Why Cisco Umbrella is the simplest decision
you can make to improve your company’s security.
You have to make some serious security decisions when you’re an IT leader. That’s because both the volume and sophistication of attacks are intensifying relentlessly — and it’s clear that conventional defenses alone are no longer adequate. More effective blocking of attackers is particularly important because under-the-radar attacks are wreaking havoc on businesses that rely onantivirus products, firewalls, and sandboxing alone.
Plus, no one has an unlimited security budget — so you must act quickly to enhance your digital security without spending excessively or overburdening your staff. Given these realities, DNS-layer security offers extremely compelling value. With the right combination of internet infrastructure data and predictive intelligence, a DNS-layer solution can quickly identify malicious domains even before those domains and IPs are used to actually launch any type of attack. In fact, DNS-layer security is especially useful as your first line of defense, because DNS requests precede all internet activity.
This proactive DNS-based identification of malicious domains enables you to do the following:
Immediately block dangerous connections between your users and any potentially malicious domains Stop command-and-control (C2) callbacks and data exfiltrations — even if you haven’t yet noticed or pinpointed a compromised internal host Dramatically reduce security incidents and alerts by proactively neutralizing them before they occur