Cisco Umbrella: Your Trusted Security Solution
Cisco Umbrella is an essential technology for safeguarding your network against internet threats, acting as the first line of defense. Leveraging the foundational components of the internet—DNS and IP layers—Cisco Umbrella secures these critical elements through advanced threat intelligence and reputation-based filtering. This proactive approach blocks requests to malicious or undesirable data sources before any connection is established, ensuring robust protection.
What’s New in Cisco Umbrella?
Did you know Cisco Umbrella has been enhanced with advanced features? It now includes a Secure Web Gateway for deeper inspection of web traffic and a cloud-based Layer 7 firewall to provide comprehensive security at the application layer. These enhancements extend its capabilities, making it even more effective at securing your network.
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Why Cisco Umbrella?
Cisco Umbrella is particularly effective for safeguarding endpoints, such as laptops and mobile devices, that operate outside the corporate network. These roaming devices typically lack the central protection provided within the corporate infrastructure. Acting as a secure internet gateway, Umbrella redirects DNS traffic to Cisco’s cloud servers, where advanced analytics and machine learning assess whether the queried domain is secure, malicious, or suspicious. For additional security, suspicious domains can be redirected to a cloud proxy for deeper inspection, analyzing transmitted content such as files and scripts.
Every day, Cisco Umbrella’s global infrastructure processes over 125 billion DNS queries. This vast volume of data allows Umbrella to map relationships between domains, IP addresses, networks, and malware across the entire internet. Much like Amazon predicts customer purchasing behavior through data patterns, Cisco Umbrella analyzes online activity to identify and preemptively block malicious infrastructures. This predictive capability ensures readiness against future attacks and proactive blocking of emerging threats.
Key Features and Benefits of Cisco Umbrella
- Malware Reduction: Reduces malware infections by up to 98%.
- Comprehensive Filtering: Filters up to 60 different domain categories.
- Cloud Application Visibility: Detects and reports on cloud application usage.
- Data Leak Prevention: Protects against unauthorized data exfiltration from your network or devices.
- Flexible Protection: Secures users both inside and outside the corporate network.
- No VPN Dependency: Ensures endpoint security without requiring a VPN connection to the corporate network.
By utilizing Cisco Umbrella, organizations can maintain a high level of security for their end devices, whether users are on-site or working remotely. With its predictive threat intelligence and robust cloud-based architecture, Cisco Umbrella stands out as a powerful solution for modern network security challenges.