using it for resolving URL, DNS malware protection, evaluating the web proxy. We started the POC on a single part of the company and we extended it to the entire organization. We are looking forward to deploying some appliances to detect which machines are trying to resolve malicious websites.

Cisco Umbrella is being used organization-wide amongst all of our departments. It helps us serve as our "first line of defense" against internet and firewall threats.

It is being used across our organization and several clients, we use Cisco Umbrella for workstation protection.

We use Cisco Umbrella internally and are also use it as an important security tool for most of our customers. We use it for DNS encryption/web security as well as content filtering.

Our company uses Cisco Umbrella client to filter web content that we do not want to leave accessible for public consumption. We filter websites and other content by category and we white list sites that we want to allow for one reason or another.

Cisco Umbrella allowed us to gain visibility on how the web is being used in our organization. It allows us to immediately protect against malware, phishing, and gives us command and control over our network and mobile users!

It is used for DNS security at our servers and clients. All clients are secured by Umbrella and the ISOC is operating the service. With Umbrella we have a higher security level for our clients, because the very critical destinations are filtered and the client can not access the source.

[It's] very easy to use at firewalls and routers, too.

Cisco Umbrella was added as a first layer of defense, we are using 2 Layers of Proxies, first commonly used web filtering (WSA) and second on the top of this is Umbrella which protect our company on a DNS level

We use Cisco Umbrella for DNS protection on workstations. The performance of Umbrella is impressive for it is a cloud-native service since day one. It's a smart proxy that only routes the traffic to risky destinations through its network and the safe content is accessed directly with no delay. Roaming users are protected when they are on or off the corporate network by installing a light client. The problem is that there is still no support for roaming Android and Linux devices.

For us the decision came down to figuring out how to manage our zone data and getting control of how employees were accessing the internet. The Enterprise has the responsibility to defend its little corner of the Internet and Umbrella provided the capability to achieve that. Having that visibility to know what systems are looking up in the DNS provides valuable information that can feed behavior analytics that drives a portion of our security process. It also provides an added layer of protection by having mechanisms to block access to known malicious domains and URLs, a plus for any company looking to combat the biggest issues we face as network defenders - phishing.

We implemented Cisco Umbrella as a means to protect our environment from drive-by downloads, malware, and viruses in the wild. Since implementation, we have decreased our occurrences by approximately 70%. This system is so easy to implement and requires very little time on a daily basis and protects the environment before anything ever gets to the network.

I used Cisco Umbrella during the WannaCry Campaign to check if some of our customers were affected and block all the DNS requests on time. We also found several other indications of compromises that helped us to localize other infections on endpoints and correctly review our security policies.

We use Cisco Umbrella for DNS protection on workstations by using the roaming client on endpoints, and we also use the virtual machines that integrate with Active Directory for DNS protection on a network. It provides protection against potentially malicious websites and known bad servers on the Internet.

We've been using this in our department since it was OpenDNS, and use it primarily to protect users who are connecting on-site or remotely from stumbling into or exposing our network to problematic content, especially malware, etc. Because we have a diverse range of users on the network, many of whom bring their own devices, it's helpful to have DNS-level security rather than count on everyone to use safe internet practices.

We are an MSP with 7000 endpoints that we support. Umbrella is not optional for our clients. While antivirus is required, it serves as a checkbox. Umbrella is what does all of the heavy lifting for us on the antimalware side of things.