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, Palo Alto Networks 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."
"I haven't needed to reboot the servers for years due to their excellent stability."
"They have a wealth of articles in their knowledge base. This has given me the freedom to troubleshoot on my own time. "
"It is user-friendly. It is easy to manage the solution."
"I was able to implement it myself. It was really easy to install. You could install it on a server locally if you want to. If you have the biggest site, you would do that, but for my site, it was just directing all the traffic out through the Cisco Umbrella DNS. It was really handy. When the owners of the company went overseas, I knew that they would be secure because even if they were not on the company network, they would still go through the Cisco Umbrella servers. It was a complete solution for protecting the company with outgoing data."
"It has excellent resilience in cybersecurity. Cybersecurity for my organization is very important because we are a banking organization. We need this security to protect the personal information of our clients. This is very important for our security."
"I have found the malware protection feature valuable. It is helpful and deliverable and is able to protect my entire organization from getting compromised. It also prevents us from visiting any malicious sites which are not visible to the users."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Cisco's support is better nowadays."
"The insight into what our users are doing via Cisco Umbrella is valuable. Knowing that we're protecting our users as they leave our network is also valuable now because we've got more hybrid working."
"CNAME flattening is a feature that Akamai does not support."
"It should have a real-time malware classification engine. It should check the malware on the website. It would be good if it had a real-time malware check for the websites because currently, it just compares the DNS queries of the blacklist. It should also have malware control over file execution and the types of files that the users are allowed to download."
"Its on-prem rollout is quite challenging. It needs better coordination with the Internet Service Provider. It is a cloud-based solution, and any endpoint that connects to it has to go through all the gateway ISPs, but some of the ISPs block HTTPS-based DNS. That's where the challenge occurs with Umbrella."
"Cisco Umbrella should introduce an on-premises device."
"In the future, they should combine some of the Cisco AMP features that they already have, for anti-malware purposes."
"Something on our end that might make it better is alerting going to our ticketing system. It's not something that we have discussed, but that would be a proactive option for us to provide a learning experience for the staff."
"I would like to see more integration between Cisco Umbrella and Cisco DNA Center."
"Network connectivity was a bit of a challenge at the beginning, but we were able to get the right help from Cisco."
"I am unsure if Cisco Umbrella offers a Windows option for running the server."
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 Azure DNS, 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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