We performed a comparison between Akamai Secure Internet Access Enterprise and F5 BIG-IP DNS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Infoblox, F5 and others in Domain Name System (DNS) Security."The best feature of Akamai SPS Threat Avert is that it's very user-friendly compared to other technologies."
"BIG-IP DNS's best features are DNS monitoring and global service load balancing."
"The management is very easy."
"F5 BIG-IP DNS is useful, depending on how you use it."
"The configuration process is straightforward, making it easy to set up wide IPs and distribute traffic across local US sites and data centers via VPN."
"The GTM feature is very good, It's very useful, especially if we have multiple data centers. If we want to load balance traffic from multiple data centers, the GTM feature is very useful."
"F5 provides us with a mechanism to accomplish complex product balancing."
"The solution is easy to configure and deploy. It is scalable and works without any downtime. F5 BIG-IP DNS is a flexible solution."
"It's very stable."
"Akamai SPS Threat Avert's pricing could be improved because it's a very expensive enterprise solution."
"There is room for improvement in pricing. It is very pricey."
"The solution's initial setup is complex compared to Fortinet."
"CNC (control and command) communication would be beneficial. We would like to have control and command blocking to prevent visiting malicious websites."
"I would like to see more marketing documentation, rather than technical documentation."
"The monitoring capabilities of F5 BIG-IP DNS could be improved."
"I would like to see the login facilities improved, as well as more troubleshooting."
"F5's technical support responds a little slowly."
"In the product, one of the shortcomings is related to its configuration part...Though you can find some manuals or F5 documents, in real life, it's very hard to understand this product."
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Akamai Secure Internet Access Enterprise is ranked 9th in Domain Name System (DNS) Security with 1 review while F5 BIG-IP DNS is ranked 3rd in Domain Name System (DNS) Security with 18 reviews. Akamai Secure Internet Access Enterprise is rated 9.0, while F5 BIG-IP DNS is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Akamai Secure Internet Access Enterprise writes "A user-friendly security SaaS provider with an easy setup". On the other hand, the top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP DNS writes "Reliable with good security and management". Akamai Secure Internet Access Enterprise is most compared with Cisco Umbrella, Zscaler Internet Access, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection and Palo Alto Networks DNS Security, whereas F5 BIG-IP DNS is most compared with Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection, EfficientIP DNS Guardian, Cisco Umbrella and BlueCat Edge.
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