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Cisco Umbrella

Overview

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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Product Details

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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Cisco Umbrella Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Chromebooks
Supported Countries190 Countries

Frequently Asked Questions

Cisco now offers OpenDNS Umbrella Web Filtering. Cisco acquired OpenDNS in August 2015, and rebranded the product as Cisco Umbrella.

Cloudflare, Akamai CDN, and Zscaler Internet Access are common alternatives for Cisco Umbrella.

Reviewers rate Implementation Rating and Ease of integration highest, with a score of 9.3.

The most common users of Cisco Umbrella are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Cisco Umbrella

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 15, 2025
RR
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco Umbrella
3 years of experience
I can add an add on for Cisco AnyConnect and a client for PC to allow protection for PCs outside of my network being as it is a cloud based surface, if they have a connection they can use it for protection. If it is a remote office I can add the IP range for that offices IP gateway.

Great extra security layer for your remote workers

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 12, 2025
CC
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco Umbrella
4 years of experience
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.

Trusted Cloud Based DNS Security

Rating: 6 out of 10
November 21, 2024
An app by cisco umbrella needs to installed on any endpoint which is outside the firewall. Once the app is installed, the same policies which are applied to inside firewall is also applied to outside firewall. You can even have separate policies for those roaming users. For remote branch offices, you will have to add their network address in the cloud portal and then they will also be covered.

Cisco Umbrella: Safe browsing thanks to its DNS service

Rating: 10 out of 10
November 21, 2024
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco Umbrella
2 years of experience
For the remote sites, they all have a DHCP server that assigns a site IP to users and the Cisco Umbrella DNS, so all users use this DNS. For roaming users, they have Cisco Umbrella DNS configured on their devices to ensure secure browsing. In this way we ensure that all company employees have safe Internet browsing.

Cisco Umbrella's got you covered

Rating: 9 out of 10
November 20, 2024
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco Umbrella
1 year of experience
The trusted upstream of where ever a user is outside the office is standardized and we can trust it.
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