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About Cisco Umbrella's cloud-delivered security enables an immediate improvement in security and compliance posture. That's because DNS is at the heart of every internet connection request. Securing the DNS layer means blocking malicious domains, IP addresses, and cloud applications before a connection is ever established. More than 30,000 organizations depend upon Umbrella DNS to deliver a fast, safe, and reliable internet experience that is simple to deploy and easy to manage. A recent study by GigaOM ranked Cisco #1 in DNS-layer security, and our DNS security contributed to Miercom ranking Cisco #1 in the industry in its laboratory testing of SSE threat efficacy. When you are looking to build upon DNS-layer protection with additional user protection capabilities, including ZTNA, SWG, CASB, DLP, and more, see Cisco Secure Access. Cisco Secure Access features a single client, single manager, and single policy construct protection for multi-function internet access protection and integrated	About Powered by the Global Intelligence Network, Symantec WebFilter and Intelligence Services deliver real-time web content protection, security categorization and web application control. The web filtering service automatically filters and categorizes billions of URLs into over 80 predefined categories, including 12 security categories that can be easily managed by IT administrators. When combined with Symantec Secure Web Gateway, including Blue Coat ProxySG, you have the most accurate and granular web application control policy engine for your entire enterprise web filter and cloud access protection. The Advanced Intelligence Services provide additional new services that add more flexibility and options to your webfilters, content control, policy and security management with URL threat risk levels and geolocation.
Platforms Supported Windows Mac Linux Cloud On-Premises iPhone iPad Android Chromebook	Platforms Supported Windows Mac Linux Cloud On-Premises iPhone iPad Android Chromebook
Audience IT professionals and businesses	Audience Companies looking to block web threats using a real-time global threat intelligence platform
Support Phone Support 24/7 Live Support Online	Support Phone Support 24/7 Live Support Online
API Offers API	API Offers API
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Company Information Cisco Founded: 1984 United States umbrella.cisco.com/solutions/web-content-filtering	Company Information Broadcom Founded: 1991 United States www.broadcom.com/products/cyber-security/network/gateway/webfilter-intelligent-services
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SpamTitan TitanHQ	WebTitan TitanHQ
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Cloudflare	Barracuda Content Shield Barracuda
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Categories Anti-Phishing Cloud Edge Security Cloud Security Cybersecurity DNS Filtering DNS Monitoring DNS Security IT Security Managed DNS Network Security Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Secure Web Gateways Web Content Filtering	Categories Secure Web Gateways Web Content Filtering
Web Content Filtering Features Antivirus Automated Blacklist Browser-based Management Portal Category / Keyword Filters LDAP Integration Multi-Language Filtering Reporting / Analytics Roles / Permissions SSL Inspection Time-based Controls VPN Blocking White Label Whitelisting Show More Features Managed DNS Features Anti-Malware Change Management DDoS Protection Disaster Recovery DNS Failover DNS Propagation Global DNS Network Intelligent Traffic Routing Load Balancing Reporting / Analytics Secondary DNS Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Integrations Axonius BlueCat Gateway Blumira Cisco Secure Endpoint Cisco Secure Web Appliance Cisco SecureX Elastic Observability Encapto Google Digital Risk Protection Observo AI OctoXLabs OpenDNS Panaseer Polarity SOLIDserver DDI Splunk SOAR Teamstack ThreatAware ThreatConnect Risk Quantifier (RQ) Show More Integrations View All 36 Integrations	Integrations Axonius BlueCat Gateway Blumira Cisco Secure Endpoint Cisco Secure Web Appliance Cisco SecureX Elastic Observability Encapto Google Digital Risk Protection Observo AI OctoXLabs OpenDNS Panaseer Polarity SOLIDserver DDI Splunk SOAR Teamstack ThreatAware ThreatConnect Risk Quantifier (RQ) Show More Integrations
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