SMBs deserve great protection. Cisco Umbrella, DNS Layer Security
SMBs deserve great protection. Cisco Umbrella, DNS Layer Security
What specific challenges do SMEs face?
1. The rise of SaaS applications
Employees around the world are increasingly leveraging cloud-based SaaS applications to work smarter, faster and better. However, most of these applications are not authorized by the company’s IT department. This situation often has security holes that can leave your company exposed to threats and cybercriminals.
2. An increase in roaming, remote and branch workers.
SMB IT teams are beginning to work with a vertically expanding network perimeter. Employees now work “on the go”, out of the office, in different branches and remote locations,… but no matter where the employee is located, he or she must be protected from threats. A task that is not easy with traditional centralized security.
3. Increasingly obsolete infrastructure
The threat landscape has grown and evolved tremendously and rapidly, with more threats increasing the pressure on SMB security. These threats now include everything from phishing to ransomware to malicious cryptomining, each of which must be addressed with robust, up-to-date protection. To try to keep up with these various threats, organizations often supplement outdated security platforms with point solutions, which can be costly and difficult to deploy, manage and maintain.
4. Limited budget and resources
SMEs have the same security needs as large companies, but often less means to provide that security. It is difficult, on tight budgets, to allocate resources for new security products and for the security equipment needed to monitor and remediate threats. Instead, more often than not, security tasks fall to non-IT team members who don’t have the time or skills to keep up.
In short, small businesses face challenges that require a completely new type of security solution, one that is effective against enterprise-level threats, but also easy to use. This is where DNS layer security can help.
Better protection starts with DNS:
Most threats first try to infiltrate at the domain level. This makes the DNS layer, one of the foundations of the Internet, a real target, but also a real opportunity. Protect yourself at the DNS level and you can protect against the vast majority of attacks. By blocking unwanted domains, IP addresses and cloud applications across any port or protocol. DNS layer security helps prevent threats at the first point of contact, while providing a single view of all Internet activity across every location, device and user.
Introducing Cisco Umbrella:
Cisco Umbrella is a cloud-delivered security service designed to protect any enterprise from threats. By offering robust protection that starts at the DNS layer, Cisco Umbrella provides the first line of defense against web-based threats, helping enterprises see and block threats before a connection is established. Cisco Umbrella takes the burden of security off your shoulders, providing powerful perimeter-wide protection that is easy to deploy and manage. Cisco Umbrella unifies a variety of other security services for protection that goes even beyond DNS. This includes a secure web gateway, a cloud firewall and CASB “Cloud Access Security Broker” functionality, whose main benefit is to have visibility into the cloud services being used by users.
Why is Cisco Umbrella the ideal security solution for your small business?
Easy to implement and scale
Because Cisco Umbrella is integrated into the cloud, there’s no hardware to install and no software to maintain. You’re up and running in minutes, with protection that grows with your business.
Full visibility of SaaS application usage
See what applications are being used and what risk they pose to your organization. Approve, reject and block these applications to keep users safe, even outside your perimeter.
Effective against threats everywhere
Because Cisco Umbrella works from the DNS layer, you can see and protect all your users, on all your devices, in all locations, without impacting performance.
Economic
A single unified security service reduces the complexity of monitoring and managing threats and alerts, so your team can do more with less. Plus, fewer infections overall mean less remediation time, less downtime and lower costs associated with each.
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