Cisco Umbrella
Cisco Umbrella, built on the OpenDNS platform Cisco acquired in 2015 and now sold within Cisco Secure Access, is Cisco's cloud-delivered security service: DNS-layer security, secure web gateway, cloud-delivered firewall, CASB (Cisco Cloudlock) and remote browser isolation. Cisco publishes a full OAuth 2.0 client-credentials REST API at api.umbrella.com, split into five scopes — admin, auth, deployments, investigate, policies and reports — and documents it under the Cloud Security section of Cisco DevNet, where 26 first-party OpenAPI 3.0 documents covering 256 operations are published for download. The surface spans key and user administration, MSP/provider consoles, network and tunnel deployment, roaming computers and virtual appliances, destination and application lists, DNS/web/firewall reporting, app discovery, and the Umbrella Investigate threat-intelligence API.
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API Evangelist profiles Cisco Umbrella the way a machine reads it — 33 machine-readable artifacts across 26 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Cisco Umbrella scores 62.3/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 40/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
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How we profile Cisco Umbrella
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Cisco Umbrella. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 26
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Cisco Umbrella Key Admin API
Cisco Umbrella Key Admin API — 6 operation(s) published by Cisco under the Cloud Security API documentation.
Cicso Umbrella Managed Providers API
View, create, update, and delete the customers for the managed providers.
Cisco Umbrella Providers API
Cisco Umbrella Providers API — 16 operation(s) published by Cisco under the Cloud Security API documentation.
Cisco Umbrella S3 Bucket Key Rotation API
Refresh the Cisco-managed S3 bucket key in the Umbrella organization.
Cisco Umbrella Service Providers Console API
Cisco Umbrella Service Providers Console API — 15 operation(s) published by Cisco under the Cloud Security API documentation.
Cisco Umbrella Users and Roles API
Manage the Umbrella user accounts and roles.
Cisco Umbrella Token Authorization API
Cisco Umbrella Token Authorization API — 1 operation(s) published by Cisco under the Cloud Security API documentation.
Cisco Cloudlock API
The Cloudlock API provides data about an organization's activities, apps, incidents, and policies.
Cisco Umbrella Internal Domains API
Manage the internal domains in your organization.
Cisco Umbrella Internal Networks API
Manage the internal networks in your organization.
Cisco Umbrella Network Devices API
Manage the network devices in your organization.
Cisco Umbrella Network Tunnels API
Manage the network tunnels in the organization.
Cisco Umbrella Networks API
Manage the networks in your organization.
Cisco Umbrella Deployments Policies API
Manage the policies for the deployments in your organization.
Cisco Umbrella Roaming Computers API
Manage the roaming computers in the organization.
Cisco Umbrella Sites API
Create and manage the Sites in the organization.
Cisco Umbrella Secure Web Gateway Device Settings API
Manage the Secure Web Gateway (SWG) settings for the devices in an organization.
Cisco Umbrella Tagging API
Manage the tags and roaming computers with tags in the Umbrella organization.
Cisco Umbrella Virtual Appliances API
Manage the virtual appliances in your organization.
Cisco Umbrella Investigate API
The Umbrella Investigate API provides a complete view of domains in relation to IP and autonomous system number (ASN) information.
Cisco Umbrella Application Lists API
Create and manage the application lists and internet destinations in the application lists for the organization.
Cisco Umbrella Destination Lists API
Create and manage destination lists and destinations.
Cisco Umbrella API Usage Reports
Get the Umbrella API usage reports for an organization.
Cisco Umbrella App Discovery API
The App Discovery API provides an overall view of application and protocol activity in your environment
Providers Console Report
Providers Console Report — 3 operation(s) published by Cisco under the Cloud Security API documentation.
Cisco Umbrella Reporting API
The Reporting API provides the data to generate the Umbrella reports.
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Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Cisco Umbrella Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSSecurity Posture 4
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Cisco Umbrella — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 6
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 2
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 5
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 3
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 9
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
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Operate 6
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 1
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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This is an independent, third-party profile of Cisco Umbrella, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.
The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.
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