Umbrella SIG: Advanced security, simplified
With the Cisco Umbrella Secure Internet Gateway (SIG) Advantage package, organizations can go about their business, protected from the evolving threat landscape. Through a broad set of features— namely a cloud access security broker (CASB), cloud-delivered firewall, a secure web gateway (SWG), DNS-layer security, and advanced threat intelligence — organizations can stay secure, end-to-end.
Umbrella SIG or Secure Access SIA, what’s the difference?
Cisco Umbrella SIG has evolved to Secure Access – Secure Internet Access (SIA), which protects users and devices connecting to the internet. With Secure Access SIA, you can get all Umbrella SIG features and much more.
Building on Cisco Umbrella’s proven security, Secure Access SIA offers more advanced features, faster performance, and integrated tools like Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) and agentic AI security built right in.
Embrace SSE and SASE with Secure Access SIA Advantage
Distributed work, cloud adoption, and increasing AI activity create new security challenges. Centralized policy enforcement becomes harder, cyberthreats rise, and managing multiple point solutions adds complexity.
This reality drove the need for Security Service Edge (SSE)-converged security functions delivered as a unified cloud service-and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), which combines SSE with networking (typically SD-WAN) into a single platform for simplified deployment and management.
Cisco Secure Access SIA Advantage helps you cut complexity, reduce risk, and improve internet traffic performance through a single cloud-delivered dashboard. Simple to deploy and built to scale, it easily expands to full SSE for private application access and comprehensive SASE architecture with Cisco’s unified offerings.
Major components of Secure Access SIA
Secure web gateway
Gain full visibility and protection with web traffic inspection in the cloud to enforce acceptable use policies, control URLs and applications, and block malware and advanced threats.
Data loss prevention
Protect sensitive information by monitoring, detecting, and preventing unauthorized data sharing across your organization’s network with real-time policy enforcement.
Firewall
Simplify protection with automatically-enforced, consistent IP-, port-, and protocol-based policies across all locations, with centralized logging and easy IPsec tunnel integration to block unwanted traffic.
Cloud access security broker
Expose and control shadow IT by automatically discovering cloud applications in use, assessing their risk levels, and enforcing policies to safely manage cloud adoption and reduce risk across the organization.
Digital Experience Monitoring
Get deeper visibility into application and network performance, enabling faster troubleshooting and better real time visibility to accelerate troubleshooting and quickly resolve issues for an optimal user experience.
DNS-layer security
Improve security visibility, detect compromised systems, and protect your users on and off the network by stopping threats over any port or protocol before they reach your network or endpoints.
Secure Access SIA Advantage: Key features
- Safeguards access to SaaS apps and the internet with in-line and API based controls
- Combines DNS security, secure web gateway (SWG), cloud access security broker (CASB), data loss prevention (DLP), firewall as a service, and more in a single solution
- Secures the use of generative AI tools with AI-powered controls
- Includes 7-layer firewall, IPS, extended sandboxing, and additional RBI functionality that go beyond the Essentials SIA package capabilities
- Seamlessly helps block cyberattacks at the DNS-layer across distributed environments
- Built-in Experience Insights (digital experience monitoring powered by ThousandEyes) provides deep visibility and faster troubleshooting
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