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April 30, 2021

Cisco Umbrella - Good DNS Protection

Ian Hansen | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Score 9 out of 10
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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.
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May 04, 2021

Cisco Umbrella Review

Mike Sabat | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Score 10 out of 10
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Cisco Umbrella is really great for cybersecurity. It protects all my users at any level. So for example some users could visit some webpages that could try to install viruses on users' machines. Cisco Umbrella protects us against that and finds that risk situation, blocks webpages, and protects us from possible disaster.
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May 03, 2021

Cisco Umbrella works well.

Ryan Lee | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Score 8 out of 10
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I would recommend Umbrella to anyone looking at having some outbound blocking. It works and I have not found another product that works as well. The problem with outbound filtering is that you can only block so much before you get way too many false positives. It is hard to find the balance that works.
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May 03, 2021

Extra security layer with excellent performance

Nikola Marks | TrustRadius Reviewer
Nikola Marks
Score 9 out of 10
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Before the COVID-19 pandemic, I had been helping our employees regarding their security concerns. Cisco Umbrella helps our security team to give an extra shield to our employees to use against online threats without losing any performance. Thanks to its DNS-layer service, employees can also be protected on their personal devices while working remotely. Not only company devices, but also others are secure. Lastly, company device logs are collected and stored securely on Cisco cloud.
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May 03, 2021

Cisco Umbrella covers us well

Curtis Jackson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Curtis Jackson
Score 9 out of 10
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Umbrella is well suited to our school district situation because it can filter our staff and students both on-premises and at home. It provides filtering for both our windows desktop and our Chromebooks (via a Google Extension).
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May 13, 2021

Remote working colleagues are protected

Stella Neal | TrustRadius Reviewer
Stella Neal
Score 10 out of 10
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I would recommend Umbrella as it is easy as cake to implement. Even on the mobile devices of the colleagues, they can be covered with just in two steps by defining the configuration and activating DNS service.
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May 12, 2021

Cisco Umbrella is a great product

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Score 9 out of 10
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I think Cisco Umbrella is well suited for almost all organizations. It works so well that both a small business and a large business can use it without issues. Technically it can even be used by devices that don't support the client installer, so it can basically be used anywhere by anyone. The only downside to Cisco Umbrella is that it doesn't fully support Terminal Servers, in that it won't do user-based filtering, which can be a deal-breaker.
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May 11, 2021

Great security option

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Score 9 out of 10
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We would highly Cisco Umbrella security solution for many reasons, the most important to us being; Compared to the other security solutions we considered Cisco Umbrella had the most flexibility to manage multiple venues and integrate a mix of remote and office employees. This was very important to us and given this dynamic seems to be increasing in prevalence -- this ability will be very important to many organizations facing the same security decision we did. We feel Cisco had the best flexibility in this area of all the products we considered.
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May 04, 2021

Unexpected Side Effects and Poor Support Lead to a Frustrating Experience

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Score 3 out of 10
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Cisco Umbrella is most appropriate in organizations that do not require much support and Office 365 is not used. The level of support provided is lackluster. The roaming agent often causes Windows systems to incorrectly report that the machine does not have Internet access. This causes Office 365 apps to no work, resulting in a lot of wasted time trying to correct the error. The product was top-notch several years ago, but I would hesitate to recommend it now.
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May 03, 2021

Cisco Umbrella protects you from having endpoints rain problems down on you

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Score 9 out of 10
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Cisco Umbrella is well suited for endpoints that are either mobile, or not in a "regular" office setting. With COVID this becomes increasingly important with users no longer at a physical building. Cisco Umbrella works to protect the user wherever they are and keep the company data safe and secure. It also ensures that users cannot access "inappropriate" material - such as adult - on their work computers.
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May 03, 2021

Under the Cisco Umbrella

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Score 10 out of 10
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If you are looking for a DNS management tool or web filtering tool Cisco Umbrella is hard to beat. After using Cisco Umbrella for a number of years, the product has continued to evolve. I can only see this continuing as Cisco integrates Umbrella deeper into its security practice. Since Cisco Umbrella is scalable it is a good fit for any company.
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May 03, 2021

Umbrella: Keep users safe on the internet

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Score 8 out of 10
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Cisco Umbrella is well suited for a managed service provider that has smaller organizations as clients that still need web filtering, but don't require a web access filter or a larger firewall. It is less appropriate if you have other forms of web filtering or do not require any filtering at all.
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May 03, 2021

Cisco Umbrellas: Your WEB and DNS filter for the 21st century

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Score 10 out of 10
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Cisco Umbrella is suited for organizations that require a high level of filtering when it comes to website filtering.
As well if you have multiple locations it provides you with some additional high level information.
The dashboard is very easy to navigate and we believe it is one of the most reliable tools out there for all of the malware and ransom sites.
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May 03, 2021

Umbrella DNS Filtering for Everyone

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Score 8 out of 10
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Cisco Umbrella protects all of our endpoints both inside and outside of the firewall. Simple DNS forwarding allows this solution to be used by even the smallest of organizations, and indeed, it is even appropriate for home use. The more complicated the network, the more difficult it is to configure the Active Directory integration.
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May 03, 2021

Cisco Umbrella: Universal Peace of Mind

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Score 7 out of 10
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Umbrella is pretty well suited for a variety of applications, from simple home use to corporational use. Despite false-positives, it's easy to be assured that data is safe, secure, and monitored.
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April 09, 2021

Cisco Umbrella - manageable, easy to use

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Score 9 out of 10
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It is well suited to protect the organization against threats that can be mitigated by DNS lookups. Unfortunately not all threats use DNS lookups and can be a gap for those types of bad scenarios. It is not a silver bullet and EDR still must be used to cover other vectors of attack on endpoints.
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April 08, 2021

Protect your Endpoints regardless of location

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Score 9 out of 10
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Likelihood to Recommend

From one of the most reputable brands on the market, Umbrella is a wonderful product to protect your endpoints, especially if you have a lot of mobile users. Management is very straightforward using the cloud service and it works great with other Cisco security products like AMP.
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March 25, 2021

Effective First Line of Defense

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Score 10 out of 10
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Likelihood to Recommend

Any network from SMB to enterprise to public sector can benefit from the added security and visibility. Not suited for home use.
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May 12, 2021

A quick glimpse into the solution

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Score 9 out of 10
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Likelihood to Recommend

It is very easy and quick to apply protection to the whole company by forwarding DNS. Cisco Umbrella could extend its offering with data leak protection.
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April 06, 2021

Cisco Umbrella's got you covered

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Score 8 out of 10
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Anytime you have people that work away from the office this provides a lay of security to connecting from non-standard upstream.
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November 10, 2020

Too expensive for a company our size

Patrick Smith | TrustRadius Reviewer
Patrick Smith
Score 6 out of 10
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It works very well, I would have zero issue in recommended it for any company where price is not object. However, for the more financially prudent businesses I would recommend doing further research to see if this is the only way you can address your needs from a cybersecurity point of view.
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October 05, 2020

Cisco Umbrella: At work and at home

Tim Roberts | TrustRadius Reviewer
Tim Roberts
Score 10 out of 10
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Likelihood to Recommend

It's suited end to end for use from home/SMB to large companies and organizations. Since it can be deployed at both the perimeter as well as on endpoints for protection, it gives you peace of mind virtually anywhere it is deployed in a company. This way it means you can be assured of competent protection.
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August 28, 2020

My Cisco Umbrella Review

John Patrick Duro | TrustRadius Reviewer
John Patrick Duro
Score 9 out of 10
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Likelihood to Recommend

Cisco Umbrella is well suited to the small, medium, and even enterprise-level scope and demands of highly available and secured wireless connection. It has documented and well-proven integration to other products for centralized management and administration. At least on our end, it exceeds our expectations because it really provides the right tooling. It has good support options via knowledge base or resource support from Cisco, and the console is very straightforward in terms of security.
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Cisco Umbrella Scorecard Summary

Likelihood to Recommend (109)
8.5
Likelihood to Renew (3)
10.0
Usability (4)
9.4
Support Rating (55)
8.2
Implementation Rating (2)
9.0

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.
Categories:  Managed DNS,  Secure Web Gateway,  Network Security

Cisco Umbrella Features

Has featureDNS-layer security
Has featureSecure web gateway (full proxy)
Has featureCloud access security broker (CASB) functionality
Has featureCloud-delivered firewall
Has featureInteractive threat intelligence
Has featureIntegrates with SD-WAN

Cisco Umbrella Videos (2)

Watch how Cisco Umbrella, a key component of Cisco’s SASE global cloud architecture, enables your cloud transformation.

Watch how KCA Deutag strengthens their security with Cisco Umbrella to ensure consistent enforcement across distributed sites.

Cisco Umbrella Downloadables

Cisco Umbrella Integrations

Cisco Secure Malware Analytics (formerly Threat Grid), ThreatConnect, 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 Pricing

  • Has featureFree Trial Available?Yes
  • Has featureFree or Freemium Version Available?Yes
  • Has featurePremium Consulting/Integration Services Available?Yes
  • Entry-level set up fee?No

Cisco Umbrella Support Options

 Free VersionPaid Version
Phone
Live Chat
Email
Forum/Community
FAQ/Knowledgebase
Social Media
Video Tutorials / Webinar

Cisco Umbrella Technical Details

Deployment Types:SaaS
Operating Systems: Unspecified
Mobile Application:Apple iOS, Android, Chromebooks
Supported Countries:190 Countries

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Cisco Umbrella?

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

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-size Companies and the Information Technology & Services industry.