We performed a comparison between BlueCat Edge and EfficientIP DNS Guardian 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."What I found most valuable is the ability to put it in place and integrate it very quickly. It allows us to create routing rule sets to route DNS traffic where it needs to go most efficiently in our environment."
"IP Address Management (IPAM) is the most valuable."
"It allows us to easily monitor our subnets and routers."
"We implemented BlueCat Edge to solve the visibility and security issues we were having."
"You can run a DNS server directly from EfficientIP to help mitigate all DNS attacks from various sources. This is a very good feature."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is DNS security."
"It is a very stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Its price is on the higher side."
"I have concerns about several aspects of BlueCat's site management."
"One pain point concerning DNS Edge is the inability to see per Edge endpoint, what devices are querying against it. They do have the capability for you to look at that data, but the data is roughly 24 to 48 hours old. I am looking for real-time data, and I cannot get that per Edge endpoint."
"A more graphical user interface would be a benefit."
"EfficientIP DNS Guardian's deployment documentation is very hard to find. The tech support's response is slow."
"EfficientIP DNS Guardian has a certain default behavior that didn't meet our company's requirements."
BlueCat Edge is ranked 7th in Domain Name System (DNS) Security with 4 reviews while EfficientIP DNS Guardian is ranked 8th in Domain Name System (DNS) Security with 3 reviews. BlueCat Edge is rated 8.0, while EfficientIP DNS Guardian is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of BlueCat Edge writes "Invaluable at detecting DNS threats, improving performance, and reducing operational expenses". On the other hand, the top reviewer of EfficientIP DNS Guardian writes "Helps deal with DNS DoS attacks and corrupt DNS requests". BlueCat Edge is most compared with EfficientIP DNS Blast, Cisco Umbrella, F5 BIG-IP DNS, EfficientIP DNS Firewall and Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection, whereas EfficientIP DNS Guardian is most compared with Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection, F5 BIG-IP DNS and Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense.
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