Cisco Umbrella for Government has achieved FedRAMP Moderate authorization*. Eligible customers can now leverage Cisco Umbrella for Government for robust DNS security and to meet the mandate for CISA’s Protective DNS with enhanced protection for on-premises and roaming client users. Cisco Umbrella DNS-layer security proactively protects against malware and phishing attacks by blocking access to […] The post Cisco Umbrella…
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26 Jun 2024
GigaOm analysts placed Cisco Umbrella as a GigaOm Radar DNS leader in security, scalability, support and more! Learn what sets Cisco Umbrella apart. The post Cisco Umbrella: A Leader in the GigaOm Radar for DNS Security appeared first on Cisco Umbrella.
28 Mar 2024
Speed and performance might make you think of motorcycles with big shiny chrome parts, but that’s not what this post is about (apologies). Instead, it’s about the speed and performance of a secure Chromebook user experience. Today, we’re going to talk about the steps that educational institutions from preschool to graduate school need to take […] The post Go Big…
19 Mar 2024
Millions of Cisco Umbrella Roaming Client Users to Benefit From Upgrading to Cisco Secure Client
OpenDNSThe Cisco Umbrella Roaming Client has long provided DNS security for millions of Umbrella users. In response to customer feedback, and as Negisa Taymourian covered in her blog post last month, we’ve introduced a more advanced client: Cisco Secure Client — our next-gen endpoint agent that goes beyond VPN. Cisco Secure Client offers multi-function capability, […] The post Millions of…
15 Feb 2024
More than ever modern cybersecurity leaders need to strengthen their protection for their remote users with advanced cloud security. Cisco Umbrella provides always-on security on and off the corporate network. If you’re an existing Cisco Umbrella customer, you’re already familiar with the robust protection it provides. We are excited to announce updates to our roaming […] The post Your Free…
17 May 2023
The CISO Dilemma How can information security leaders ensure that employee usage of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help increase organizational productivity is not putting sensitive company data or intellectual property (IP) at risk of leakage or other harm? We addressed this dilemma last week at Cisco Live in Amsterdam with the unveiling of exciting […] The post Controlling ChatGPT…
28 Feb 2023
To build anything, you need tools. To solve problems, you need solutions. From building a security infrastructure to modernizing our networks to accelerating digital transformation – everything requires a bridge to take us from here to there. We live in a world of resources, and we take advantage of the solutions that present themselves as […] The post Embrace SASE…
14 Feb 2023
Moving to the cloud and securing applications and data globally is paramount to protect your business. Bad actors are always looking for ways to exploit the reality of digital communication. Zero Trust reflects this evolving threat landscape and has become a central framework for security practitioners to plan their defenses. In this blog, we’ll discuss […] The post Cisco Umbrella…
8 Dec 2022
The accelerating pace of change in today’s hybrid workplace presents corporate IT teams with two key challenges: Finding a smarter way to manage multi-cloud connectivity and finding a smarter way to protect their organizations from even smarter cyber attackers. Keeping sensitive data safe is getting harder as security teams struggle to connect employees securely to […] The post Cisco Enhances…
1 Nov 2022
What’s the one thing that most security professionals can agree on? It’s that good security is about so much more than great point products. Why? Because best of breed solutions are limited in what they can do for your overall security posture. What matters is not only how effective each security solution is at defending […] The post Introducing the…
25 Oct 2022
The Network Resiliency Strategy for the Umbrella Infrastructure is Key to Our Business Growth and World-Class Innovation
OpenDNSAt Umbrella, we choose to expect the unexpected and continue to improve from the lessons learned. We plan for failures as an unavoidable natural occurrence. This is critical in allowing us to build a resilient infrastructure to guarantee the highest uptime and user experience for our customers. To achieve such brilliant goals, we invest time […] The post The Network…
27 Sept 2022
One of the key value propositions of leveraging a Cisco SD-WAN architecture is the ability to implement a highly effective segmentation strategy. Implementing this allows organizations to separate devices into isolated networks such that there is no communication between each segment without a configuration expressly permitting that connection. This architecture allows organizations to reduce attack […] The post Extending SD-WAN…
13 Sept 2022
We are thrilled to announce Cisco Umbrella DNS-layer security is now available on any modern unmanaged, personal Android or iOS device, providing awesome, always-on, go-anywhere protection against cyberthreats. Mobile phones are hot targets for cybercriminals Mobile devices are increasingly becoming targets for cybercriminals because of their widespread use and computing power. As of April 2022, […] The post Umbrella Extends…
16 Dec 2021
DNS tunneling is a technique that encodes data of other programs and protocols in DNS queries, including data payloads that can be used to control a remote server and applications. Because of this, DNS tunneling – and DNS exfiltration associated with it by threat actors – is of great concern to many IT and SecOps […] The post Introducing Improvements…
28 Sept 2021
It’s hardly a stretch to say that the COVID-19 pandemic has pushed most of the world online. The Internet has become an integral part of our daily lives – how we engage with each other, attend classes, do business. In this brave new Internet-enabled world, security solutions like remote browser isolation have become more important […] The post Protecting Users…
9 Sept 2021
Improving threat detection, investigation, and mitigation with Cisco Cloud Security App for Splunk
OpenDNSThreats, threats and more threats! Cybercriminals won’t stop. Attackers relentlessly repurpose existing forms of malware delivery to find loopholes that compromise your employees and your business. Data is your best weapon in the fight against cybercrime. Access to correlated security data can derail attacker efforts by improving detection and investigation processes and speeding your time […] The post Improving threat…
22 Jun 2021
As we collectively work through the pandemic, it’s clear that more and more organizations are embracing “hybrid work” as their future – where some employees work in the office, others work from home, and some work fully remote. While remote and hybrid work will play out differently at every organization, there is one key theme that […] The post Announcing…
30 Mar 2021
Secure access anytime, anywhere After the massive shift to remote work, more organizations are moving to a model where networking and security converge together in the cloud. Gartner coined the term secure access service edge (SASE) to describe this concept. Today, we announced how we’re delivering on our vision of SASE by combining networking, security, […] The post Cisco Umbrella…
23 Mar 2021
Cisco launches new Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) data centers in Northern Europe for security customers
OpenDNSCisco Umbrella recently added new data centers to serve customers in Denmark and Sweden and we could not be more excited! When selecting data center locations, we look at several criteria, including the number of users in that region and the transit and peering options that define our ability to improve service for our users. […] The post Cisco launches…
12 Jan 2021
How innovation speeds performance, cuts latency When considering any IT security capability, you rigorously evaluate features and functions. Will it block threats? Will it protect my systems, my people, my data? How will it impact end-users’ experience? Will it help me keep my job? But with a cloud security solution, the underlying infrastructure is just, […] The post Cisco Umbrella…
12 Nov 2020
Cisco is excited to announce that Cisco Secure won three CRN’s Tech Innovator Awards in key categories including cloud security, SASE, and threat intelligence/incident response. The ability to empower solution providers with truly differentiated offerings is the crowning achievement of the CRN Tech Innovator winners and finalists for 2020. Cisco Umbrella won for best cloud […] The post Cisco Umbrella…
28 Oct 2020
AV-TEST places Cisco Umbrella first in secure web gateway to protect remote workers With so many employees working remotely during the global pandemic, businesses are having an even harder time keeping their users, devices, networks, applications and data safe. According to Ponemon Institute, organizations who believed they were effective at mitigating risks, vulnerabilities and attacks […] The post AV-TEST places…
20 Oct 2020
Critical factors to consider when evaluating a SASE vendor With more users, devices, applications, and data located outside of the enterprise, the existing security models are falling short. The future of network security is moving to the cloud. Secure access service edge (SASE) is a network architecture that combines WAN capabilities with cloud-native security functions […] The post How to…
22 Sept 2020
If you’re like most businesses, you’ve already got a secure web gateway (SWG) deployed. In fact, 84% of businesses rely on their secure web gateway to protect their organization from malware infections, enforce corporate and regulatory policies, filter content, and more. As organizations move to the cloud, traditional appliance-based SWGs have been strained with more […] The post The secure…