Cisco Umbrella

Cisco Umbrella is a cloud-delivered security service that converges multiple critical network security capabilities—including recursive DNS layer protection, cloud-delivered firewall, secure web gateway, cloud access security broker, and interactive threat intelligence—into a unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) foundation. Designed to safeguard distributed workforces, remote employees, and branch offices, the platform inspects inbound and outbound internet traffic directly in the cloud, blocking malicious domains, phishing pages, and ransomware callbacks before unauthorized connections can be established.

Hosted on a globally distributed, anycast network architecture, Cisco Umbrella processes hundreds of billions of daily internet requests with high reliability and zero added latency. The platform integrates with Cisco Talos threat intelligence to identify and categorize malicious internet infrastructure proactively. Cisco Umbrella deploys effortlessly across enterprise environments through simple DNS configuration adjustments, lightweight roaming endpoint clients, or secure IPsec/GRE tunnels from branch edge routers and SD-WAN appliances. It integrates bi-directionally with Cisco Secure Endpoint, Cisco SD-WAN, Cisco Meraki, and enterprise SIEM/SOAR platforms for automated incident response and threat correlation.

Core enterprise use cases include secure direct-to-cloud internet breakout for branch locations, remote user web protection, shadow IT discovery and SaaS governance, cloud data loss prevention, and decentralized threat neutralization. By delivering robust first-line cyber defense directly from the cloud, Cisco Umbrella simplifies security operations and scales protection seamlessly across modern distributed enterprises.