Activation - Umbrella - Domain Name System (DNS) – Cisco Activation as a Service

Onboarding Implement Use Engage Adopt

Onboarding

Steps:

Step 1: Familiarize yourself with Umbrella DNS Security
- Task 1: Learn about available resources
- Login Page
- Umbrella Packages
- Blog
- Task 2: Determine the Cloud Security Status
- Visit Website
Step 2: Plan for Umbrella DNS Security
- Task 3: Get to know the Umbrella dashboard
- Watch Video
Step 3: Validate pre-requisites of Umbrella DNS Security
- Task 4: Validate pre-requisites of Umbrella DNS Security
- Log in
Step 4: Log in and manage dashboard access
- Task 5: Log in to the Umbrella dashboard
- Log in
- Task 6: Find your organization ID person in your organization
- Link
- Task 7: Add new user(s) dashboard by assigning user roles
- Link
- Task 8: Manage user(s)
- Link
- Task 9: Create custom user roles
- Link

Implement

Steps

Step 1: Install and configure the Cisco Secure Client
- Task 1: Add a network identity to let Umbrella know where your traffic is coming from
- Link
- Task 2: Point your DNS traffic to Cisco Umbrella
- Link
Step 2: Validate Umbrella DNS Roaming Module Prerequisites
- Task 3: Review and verify the prerequisite of Umbrella AnyConnect roaming module
- Link
- Task 4: Plan for deploying Umbrella AnyConnect roaming module.
- Link
- Task 5: Download and deploy Umbrella for Cisco Secure Client
- Link
- Task 6: Validate Roaming Module deployment
- Link
Step 3: Install and deploy Umbrella Root Certificate authority rollout
- Task 7: Download Umbrella Root CA certificate from Umbrella dashboard
- Link
- Task 8: Install Umbrella Root CA to all the workstations and laptops
- Link
Step 4: Understand Existing and Future Policy Requirements
- Task 9: Outline your top security concerns & use cases
- Link
- Task 10: Use the DNS Policy Wizard to guide you through policy creation.
- Link
- Task 11: Learn more about policy precedence
- Link
- Task 12: Validate configured policies as per design
- Link
Step 5: Plan for Virtual Appliance deployment
- Task 13: View deployment guidelines
- Link
- Task 14: Deploy two virtual appliances and choose the appropriate deployment procedure based on your VM host
- Link
- Task 15: Configure your Umbrella virtual appliances
- Link
- Task 16: Plan to redirect DNS to your Virtual Appliances
- Link
Step 6: Enable active integration
- Task 17: Request the Component Integration: Cisco Umbrella DNS and identity Integration.
- Link

Use

Steps

Step 1: Plan and configure Single Sign-On (SSO) and Multi-factor Authentication (MFA)
- Task 1: Plan and configure SSO and MFA
- Link
Step 2: Plan for logging into AWS S3
- Task 2: Export the logs to a Cisco-managed or Individually-managed Amazon S3 bucket
- View Cisco-Managed
- View Individually-Managed
Step 3: Getting started with reports
- Task 3: Use Cisco Umbrella reports to monitor your Umbrella integration and gain a better understanding of your Umbrella usage
- Link
- Task 4: Setting up top threat report
- Link
- Task 5: Setup your app discovery report
- Link

Engage

Steps

Step 1: Learn about the Umbrella Open API
- Task 1: Learn about integrating custom threat analysis feed with the Umbrella Open API
- Link
Step 2: Plan for enabling Intelligent Proxy
- Task 2: Enable the Intelligent Proxy in a DNS policy
- Link
- Task 3: Enable SSL decryption in that DNS policy
- Link
- Task 4: Create content categories to organize destinations
- Link
- Task 5: Test a policy with File Inspection
- Link
- Task 6: Enable File Inspection on DNS policies to enable Cisco Secure Endpoint to scan all uploaded and download files for malware and other threats
- Link

Adopt

Steps

Step 1: Review the checklist to complete a self-guided health check
- Task 1: Review the health check guide
- Link
- Watch Video

Reference Guided Resources