DNSFilter vs. Cisco Umbrella

When it comes to comparing Cisco Umbrella to DNSFilter, the biggest strength of DNSFilter is the simplicity of the tool. With DNSFilter, you can get up and running in minutes—even with more advanced features enabled—and implement a brand new policy in as few as 3 clicks.

Cisco Umbrella can be simple to set up if you stick to the basic features. But as soon as you want to apply IP filtering or SSL decryption, you can encounter errors that may take days to resolve. And policy implementation means going deep into the tool and making a minimum of 8 clicks just to change one policy setting. Not to mention, policy changes are not instant like they are with DNSFilter. In many cases, policy changes take up to 15 minutes to take hold.

The biggest advantage that Cisco Umbrella seems to have is that it integrates with the rest of its product suite, but this isn’t quite true. Because Cisco has such a large portfolio of products, only some of them integrate well with one another. In most cases, when you subscribe to a bundle of Cisco products, you’re getting five separate tools as opposed to the all-in-one solution they insist they have.

Finally, DNSFilter is AI-driven above all else. Our AI is unique and has the ability to scan sites in real-time with our interstitial page feature to keep end users protected from 0-day malicious threats. We catch 0-day threats an average of over 5 days before traditional threat feeds.