Cisco Umbrella Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cisco Umbrella provides us with DNS protection as part of our security suite. We use it in addition to other products to provide an overall security umbrella.

Likelihood to Recommend

We occasionally run into sites being blocked by Cisco Umbrella but they do not show in the dashboard as blocked or receive the blocked page. It would be nice to have that information on the block page or the logs to better troubleshoot.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Protect internet traffic for the org

Likelihood to Recommend

Block traffic for computers

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My

organization uses Cisco Umbrella as a layer of protection for users accessing

Internet. We used the native embedded classification of malicious URLs but also

to monitor who is attempting to connect to theses URLs. In addition, we use our

internal threat Intel feeds to enrich the umbrella URL classification. To identify

affected endpoints and users. The solution is integrated with our AD solution

and our DDI platform

Likelihood to Recommend

Positive:

The business case is clear, and it fits perfectly. Avoid users connecting to

malicious URLs and if so early detect and stop. Integration with Cisco Secure

Endpoint and Cisco XDR works smoothly

Positive:

It feeds from intelligence sources all over the Internet

Positive:

Performance is amazing as it cops with huge amount of Data

You

do not have to worry to patch a platform as it is a SaaS

Neutral:

Integration with third party solutions is feasible but not so straight forward

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Cisco Umbrella is a cloud-based service, so there is no need to invest in maintaining it, everything is done automatically. This allows us to focus primarily on monitoring malicious sites, leaving us more time for security and other IT tasks. To date, we have not identified anything that could affect our continued use of the service.

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The business problem and scope was how my company protect the organization from DNS related malware. We were looking for a proven and trusted product by a company that had years of experience in the field. We use Cisco in many areas and decided that this product was best for us.

Likelihood to Recommend

In my opinion Cisco Umbrella is excellent for medium to large scale deployments. The Cisco Umbrella solution does a great job in DNS related malware control, URL filtering (even though a bit limited) and reporting to just name a few. If you are a smaller company with limited budget, this is probably not the solution for you due to cost.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Cisco Umbrella SIG to secure our Mobile Workers.

Because of Covid we had an huge increase in mobile workers and had to allow split tunneling because our infrastructure could not handle the load.

The "always on" Web Filter gives us an extra level of security even when the traffic is not routed through our central firewall.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is a good and stable Secure Internet Gateway.

But it does not work in China and needs more local breakouts.

Our web traffic is not terminating in neighbor country.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it to get all the users, so we can block sites they don't need to access, so I don't know if we have different kind of websites we don't want them to access, we can block the access through there.

Likelihood to Recommend

Well, on a daily basis for all our users, we have a lot of people just go into different websites and stuff and it's good to block all of these websites. We don't want our users to access, so we don't get any malicious things from those websites.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

So all our users were in the past on safe managed perimeter firewalls around over the world. So we used own managed data centers with firewalls in IT to direct the users to our on-premise firewalls and let them out to the internet. And now we are migrating all the users to Umbrella or Cisco CQ access to get rid of the self-managed parameter firewalls and only using the umbrella security features for our users. Doesn't matter if they are in the office or in the home office, doesn't matter. We always connecting them to the security product of Cisco and let them out to the internet.

Likelihood to Recommend

If you have small offices around the world and you need to secure them for the internet and if you do not like to place on-premise hardware there, put firewalls there and so on. Just use Cisco Umbrella, connect the offices with a VPN handler or with SD one directly to Cisco Umbrella and let them out securely to the internet. It's the easiest and cheapest way I guess if you have small branch offices, it's the only option that you have currently.

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Cisco Umbrella most of the time actively blocks high malicious domain by itself which we found very effective to save our employees from phishing campaigns. Another great use of Cisco Umbrella is the web content filtering feature helps by setting up custom rules and block access to non-work-related or potentially harmful sites/URL/domains. So, I think Cisco Umbrella suits pretty well if anyone is trying to protect their organizations from one of the biggest cyber threat these days which is phishing.