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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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An important product for securing information

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 18, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 t...
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Vesa Jordan
Director - Information Technology
CTO at Finnfund
Finnfund
Cisco Umbrella5 years of experience

Cisco Umbrella

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 15, 2025
Vetted ReviewVerified User
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...
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Robert Rogers
Professional - Information Technology
Senior IT Systems Analyst
Kalamazoo County Government
Cisco Umbrella3 years of experience

Safer internet with Cisco Umbrella.

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 14, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Cisco Umbrella for several purposes, one of them is to secure our internet users within our office network. Cisco Umbrella works as a shield for us against cyber threat...
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Osman Gani
Manager - Information Technology
Project Coordinator
Hamida Traders Ltd (htl-bd.com)
Cisco Umbrella1 year of experience

Cisco Umbrella as Cloud Security Service for SD-WAN Edge Routers

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 13, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We are using Cisco Umbrella to integrate with SD-WAN Edge devices to provide cloud based security. This helps us to layoff the security analysis and logs storage responsibilit...
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Adnan Tanveer
Engineer - Engineering
Network Engineer
Telstra
Cisco Umbrella2 years of experience

Great extra security layer for your remote workers

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 12, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We started using the Cisco Umbrella way before the pandemics as an extra security layer to protect computers working within our internal network. That had been working really ...
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Carlos Coque
Analyst - Information Technology
System Administrator
IBEX Payroll Services
Cisco Umbrella4 years of experience
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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

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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 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
Robert Rogers
Senior IT Systems Analyst
Kalamazoo County Government (Government Administration, 501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco Umbrella
3 years of experience
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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.

Safer internet with Cisco Umbrella.

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
March 14, 2025
OG
Osman Gani
Project Coordinator
Hamida Traders Ltd (htl-bd.com) (Information Technology Services, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco Umbrella
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Cisco Umbrella for several purposes, one of them is to secure our internet users within our office network. Cisco Umbrella works as a shield for us against cyber threats by blocking access to malicious websites, preventing phishing attacks, and implementing security policies for all the users within our office. It also saves time for us by automatically blocking known cyber threats which help us to focus more on other critical incidents.

Cisco Umbrella as Cloud Security Service for SD-WAN Edge Routers

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
March 13, 2025
AT
Adnan Tanveer
Network Engineer
Telstra (Telecommunications, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco Umbrella
2 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are using Cisco Umbrella to integrate with SD-WAN Edge devices to provide cloud based security. This helps us to layoff the security analysis and logs storage responsibilities from the SD-WAN Edge routers. One use-case of Cisco Umbrella usage is to integrate using manual IPSEC Tunnels and the other use-case is to implement auto IPSEC tunnels using APIs. The third use-case of using Cisco Umbrella is for a DNS Security where the internet bound traffic is routed towards Cisco Umbrella first for the security assessments. Once the device is integrated using any of these use-cases, we can implement the policies from the Umbrella portal for carrying out the desired level of security hardening. In my opinion, Cisco Umbrella is a pretty cool cloud based security service that can help enterprises to meet their cyber readiness and security compliance.

An important product for securing information

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
March 18, 2025
VJ
Vesa Jordan
CTO at Finnfund
Finnfund (Financial Services, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco Umbrella
5 years of experience
View profile
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.

Great extra security layer for your remote workers

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
March 12, 2025
CC
Carlos Coque
System Administrator
IBEX Payroll Services (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco Umbrella
4 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We started using the Cisco Umbrella way before the pandemics as an extra security layer to protect computers working within our internal network. That had been working really well and it's proven even more important after we had to buy laptops and send people to work from home, where we have much less control over the environment security.
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