Browse Blog Posts In Category “Announcements”

Umbrella Security Labs exposes details on the NBC.com attacks

The Umbrella Security Labs team shared details during yesterday’s Big Data webcast on how we leverage the predictive threat capabilities of the Umbrella Security Graph to make connections between known malicious sites, and…

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Fresh from the Umbrella Product Team: Improved Policy Wizard

When OpenDNS launched Umbrella Mobility and Umbrella Everywhere, and moved Insights and Enterprise under the Umbrella security services product line, many OpenDNS business security customers were transitions over to the new…

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OpenDNS by the numbers in 2012

2012 was an outstanding year for OpenDNS. We’ve shared a number of great stats about the health of our business and the great security company we’re building with the press, and I wanted to share them here, too.

We grew our…

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Umbrella wins PC Magazine's Editors' Choice Award!

PC Magazine has awarded Umbrella by OpenDNS the Editors’ Choice Award for its ability to solve one of IT’s most challenging and complex problems: Securing nomadic workers against malware, phishing, botnets and inappropriate…

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It's now even easier to deploy the Umbrella Mobility iOS app

A few months ago we launched Umbrella, a new line of Internet security solutions that protect users from malware no matter where they choose to work. Umbrella Mobility extends the protection IT administrators trust on their core…

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Blue Coat + Crossbeam: Why doubling down on hardware won't make users more secure.

When I heard yesterday that Blue Coat had acquired Crossbeam Systems, which sells hardware designed to help companies consolidate security and networking infrastructure, I can’t say I was surprised. The security industry’s…

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Meet Umbrella: Mobile, Roaming and Everywhere Security by OpenDNS

After a lot of hard work and testing, Umbrella is finally here. Umbrella takes the existing OpenDNS business security offering and extends it dramatically to support roaming Macs, PCs and iOS devices, all managed under one…

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Ubiquitous connectivity requires ubiquitous security.

When I told you about Umbrella, the service we’re launching next month, I said we would be focused on helping you do two things: adapt to the changing threat landscape, and embrace the changing nature of how work gets done…

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The way we work has changed. Why hasn't security?

Three years ago, based on overwhelming demand from our users, we launched OpenDNS Enterprise, a business-focused version of our lightweight consumer Internet security service. The response has been extraordinary.

Today more…

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New data center live: Hong Kong

A few weeks ago we sent George, our fearless Director of Operations, off to Hong Kong with some very fragile cargo: servers and routers for our new data center. Today I’m happy to share the news that our Hong Kong data center is…

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