Cisco Umbrella

Cisco Umbrella is a cloud security platform that provides the first line of defense against threats on the internet wherever users go.

The Need for Cisco Umbrella

Cisco Umbrella is a cloud security platform that unifies multiple security services in a single cloud-delivered platform to secure internet access and control cloud app usage from your network, branch offices, and roaming users. Cisco Umbrella integrates secure web gateway, cloud-delivered firewall, DNS-layer security, cloud malware protection and cloud access security broker (CASB) functionality for effective protection anywhere your users go. Before users connect to any online destination, Cisco Umbrella analyses the DNS requests to detect threats and anomalies, before a decision is made whether to permit or deny the traffic.

Cisco Umbrella’s global network processes billions of requests per day, analysing and learning internet activity to determine where attacks are being staged, so it can block requests to unwanted and malicious destinations before a connection is even established. As a cloud-delivered service, Cisco Umbrella provides the visibility needed to protect internet access across all your network devices, office locations, and roaming users. Internet activity is logged and categorized by the type of security threat or web content, and whether it was blocked or allowed.

Benefits of Cisco Umbrella

Early threat detection

By enforcing security at the DNS and IP layers, Cisco Umbrella blocks requests to malware, ransomware, phishing, and botnets before a connection is even established — stopping threats over any port or protocol before they reach your network or endpoints. Because Cisco Umbrella is the first line of defense, security teams will have fewer malware infections to remediate and threats will be stopped before they cause damage.

Simplified security management

Cisco Umbrella is the fastest and easiest way to protect all your users, enterprise-wide, in minutes. It reduces the number of infections and alerts you see from other security products by stopping threats at the earliest point. With no hardware to install and no software to manually update, ongoing management is simple.

Holistic view

With Cisco Umbrella, you can quickly view trends across your deployment, and then pivot to understand security risks that require action. It is easy to spot and remediate victims, with reports that show activity for each device or network. You gain a more complete picture of the security risks within your organization.

Faster incident response time

Incident response time lags when your security teams don’t have access to key information. Cisco Umbrella categorizes and retains all internet activity to accelerate your investigation process and reduce incident response times. With Cisco Umbrella, your security operations center can detect and remediate threats faster by automating integrations across security products and third-party threat feeds.

Cloud security

Cisco Umbrella provides visibility into sanctioned and unsanctioned cloud services in use across your enterprise, so you can uncover new services being used, see who is using them, identify potential risks, and block specific applications easily.

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Why Syndrome for Security?

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Our expertise

Syndrome’s security portfolio delivers greater protection for your network against an increasingly evolving and complex set of threats. Our engineers lay a foundation for security that is both agile and integrated. From your data center, branch offices, cloud environments, and everywhere in between, Syndrome gives you robust protection against even the most sophisticated threats without compromising on performance when inspecting encrypted traffic.

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Define security needs

Before proposing or installing any solution, the team at Syndrome, first helps you define the level of IT network security necessary for your organization. In conjunction with your key executives, we assess any existing solutions, identify sensitive areas that need more protection and determine all points of access that need to be secured.

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Planning

Once the assessment is complete, you’ll have a clearer picture of your exact security needs. We plan with your key executives on important aspects like whether to replace or upgrade vulnerable components, integrate new software or improve network access permissions.

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Priorities and budgets

It is likely that there won’t be one solution to meet all your needs, hence we help you prioritize the list in terms of critical and non-critical, and include budgetary constraints. A well-thought out and detailed specification will pave the way to finalizing an implementation plan that meets your business’s needs.

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Constant monitoring

Despite the best network security system you will have malicious attackers constantly probing your network for weak points. Our engineers constantly review your audit logs to find relevant information on potential threats. They tweak your security settings based on the audit log and respond before any breach occurs.

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Security focused culture

We, at Syndrome, take your network security very seriously. We ensure your employees are updated on basic security measures, even if they’re not in the IT department. This includes identifying and reporting suspected phishing attempts and social engineering attacks. We hold regular training sessions on common network vulnerabilities and how to prevent them. We even help you create fake network attacks to gauge your employees’ level of preparedness.