What is Cisco Umbrella?
Cisco Umbrella offers flexible, cloud-delivered security when and how you need it. It combines multiple security functions into one solution, so you can extend protection to devices, remote users, and distributed locations anywhere.
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92 Likeliness to Recommend
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100 Plan to Renew
93 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
+95 Net Emotional Footprint
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How much do users love Cisco Umbrella?
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Trustworthy
- Caring
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Secure Web Gateway (SWG)
Web Application and API Protection (WAAP)
Zero Trust
Enablement for Security Teams
Network Sandboxes
Firewall as a Service (FWaaS)
Viable Alternative VS Traditional MPLS
Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB)
SD-WAN
Remote Browser Isolation (RBI)
Data Analytics / BI / AI
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Business Value Created
Breadth of Features
Quality of Features
Ease of Data Integration
Ease of Customization
Ease of Implementation
Usability and Intuitiveness
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Ease of IT Administration
Availability and Quality of Training
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Cisco Umbrella Reviews
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Finance
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Nov 2023
Great Product
Likeliness to Recommend
Pros
- Efficient Service
- Inspires Innovation
- Respectful
- Includes Product Enhancements
Kevin A.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Oct 2023
One of the Best on the Market
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Cisco Umbrella from other similar products?
Cisco Umbrella provides confidence to users that the initial DNS request is checked, approved or filtered automatically via policy whether they are on or off the corporate network. Cisco integrate their individual point products together with other reporting and analysis toolsets, to provide an holistic view of security posture across an organisation.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Cloud delivered and managed Security makes policy changes a breeze and you can react to changing situations almost immediately from any location. Whether you are managing a whole site or an individual user group, the policy format and orchestration point is easy to navigate and control.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Email reporting formats need to improve as they are too basic and don't offer the right level of information.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Consider Cisco Umbrella first before reviewing other vendor options. You'll find that Umbrella is one of the easiest to deploy, manage and keep fully operational. The distributed nature of the Cisco Datacentre's and the Anycast nature of Umbrella DNS services means it has a very high uptime compared to competitors.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
Cons
- Vendor's Interest First
Asit S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Oct 2023
A great product for business productivity.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Cisco Umbrella from other similar products?
You can easily rely on the product features of Cisco Umbrella. It is simple, secure and flexible.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Security Service Edge provides data loss prevention and DNS security which helped our business to grow.
What do you dislike most about this product?
As of now we haven’t faced any issue but Cisco umbrella can definitely improve with the user interaction part.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Business can definitely go for Cisco Umbrella as it provides a great way to secure your data and to run your business with ease. It is also cost effective.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Client's Interest First
- Security Protects