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Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Umbrella
Currently Cisco Umbrella is being used to web filter our school district. All Windows PCs are set up via DHCP to point to the Cisco Umbrella DNS. This is used as a secondary web filter to Securely. We are mostly a Chrome-based school district and use Securely to filter those. Any device on our network points to Cisco Umbrella DNS.
Pros
- Web filter.
- Ease of use.
- Reporting.
Cons
- Nutanix AHV support.
- Chrome plugin.
- Interface is not as easy as other products.
- Helps keep Cyber insurance.
- Had to find other solutions for Chromebooks being taken come.
- Helps keep away malware.
With a client for Windows they reach out to the cloud for web filter. We do not have many Windows devices left in our district so we do not implement this. All kids and most staff have Chromebooks. As I have stated I do not believe they have a Chromebook plugin.
We currently do not integrate Cisco Umbrella with any other product. Is is very complimentary to using Securely for Chromebooks. It's nice for on-prem Windows devices because we do not need to install anything. We just point their DNS to Cisco Umbrella via DHCP. Any device joining are network is filtered.
Do you think Cisco Umbrella delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Cisco Umbrella's feature set?
Yes
Did Cisco Umbrella live up to sales and marketing promises?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of Cisco Umbrella go as expected?
I wasn't involved with the implementation phase
Would you buy Cisco Umbrella again?
Yes
Resilience and Reliability
It helps with resilience by filtering devices from websites that good potentially be malicious. This is very valuable because the highest risk to security is typically the end users. If malicious sites are blocked through Umbrella then they malicious site will not be infectiong our systems. This is all about how well a company sets up, implements and updates Umbrella.
When referring to Cisco Umbrella leaders can become more resilient to cyber threats by implementing a good webfilter. Surfing the web is one of the top ways devices get infected. Especially through emails with links, if a user clicks on a malicious link in an email a good webfilter will block it. A key is to stay on top of blocking malicious sites.
- As DNS servers
- Filtering Chromebooks when not onsite
- To whitelist sites even when categories are blocked
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