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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88 Likeliness to Recommend
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98 Plan to Renew
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92 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+92 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Cisco Umbrella?
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
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Feature Ratings
Secure Web Gateway (SWG)
Enablement for Security Teams
Zero Trust
Web Application and API Protection (WAAP)
Network Sandboxes
Viable Alternative VS Traditional MPLS
Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB)
Firewall as a Service (FWaaS)
SD-WAN
Remote Browser Isolation (RBI)
Data Analytics / BI / AI
Vendor Capability Ratings
Breadth of Features
Business Value Created
Ease of Implementation
Ease of Customization
Quality of Features
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Usability and Intuitiveness
Ease of IT Administration
Ease of Data Integration
Availability and Quality of Training
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Cisco Umbrella Reviews
Freda H.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Banking
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Nov 2024
Cisco Umbrella secure access lessens complexity
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Cisco Umbrella from other similar products?
The security service team was a true asset it gave us an advantage point where the company spent less on specialized staffing, when operating in a secure digital environment was sought after they provided good advice to remedy problems before they began. Unified and enhance security functions were state of the art.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Lessening the complexity for the company major components exist when Intergrations, implementation of SASE into networks, infrastructure while attempting to meet requirements ask for by the organization that clearly has an outdated system which untimely needs additional testing, staffing resources with applicable skills, deployment and optimization to enhance features and teak capabilities.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The additional cost associated with the product and services which led to a reduction in formal training of team members and the cisco team client services are not always readily available when needed., plan in advance.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
The SD Wan and cloud firewalls with the unified, enhanced security features was worth the investment, conduct a comprehensive evaluation with use cases, ask about features not listed that are on your wish list expect cost savings by consolidating multiple system and tools
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Healthcare
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Nov 2024
Easy to use and implement if you have the budget!
Likeliness to Recommend
Pros
- Security Protects
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
Cons
- Less Generous
- Less Friendly Negotiation
- Less Transparent
José Antonio P.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Food and Beverage
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Oct 2024
Great way to filter web traffic
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Cisco Umbrella from other similar products?
Cisco Umbrella makes a great work filtering traffic to the internet, web sites and domains. One of the main differences with other products is that gives you the option to have the client installed in your PC so no matter if you are in the office or not, your traffic to the web is protected.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The analysis and reporting dashboards are great, it has historical data for a long time that can be useful in case of troubleshooting. It can connect with AD so you can filter by hostname, IP address or destination IP or domain.
What do you dislike most about this product?
I would only add the possibility of being able to integrate the product with other products such as firewalls and with Microsoft Azure.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Umbrella is a great tool for DNS security, it can complement your network security rules adding a extra layer of security. It's easy to implement, manage and troubleshooting. You can protect your entire office network by th Public IP and protect your end users devices installing the agent software.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
