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Cisco Umbrella

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

Reviewers rate Availability highest, with a score of 9.5.

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

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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
This product works with hybrid cloud or companies fully in the cloud, but identity management could get harder. We have 500 users. Sometimes, due to the nature of DNS requests, it can be hard to see the forest through the trees or get false positive hits because some ads on a legitimate website loaded something bad. Overall the security it provides is very good and the insight into web browsing is very helpful. Being a SaaS product makes it easy to set up and maintain.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Ryan Lee | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Ian Hansen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller
Very easy to implement for guest users traffic management, not only from the content point of view but also on the security point of view. I would suggest to consider starting with the DNS protection layer first or consider Umbrella SIG solution if you have in mind to implement a complete DNS, HTTP and HTTPS traffic management solution.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
Tim Roberts | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Cisco Umbrella has been great for preventing some traffic that we didn't even realize was occurring. It captures everything and flags up in the admin dashboard any new applications or websites that should be approved. At the same time initially, that is a lot of information that needs to be reviewed so it takes a bit of effort to get running smoothly
John Patrick Duro | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Andreas Tan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Cisco Umbrella is very easy to implement where the organization doesn't have a dedicated network guy. This solution is well suited also for small businesses that need to have basic firewall capability (content filtering) without expensive hardware. If you already have a dedicated firewall and need more customization based on the user role, Cisco Umbrella might have difficulty catching up with your company's needs.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Easily apply policies to an enterprise without touching any endpoints by simply using Cisco Umbrella as a forwarder on existing DNS servers. However, that deployment method precludes Umbrella from providing visibility into which endpoints may be trying to communicate with C&C servers.

Deploying the Umbrella roaming module provides a means to extend a security policy and protection to mobile devices when outside the enterprise networks.
February 20, 2020

Hop under my umbrella!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Complete company coverage without exceptions is how we use it. I can't think of a scenario where it would not be useful, except for smaller networks where you can still have integration points (e.g. Meraki) but don't need a full-blown enterprise setup.
February 03, 2020

Cisco Umbrella Review

Emiliano Sola | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Appropriate for DNS filtering, web proxy, and applicative firewalling. It would be a great idea to integrate Umbrella with other products (for instance, Trendmicro) to improve the understanding of the potential malicious domain the machines try to resolve. In particular, it would cross the antivirus softwares data with the detected DNS queries.
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