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Cisco Umbrella

Score8.7 out of 10

267 Reviews and Ratings

What is Cisco Umbrella?

Cisco now offers OpenDNS Umbrella Web Filtering. Cisco acquired OpenDNS in August 2015, and rebranded the product as Cisco Umbrella.

Cisco Umbrella

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cisco Umbrella helps act as a proxy to filter malicious domains and URLs, all the while providing DDoS protection and an extra layer of security, so that Cisco Umbrella is making the internet queries on behalf of our company. Umbrella also provides forensics so we can trace any malicious attacks.

Pros

  • Protects against malicious urls and domains
  • protects against ddos
  • Acts a s proxy and provides and extra layer of security

Cons

  • Cisco umbrella could provide reverse proxy capabilities for return traffic
  • cisco umbrella could have more integration with our different security systems
  • cisco umbrella could have an agentless solution

Return on Investment

  • Cisco Umbrella helped protect any ddos on our dynamic nats
  • Cisco Umbrella helped secure our company from malicious domains and urls
  • Cisco Umbrella helped encrypt our https traffic

Alternatives Considered

Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers, Cisco Umbrella and Cisco Firepower 2100 Series

Other Software Used

Cisco Catalyst 8000 Edge Platforms, Cisco 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers (ASR 1000), Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series

Umbrella cover everything.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I installed the Cisco Umbrella solution in a healthcare environment to protect their endpoint from both DNS attacks and web attacks. The cloud dashboard provided a comprehensive view of all policies and endpoint visibility, enabling us to understand the various ways an attacker could compromise the company.

Pros

  • DNS Protection.
  • Quick and easy deployment.
  • Treat intelligence and visibility.

Cons

  • Dashboard management.
  • IT Management.
  • Granular features.

Return on Investment

  • Cost reduction.
  • Time gain to troubleshotting.
  • Cost reduction due to a security breach.

Other Software Used

Webex Meetings, Cisco Duo, Cisco Firepower 2100 Series

Cisco Umbrella is a must go DNS protections

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.

Pros

  • DNS restrictions
  • Malware protection
  • DNS insights

Cons

  • Better workflow
  • Automation for users policies
  • Ability to use AD security groups to define user policies

Return on Investment

  • Easy to deploy
  • Ran into issues migrating to secure client from the Cisco Umbrella tray icon
  • Piece of mind

Alternatives Considered

Webroot DNS Protection

Other Software Used

Cisco Duo, Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center, Cisco Secure Endpoint, Absolute Secure Access

Cisco Umbrella

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Protect internet traffic for the org

Pros

  • DNS forwarding
  • Block list rules
  • Network profiles

Cons

  • Blocklist UI
  • Network profiles definition

Return on Investment

  • Has reduced the ROI

Cisco Umbrella

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.

Pros

  • It is easy to setup and they have very helpful onboarding staff.
  • It took only a few hours to get it up and running.
  • It is updated in Realtime by Cisco Talos Intelligence who are awesome.

Cons

  • It takes a while to get the order of policies figured out.
  • There is a slight delay in changes as it filters down to your client.

Return on Investment

  • Saves time we can have the benefit of almost real time blocking of threats.
  • Helps confirm a PC is compromised, we can now see where it is connecting, out too.
  • Helps to prevent with new domain blocking.

Alternatives Considered

TitanHQ DNS Filtering

Other Software Used

Cisco Catalyst Center, Cisco Secure Endpoint