We performed a comparison between Cisco Umbrella and Quad9 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Internet Security solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Some clients only want DNS security, while others want more of the advanced features that it has available."
"It enables us to go granular in the customization of blocking some categories on the DNS."
"Improves security through DNS visibility, which can block malware, phishing, C&C, etc."
"The initial setup is very easy and takes only a few minutes."
"Helps block personal email accounts."
"Reports provide insight into internet usage and information helpful in creating QoS rules."
"We use Cisco Umbrella for DNS filtering and as a secure gateway."
"The core business of Cisco Umbrella is non-malware. That's all it does: block the malware on the gateway."
"The most valuable feature of Quad9 is that it is a free solution."
"Setting up Quad9 is straightforward if you know what you're doing, and it's easy to use overall."
"Lower costs including licensing, support, and renewals would be beneficial."
"With any Cisco product, it's the licensing side of things that needs improvement."
"Cisco Umbrella is difficult to manage and needs to include a dashboard. It needs to improve pricing as well."
"I would like for them to continue building on IPS and IDS functionalities."
"I think it's a very basic solution, and because of that, Cisco Umbrella would not be a suitable solution for large companies."
"The solution is very expensive in Brazil."
"It would be useful if they had a malware protection engine running inside their own VM."
"Client delivery and client updates should be improved. Client delivery was not as easy as expected. Another area for improvement is the integration of escalation procedures for security issues."
"Quad9 could improve by having more free features, such as custom DNS filtering."
"It used to work fine for all the devices, but it started to slow and become non-responsive. I would have to reload the page two or three times before all the pages loaded. With OpenDNS, I only need to load the page once."
Cisco Umbrella is ranked 1st in Internet Security with 108 reviews while Quad9 is ranked 11th in Internet Security with 2 reviews. Cisco Umbrella is rated 8.8, while Quad9 is rated 6.0. 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 Quad9 writes "It's easy to use and set up, but I've faced performance problems ". 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 FortiSASE , whereas Quad9 is most compared with Cloudflare DNS, Google Cloud DNS, Verisign Public DNS, Neustar UltraDNS and Hurricane Electric Free DNS. See our Cisco Umbrella vs. Quad9 report.
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