TechValidate Research on Cisco Umbrella

The biggest outcomes we see are the reduction in alerts from other security tools, the ease of implementation, and being able to use one console globally.

Cisco Umbrella has reduced our time to identify security issues by 40%.

I’ve seen the number of infected machines decrease significantly since we started using Umbrella.

Umbrella helped us avoid being significantly impacted by the Dyn outage and the WannaCry worm.

Before Umbrella, I had a lot of alerts from my firewalls about unsafe connections. These alerts have reduced dramatically – about 50%.

We have seen a reduction in malware infections from several a week to practically zero.

The biggest security outcome is that I can now protect my endpoints from malware and malicious sites when outside of the corporate protected network.

Cisco Umbrella has stopped ransomware attacks. We were infected about 2 years ago and since then we have not suffered another attack.

We’ve blocked thousands of malicious sites and content with the end result of making our environment safer.

Umbrella has been extremely effective at protecting our organization from external threats.

Cisco Umbrella’s integrations with other security tools provides active inline blocking for off-site systems using the roaming client.

Cisco Umbrella has stopped malware and phishing attempts that we did not even know were directed at us.

Our security posture has been elevated by using the Cisco Umbrella. We now have insight into possible infections and can protect guest networks with a simple solution.

Cisco Umbrella helps us enforce policies and security in a much easier way than our firewall alone.

Umbrella provides an additional layer of protection for students with BYOD.

Malware infections dropped dramatically.

Cisco Umbrella solves the problem of Ransomware. We believe in implementing in-depth security but we feel that Umbrella has solved most of our issues around ransomware.