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."
"It will protect, give you more robustness, and faster responses, compared to any firewalls or any of the proxy web servers."
"Cisco Umbrella is such a solution and can be implemented very fast and easy. All that we must do is redirect the DNS registers in their routers, or the active directory service of the enterprise that are going to use in Umbrella services. If you buy the service now, in two hours you are protected by the service because it's very fast to put in service."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to detect if a URL has malware or is vulnerable."
"The feature that we find most valuable is to be able to filter out those web requests that you don't want."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Cisco's support is better nowadays."
"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."
"One of the most important features is the security posture check which Umbrella offers when a user accesses any website. That is one of the most unique features that it offers."
"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."
"CNAME flattening is a feature that Akamai does not support."
"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."
"I would like to see a graphical representation of the entire network."
"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."
"The pricing could be improved."
"If I want to see which users access a website, I need an Active Directory registered on Umbrella's cloud."
"iOS devices and mobiles are huge in my environment right now, and I cannot run them on Cisco Umbrella 24/7."
"I would like to see DLP integration in the next release of this solution."
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 Fortinet FortiGate SWG.
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