We performed a comparison between Cisco Umbrella and McAfee Web Protection [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Zscaler, TitanHQ and others in Internet Security."By using Cisco Umbrella, you are sure of inspecting all the traffic. Whenever the user machine is connected to your network, it is inspected. That's the best thing. It means you are sure that nothing is being exported or imported without your choice. That is the best feature."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its reliability."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the Web Filtering and the APT."
"The weekly reportings are great. The investigation is super and the application management is equally great."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to filter malware sites that could infect clients or allow them to download infected files."
"I also think that the dashboard view is really helpful. Whenever sites get blocked, we get the details and the users who are connecting to them."
"For me, it's important that I get a connection to my corporate network in a secure and fast way. This product just runs in the background and doesn't need any attention. For me, as a user, it's perfect."
"DNS protection, domain blocking, SIP component, and the Cisco Umbrella roaming client are the valuable features of Cisco Umbrella."
"Provides good accessibility and handles any overload very well."
"The most valuable is the blocking of blacklisted sites, a URL that is, either by intelligence or by McAfee, detected as a malicious site."
"It's a solution that permits making a granular configuration and it is easier to deploy the same configuration on a lot of devices using the central console. It is the master of the product."
"The most valuable feature is the ease in the configuration for security roles."
"The stability has a good standard right now."
"It is functional. It has reduced risk and downtime while also ensuring regulatory compliance, which is critical."
"The solution is not too expensive. It's affordable."
"The product is quite an effective firewall."
"I would like for them to continue building on IPS and IDS functionalities."
"The integration with other solutions is a little complex. If you want to integrate with something like ArcSight or LogRhythm or Splunk, you need to do a lot of configuration. There are no easy ways to implement it."
"If the security issues are taken care of it would be better."
"With any Cisco product, it's the licensing side of things that needs improvement."
"Their support should be improved. It is necessary that the support is efficient. It is not really easy to get a resolution for an issue from Cisco support. They should be faster and more efficient."
"Some countries don't have a DNS server leading to a domain resolution IP, not at a local level."
"They need to improve analytics so they report on more of the specifics of user activity."
"The solution is very expensive in Brazil."
"Endpoints are lightweight agents, eating too much of the host resources."
"The configuration could be simplified because it is more complex to make the configuration on McAfee. What can be improved is the support of the agent on smartphones, IOS or Android. That still now is not available yet."
"We need a better customer experience and more flexibility in the product."
"The manufacturerers should have more transparancy about exactly what is getting filtered when you use the product and why."
"The solution should be more proactive in regards to sending you updates."
"In McAfee Web Protection there are gaps in the security design, in the overall architecture, the gaps need to be fixed."
"Lacking filter for spam."
"There is a real need to make sure all the updates and improvements are in order to keep the security at top performance to continue defeating threats that come daily."
Cisco Umbrella is ranked 1st in Internet Security with 108 reviews while McAfee Web Protection [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Internet Security with 16 reviews. Cisco Umbrella is rated 8.8, while McAfee Web Protection [EOL] is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco Umbrella writes "Protects endpoints wherever they are, always pushing people to the right locations to avoid malicious intent". On the other hand, the top reviewer of McAfee Web Protection [EOL] writes "Secure, reasonably priced, and performs well". Cisco Umbrella is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Palo Alto Networks DNS Security and Fortinet FortiGate SWG, whereas McAfee Web Protection [EOL] is most compared with .
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