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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cisco Umbrella

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/ACisco now offers OpenDNS Umbrella Web Filtering. Cisco acquired OpenDNS in August 2015, and rebranded the product as Cisco Umbrella.N/A

    Speedify VPN

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/ASpeedify is a new kind of bonding VPN designed from the ground up for speed, security, and reliability. The vendor says Speedify's bonding protocol lets it do things no other VPN can: switching between Wi-Fi and Cellular without breaking sockets, and bonding connections together for speed boosts. Speedify is built with the latest encryption standards (DTLS + ChaCha) to deliver over twice the performance of conventional VPNs on many mobile devices. Speedify is available for…

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    Cisco UmbrellaSpeedify VPN
    Editions & Modules
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    Free
    $0
    1GB per user per month
    Teams
    $39.99
    per user (5+) per year
    Unlmited
    $49.99
    per user per year
    Dedicated Server
    $1,200
    per Server per Year
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cisco UmbrellaSpeedify VPN
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Cisco UmbrellaSpeedify VPN
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    95%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    92%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    Score8.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Cisco UmbrellaSpeedify VPN
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (99 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (14 ratings)
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    Usability
    8.0
    (9 ratings)
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    Availability
    8.7
    (11 ratings)
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    Performance
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    6.9
    (63 ratings)
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    Online Training
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Implementation Rating
    9.5
    (11 ratings)
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    Ease of integration
    9.5
    (10 ratings)
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    Product Scalability
    8.0
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    Vendor post-sale
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    User Testimonials
    Cisco UmbrellaSpeedify VPN
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    It is good for whole network protection, and individual PCs with the client. Provide good reporting on where your network is going on the net. One thing I would like is a longer history with the logs 14 and 30 days are too short some times.
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    Connectify, Inc.
    Sometime the bandwidth of my network is low but it work quite efficiently and able to finish my work. It [gets] connected within seconds and sometime it also does not need password to fill-up, it automatically detects the password and connect within seconds. [Speedify VPN is] quite an expensive tool but overall good.
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • So for example, we had the problem in the past. We are connecting users to our own managed data centers. We had seven locations around the world, put them with Cisco, any connect to our on-prem data center and let them out to the internet. So that's causing some high latency bad experiences with teams and so on. And with Umbrella we can directly connect the user to the cloud and to the internet so the users have a good experience with speed with latency and it's much better than back hauling the traffic to their own company and then processing them there.
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    Connectify, Inc.
    • Security-wise they use the standard 256-bit military-grade encryption.
    • It has a built-in kill switch - used to kill a connection entirely when the connection drop or disappears.
    • Performance-wise it is super duper fast and has 200 plus servers available across 30 countries.
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • The smart search feature in Cisco Umbrella is great addition for sure which helps us to identify malicious domain just by searching the URL and there is scoring system of Cisco Umbrella which mark the URL in low, medium and high risk. Sometimes Cisco Umbrella mark well known and good domain as malicious whether sometimes they mark malicious sites/domain as low risk. So, it's something that they should focus on, I think.
    • The live activity search is great for checking internet activities, but the filtering options could be improved. It would be helpful if we could filter by multiple parameters at once like combining username, destination IP and time range.
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    Connectify, Inc.
    • Provide browsing activities, browsing histories and connection logs
    • Please provide VPN IPs Records and DNS queries
    • Need to improve in the organisation of traffic
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cisco
    First off I never give anything a "10" unless it's perfect. LOL - I grade on the curve. I think OpenDNS/Umbrella is a very good product. I think that fact that Cisco absorbed them is one of the proofs of that. I have used the product back when it was free for companies our size. I have not always appreciated the cost - but in the post pandemic cyber chaos, I believe the cost benefit ratio is still very high. I have honestly not looked at other products because Umbrella continues to work to my satisfaction. I consider Umbrella to be one of the key layers in my cyber security strategy.
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    Connectify, Inc.
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    Usability
    Cisco
    Better features and easy to manage system with great customer support and overall usability is great as it works for hybrid environment with ease as it is having features for on prem users as wells as cloud users with great customer support and great team of trained engineers to support our opeartions.
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    Connectify, Inc.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Cisco
    Cisco umbrella services in the cloud are always available. However, the weakness is the VM installed in the data center that are the first resolvers. If the VMs become unavailable for any reason or the vSphere goes down, then all DNS is affected
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    Connectify, Inc.
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    Performance
    Cisco
    our experience with cisco products has always been awesome and same is the case with cisco umbrella .Under umbrella cisco provides flexible and scalable software solution to use across different dept and sites . These softwares are very user friendly ,pages load quickly as these applications are designed for minimum latency and reports are also provided quickely
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    Connectify, Inc.
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    Support Rating
    Cisco
    Whilst the support is good once you get through to them, it's email only and the response is slow. This is a issue, because its a core system that needs to work. We have had issues in the past where several of our companies have gone down due to Umbrella and support is nowhere to be seen. It is very difficult to know whether Umbrella is having service issues, since they do not regularly update customers on the status of their services, such as is seen by providers such as Microsoft (status.umbrella.com just seems to show up all of the time, I'm not sure it's even updated)
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    Connectify, Inc.
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    Online Training
    Cisco
    Quite easy to understand training modules prepared by knowledgeable trainers. Training modules have included all the desired features of these softwares and the content delivery is very good from the respective module trainers and it explains in details the features and apart from that further training material support is also provided if needed.
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    Connectify, Inc.
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    Implementation Rating
    Cisco
    At the time we were forced to move from Cloud Web Security to Cisco Umbrella, Cisco Umbrella was far from being a direct replacement. It was frustrating and difficult to migrate due to the lack of functionality. This has since been addressed, however we now have legacy rulesets that were built as bandaids that cannot be removed. Hopefully the migration to Secure Access will address this.
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    Connectify, Inc.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    Different products in different spaces. The Z3 was more of a VPN endpoint so that users didn't have to worry about a client. If they are at home, they are on their corporate network and able to access resources. Cisco Umbrella can be used then to serve corporate DNS across the VPN tunnel to the Z3 device and extend the capabilities of Cisco Umbrella.
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    Connectify, Inc.
    Most VPNs required four main features are 1) Ease of use, 2) Security, 3) Performance and 4) Value. The speedify, fulfils all features as compared with others out there. Specifically, It has a lot more security, is faster allows you to stream and torrent and all the things that really make VPNs worth their weight in gold
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    Scalability
    Cisco
    Cisco umbrella provides fleaxible and scalable software solutions which are easy deploy across multiple departments and sites wherever needed and this softwares are very easy to use and provides the best interface along with cisco support for other devices apart from cisco infrastructure but still there is scope for improvement on the inclusion of latest features
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    Connectify, Inc.
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • So it's always very hard to calculate return on investment, especially on security and especially in a physical product. So it's not like I'm going to be selling a lot more plastic or a lot more aviation fuel because I implemented Cisco Umbrella. What I know is that definitely, the return on investment is on the ability of the business to continue to run and give the assurance that our users are safe.
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    Connectify, Inc.
    • More secured and faster allowing you to stream and torrent
    • Users can not find any live chat options if any queries, but provide email support and quick reply.
    • Not having a logging policy, impacts negatively when it's consideration regarding clients.
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    Speedify VPN Screenshots

    Screenshot of The dashboard, showing WiFi and Cellular bonding for extra speedScreenshot of Summary of usage for the last monthScreenshot of Settings for Cellular connection.  Speedify is cost aware, and lets you set both priorities and data caps on each connection.Screenshot of Server selection.  There are servers all over the world, and an option for getting dedicated servers for enterprise clients.