Cisco Umbrella global cloud architecture
Lightning-fast performance. Rock-solid reliability.
Improve SaaS application performance by up to 33% over direct to internet, while receiving the industry’s #1 rated security efficacy and gaining the ability to rapidly scale up and down on your terms. Umbrella’s agile global cloud architecture delivers network resiliency and reliability to keep your performance fast, and your connections secure.
Cisco Umbrella global cloud architecture
Lightning-fast performance. Rock-solid reliability.
Improve SaaS application performance by up to 33% over direct to internet, while receiving the industry’s #1 rated security efficacy and gaining the ability to rapidly scale up and down on your terms. Umbrella’s agile global cloud architecture delivers network resiliency and reliability to keep your performance fast, and your connections secure.
How we do it: 1000+ peering partners
Umbrella peers directly with more than 1000 organizations to reduce hop count and pump up performance. With more than 6000 peering sessions with the partners listed below, Umbrella is able to create shortcuts to major internet cloud providers that shrinks latency and delivers better performance between our customers and their networks.
Some of our peering partners
Carrier neutral, consistent quality
Umbrella intentionally locates our data centers near the Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) for faster, more reliable service. Data center locations are carrier neutral, selected purely on the location’s ability to provide the best quality connections and services to the regions served.
All of our data centers meet or exceed Uptime Institute Tier III standards, meet all common security compliance standards (ISO27001/SOC2), and can support GDPR compliance requirements.
Umbrella improves performance to SaaS apps by up to 33%
An independent testing firm evaluated global traffic going through Umbrella compared with direct to internet with no security, testing access to popular SaaS apps across 25 cities.
Accessing SaaS apps through Umbrella (with security policies) typically performed as well as — often better than — direct to internet with no security protection.
Robust offerings that meet SOC 2 compliance standards
Data is one of the most valuable assets for your organization. Shouldn’t it be critical to choose a vendor that prioritizes handling data the right way? We want you to be confident that Cisco Umbrella has the necessary controls in place to effectively protect the security, privacy and confidentiality of your data in motion and at rest in cloud environments.
All Cisco Umbrella packages have been assessed and comply with SOC 2 Type II standards through the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), allowing you to deploy advanced security capabilities while still being in control of your data. Read the SOC report. Compare all of Umbrella’s package offerings.
Augmented routing for faster connections without configuration
Our innovative use of Anycast augmented routing is integral to Cisco Umbrella’s top performance and rock-solid reliability. High flexibility enables rapid scaling up or down. Automatic routing selects the best path with the highest availability and quality. Anycast’s automatic traffic rerouting shields customers from outages.
Augmented routing:
- High performance and rock-solid reliability
- Flexibility to rapidly scale up or down and support varying tunnel setups for ongoing availability and redundancy
- Automatic routing that chooses the best path with the highest availability, quality, and customer experience
- Automatic rerouting of traffic, shielding customers from outages
Umbrella’s DNS security services have delivered 100% business uptime since 2006
Cisco Umbrella, backed by Talos, the world’s largest threat research team, delivers unmatched threat intelligence. In a recent security efficacy test performed by AV-TEST Cisco Umbrella received the highest threat detection rate in the industry at 96.39%. This is the second year in a row that Umbrella has outperformed competitive offers in an independent test.
DNS requests processed yesterday
Umbrella’s cloud-native global footprint sees and analyzes massive and diverse data. Our infrastructure scales to process billions of DNS requests per day, representing 24K+ enterprise customers from 190+ countries – and rising.
Cisco Umbrella blocks daily:
- 16 million command and control requests
- 50 million phishing attempts
- 103+ million malware related requests
Self-healing, highly automated architecture
Umbrella’s highly automated architecture has been running container workloads in production for 6+ years, longer than any other cloud security vendor.
With 30,000 worldwide production containers carrying security traffic at scale, our compute and network can self-heal, using capabilities like a global load balancer and auto scale to transparently resolve issues and devise workarounds.
This agile and flexible architecture enables us to continuously deliver new capabilities seamlessly to our customers, without business downtime.
Full transparency on how we provide operational excellence and speed
Umbrella’s battle-hardened architecture is built and run by an experienced team with decades of experience spanning security, networking, cloud-native architecture, threat research, data science, and more.
If you would like to see how we solve issues and maintain our network go to Cloud Security Service Status. This page displays current network status and a rolling 30-day view of various operational messages to provide full transparency to our customers and partners. See a detailed list of data centers here.
Umbrella was just really unbelievable at how easy it was to put in place and how effective it was immediately.”
Danny Miller, CISO, Texas A&M University System
Built for the cloud from day one
Built on microservices using containers for efficiency, we own, actively manage, and tune our own equipment to ensure consistent high resilience and unmatched performance. Optimal usage of hybrid multi-cloud infrastructure maximizes resilience and minimizes traffic latency. Additionally, we selectively use public cloud providers and build our services as multi-region for expanded scalability, enabling us to effectively manage our customers’ traffic.
