Explore the top five Cisco Umbrella alternatives for 2025 and how an endpoint-based approach is shaping the future of secure, fast, and private web access.

Struggling with high latency, complex licensing, and heavy deployment overhead from cloud-based SWGs like Prisma Access? This head-to-head comparison reveals how dope.security’s endpoint-native Fly-Direct SWG delivers faster performance, simpler operations, and dramatically lower TCO for modern hybrid workforces.

With dope.security, you can create web filtering policies to Allow/Warn/Block access to specific domains on the internet. Recently, our endpoint-based secure web gateway recorded 171,000 web requests. Because enforcement happens directly on each device—our patented on-device SWG approach—we get a real-time, unfiltered view of exactly where users go and what gets blocked. Inside, we unpack the most telling patterns hiding in that data, and the business risks they expose.

ChatGPT rocketed from a fringe app to a daily business tool almost overnight. From drafting code snippets to summarizing board decks, it’s a go-to tool for anyone with a computer. But that magic portal can also become a one-click leak for source code, customer records, or strategic roadmaps.

Calling all Venture Capital (VC) and Private Equity (PE) firms: if your investment strategies are flying high, you don’t want cyber threats or legacy cloud proxies dragging you into an emergency landing. dope.security offers a smooth, nonstop route to keeping your sensitive data, deal details, and investor relations secure—no stopovers required.

For enterprise security, captive portals are where things start to break. Most Secure Web Gateway (SWG) solutions struggle with them because they rely on a stopover proxy architecture—routing all your traffic through their servers. And that’s where the problems begin.