We performed a comparison between Akamai Edge DNS and Cisco Umbrella based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Infoblox, F5 and others in Domain Name System (DNS) Security."It is a very stable solution since it has a security feature that allows you to recover zone files if you accidentally delete them."
"When it comes to hybrid work it's pretty effective. We've got the agents. We can protect people inside our building and, when they're using their laptops out in the field, they're still protected. It's working well."
"It will protect, give you more robustness, and faster responses, compared to any firewalls or any of the proxy web servers."
"The most valuable feature is the website protection capabilities because it prevents end-users from entering bad sites that potentially have malware or could be used for phishing."
"The documentation is good, and we have been able to resolve any issues ourselves."
"Using this solution has meant that we've needed to make fewer firewall changes."
"The single-pane-of-glass management is really important. In today's era, administration costs and operational expenses will cost you a lot, and it reduces that as well. You don't need extra resources to manage all your parameter firewalls, looking at every single device to allow resources internal access. By just introducing the single-pane-of-glass management, it has lifted the burden off of management, especially the network management."
"The implementation is pretty easy."
"The integration features within, for example, the Cisco VPN product and the Umbrella module are valuable."
"CNAME flattening is a feature that Akamai does not support."
"User interface could be a little smoother and more intuitive."
"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."
"It would be good to have more extensions to third-party products and a client for other device types."
"Missing a real data leakage prevention solution."
"Cisco Umbrella is difficult to manage and needs to include a dashboard. It needs to improve pricing as well."
"Cisco Umbrella hasn't integrated customized reporting yet. With Cisco Secure Endpoint Hub, I can see a report on user downloads and set it up to constantly get an email alert. Based on my understanding, Cisco Umbrella can't do that. You can set it up with third parties, but it would be better if that were built into the platform."
"It had the ability to do a lot of app control. So, every single app that went through that portal was registered, but there is a general issue with the whole app control. As soon as you add a mobile phone to your network, all of the apps get registered through the system, and you can approve, reject, or just let them go through. When I looked at it, it was impossible to manage app control. There was just so much data. I didn't apply that service because I just didn't have the time to manage it. It would be good if there was a way to categorize applications."
"Having ready-to-go templates with best practices is definitely something that would be an improvement. Deployment, from day one, is something that definitely needs to be improved for Cisco customers."
Akamai Edge DNS is ranked 10th in Domain Name System (DNS) Security with 1 review while Cisco Umbrella is ranked 1st in Domain Name System (DNS) Security with 108 reviews. Akamai Edge DNS is rated 9.0, while Cisco Umbrella is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Akamai Edge DNS writes "A very stable solution with strong security features and an easy initial setup phase". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Umbrella writes "Protects endpoints wherever they are, always pushing people to the right locations to avoid malicious intent". Akamai Edge DNS is most compared with IBM NS1 Connect, Cloudflare DNS, Amazon Route 53, Google Cloud DNS and Quad9, whereas 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 Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection.
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