We performed a comparison between Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection and Palo Alto Networks DNS Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Domain Name System (DNS) Security solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The security of the solution is perfect. It's very good at protecting us from attacks."
"The solution helps to identify and mitigate DNS attacks."
"The solution's user interface is very smooth compared to other products."
"Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection allows us to manage our overall addresses and IT in one location. Many companies are using this solution, it is very popular."
"Grid high availability technology ensured network reliability, resilient network services, failover, recovery, and seamless maintenance."
"It is a stable solution."
"Infoblox Secure DNS helped us protect our internal environment by mitigating and stopping attacks through the Internet using DNS protocols and queries."
"The most valuable features of Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection are the services, DHCP, and debugging. Additionally, we can use APIs and ansible scripts."
"So, in general, it's very stable because the process to deliver new features and new releases in not so long...I rate the scalability a nine out of ten."
"The support team has good knowledge about the solution."
"DNS security is required to filter out the DNS traffic, any DNS-based attacks, DNS DDoS attacks, and DNS amplification attacks."
"When comparing other cloud-based DNS security solutions to this one I have found the main beneficial feature in this solution to be we do not need to change our architecture."
"I would rate the scalability a nine out of ten."
"The stability is excellent and the product is very mature."
"DNS sinkhole is a valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is DNS filtering."
"The price could be reduced to improve the solution."
"The service monitoring information could be simplified of this appliance and the information displayed on the dashboards could be improved. I have not found one dashboard to be perfect. For example, in Splunk, I can create a dashboard in Grafana. However, in Grafana, it takes a very long time to create them. There should be another API to do it better."
"They are not supporting high query logging. They have a very limited size for the syslog, so they are usually asking for external storage, external network, and integration in order to keep the syslog. If you are considering the high volume traffic of the carrier-grade, then the syslog will hold for around five to 10 minutes. This is not enough time and it is being rotated. This is the main issue and the main limitation that we face with them that they need to work on."
"The solution's logging could be improved."
"The solution is expensive."
"There is a steep learning curve to be able to use Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection well."
"Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection could be more user-friendly because you need knowledge if you want to use it. To handle the solution, you need to be a subject matter expert, so this is one area for improvement."
"There needs to be more capabilities in order to configure the console itself instead of the user interface dashboard. Configuring the DNS or DHCP through the console instead of the GUI dashboard would be better."
"Sometimes, it blocks legitimate traffic for custom applications, requiring manual intervention."
"Every vendor that sells DNS or firewalls needs to be able to protect against DNS look-up attacks and DNS naming hacks. This is true of Palo Alto as well as others."
"The solution’s scalability could be improved."
"With Palo Alto Networks DNS Security, sometimes the DNS clients don't work well, and they get disconnected, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The scalability can be improved."
"Pricing is one of the areas of concern in Palo Alto Networks DNS Security since it is an expensive product. I feel that the product's pricing is an area that could be improved."
"We would like to have cloud-based management."
"There should be an on-premise version of this solution."
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Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection is ranked 2nd in Domain Name System (DNS) Security with 12 reviews while Palo Alto Networks DNS Security is ranked 4th in Domain Name System (DNS) Security with 12 reviews. Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection is rated 8.2, while Palo Alto Networks DNS Security is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection writes "Stable, with good performance, and has no issues, support-wise". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks DNS Security writes "Enhances our internal DNS and that it blocks malicious DNS queries". Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection is most compared with Cisco Umbrella, F5 BIG-IP DNS, Zscaler Internet Access, EfficientIP DNS Guardian and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, whereas Palo Alto Networks DNS Security is most compared with Cisco Umbrella, Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense, EfficientIP DNS Firewall, DNSFilter and Akamai Secure Internet Access Enterprise. See our Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection vs. Palo Alto Networks DNS Security report.
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