Aporeto VS Cisco Umbrella

I know there was a issue a while back where DNS servers were unhappy with the DNSSEC on paloaltonetworks.com, and we had to bypass it. Source: about 1 year ago

Whenever any user tries to access let's say 'paloaltonetworks.com' directly through the web browser, it works, but let's say they head over to google.com or bing.com and they try to search for Palo Alto Networks, and they hit on the link that redirects to paloaltonetworks.com, the URL Filter flags it as blocked and the user receives a Palo Alto's 'Web Page is Blocked' response page. Source: about 1 year ago

Retrieve the IP Addresses for Prisma Access (paloaltonetworks.com). Source: about 3 years ago

Cisco Umbrella | Leader in Cloud Cybersecurity and SASE Solutions. Source: about 1 year ago

A combination of subscription ip blocklists like that sold by MaxMind combined with DNS and application filtering services like Umbrella would catch most services. For good measure I'd toss in local .exe application whitelisting running on each of the schools machines to only allow the applications the school wants using something like applocker which is included in windows so it probably fits into their budget. Source: over 1 year ago

We've been very happy with Cisco's Umbrella product. A few years back I "test drove" the free version, but thats a very poor substitute for the paid product. It's not cheap, but it has worked very well for us. Over 70% of our users are remote since the start of COVID, so we opted for the "roaming client" installation on every endpoint. We have a "basic" network profile for our office locations that slightly... Source: over 1 year ago