What’s the difference between Umbrella and Secure Access?
Cisco Umbrella is evolving into Cisco Secure Access—a transformation fueled by innovation and rooted in our commitment to industry-leading threat protection and customer success. Cisco Secure Access is like Umbrella 2.0: delivering an intuitive user experience, simplified IT management, and powerful new capabilities. This evolution isn’t just about a new name. It’s about reimagining secure connectivity and access for the modern workplace.
I’m a big fan… When we did the DNS layer of protection…it delivered tremendous value quickly.
– Glenn Kerr, Engineering Manager – Network and Infrastructure, MYOB
Integrated cloud security service benefits
Cisco Secure Access capabilities
Cisco Secure Access is built on the proven security of Cisco Umbrella and includes advanced security capabilities. It paves the path towards a comprehensive Security Service Edge (SSE) solution by unifying multiple formerly standalone security services — from DNS-layer security to zero trust — into a single, integrated platform.
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.
Our cloud security service advantage
Unmatched intelligence
Powered by Cisco Talos, one of the world’s largest commercial threat teams, Umbrella and Secure Access block malicious activity earlier, before it reaches your network or endpoints. Statistical and machine learning models are used to uncover new attacks staged on the Internet.
Reliable infrastructure
Protect highly resilient cloud infrastructure with nearly 100% business uptime since inception in 2006. With carrier-neutral data centers globally, Umbrella and Secure Access deliver superior speed by peering with more than 1,000 of the world’s top Internet service providers.
Easy API integration
Umbrella and Secure Access APIs allow you to more easily deploy and share intelligence and security event details with your security systems and workflows. Get more out of your existing investments and speed up incident response.
