Cisco Secure Endpoint and Cisco Umbrella, why should I use both?

Posted on 30 May 2025 by Beaming Support

This article addresses the question: “Why should my business utilise both Cisco Secure Endpoint and Cisco Umbrella as a comprehensive cybersecurity package?” At Beaming, we understand that a multi-layered approach offers superior protection, and these two solutions, when combined, deliver precisely that.

Understanding both products

While Cisco Secure Endpoint and Cisco Umbrella are distinct products, they offer entirely different, yet complementary, functionalities. You can find detailed breakdowns of each product on our website via the following links:

Cisco Umbrella provides essential web filtering services to your endpoints, acting as your first line of defence against web-based threats. Cisco Secure Endpoint delivers sophisticated endpoint detection and response capabilities, safeguarding your devices from a wide range of malicious activity. When partnered together, these solutions not only work seamlessly but also provide a significantly higher level of defence against the ever-evolving landscape of cyber threats.

Cisco Umbrella: your first line of web defence

One of the most common ways to gain any sort of access to systems is generally via either a phishing email or a link being incorrectly clicked on. Cisco Umbrella will defend against this by company policies ensuring that not only are the categories appropriate for the field of work for the customer, but also, protecting from threats coming through the web.

Cisco secure endpoint: deep-level device protection

Cisco Secure Endpoint however is the second layer of defence, with this software, we have the capability of locking down USB port access as just one example of the many features this offers, but by default, the software will detect via its behaviour based scanning and protect against threats, the device can then be isolated away from any other devices on the LAN to ensure the security of the remainder of the network in the event something malicious has been detected.

A unified approach

By working together, this does truly offer a double-skin approach to your network security, not only securing the web access via company policies and Umbrella’s default protection, but also the local device file and folder security to threats of which don’t necessarily come in via the web.