Which are two key Cisco products that are part of the web threat-centric solution? (Choose two.)

Question

Options

• ACisco Defense Orchestrator
• BCisco Umbrella
• CCisco Identity Services Engine
• DCisco Web Security Appliance
• ECisco Email Security Appliance

• A
  2% (1)
• B
  89% (41)
• C
  7% (3)
• E
  2% (1)

Explanation

Cisco Umbrella (B) and Cisco Web Security Appliance (D) are the two pillars of Cisco's web threat-centric security solution. Umbrella provides cloud-delivered DNS-layer security blocking threats before they reach the network, while the Web Security Appliance (WSA) provides on-premises proxy-based web filtering and malware defense - together they cover both cloud and on-prem web threat protection.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A (Defense Orchestrator): A cloud-based firewall policy management tool - focused on managing security policies across devices, not web threat protection specifically.
• C (Identity Services Engine): Cisco's NAC/policy enforcement platform - it handles identity and access control, not web threat defense.
• E (Email Security Appliance): This belongs to the email threat-centric solution, not web. It's a parallel product family, which is why it's a tempting wrong answer.

Memory tip: Think in "channels" - Cisco organizes its threat-centric solutions by attack vector. ESA = Email threats, WSA = Web threats on-prem, Umbrella = Web threats in the cloud. If the question says "web," you need WSA and Umbrella; if it says "email," you need ESA. The ISE and Defense Orchestrator are infrastructure/management tools that don't belong to either channel.

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