How Umbrella & Talos work together
Cisco Umbrella gains statistical models, machine learning algorithms, and enormous volumes of threat data through Cisco Talos, the world’s largest non-governmental threat intelligence organization. Umbrella uses these insights to map a holistic view of the threat landscape and to better detect nefarious activity and anticipate future attacks.
The advanced analytics and threat intelligence data provided by Cisco Talos helps us block over 170 million malicious DNS queries daily, and protect more than 24,000 enterprise customers.
Umbrella blocks daily:
103 M+
Malware related requests
50 M+
Phishing attempts
16 M+
Command and control requests
Unmatched threat intelligence
Organizations of all sizes can realize the benefits of intelligent threat protection. By having Cisco Umbrella, you will automatically harness the power of Cisco Talos threat intelligence. The Talos team of world-class engineers, mathematicians, and security researchers actively monitor the threat landscape, so you and your Cisco Secure solutions continue to stay one step ahead of bad actors.
Lightning-fast performance.
Rock-solid reliability.
Cisco Umbrella doesn’t just provide security that protects your users and their devices. Umbrella’s global cloud architecture delivers network resilience and reliability to keep your performance fast and your connections secure. Whether your organization is taking a cloud-first approach or just starting to journey into the cloud, Umbrella’s flexibility makes it incredibly easy for you to scale up or down as your business permits.
Our cloud-native global footprint:
- Shrinks latency and delivers extraordinary performance by leveraging 1,000+ peering partnerships and 6,000+ peering sessions
- Improves performance to SaaS apps — with security protection — by up to 33% as compared to direct internet access (DIA) with no security protection
- Automatically steers traffic to the closest Umbrella data center to ensure top throughput, circumventing degraded or unavailable links, without customer intervention
Work smarter, not harder
