“By offering OpenDNS at no charge, we demonstrate to prospective customers that we will help them with improving their productivity, not just managing their IT infrastructure. OpenDNS is an investment for Mirus IT,”

"Unlike proxy-based or span port appliance solutions, Umbrella only handles the DNS request, so instead of dealing with annoying network bottlenecks our libraries’ technology teams can focus on better serving our communities.”

“Becky was running around cleaning up problems instead of supporting classrooms, research, and core University business. Now we’re able to focus on the right kind of problems.”

"Rather than having to put one-off rules into an appliance to allow for exceptions, we can easily assign local technical people the authority to change rules on their own networks in Umbrella."

“I had to make a few policies for specific users — you just click on the user and add them to the policy. It’s enforced globally in just a few minutes.”

“I’d recommend Umbrella to anyone looking for a cost-effective solution that just plain works.”

“OpenDNS protects us far better than other solutions because it stops threats from ever entering onto the network. It’s a feature I wouldn’t want to be without as it keeps our users safe and reduces the amount of work we have to perform repairing machines that have been infected.”

“With lightweight Umbrella we can now identify and block malware before users even know how to find it.”

“The reduction in infections saved us close to one full-time help desk tech.” Occasionally, Pennoni’s IT team needs to add or subtract sites from the company’s blacklists and whitelists, otherwise, “Most of the company doesn’t even know OpenDNS is there. They don’t see it, they don’t think about it. It …

"Umbrella gives us the opportunity to do something fundamentally different: by simply clicking a check box we began a proactive approach to fighting malware, and eliminated maintenance as all updates take place instantly from the cloud."

"It’s the easiest to deploy, lowest total cost of ownership overall, with no network bottlenecks due to changes in traffic demand, and high reliability.”

"Umbrella Insights offers straightforward Web-based administration that’s easy to configure and maintain. We would absolutely recommend it to other organizations.”

"Umbrella Enterprise has always done a great job of showing us that someone on the network was trying to access a site with malware – and more importantly – preventing it. Now with Umbrella Insights and the Active Directory integration we can immediately identify which machines are attempting to access …

"We’ve seen an 80 percent decrease in malware on the networks that are using Umbrella Enterprise. Our clients’ uptime means everything to us, and Umbrella Enterprise helps us make sure no time or devices are lost to crippling malware infections."

"Umbrella has freed up valuable time for our system administrator to work on other projects”