Cisco Umbrella: Safe browsing thanks to its DNS service
Updated November 21, 2024
Cisco Umbrella: Safe browsing thanks to its DNS service
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Umbrella
We wanted to prevent our users from accessing potentially dangerous content urls. Also how to restrict access to certain content to certain users. With this tool we managed to prevent users from entering dangerous urls and we were able to create different Internet browsing groups with Internet content that could see and deny certain Internet content for all users.
Pros
- Provide safe browsing.
- Ban certain internet content.
- Forbid Internet URLs.
- Define navigation user groups.
- Define internet content groups.
- Customized error pages
Cons
- Support for Terraform
- Log retention period
- Does not support policies based on regular expressions ✓
- By reducing the risk of employee IT equipment being contaminated, the formatting and platforming time for this equipment is reduced.
- By limiting access to Internet content, employee distraction is limited.
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 is a very modular product and easy to connect with other products since it is a DNS server. We have configured our DHCP servers that the IPs of the DNS servers are those of Cisco Umbrella. Likewise, in small offices, we have configured the IPs of the Cisco Umbrella DNS servers in our electronic network and APs.
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- Cisco Umbrella
Previously we used the Squid browsing proxy for DNS filtering.
The problem is that it was all very manual, you had to define the urls to which you should give access or which you wanted to deny, but it was the IT staff who had to maintain this list.
The Squid interface was the console and when you already had a list of urls configured it was very difficult to maintain it.
With this tool, manual maintenance has been eliminated and the lists are always up-to-date.
With this we have achieved that manual maintenance is minimal.
The problem is that it was all very manual, you had to define the urls to which you should give access or which you wanted to deny, but it was the IT staff who had to maintain this list.
The Squid interface was the console and when you already had a list of urls configured it was very difficult to maintain it.
With this tool, manual maintenance has been eliminated and the lists are always up-to-date.
With this we have achieved that manual maintenance is minimal.
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?
Yes
Did implementation of Cisco Umbrella go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Cisco Umbrella again?
Yes
Cisco Hybrid Work
- Working from an office or other company space
- Working from home
Es fácil de implantar, practicamente está implantado completamente. Los equipos se configuran durante su plataformado y ya se entregan a los usuarios con su configuración correcta. De esta forma, la navegación de los equipos informáticos siempre pasa por los servidores DNS de Cisco Umbrella y filtran los contenidos de navegación por los perfiles de los distintos usuarios.
The Cisco Umbrella solution is similar to other solutions for filtering browsing using the DNS servers that users have configured. We chose this product for its ease of configuration and its versatility to add custom categories for users or groups of users. It also offers comprehensive statistics, which helps to pinpoint problems.
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- Zoom
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- Slack
- Other
Circuit
Resilience and Reliability
What is your view on the value that resilience can offer in the context of cybersecurity?People, by default, are resistant to change and to users all changes that are “imposed” on them must be transparent to them. This security solution achieves this point which is done at the DNS level and is transparent to users.
To increase the capacity for change in the face of security measures, users must be made aware of the importance of security to prevent the loss or leakage of information on the Internet, so that the first level of security is the users themselves and that they proactively adopt new security measures.
- APIS for Cisco Umbrella
- Unified policies including cloud
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