
Umbrella configuration with Azure AD, for instance, was actually quite straight-forward through the exchange of Metadata XML files between the IdP and Service Provider (SP).
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In this post, I will not dive into how to set up SSO. In addition, administrators can better manage access to resources through a central identity provider (IdP), such as Azure AD, and enforce policies like multi-factor authentication, auditing, and compliance rules. Single-Sign On (SSO) allows for an individual to sign into one or more services with one account and password instead of having one for each resource. The product can also perform SSL decryption to gain some (not complete) visibility into encrypted traffic. This makes for a quick, first layer of defense against malicious websites and other types of threats. Clients go through its public DNS servers, and predefined policies decide what Internet resource can and cannot be visited. In essence, Umbrella proxies DNS requests to secure traffic - almost like Websense, a web filtering and content gateway solution - except it does so by looking at the DNS level. It later created Umbrella and was acquired by Cisco a few years after. In 2006, OpenDNS was founded to help, among other goals, speed up DNS queries and make the web safer to browse. What Are Umbrella and SSO? Cisco Umbrella Go over some SSO security considerationsĪt the end of the article, I will summarize the exact steps needed to get an Umbrella account converted to use SSO.

Briefly explain what Umbrella is and why SSO is important for security and the user experience.From getting an error that SSO was not working, to an account having been locked out for 10 minutes, or being redirected to the OpenDNS portal instead of Umbrella - needless to say, Cisco/OpenDNS caused some confusion. What should have been a straight-forward process turned out to be cumbersome.

While setting up Single-Sign On (SSO) for Cisco Umbrella, there was a need to convert existing Umbrella accounts to use SSO.
