We performed a comparison between Cisco Umbrella and Perimeter 81 based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Cisco Umbrella is favored over Perimeter 81 by users for its extensive capabilities, which include content filtering, customizable DNS blocking, and support for hybrid work. It also offers a more intuitive interface and a central policy for heightened security. Perimeter 81 is praised for its fast VPN connection and responsive customer service but falls short in terms of customization and features. Additionally, there is limited information on its licensing and ROI, whereas Cisco Umbrella's pricing is reasonable and provides tangible benefits to organizations.
"The most valuable features are the antivirus as a whole, the anti-malware, and all of the protection features that scan our enterprise devices."
"The protection offered by the product is the most valuable feature. It detects vulnerabilities or traps on our users' phones and then prompts them to clean up their devices. Tools we used previously would only discover, which required us to gather information on the backend, so Lookout is a welcome upgrade."
"On the outside, the main differentiation is because Lookout ingest. They have ingested basically all of the apps for the last ten years and all the versions of all the apps, and we have that in a corporate database that allows us to do very large-scale machine learning and analysis on that data set. That's not something that any of the competitors really have the capability to do because they don't have access to the data set. A lot of the apps you can no longer get them because that version of the app is five or six years old, and it just doesn't exist anywhere anymore, except within our infrastructure. So, the ability to have that very rich dataset and learn from that dataset is a real differentiator."
"The solution is stable."
"It has improved our organization from a security posture perspective. We feel more confident now knowing that we can block phishing attempts or any type of malware that is DNS-related. This is a very nice feature that provides peace of mind."
"Umbrella enables customers to be secure. We are happy with this and this is the most important benefit for customers."
"It analyzes the domain security helps us implement the securest policy."
"The single-pane-of-glass management is very important. We have a very small team. We can't spend a lot of time going from product to product to product to either investigate or set up policy. We need to have one place that we can go to and set everything up."
"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."
"The integration features within, for example, the Cisco VPN product and the Umbrella module are valuable."
"I haven't needed to reboot the servers for years due to their excellent stability."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to block users from reaching places that they should not even try to reach has been a boon."
"Scaling Perimeter 81 was easy to do."
"Their split tunneling feature has been very valuable to our company since implementing the Perimeter 81 solution."
"It has provided a seamless gateway to much-needed platforms."
"The solution provides us with an easy way to configure and join the VPN with Perimeter 81."
"The ease of use not only translates to quick adoption rates - it also ensures that our employees remain compliant with our cybersecurity protocols, enhancing the overall security posture of our organization."
"The feature that I have found to be most valuable is the reputation that the company has regarding privacy. Nowadays, this is critical, especially when you do all of your work online."
"Perimeter 81 is very pretty."
"Distributing the agent was very simple, allowing us to enforce security posture on our devices (i.e. S1, Disk-encryption, etc.)."
"From the analysis that we've done, they do seem to be maybe a step behind in trying to enter the market with a new solution. But when they do pick up, they do come out with some good products."
"Lookout was moving into the SSE space. And so their work on SecureWeb Gateway and SD-WAN is still sort of evolving."
"We just submitted an enhancement request reflecting the main area we want to see improvement in; the APIs. Currently, we're able to build dashboards, but it's somewhat backward because we use our MDM API to create them. Lookout should provide API to customers so we can query our data and use it in our cloud, and this is the only outstanding area for improvement with the product right now."
"The stability depends on the service from where you access it. Because sometimes, the place you are in, you have Gateway. You don't have Gateway. The gateway is overutilized. At the end, you need to go through their gateways. And this is the key point here. You have a tracking point. If it's not well orchestrated, and it scales up as you add more to the existing team, you will suffer"
"The pricing could always be a little bit better."
"There are cheaper solutions in the market"
"If a hardware platform were provided for Umbrella, that would definitely improve the market for it... Especially when we are addressing governmental customers, they hesitate to connect to the cloud. That is where we need a hardware platform so that the solution can be used on-premises as well."
"Some countries don't have a DNS server leading to a domain resolution IP, not at a local level."
"If I want to see which users access a website, I need an Active Directory registered on Umbrella's cloud."
"I would like to see more integration between Cisco Umbrella and Cisco DNA Center."
"The pricing changes too fast. We get the license and we need to relicense it because they already made changes to it. We always need to be on top of the licenses because they're always changing."
"Looking at the full umbrella suite in the light of SASE, Secure Access Service Edge, they are clearly lacking in the inline CASB."
"If I were to be nitpicky, I would ask that Perimeter 81 offer the option for us to change the color of the graphical user interface, like maybe pink or green or so on."
"There is a very small amount of downtime."
"One of our challenges is ensuring the security of our cloud-based operations."
"In order to have to bypass the login using the website, a good feature for Perimeter 81 to have is a login instance in the Perimeter 81 application. I'm using a Mac and we don't have that functionality."
"I'd love to learn more about all of the features. Maybe a monthly spotlight of features or having a banner that explains more ways certain features could be used would be helpful."
"The overall UI could be improved and updated to bring a simpler feel to the application."
"Perimeter 81 could enhance its reporting and analytics capabilities to provide more detailed insights into network activity."
"A Google Chrome extension would be handy instead of logging into the app."
Cisco Umbrella is ranked 1st in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 108 reviews while Perimeter 81 is ranked 8th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 22 reviews. Cisco Umbrella is rated 8.8, while Perimeter 81 is rated 9.2. 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 Perimeter 81 writes "Great SAML and SCIM support with the ability to deploy site-2-site tunnels with specific IP restrictions". 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, whereas Perimeter 81 is most compared with Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, Cato SASE Cloud Platform, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Cloudflare Access and Check Point Quantum SASE. See our Cisco Umbrella vs. Perimeter 81 report.
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