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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I installed the Cisco Umbrella solution in a healthcare environment to protect their endpoint from both DNS attacks and web attacks. The cloud dashboard provided a comprehensive view of all policies and endpoint visibility, enabling us to understand the various ways an attacker could compromise the company.
Pros
- DNS Protection.
- Quick and easy deployment.
- Treat intelligence and visibility.
Cons
- Dashboard management.
- IT Management.
- Granular features.
Likelihood to Recommend
The Cisco Umbrella is well suited for all companies that need a scalable and easy-to-manage cloud solution. It is particularly recommended for roaming clients and it targets both the enterprise and small to medium business markets, such as the Italian market. It is less appropriate where there is already a firewall solution deployed.
Cisco Umbrella
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Cisco Umbrella helps act as a proxy to filter malicious domains and URLs, all the while providing DDoS protection and an extra layer of security, so that Cisco Umbrella is making the internet queries on behalf of our company. Umbrella also provides forensics so we can trace any malicious attacks.
Pros
- Protects against malicious urls and domains
- protects against ddos
- Acts a s proxy and provides and extra layer of security
Cons
- Cisco umbrella could provide reverse proxy capabilities for return traffic
- cisco umbrella could have more integration with our different security systems
- cisco umbrella could have an agentless solution
Likelihood to Recommend
Cisco umbrella is well suited for a our company which is predominately a Cisco show so it can integrate well with other Cisco systems. We use anyconnect so it is was easy to deploy the umbrella module on top of the Cisco secure access agent. Umbrella helped secure most of our https traffic.
Cisco Umbrella is a must go DNS protections
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Cisco Umbrella provides us with DNS protection as part of our security suite. We use it in addition to other products to provide an overall security umbrella.
Pros
- DNS restrictions
- Malware protection
- DNS insights
Cons
- Better workflow
- Automation for users policies
- Ability to use AD security groups to define user policies
Likelihood to Recommend
We occasionally run into sites being blocked by Cisco Umbrella but they do not show in the dashboard as blocked or receive the blocked page. It would be nice to have that information on the block page or the logs to better troubleshoot.
Cisco Umbrella
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
In our organization, we use Cisco Umbrella to Protect internet traffic for the org
Pros
- I think that Cisco Umbrella does DNS (domain name search) forwarding well
- I think that Cisco Umbrella does Block list rules well
- I think that Cisco Umbrella does Network profiles well
Cons
- I think there is room for improvement in Cisco Umbrella with the Blocklist UI (user interface)
- I think there is room for improvement in Cisco Umbrella with the Network profiles definition
Likelihood to Recommend
I think I am likely to recommend Cisco Umbrella to a colleague to Block traffic for computers
Cisco Umbrella AD DDI
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
My
organization uses Cisco Umbrella as a layer of protection for users accessing
Internet. We used the native embedded classification of malicious URLs but also
to monitor who is attempting to connect to theses URLs. In addition, we use our
internal threat Intel feeds to enrich the umbrella URL classification. To identify
affected endpoints and users. The solution is integrated with our AD solution
and our DDI platform
Pros
- URL classification
- Integration with DDI and AD
- blacklisting/whitelisting
Cons
- Better integration with non Cisco Products
Likelihood to Recommend
Positive:
The business case is clear, and it fits perfectly. Avoid users connecting to
malicious URLs and if so early detect and stop. Integration with Cisco Secure
Endpoint and Cisco XDR works smoothly
Positive:
It feeds from intelligence sources all over the Internet
Positive:
Performance is amazing as it cops with huge amount of Data
You
do not have to worry to patch a platform as it is a SaaS
Neutral:
Integration with third party solutions is feasible but not so straight forward
An important product for securing information
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Our business needs a reliable security solution to ensure business continuity. We use Cisco Umbrella primarily to secure our staff's web browsing and prevent them from going to malicious sites. We need to be able to protect company workstations against malware. We also use other tools to maintain a high level of security by creating a multi-layered firewall.
Pros
- Protect web surfing
- User behavior
- Easy to use
- Modern layout
Cons
- Giving trough email more information
- Get more information blocked sites
Likelihood to Recommend
Cisco Umbrella is a cloud-based service, so there is no need to invest in maintaining it, everything is done automatically. This allows us to focus primarily on monitoring malicious sites, leaving us more time for security and other IT tasks. To date, we have not identified anything that could affect our continued use of the service.
Cisco Umbrella
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are using it to protect our entire organization. We use it to deny access to mal-domains CNC fishing, etc. Filter non business related sites, I especially like that fact we can block newly registered domains that although it might catch a legit site, most new domains are high risk for malware, or CNC. I have used this in its free form at home as OpenDNS. With proper MS Active directory you can track requests by user. We have the option to integrate into our AnyConnect VPN client as well still working on that.
Pros
- It is easy to setup and they have very helpful onboarding staff.
- It took only a few hours to get it up and running.
- It is updated in Realtime by Cisco Talos Intelligence who are awesome.
Cons
- It takes a while to get the order of policies figured out.
- There is a slight delay in changes as it filters down to your client.
Likelihood to Recommend
It is good for whole network protection, and individual PCs with the client. Provide good reporting on where your network is going on the net. One thing I would like is a longer history with the logs 14 and 30 days are too short some times.
Cisco Umbrella - An excellent DNS control security solution
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
The business problem and scope was how my company protect the organization from DNS related malware. We were looking for a proven and trusted product by a company that had years of experience in the field. We use Cisco in many areas and decided that this product was best for us.
Pros
- DNS related malware protection
- Cloud deployment
- Excellent and deep controls
Cons
- Make advance configurations easier to understand and deploy
- Content filtering needs to be expanded
- Expensive
Likelihood to Recommend
In my opinion Cisco Umbrella is excellent for medium to large scale deployments. The Cisco Umbrella solution does a great job in DNS related malware control, URL filtering (even though a bit limited) and reporting to just name a few. If you are a smaller company with limited budget, this is probably not the solution for you due to cost.
Cisco Umbrella
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Cisco Umbrella SIG to secure our Mobile Workers.
Because of Covid we had an huge increase in mobile workers and had to allow split tunneling because our infrastructure could not handle the load.
The "always on" Web Filter gives us an extra level of security even when the traffic is not routed through our central firewall.
Pros
- DNS Security: Analyse DNS request and blocks if necessary.
- Web Filter: This is our content filter for mobile workers.
- SSL inspection: We could outsource the sandboxing of files and the ssl inspection to the cloud. There is no load on our infrastructure.
Cons
- The many different policy rules are already addressed with Secure Access.
- The features for Roaming Client management are very less.
- Cisco Products are still not harmonized. there is a difference in a central Firepower web filter category and the umbrella web filter category.
Likelihood to Recommend
It is a good and stable Secure Internet Gateway.
But it does not work in China and needs more local breakouts.
Our web traffic is not terminating in neighbor country.
Cisco Umbrella Review
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use it to get all the users, so we can block sites they don't need to access, so I don't know if we have different kind of websites we don't want them to access, we can block the access through there.
Pros
- It's good at blocking things and also if we have to unplug any sites, I'll use system to access. It's easy to put in them URL and we have it allowed, so that's good.
Cons
- I'm not sure that this moment.
Likelihood to Recommend
Well, on a daily basis for all our users, we have a lot of people just go into different websites and stuff and it's good to block all of these websites. We don't want our users to access, so we don't get any malicious things from those websites.