# Which DNS security service works best for protecting remote workers on laptops and phones when they are not behind the corporate network?

<p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">Protecting people once they leave the office is where many DNS security setups show their limits. The moment a laptop or phone is off the corporate network, on-network filtering does nothing, so the real question is which service keeps that protection with the device. Reviewers in the <a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/categories/dns-security-solutions">DNS security</a> category point most often to Cisco Umbrella, DNSFilter, and Cloudflare, with ScoutDNS a frequent choice for smaller fleets.</p><ul>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/cisco-umbrella/reviews"><strong>Cisco Umbrella</strong></a>: Reviewers repeatedly highlight its roaming client for Windows and a mobile app that keeps protection in place whether or not a device is on the office network, describing it as covering users on and off the network before threats reach the endpoint.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/dnsfilter/reviews"><strong>DNSFilter</strong></a>: Reviewers widely deploy its roaming agent for decentralized protection, so staff stay covered outside company facilities, and many note it fills the gap left by firewalls that protect only on-network or VPN-connected devices.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/cloudflare-application-security-and-performance/reviews"><strong>Cloudflare Application Security and Performance</strong></a>: Reviewers describe its WARP client as extending filtering and secure access to individual devices, which they use to reach internal tools safely from anywhere.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/scoutdns/reviews"><strong>ScoutDNS</strong></a>: Reviewers, many of them MSPs, describe a lightweight agent that protects users on any device, on or off the network, and is used specifically to cover remote laptops outside the client's main network.</li>
</ul><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">For teams with a lot of remote or traveling staff, which agent proved reliable in the field, and how did it handle devices that rarely connect to the corporate network?</p>

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- Posted at: about 1 month ago
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## Comments
### Comment 1

One thing I&#39;d pull out of the reviews rather than the datasheets: the roaming clients get praised in general, but the complaints cluster around devices that rarely check in, which is your exact question. Policy updates and agent upgrades assume the device eventually reaches the service, so a laptop that lives offline for weeks can drift. Umbrella and DNSFilter reviewers both describe the agents as dependable in the field; the difference-maker seems to be whether your MDM can force agent updates independently of the DNS service. Worth asking any vendor how a six-weeks-offline device behaves on reconnect, because that reads like the untested path.

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- Posted at: 22 days ago





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