Cisco Umbrella is a cloud-delivered enterprise network security platform that provides users with a first line of defense against cybersecurity threats. It was formerly known as OpenDNS before Cisco acquired it in 2015. Cisco Umbrella is designed to enforce security policies for mobile employees who work beyond the corporate network using roaming devices such as Windows and Mac laptops, iPhones, and iPads, and provides granular network security for all devices behind the network perimeter.

Here are some key features of Cisco Umbrella:

• Secure Internet Gateway: Cisco Umbrella provides the first line of defense against threats on the internet wherever users go. It delivers complete visibility into internet activity across all locations, devices, and users, and blocks threats before they ever reach your network or endpoints.

• Threat Protection: Cisco Umbrella is an all-in-one firewall, secure web gateway, and a cloud access security broker that offers threat protection unlike any other by stopping malware, phishing, ransomware, command-and-control callbacks, and other threats dead in their tracks.

• DNS Security: Cisco Umbrella DNS Security helps prevent information security incidents by adding threat intelligence into the DNS translation process. That intelligence prevents adware, malware, botnets, phishing attacks, and other known bad websites from being accessed.

• Integration: As a cloud-delivered, open platform, Umbrella integrates easily with your existing security stack and delivers live threat intelligence about current and emerging threats.

Cisco Umbrella is designed to provide effective security and internet-wide visibility on and off your network, and it can be integrated with your Cisco infrastructure. It is delivered from the cloud, so there is no hardware to install or software to manually update, and it can be provisioned for all on-network devices, including BYOD and IoT, in minutes.