Cisco Umbrella is the easiest and fastest cloud security platform for provisioning secure and compliant guest Wi-Fi. Our solution’s simplicity and performance is the reason Fortune 50 retailers, top universities, and some of the largest hospitals in the US trust Umbrella to protect their Wi-Fi.

1. Solution brief
Cisco Umbrella
Protect guest Wi-Fi in minutes
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Keep your users safe
Umbrella prevents malware, ransomware, command & control callbacks, phishing
attacks, and other threats from compromising guests’ devices and stealing
guests’ identities. And real-time internet activity is aggregated across all Wi-Fi
hotspots in one place. Our global network infrastructure handles over 175 billion
internet requests a day, which gives us a unique view of relationships between
domains, IPs, networks, and malware across the internet. We learn from internet
activity patterns to automatically identify attacker infrastructure being staged for
the next threat, and block users from going to malicious destinations.
Why DNS-layer
security?
1. Simplest security product to
deploy: Just point your DNS to
Umbrella’s global network and
get enterprise-wide coverage
in minutes
2. Stop threats at the earliest
point: Because DNS is the
first step in connecting to the
internet, you can stop threats
before they ever reach your
network or endpoints
3. Reduce malware: More than
half of organizations recently
surveyed saw a reduction in
malware by 75% or more with
Umbrella1
4. Reduce the number of
security alerts: 73% of
respondents reduced alerts on
their other security solutions by
50% or more with Umbrella²
Cisco Umbrella is the easiest and fastest cloud security platform for provisioning secure and compliant guest Wi-Fi. Our
solution’s simplicity and performance is the reason Fortune 50 retailers, top universities, and some of the largest hospitals in
the US trust Umbrella to protect their Wi-Fi.
You want to ensure a great experience for guests, which includes fast Wi-Fi access. But there are also security and legal
liability concerns. You don’t want guests viewing inappropriate content from your network. Or worse, negative press on your
brand if your guests’ identities or information are stolen when connecting to a malicious site from your network. You also don’t
want guest activity to negatively impact your security posture, resulting in increased cybersecurity premiums due to poor
security ratings (i.e. BitSight) and IP reputation.
Internet
1. https://www.techvalidate.com/tvid/AF2-8E2-79D
2. https://www.techvalidate.com/tvid/A55-DA8-E88

2. Solution brief
Cisco Umbrella
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Flexible acceptable use policies
Protecting users and your brand goes beyond security. Ensuring that guests
and employees only view appropriate content is seamless with Umbrella’s
content filtering categories and custom allow or block lists. Our 80+ content
categories cover millions of domains (and billions of web pages) giving you
full control over which sites can be accessed by users on your network. Our
easy-to-use dashboard lets you quickly set up, manage, and test different
acceptable use policies per individual access points, specific locations, or your
entire organization. Umbrella informs end users of the policy with branded,
customizable block pages, and offers a feature that enables approved,
delegated users to bypass these pages if needed.
A painless deployment, even for thousands of locations
Buying and installing new security appliances to protect guest Wi-Fi for each
existing and new location is expensive and time consuming. Once deployed,
enabling security or content filtering features on those appliances can add
latency and changing policies across all locations can be difficult.
Luckily, Umbrella is built on a fast and reliable cloud infrastructure. No hardware
to install or software to maintain. Whether you want to secure a few access
points or tens of thousands, simply point your DNS traffic to our global network.
In addition, using an elastic and scalable cloud service means you don’t have to
deal with complex sizing guides. Imagine quickly protecting every location and
user — without additional hardware or dedicated staff at each location.
For organizations using Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers (WLC) or Meraki MR
wireless access points, the Umbrella WLAN package makes deploying and
managing security for guest Wi-Fi easy. Provisioning your network is as simple
as checking a box in the WLC or Meraki dashboard. The intelligence from your
network device is automatically pulled into Umbrella — allowing you to quickly
manage policies for individual access points, specific locations, or your entire
organization. Plus, you don’t have to worry about enforcement issues caused by
dynamic IP addresses. We also provide pre-built integrations for environments
that use Aruba, Cradlepoint, or Aerohive access points.
Even deeper inspection and control
In addition to DNS-layer security that can be deployed in minutes, Cisco
Umbrella offers foundational cloud-delivered firewall capabilities3
. With
Umbrella’s cloud-delivered firewall, you can set granular rules by IP, port,
and protocol for all outbound traffic. Every internet connection goes through
Umbrella first, offering deeper inspection and control. To use our firewall
capabilities, an IPsec tunnel is required, and policies are centrally managed
within your existing Umbrella dashboard.
Already using
Cisco Wireless Lan
Controllers (WLC) or
Meraki MR?
•• The Cisco Umbrella WLAN package
provides unmatched visibility into
activity across your network without
manual configuration.
•• Built-in intelligence from the WLC
enables simple policy control per
access point, public IP, and SSID.
Learn more
•• With Meraki MR, you can apply
Umbrella policies directly in the
Meraki dashboard on a per-SSID
basis or using Meraki Group Policies.
Learn more
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“The biggest benefit
from Umbrella has
been the reduction in
malicious web traffic
from non-enterprise
devices on our
corporate network
(BYOD, guest, etc).”
IT Architect
SP 500 Computer
Software Company4
3. Please note: Umbrella’s cloud-delivered firewall is licensed separately and not included as part of the WLAN, Professional, Insights, or Platform packages
4. https://www.techvalidate.com/tvid/1BB-436-CBC

3. Solution brief
Cisco Umbrella
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“Our security posture has been elevated by using Cisco Umbrella.
We now have insight into possible infections and can protect guest
networks with a simple solution.”
IT Director
Medium Enterprise
Health Care Company5
Umbrella’s DNS-layer security can help secure guest Wi-Fi in minutes:
Threat blocking
Blocking malware, phishing, command control callbacks before they reach any
endpoints on your network
Content filtering Block inappropriate websites and applications across all users on your network
Simple Deployment
Deploy quickly with integrations for Cisco Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) and Meraki
MR to protect your guest Wi-Fi in minutes
The firewall capabilities within Umbrella can help by providing deeper inspection and control:
Rules by IP, port,
and protocol
Block peer-to-peer applications to prevent file sharing
IP anonymization
Segment guest traffic from employee traffic to eliminate negative impact
on security posture
Configuration by
IPSec tunnel
Use your existing networking footprint — i.e. Cisco SD-WAN, Cisco ISRs, Cisco
ASAs, and most other routers/firewalls — to easily route guest Wi-Fi traffic to our
cloud platform
Centralized
management
Automatically apply rules to new tunnels as they are created to ensure consistent
enforcement across all locations
Activity logging
Capture and store all activity in Amazon S3 buckets for easy retrieval and
integration with existing SIEM toolsLOG
How can Umbrella help?
Interested in learning more?
Contact your Cisco Cloud Security Specialist to schedule a demo.
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