13.4.2. Cisco Umbrella

XSTRA partners with Cisco to provide Clients with access to the Umbrella suite of Cyber-Security and Protection products.

Much like solutions from:

• Quad9
• CloudFlare
• FlashStart
• TitanHQ
  Cisco Umbrella is able to shield Clients from many of the cyber threats on the Internet.
  

Cisco Umbrella is able to do this by maintaining a list of domain names and IP addresses where threats are known to exist. As service known as DNS, or Domain Name Service, keeps a record of these sites. When a user attempts to access any http or https website, the request is first sent to Cisco Umbrella’s DNS servers. The request is then compared to a list of known “bad” destination and permitted or denied.

Further restrictions are applied on the users request based on various subject categories, for example:

• Pornography
• Politics
• Weapons
• Violence
  

Cisco Umbrella comes in 2 Versions:

• Essentials
• Advantage (everything in Essentials + More)
  

The following images further explain the concepts behind Cisco Umbrella.

Essentials Version

Advantage Version