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Cisco Umbrella

Composite Score

8.7 /10

CX Score

9.1 /10

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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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Awards & Recognition

Cisco Umbrella won the following awards in the Secure Access Service Edge category

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2025 Data Quadrant Champion

Latest Award, 2025

8 Top Rated Capabilities

10 Top Rated Features

Latest Award, 2025

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2024

7 Top Rated Capabilities

10 Top Rated Features

2024

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023

Product Impact

2023

2023 Data Quadrant Champion

2023

6 Top Rated Capabilities

7 Top Rated Features

2023

Cisco Umbrella Ratings

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87 Likeliness to Recommend

2
Since last award

98 Plan to Renew

88 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

4
Since last award

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Emotional Footprint Overview

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+93 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?

1% Negative

2% Neutral

97% Positive

Pros

Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Security Protects
Enables Productivity

Feature Ratings

Average 83

Secure Web Gateway (SWG)

Enablement for Security Teams

Zero Trust

Network Sandboxes

Viable Alternative VS Traditional MPLS

Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB)

Web Application and API Protection (WAAP)

Firewall as a Service (FWaaS)

Remote Browser Isolation (RBI)

Data Analytics / BI / AI

SD-WAN

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 81

Ease of Implementation

Business Value Created

Breadth of Features

Ease of Customization

Quality of Features

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of IT Administration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Usability and Intuitiveness

Availability and Quality of Training

Vendor Support

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Cisco Umbrella Reviews

Philip H.

Role: Sales Marketing
Industry: Telecommunications
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted May 2024

Fortifying Our Mobile Frontier

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Cisco Umbrella from other similar products?

Cisco Umbrella is great at keeping users and locations safe. It's great that you can define security policies by identities, not locations. The Umbrella global backbone ensures consistent protection for internet activity.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Securing our mobile apps is crucial. Umbrella stops threats before they reach users by enforcing security at the DNS and IP layers. It can block bad sites before they reach users.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Umbrella's cloud-delivered model could add latency for mobile users in regions without global backbone peering points. Some apps need to be filtered on-site if they are very sensitive to latency.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Today's employees demand seamless mobile access to digital products and services. But this makes our risk much bigger. Securing traditional office infrastructure is difficult enough. Mobile threats like risky WiFi, device compromises, and data leakage make it harder. Cisco Umbrella showed us a new way to provide security without affecting the mobile experience. Its smart proxy checks traffic for hidden threats, while dynamic filters block inappropriate content. Finally, we have the protection we need for our mobile-cloud transition.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Anand B.

Role: Consultant
Industry: Consulting
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted May 2024

It is very easy to use

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Cisco Umbrella from other similar products?

clients cannot connect to common use pages although it's allowed on policies

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Content filtering without putting extra load on the firewall

What do you dislike most about this product?

Price is little expencive

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

User interface can be improved

Pros

Performance Enhancing
Unique Features
Security Protects
Reliable

Kevin A.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Oct 2023

One of the Best on the Market

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

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

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Awards & Recognition

2025 Data Quadrant Champion

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023 Data Quadrant Champion

Cisco Umbrella Ratings

87 Likeliness to Recommend

2 Since last award

98 Plan to Renew

88 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

4 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+93 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Cisco Umbrella?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Secure Web Gateway (SWG) Protects corporate users and networks from web-based malware, controls employee behavior on the Internet, and helps prevent data loss.

Enablement for Security Teams Enablement for Security to know the layers of protection deployed and not just rely on the carrier to only provide the connection.

Zero Trust Provides features that enable a zero trust architecture, including device authentication and user contextual risk based authentication.

Network Sandboxes Sandboxes are used to safely execute suspicious code without risking harm to the host device or network.

Viable Alternative VS Traditional MPLS Organizations may want to migrate away from traditional MPLS and leverage a platform to provision convergence and flexibility regarding deployment of security.

Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) Intermediary between an organization's users and one or more cloud services, allowing the enforcement of certain types of security policies in the cloud.

Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) Provides protective capabilities that leverage effective web request inspection prior to reaching the API such as Next-Gen WAF, RASP, DDoS etc.

Firewall as a Service (FWaaS) Next-generation firewall capabilities that include web filtering, advanced threat protection, intrusion prevention system, and Domain Name System security.

Remote Browser Isolation (RBI) Separate your users' web browsing activity from the local network and its infrastructure, preventing browser-based attacks on the network.

Data Analytics / BI / AI Integration of capability to mine data from incoming sources (SIEM, logs, vulnerability tools, threat databases, etc) in real-time and apply rules.

SD-WAN Separates the data and control plane from its hardware, virtualizing the network.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

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Cisco Umbrella Reviews

Philip H.

Fortifying Our Mobile Frontier

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Anand B.

It is very easy to use

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Kevin A.

One of the Best on the Market

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

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