Cybersecurity for Government and Public Sector

Powerful cloud native security with unified, simplified management

Cisco Umbrella for Government includes both DNS-layer security and Secure Internet Gateway (SIG) capabilities of secure web gateway, cloud-delivered firewall and intrusion prevention (Snort3 IPS), cloud access security broker (CASB), and data loss prevention (DLP); capabilities available today in our mature commercial Umbrella offer with more than 30,000 customers.

Umbrella lets you confidently protect users, data, and infrastructure while helping meet the most stringent compliance requirements.

For federal customers that includes requirements such as:

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

Umbrella provides advanced threat protections and secure communications that align with:

TIC 3.0 Policy Enforcement Points for User, Traditional, Branch office and Cloud Use cases.

For State, Local, and Education customers (SLED), key requirements include:

StateRAMP
NIST 800-53
FIPS140-2
NIST 8063b Authentication
CONUS (Continental US Data residency).

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

Cisco Umbrella for Government meets CISA’s Protective DNS mandate and goes beyond by providing a differentiated recursive DNS-powered intelligence that quickly blocks threats over any port and protocol protecting roaming devices from Day One. Over 30,000 Umbrella commercial customers rely on Umbrella protection so agencies can be confident in their users’ protection with ongoing hybrid work and cloud transformation efforts.

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Visibility and control to effectively meet and mature your zero trust approach

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Threat protection

With industry-leading threat intelligence from Cisco Talos, DNS-layer security enables government agencies to enforce security policies everywhere with visibility into potential threats to understand risks and protect against targeted attacks.

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Focus on priorities

By using Umbrella’s secure web gateway (SWG) public sector organizations can inspect and log web traffic, enforce acceptable use policies, and protect against advanced threats.

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Increase inspection and control

By using the Umbrella cloud-delivered firewall and Snort IPS, government agencies increase visibility and control over internet traffic originating from client requests, improving security efficacy and ensuring consistent enforcement everywhere. 

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Secure cloud users and sensitive data

Umbrella’s cloud access security broker (CASB) functionality provides government agencies with the tools to improve risk management and enforce compliance, avoid data loss in clod applications and prevent malware spread.

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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.

625 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 and public sector agencies shift to hybrid work models and multicloud application strategies, the way to enable this transformation is through building and sustaining security resilience.

Security resilience is more than avoiding phishing, ransomware, and targeted attacks. It 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 Secure’s product portfolio that provides security resilience for the unpredictable. Organizations worldwide trust Cisco Secure to protect 840,000 networks, 67 million mailboxes, and 87 million endpoints.

Cisco Secure product portfolio

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

Enhanced cybersecurity for government and public sector

Powerful cloud native security with unified, simplified management

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