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Zorus Filtering
vs DNSFilter

Traditional DNS filters risk internet downtime by altering DNS resolvers—leaving your clients offline when things go wrong.   

Zorus provides web filtering without risky DNS changes, keeping your clients online and reducing your support headaches.

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Web filtering without interupting your client's internet experience

A lot of MSPs like DNSFilter. But even DNSFilter has its Achilles' heel.

DNSFilter, like tranditional DNS filters, is a DNS resolver based technology.

When a DNS resolver fails it will cause the internet to not work.

Zorus Filtering with CyberSight is different.

We give you the option to fail-open or fail-closed.

That means no DNS changes.
No internet outages. No frantic calls from clients.

Why MSPs choose Zorus over DNSFilter

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Made for MSPs

Zorus is the only solution focused solely on MSPs. Instead of chasing enterprise logos, we focus on you.

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Manage multiple
clients

You can make mass changes thanks to our global policy. Save time by applying changes once. And only once.

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Won’t break
the internet

We give you the option to fail-open. You won’t break the internet and clients will sing your praises. 

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Fast
roadmap

We’re transparent about our roadmap, so you can see how we’re innovating faster than the competition.

See why Zorus
is better

Migrating to Zorus is convenient because we integrate directly with your RMM. 

With just a click, you can set up Zorus and immediately start deploying.

  •   Save up to 45 minutes per installation

  •   Filter without messing with the network

  •   Make mass changes across all your clients

Use the insights provided by our exclusive CyberSight technology to have more productive (and lucrative) client conversations.

  •   See which software they’re using. And which they’re just wasting money on.

  •   Identify areas where their team could use training or extra support

  •   Let them know if an employee shows signs of burnout — or something more nefarious

Features

ZORUS DNSFILTER®

RMM integrations (Datto, ConnectWise Automate, Kaseya)

Premium support included

Channel focused

Public API's

Web Filtering & Security

ZORUS DNSFILTER®

Roaming protection without risky DNS changes

DNS PreCheck

IP location blocking

Network filtering

Comprehensive Policy Management System

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Zero Trust Device Isolation

Client Management

ZORUS DNSFILTER®

Unblock Requests

Scheduled reporting

Co-managed access

Global Policy controls

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Customizable branding

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CYBERSIGHT™

ZORUS DNSFILTER®

User analytics

Saas app management

Full URL Traffic Logs

What our partners are saying

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“Zorus delivers a product that does what it says it’s going to do. I have peace of mind. And my clients have peace of mind. Because everything works the way it’s meant to.”

Mike Giovaninni, Netwerks

Mike Giovaninni, Netwerks

Learn Mike’s client success story
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“Zorus is easy to deploy and easy to manage. It doesn’t break your environment, VPNs, Active Directory or custom DNS implementations like traditional DNS filtering. It’s also very cost-effective.”

Mike Giovaninni, Netwerks

Brian D’Arcy, CMIT Solutions

Read Brian's client success story

What reddit logo is saying

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Zorus, super easy to use and install.

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We’re using Zorus with over 1000 endpoints. Works well.

There’s also native GradientMSP integration if you’re into that sort of thing.

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We had a lot of problems with DNSFilter, clients would get dropped from internet often.

We switched to Zorus and it has been great.

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Zorus here. Excellent product and team.

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We are a Zorus partner and love them.

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First we used Umbrella, then we went to DNS Filter. Now on Zorus, and it’s awesome! Have also checked out ScoutDNS and they are my favorite out of the pure play DNS players. Umbrella, DNS Filter and ScoutDNS all are agent based and take over all port 53 traffic, and set DNS to 127.0.0.1 pointing to the agent. Zorus does not, it sits in line with the network traffic and we have had far fewer issues on domain joined machines with Zorus than any other. Also the updates are super quick if you ned to block or allow something, within seconds, where DNS filter would take days at times.

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I am very happy with Zorus.

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Another vote for Zorus...

Works great and has an excellent team behind it.

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Zorus, super easy to use and install.

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We’re using Zorus with over 1000 endpoints. Works well.

There’s also native GradientMSP integration if you’re into that sort of thing.

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We had a lot of problems with DNSFilter, clients would get dropped from internet often.

We switched to Zorus and it has been great.

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Zorus here. Excellent product and team.

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We are a Zorus partner and love them.

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First we used Umbrella, then we went to DNS Filter. Now on Zorus, and it’s awesome! Have also checked out ScoutDNS and they are my favorite out of the pure play DNS players. Umbrella, DNS Filter and ScoutDNS all are agent based and take over all port 53 traffic, and set DNS to 127.0.0.1 pointing to the agent. Zorus does not, it sits in line with the network traffic and we have had far fewer issues on domain joined machines with Zorus than any other. Also the updates are super quick if you ned to block or allow something, within seconds, where DNS filter would take days at times.

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I am very happy with Zorus.

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Another vote for Zorus...

Works great and has an excellent team behind it.