Welcome to the Cisco Umbrella deployment hub

• Umbrella integrates multiple security solutions into a single cloud-delivered service.
• Check out our step-by-step user guide for Cisco Umbrella Secure Internet Gateway.
• Access on-demand education, advanced deployment courses, and product feature walk-throughs, in our Umbrella learning center.
• Visit our Umbrella Knowledge base for common customer FAQs and troubleshooting tips.
• Subscribe to receive service notifications, release notes, announcements, service updates, and Cisco Cloud Security updates

1. Choose how you want to be protected by Umbrella: you can deploy different security functions, depending on the level of protection, visibility and control you want over your security environment: DNS-layer security, secure web gateway, or cloud-delivered firewall.
2. Next, manage network identities; install the AnyConnect module; configure SAML or AD integrations to see identity activity down to the user or group.
3. Customize your DNS policies, web policies, or firewall policies.
4. Get started with reports: use reports to gain critical insight and to optimize your security in our on-demand course.
5. Install root certificate to present block pages and to enable advanced features.

• For the quickest, most effective way to protect, block malicious and unwanted domains, IP addresses, and cloud applications before a connection is ever established, implement DNS-layer security.
• Add a network identity, point your DNS, and add internal domains; view basic deployment course.
• For more visibility into identity activity, take our advanced deployment course to utilize Active Directory integrations, and deploy virtual appliances.
• Protect both roaming and mobile users on and off network, by installing our roaming module.
• Customize DNS policies to determine whether traffic is inspected, blocked, or allowed.

• For greater visibility into all web traffic, increased content control, advanced malware protection, sandboxing, and decryption, enable Umbrella’s secure web gateway (full web proxy).
• Learn how to deploy SWG in our cloud proxy course. Forward outbound traffic to Umbrella via Cisco’s AnyConnect module, PAC files, proxy chaining, or IPsec tunnels.
• Utilize SAML integrations and AD integrations to see more granular user or group activity using policies.
• Enforce consistent security and acceptable use policies to see exactly where your users are going full URL-inspection and block or allow access to specific destinations.
• SWG deployment web policies course: learn how to create web policies, how they contrast with DNS policies, and how to order policies.

• To secure users across all branch offices without backhauling traffic to a datacenter for inspection, put cloud-delivered firewall into action.
• Embrace direct internet access (DIA) by routing outbound traffic to the Umbrella cloud via a single IPsec tunnel. You can also route traffic using our SD-WAN integration.
• For better visibility and control into non-web/non-DNS traffic across all ports and protocols and to easily block non-web applications customize firewall policies.
• Access our on-demand video on IPsec tunnel deployment for a step-by-step walkthrough.

Activate SWG advanced features

• Enable file inspection for web policies using Cisco’s Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) to scan all uploaded and download files for malware and other threats.
• Apply Tenant Controls to manage user access to SaaS apps, like Microsoft Office 365, Google G Suite, and Slack.
• Analyze suspicious files (not blocked through file inspection or Cisco AMP) using Threatgrid sandbox environment.
• Block file downloads by file type.

Log management, APIs, and admin

• Define the activities you want Umbrella to log – all requests, only security events, or no requests
• Upload, store, retain activity logs from Umbrella to a customer or Cisco-managed Amazon S3 bucket
• Integrate existing tools with APIs for enforcement, visibility, management and deployment.
• Authenticate your dashboard admins using two-step verification, single sign-on or SSO.

Advanced reporting, threat intelligence, and more

• Get advanced reporting with App Discovery, Top Identities and Top Destinations.
• Schedule reports you want to see regularly, sent straight to your inbox.
• Access your Investigate console to expose current and developing threats in real-time with interactive threat intelligence
• Maximize your Umbrella deployment with helpful use tips for new features like, web and firewall policies in this on-demand video.
• Maximize your deployment by using this Health Check Checklist to guide you through your Umbrella dashboard must-haves, help you identify common issues, and how to maximize your protection post-deployment.




• For the quickest, most effective way to protect and block malicious and unwanted domains and IP addresses before a connection is ever established, implement DNS-layer security.
• Check out our step-by-step user guide for Cisco Umbrella DNS-layer security.
• Access on-demand education, advanced deployment courses, and product feature walk-throughs in our DNS-layer security learning path.
• Visit our Umbrella Knowledge base for common customer FAQs and troubleshooting tips.
• Subscribe to receive service notifications, release notes, announcements, service updates, and Cisco Cloud Security updates.

 

1. Add a network identity, point your DNS, and add internal domains that should not be sent to Umbrella.
2. Install root certificate to present block pages and to enable advanced features.
3. Protect users on and off network, by installing our roaming client.
4. Customize DNS policies to define how security and access controls are applied to identities.
5. To create policies and view reports by user, enable Active Directory integrations.
6. Get started with reports: use reports to gain critical insight and optimize your security in our on-demand course.

 

• For more control over your dashboard, take our advanced deployment course, to deploy virtual appliances, maximize roaming client protection, and learn more about Active Directory.
• Enable your intelligent proxy for more visibility and control and SSL decryption to inspect traffic over HTTPs and block custom URLs.
• Proxy risky domains for URL and file inspection using AV engines and Cisco Advanced Malware Protection (AMP).
• Gain visibility into threats that bypass lookups with IP layer enforcement (requires AnyConnect client).

 

Log management, APIs, and admin
• Define the activities you want Umbrella to log – all requests, only security events, or no requests.
• Upload, store, retain activity logs from Umbrella to a customer or Cisco-managed Amazon S3 bucket.
• Integrate existing tools with APIs for enforcement, visibility, management and deployment.
• Authenticate your dashboard admins using – two-step verification, single sign-on or SSO.

 

Advanced reporting, threat intelligence, and more

• Get advanced reporting with App Discovery, Top Identities and Top Destinations.
• Schedule reports you want to see regularly, sent straight to your inbox.
• Access your Investigate console to expose current and developing threats in real-time with interactive threat intelligence.
• Maximize your Umbrella deployment with helpful tips in this on-demand video.