We performed a comparison between Cisco Umbrella and EfficientIP DNS Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Infoblox, Palo Alto Networks and others in Domain Name System (DNS) Security."Threats never come close to your network with security at the DNS level."
"The reports and notifications are the most useful part of the platform. As soon as you deploy the security layers, the reporting is very comprehensive. It helps you to have, at a glance, a clear view of what's going on."
"One valuable feature is definitely its simplicity in terms of deployment. It is very easy to integrate it into the environment without any heavy lifting. Users didn't notice that we implemented it. You can start with a very low monitoring mode and start observing what Cisco Umbrella sees."
"Meraki features and cloud-based functionality are advanced and easy to manage centrally."
"It has excellent resilience in cybersecurity. Cybersecurity for my organization is very important because we are a banking organization. We need this security to protect the personal information of our clients. This is very important for our security."
"Some clients only want DNS security, while others want more of the advanced features that it has available."
"I haven't found any issues related to latency or any other issue."
"It blocks malicious DNS queries daily which is very beneficial."
"This product has an inventory function to help maintain a list of the equipment, which is quite good."
"There are a couple of different pieces that have different portals. I know they're working on getting them all into one portal, but that's probably the biggest thing that needs improvement right now. It's not a single pane of glass yet."
"With any Cisco product, it's the licensing side of things that needs improvement."
"It's a very new product, so it's quite immature at the moment. It can be more user friendly."
"I would like to see a graphical representation of the entire network."
"The integration with other solutions is a little complex. If you want to integrate with something like ArcSight or LogRhythm or Splunk, you need to do a lot of configuration. There are no easy ways to implement it."
"I would like for their support to be faster."
"It's easier for us to have support features with companies who are Cisco representatives, but sometimes, it's hard for us to get the help we need without having to use our contacts within Cisco."
"There are some situations where we would like to block things for specific user groups. I know that Umbrella does that, but it's not that easy.... when you want a specific task for specific rules and policies for user groups, you have to go three levels down in the menu, and it's hard to find where you do that task."
"The vendor needs to do more to promote this product in certain regions, helping it to gain market share in territories where it is not widely adopted."
Cisco Umbrella is ranked 1st in Domain Name System (DNS) Security with 108 reviews while EfficientIP DNS Firewall is ranked 15th in Domain Name System (DNS) Security. Cisco Umbrella is rated 8.8, while EfficientIP DNS Firewall is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco Umbrella writes "Protects endpoints wherever they are, always pushing people to the right locations to avoid malicious intent". On the other hand, the top reviewer of EfficientIP DNS Firewall writes "Easy to set up and use, and has a helpful network device inventory function". Cisco Umbrella is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Palo Alto Networks DNS Security and Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection, whereas EfficientIP DNS Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks DNS Security, BlueCat Edge and Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense.
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