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Cisco Umbrella Reviews & Product Details

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What is Cisco Umbrella?

Cisco Umbrella simplifies cybersecurity and compliance by providing a converged set of capabilities in a single, cloud-native solution. Its combination of DNS-layer security, secure web gateway, CASB, and more delivers an end-to-end experience that delights customers. Processing over 600 billion internet requests per day and leveraging the world’s largest cyber threat intelligence team in Cisco Talos, Umbrella has achieved AV-TEST’s #1 security efficacy ranking multiple times. Whether you need to strengthen your current security stack or want to transition to a more SASE-based architecture, Umbrella empowers you to confidently meet today’s cloud security goals and embrace tomorrow’s opportunities.

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Cisco Umbrella is a cloud security platform that provides the first line of defense against threats on the internet.


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Cisco
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Year Founded
1984
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San Jose, CA
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@Cisco
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97,323 employees on LinkedIn®
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NASDAQ:CSCO
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847-678-6600
Total Revenue (USD mm)
$49,301
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Cisco delivers intent-based networking across the branch, WAN, and cloud. We provide end-to-end security, automation, and analytics with award-winning services and support.


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Ema B.
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Ema B.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Dns protection"
Dns protection while surfing web. Protection against online attacks.
Akshay K.
AK
Akshay K.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Cisco Umbrella a n umbrella which protect from a malicious rain"
Its strong guidelines and its management software.
Francis R.
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Francis R.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Use Umbrella to Secure your Cloud Security"
It's a good infrastructure for cloud security, we are using Cisco umbrella to protect from malicious activities.
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Head of Infrastructure
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Cisco Umbrella?

It reduces complexity within the organisation and using simply policies to protect, clients and endpoints. It also integrates well with other products. It was fairly easy to implement, as we migrated from the old Scansafe offering Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cisco Umbrella?

The User Roles isn't very good. It can sometimes we difficult to remedy certain blocked websites. Also it would be nice if Umbrella, could simply allow the M365 whitelist urls, instead of havig to put them in yourself. The same applies with other well known products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cisco Umbrella solving and how is that benefiting you?

It protects clients and endpoints, from threats and malicious downloads, etc, whilst on the web Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Abhishek T.
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Cisco Umbrella?

Best thing to say would be the updates that they keep coming up with which keeps our systems updated and provides a great protection. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cisco Umbrella?

An expensive one, will need a great net connection since without internet there will be limited protection. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cisco Umbrella solving and how is that benefiting you?

Since maritime fields require remote and mobile workplaces, it's a great tool for securing our data which relies heavily on cloud based services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Akshay K.
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Digital Marketing Executive
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Cisco Umbrella?

Its strong guidelines and its management software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cisco Umbrella?

Sometimes it block some sites that are not really malicious. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cisco Umbrella solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cisco umbrella helps us to create different profiles by which we can give the access to different websites to different job roles just like in our company we can avoid our employees to use social media sites . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kevin A.
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Cisco Umbrella?

Cisco Umbrella offers an intuitive and easy-to-use management platform. The policies are easy to build and construct, and deploying to on-prem and mobile users can be done in a matter of minutes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cisco Umbrella?

Sometimes the web console is slow to display monitored and gathered data for reporting. There have been issues with using certain browsers in the past, it doesnt really like Safari to be honest. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cisco Umbrella solving and how is that benefiting you?

DNS Security is the first line of defence against the ever-increasing threat landscape. It can be deployed to protect both in-office as well as mobile users and devices, therefore, ensuring the same level of protection is available regardless of location. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Goutam D.
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Vice President (IT & Cloud Infrastructure)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Cisco Umbrella?

Cisco Umbrella is helpful because it provides robust, multi-layered security that protects against a wide range of cyber threats, offers comprehensive visibility and control over internet activity, and ensures consistent protection for both on-premises and remote users. Its cloud-based approach simplifies deployment and management while keeping the security measures up-to-date with the latest threat intelligence. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cisco Umbrella?

Expense: Cisco Umbrella can be costly, particularly for small to medium-sized businesses with limited budgets. The pricing model may be prohibitive for some organizations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cisco Umbrella solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cisco Umbrella is used for a variety of purposes, including threat protection, DNS-layer security, web gateway security, cloud-delivered firewall functionality, visibility and reporting, remote worker protection, policy enforcement, integration with other security tools, and performance enhancement. Its comprehensive feature set helps organizations to secure their networks, enforce policies, and protect users both on and off the network. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JB
Sr. Network & Systems Engineer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Cisco Umbrella?

Umbrella is easy to use and configure it the way we needed it to be. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cisco Umbrella?

The portal has improved, but it still takes awhile to learn how to customize for our environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cisco Umbrella solving and how is that benefiting you?

Umbrella really helped us to help our users to work efficently Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ema B.
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Service Engineer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Cisco Umbrella?

Dns protection while surfing web. Protection against online attacks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cisco Umbrella?

Sometimes it can block pages sven if they are good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cisco Umbrella solving and how is that benefiting you?

Protection against spam, phishing, known bad urls Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aman V.
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Technical Trainer
Computer Software
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Cisco Umbrella?

I think that it makes my job easier as someone who manages the network in my organisation, that i can query the DNS properly for all the computers connected in the network. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cisco Umbrella?

I would prefer if there were some changes into the UI and ease of access. It was kind of daunting to use it at first, as i found the learning curve to be quite steep. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cisco Umbrella solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have an internal DNS Server in our company, and we mainly use the Cisco Umbrella to make sure that all the queries are protected. I also make sure to block certain known domains which might lead to malware or trackers to make sure that the computers in the network are not quering there, knowingly or unknowingly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Cisco Umbrella?

I like about the working of Cisco Umbrella. Nowadays Cyber attacks are very common and developers and companies are struggling to save their assets and Cisco comes up with the feature of protecting from cyber attacks. The gooththing is it blocks the request before anyone trying to connect with the different server.

Very ease of use, and it will always in the system so you don't need to manually do anything, ease of integration. Protect us from Malware, Ransomware, Phising and other attacks. Customer support and resolution is top-notch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cisco Umbrella?

One thing I don't like is some-times it fails to load when we change the Wi-Fi address or change to other network. It might due to setting-up the internal parameters. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cisco Umbrella solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is securing the gateways so that it is blocking from the fraud profilers. It provides the vast securities. It is very helpful for those whose primary focus on the developing, web gateways and DNS because it is protecting us from the wrong profiling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Cisco Umbrella?

I think Umbrella's DNS Security Essentials package is sufficient for general use. Other packages have many advantages and benefits, but most features other than umbrella's DNS filtering feature are available in different products. Different products are currently used. I think it is easier to sell the DNS Security Essentials package at a more affordable price to convince companies.

The product works smoothly in large structures. After giving the necessary permissions according to our current structure, we can set our customized rules and use them directly.

Log tracking is also done very well. Thanks to AWS integration (Cisco Cloud Security App), it can be integrated with many SIEM products.

If I had to rate the DNS Security Essentials package in terms of price and performance, I would say 8/10. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cisco Umbrella?

I did not like the package distribution of the product according to its features. Additionally, it only takes a long time to define large networks during the first installation. The fact that we cannot sign our certificate with our own CA and import it into the umbrella in the DNS Security Essentials package is a bit of a bad feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cisco Umbrella solving and how is that benefiting you?

When there are problems in the network, the DNS Filtering feature of the product makes it easier for us to understand which layer is the problem.

It works well against C2 Calls. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.