Cisco Umbrella is officially saying goodbye. Cisco has announced that April 2, 2024 will be the end-of-life for Cisco Umbrella Roaming Clients, and end-of-support will follow a year later on April 1, 2025.

As an industry-leading DNS filtering solution, Cisco Umbrella has been used by countless organizations to protect their users’ internet traffic. With its impending EOL, these teams will need to transition to a new solution in order to maintain that critical security.

The Cisco team encourages customers to migrate to Cisco Secure Client, but this comes with risks: potential service interruptions, price increases, and general migration complexity. Instead, current Umbrella customers can use the EOL as an opportunity to evaluate alternative solutions.

We may be biased, but we think Twingate is the best option for organizations currently facing the Cisco Umbrella EOL.

Why choose Twingate?

Twingate provides a single agent for both DNS filtering and remote access. Twingate has redefined remote access with its Zero Trust Network Access, offering powerful access controls, rich automation, and lightning-fast speed. Now, with Twingate Internet Security you can leverage both ZTNA and DNS filtering, content filtering, and DNS analytics in a single agent.

Advanced internet protection

Twingate DNS Filtering enables you to automatically block access to all domains that are considered a security risk across all users. This enhanced security comes with no additional work from admins, because Twingate automatically categorizes and flags potentially malicious or harmful sites as they appear on the internet, with no extra work needed from you.

Twingate DNS Filtering blocks a broach range of security threats, including:

• Threat Intelligence Feeds for malware, phishing, and more

• DNS Rebinding

• IDN Homograph Attacks 

• Typosquatting 

• Domain Generation Algorithms 

• Newly registered domains

• Parked domains

You can further customize your filtering preferences with specialized block and allow lists, fallback methods, exceptions, and more, all from within the Twingate Admin Console.

Seamless deployment, continuous automation

Unlike Cisco Secure Client, Twingate can be deployed in just minutes and requires no open inbound ports, no firewall hole punching, and no network recutting. Twingate’s best-in-class Admin Console makes it easy to configure filtering preferences, and Twingate DNS Filtering is enabled with a single toggle.

Twingate also invests heavily in Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) partnerships, including a Terraform provider, a Kubernetes operator, and a Pulumi provider, so that admins can programmatically manage network security.

Rich integration ecosystem

Twingate is a central Zero Trust orchestration layer, so you can create a best-in-class security ecosystem without having to recut your network. Leverage out-of-the-box integrations with major IdPs, MDM/EDRs, SIEMs, DOH providers, and more.

You can deploy and manage Twingate DNS Filtering via your MDM of choice, and we’ll soon be releasing log syncing to Amazon S3 so that you can manage and analyze DNS log data in a centralized location.

Not a Twingate customer yet? If you’re interested in taking Twingate for a spin, you can request a personalized demo from our team or try it out yourself for free.