Cisco Umbrella at A Glance: Security Challenges

Cisco Umbrella at a glance
Enterprise security and networking are facing a significant transformation. Wide-scale adoption of cloud applications,
an increase in remote workers, and expansion of branch offices has rendered the centralized, on-premises security
model impractical. The convenience, cost savings, and performance benefits of going direct to the internet is driving
a new decentralized approach to networking. Yet with change comes risk and a new set of security challenges.
Organizations require a broader set of protection that not only improves security, but simplifies management.
Integrated security from the cloud Security challenges

Cisco Umbrella is a cloud-native platform that delivers the most secure,
reliable, and fastest internet experience to more than 100 million users
daily. Umbrella unifies firewall, secure web gateway, DNS-layer security, Gaps in visibility
cloud access security broker (CASB), and threat intelligence solutions into and coverage
a single platform to help businesses of all sizes secure their network. As
more organizations embrace direct internet access, Umbrella makes it easy
to extend protection to roaming users and branch offices.
Better intelligence drives better security

Volume and
Leveraging insights from Cisco Talos, one of the world’s largest commercial complexity of
threat intelligence teams with more than 300 researchers, Umbrella uncovers security tools
and blocks a broad spectrum of malicious domains, IPs, URLs, and files that
are being used in attacks. We also feed huge volumes of global internet
activity into a combination of statistical and machine learning models to
identify new attacks being staged on the internet.
Limited budgets
and security
Block malware easily resources
Built into the foundation of the internet, Umbrella processes 180 billion
internet requests for more than 18,500 businesses every day. By enforcing
security at the DNS and IP layers, Umbrella blocks requests to malware,
ransomware, phishing, and botnets before a connection is even established
— before they reach your network or endpoints. The cloud-delivered secure
web gateway logs and inspects all web traffic for greater transparency, Key benefits
control, and protection. The cloud-delivered firewall helps to log and
• Broad, reliable security
block traffic using IP, port, and protocol rules for consistent enforcement
coverage across all ports
throughout your environment.
and protocols
Speed up and improve incident response • Security protection on and

off network
Umbrella categorizes and retains all internet activity to simplify your
investigation process and reduce incident response times. And, by using • Rapid deployment and flexible
the Umbrella Investigate console and on-demand enrichment API, you enforcement levels
have access to insights (historical and contextual) to prioritize incidents and • Immediate value and low total
speed up incident response. Plus, it easily integrates with other intelligence cost of ownership
sources and security orchestration tools for better management. • Single dashboard for efficient
management
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At a glance
Cisco Umbrella
Packaging options
Our packages were designed to provide the right fit for all organizations.
From small businesses without dedicated security professionals to Analyst and
multinational enterprises with complex environments, Umbrella provides customer validation
more effective security and internet-wide visibility on and off your
network. All packages can be integrated with your Cisco SD-WAN See why Umbrella was
implementation to provide a combination of performance, security, and named best secure web
flexibility that delights both your end users and security team. gateways software of
2019. Read the reviews and
The Umbrella DNS Security Essentials package includes core DNS- access direct research from
layer security capabilities, to block requests to malicious domains before TechValidate from customers.
they reach your network or endpoints. You gain off-network protection
and mobile support in this base package, as well as access to Umbrella’s
APIs (policy, reporting and enforcement), log exporting, the multi-org
console, integration with Cisco Threat Response, and identity-based
policies (virtual appliance + Active Directory connector). Additionally,
this package provides discovery and blocking of shadow IT (by domain)
with the App Discovery report.
The Umbrella DNS Security Advantage package includes all the
Take the
capabilities of DNS Security Essentials plus it enables organizations next step
to proxy risky domains for URL blocking and file inspection using AV
Request a demo or speak with
engines and Cisco AMP. For organizations looking for deeper context during
a sales representative about
incident investigations, DNS Security Advantage offers unmatched threat
how Cisco Umbrella can help
intelligence in the Investigate console and on-demand enrichment API.
you defend against threat on
The Umbrella SIG Essentials package includes all of the capabilities the internet.
of the DNS Security Advantage package plus access to a secure web
gateway (full proxy), cloud-delivered firewall, sandbox file analysis with Visit signup.umbrella.com for
Cisco Threat Grid, and cloud access security broker (CASB) functionality. a free 14 day trial of Umbrella.
With a single, cloud platform, you can combine multiple security services
and threat intelligence to secure your network and remote and roaming
users with confidence. Simplify management and get visibility to control
and manage apps, anywhere.
The Umbrella advantage

Umbrella has a highly resilient cloud infrastructure that boasts 100%
uptime since 2006. Using Anycast routing, any of our 30 plus data
centers across the globe are available using the same single IP address.
As a result, your requests are transparently sent to the nearest, fastest
data center and failover is automatic. Umbrella peers with more than 900
of the world’s top internet service providers (ISPs), content delivery
networks (CDNs) and SaaS platforms to deliver the fastest route for any
request — resulting in superior speed, effective security and the best
user satisfaction.
How to buy
To view buying options and speak with a Cisco sales representative,
visit www.cisco.com/c/en/us/buy.
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Integrated security from the cloud Security challenges

Better intelligence drives better security

Speed up and improve incident response • Security protection on and

© 2019 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

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