A year ago Cisco acquired OpenDNS for $635 Million to be the foundation of their Cloud Security Portfolio. Here's why!
Lauren Johnson, ITIL? v3
Technology Advocate @ Cisco | Helping Customers Understand, Adopt, & Drive Transformation
In 2015 Cisco acquired OpenDNS. Let's look into why over 12,000 business point to Cisco's OpenDNS Umbrella as their to be the foundation of their Cloud Security.
· Off-Network Protection: We can protect users when they leave the corporate network, where they are most vulnerable.
· Defeat Ransomware: We prevent botnets from calling home to Command & Control, rendering them unable to give or receive instructions.
· DNS Visibility & Enforcement: Providing visibility and security to a blind spot attackers are increasingly exploiting.
o CSOOnline (July-2015) Why you need to care more about DNS
· No Added Latency: We are not a proxy, and are the fastest public DNS provider in North America.
· Free & Easy POC: We can set up a free trial and show you the attacks currently bypassing your security stack -- deployment takes less than 30 minutes
· 100% Uptime since 2006: Staffing a 24x7 dedicated global team of top DNS experts and network engineers that enable you to connect with confidence. The Cisco Umbrella global network currently handles 80+ billion DNS requests daily.
With Cisco Umbrella, we are committed to delivering the best possible internet experience to every single one of our 65+ million users. And we are obsessed with inventing new technologies to speed up the internet and move the state of the art for the Domain Name System (DNS) forward. Link to Cisco OpenDNS website.
If you would like more information regarding Cisco OpenDNS Umbrella, please feel free to reach out to me at [email protected].
Sales Account Manager at TCPWave
7 年I've used OpenDNS, it has it's uses, but I have some reservations. Firstly I am not sure what Cisco does with all the query data I am sending, last time I used it, OpenDNS served up adverts unless you explicitly disabled it. What else are they doing with my/your data? I know I am not supposed to visit any "dodgy" web sites (that's UK slang for "bad"), but sometimes reputable sites serve up salacious ad banners that can trigger questionable DNS lookups. Do I really want those queries associated with my Company's OpenDNS account? Secondly any misspelt or unresolvable domains also get sent to Cisco, so "internal" DNS names can leak out of an organisation and be captured by Cisco or anyone doing a MITM attack and then be used to map out at least parts of an organisations internal infrastructure. With a proper recursive Internet DNS service sitting in the DMZ, I can let these servers find their own way around the Internet and use RPZ feeds from reputable providers to block malicious queries. This way any unresolvable names get answered with "NXDOMAIN" rather than being blindly sent off to Cisco and harvested by someone sniffing packets off the wire. These concerns may be totally unfounded and I welcome constructive comments, but I think organisations should weigh up the pros/cons and costs of deploying their own recursive DNS service before signing up for OpenDNS.
CRO | Building GTM at Keelvar
7 年Umbrellas are good for light showers but can't withstand a storm ;-)
They don't have to know openDNS as it is now rebranded to Cisco Umbrella ;)
Tech Executive | Driving Innovation & Strategy
7 年For the record love opendns was using it 10 years ago when was programming fulltime
Tech Executive | Driving Innovation & Strategy
7 年I would argue most Cisco leadership wouldn't even know what OPENDNS (the company, lets not even mention the protocol) is.......