Power up the ultimate defense.
Why we believe it’s time to add a secure internet gateway
as your first line of defense against threats.
Why we believe it’s time to add a secure internet gateway
as your first line of defense against threats.
Yesterday’s network security means nothing in today’s mobile, cloud-enabled world.
Your employees connect to the internet from many different locations and devices. They don’t need the VPN to get work done – they use software-as-a-service (SaaS) apps. And simply put, your firewall, proxy, and antivirus software are not enough to protect your on-the-go workforce from attack.
With a cloud-delivered platform, you can identify and block attackers before they even touch your users.
Malware / Botnet /
Phishing attacks
Advanced
malware / Targeted attacks / Zero-day threats
Your network
Roaming devices
Traditional security stack
Cisco Umbrella
Perimeter security provides visibility and control for employee activity on the corporate network only, leaving roaming users unsecure. More and more of your employees work on the go, connecting directly to the Internet and cloud applications to get work done. In fact, nearly 50% of PCs are mobile and 70% of branch offices connect to the Internet without an added layer of protection.
Sure, it used to protect your users (if they remembered to turn it on), but now there’s a good chance that it’s just turned off.
Users can access sensitive data without the VPN, since sensitive data now resides in cloud-based services. You need a foolproof way to enforce network security without hogging system resources, slowing down network traffic, and pestering users.
Traditional security is reactive. Firewalls, proxies, and antivirus software can only protect against malware, phishing, and other attacks after they’re detected. Should you really wait until malicious traffic reaches your perimeter or endpoint before you do something to stop it?
Cisco Umbrella is a cloud-delivered platform that provides visibility and enforcement both on and off the corporate network, and serves as your first line of defense against threats. Because it is cloud-delivered, it uses live threat intelligence versus static feeds that are limited by appliance processing power.
You get the protection you need to defend against malware infections and breaches over all ports and protocols for the most comprehensive coverage. Additionally, it provides an API to easily add and share intelligence among systems in your existing stack, including security appliances, intelligence platforms or feeds, and cloud access security broker (CASB) controls. Plus, you can address risky or unsanctioned SaaS apps by easily identifying all accessed apps across an organization.
You need security that protects your users, data, and infrastructure, wherever it resides – and a cloud platform like Umbrella provides the perfect solution. Here’s why:
Your first line of
defense against
threats
Broadest coverage
of malicious
destinations and files
Intelligence to
uncover threats
earlier
Most open, simplest
cloud security
platform
Integration with
Cisco Cloudlock for cloud app data
protection
Visibility and
protection on and
off network
Not only do we analyze a massive amount of data, but perhaps more important is the diversity of our data. Umbrella gathers 100 billion Internet requests from over 100 million enterprise and consumer users across 160 countries every day at the moment a request is made — which gives us a statistically significant data set. Our real-time DNS data is also enriched with diverse public and private data feeds.
With the emergence of a new security category comes the need to understand why it matters.
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