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Enhanced cybersecurity for government and public sector

Cisco Umbrella for Government; powerful cloud-native security to help agencies achieve their mission.

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Proven security

Backed by Cisco Talos. Built on the Umbrella commercial version with over 30,000 customers to securely enable government cloud transformation and protect hybrid/remote workers.

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Federal government

  • FedRAMP
  • Executive Order 14028 Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity
  • OMB Memo M-22-09 Improving the Federal Government’s Cybersecurity Risk Management and Incident Response
  • OMB Memos on DNS: OMB M-21- 31, M-22-09
  • Protective DNS

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Advanced threat protection

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State, Local, EDU (SLED)

  • StateRAMP
  • NIST 800-53
  • NIST 8063b
  • Authentication CONUS
    (Continental US Data residency)

Cisco Umbrella is FedRAMP, StateRAMP and TX-RAMP authorized

Cisco Umbrella is FedRAMP, StateRAMP and TX-RAMP authorized

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Compare Cisco Umbrella for government or public sector packages

Compare the cloud security packages for government and public sector customers. These packages are FedRAMP Moderate, StateRAMP and TX-RAMP authorized.

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Visibility and control to mature your zero trust approach

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Threat protection

Cisco Talos threat intelligence ensures Umbrella for Government’s security protections stay up to date to continually defend against phishing, ransomware, and the latest nation state-sponsored activities.

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Focus on priorities

Deploy with other Cisco FedRAMP authorized offers, like Cisco SD-WAN, Duo, for a comprehensive zero-trust cybersecurity ecosystem tailored to government needs.

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Increase inspection

By using the Umbrella cloud-delivered firewall and Snort IPS, government agencies increase visibility and control, improving security efficacy and ensuring consistent enforcement everywhere.

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Secure cloud data

Enforce acceptable usage policies. Discover, block, or control social media and Generative AI usage. Restrict the upload of sensitive government data to prevent exposure, minimizing data security and privacy concerns.

Resources

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FedRAMP Demystified

The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is complex; so is cybersecurity.

This Gartner® report demystifies FedRAMP and provides security risk management leaders with the key facts they need to understand FedRAMP-related cloud options.

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Security at the DNS-layer protects the entire threat landscape, stopping threats and detecting malware earlier.

Umbrella for Government meets CISA’s Protective DNS mandate and goes beyond to shield roaming users and devices with Umbrella advanced DNS threat intelligence that quickly blocks threats over any port and protocol from Day One.

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Cisco Talos Threat Intelligence

Cisco Talos Intelligence Group, one of the world’s largest commercial threat intelligence teams powers Umbrella for Government, blocking malicious activity before it reaches the network or endpoints. Talos provides a long term partnership to maintain and improve your security posture and reduce risk by defending Cisco customers against known/emerging threats, discovering new vulnerabilities in common software, and maintaining the official rule sets of Snort.org, ClamAV, and SpamCop.

715 B

web requests per day

1.4 M+

new malware samples per day

200+

vulnerabilities discovered per year

With Umbrella, nearly all crypto viruses have been averted, and we’ve blocked attempts at clicking phishing links in emails.

IT Director, State & Local Government
TechValidate

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Building security resilience for government and public sector

As government agencies shift to hybrid work models and cloud application strategies, the way to enable this transformation is through building security resilience.

Security resilience embraces actionable intelligence and prioritizes what’s important to enable organizations to be resilient amidst unpredictable threats or change.

Cisco Umbrella is a key part of Cisco’s security portfolio that provides security resilience for the unpredictable.

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Cisco Umbrella makes it easy to embrace a cloud-first strategy without sacrificing security.

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