We performed a comparison between Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense and Symantec Proxy 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 most valuable feature is blocklisting. It's good at what I like to describe as the "silly side cases." We have this annoying security architecture that says we must do this, that, and the other, so we try to make it easier on ourselves."
"The product is stable."
"The most important features for us are preventing DDOS DNS attacks."
"Using the reporting, we can tell that we have gained an extra layer of protection. Just by looking at it, we can see what is being blocked before it even makes it to the firewall. It is definitely working."
"With the model we have, we are able to scale very easily if we need to."
"The dossier feature is perfect for starting an investigation."
"Our ability to detect data exfiltration was minimal before Infoblox and the cloud portal was instituted for us. In terms of DNS security as a whole, we had some capability with our firewalls, but this is a lot more specialized because we're sending all of our DNS requests to Infoblox. I'd say we improved 100%."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the granularity for which you can categorize what you want to block versus what you don't want to block."
"It is easy to use, and it is stable and scalable. You don't need a large team for deployment and maintenance."
"The Symantec antivirus suite and the proxy component are the most valuable feature."
"The CPL code is the best feature of the solution."
"The most valuable feature of Symantec Proxy is the support and autoscaling."
"The tool's most valuable features are content-to-content filtration and SCCM protection."
"The product is very good, and the URL filtering database is great."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the URL database, malicious URLs, policies, and policy creation."
"The initial setup of Symantec Proxy is easy."
"Endpoint solutions need to improved."
"The research side and the reporting side need improvement. Both of those are items on the menu. They could use a little bit of cleanup to make their respective information more easily understood."
"They could work on the UI of their website and make their website more user-friendly."
"The dashboard and reporting features need improvement. The user needs more informative dashboards so they can get to the results directly without getting deep in the report to get to the information."
"The integration of threat intelligence with other solutions is challenging. If I want to expose threat intelligence, I cannot do it via taxi services. I have to call the API, but the customers are not into creating the APIs. The integration of embedded threat intelligence with other platforms should be better. Infoblox should work on this, and it should be easier for the end user to integrate it. It is very easy to deploy this solution. We should be able to integrate it with other platforms, such as the Next-Generation Firewall, with the same ease."
"This is not just Infoblox, this could be any portal provider, cloud provider, sometimes they change the look of the customer-facing options and it's not completely clear why they make the change."
"The onboarding is a little rough at times, and you need to have some information at hand. It is pretty good, but it would be useful to have a few good examples to set up things like data exfiltration."
"Within the past two years, we discovered certain bugs in their products. The resolution of these bugs took a little too much time, especially if our production environment is down for a certain amount of time, then we are losing money. That is hard to convey to Infoblox support, e.g., we actually need the system up and running again within two or three hours. The awareness of these so-called production down incidents is not really easy to convey."
"Prior to the Broadcom purchase, every appliance was application based, but now they have one ISG device and on top of it multiple applications are running. It has a single point of failure. If your device goes down, all of the applications would be down."
"Symantec Proxy needs to include content management capabilities."
"The tool’s reporting features must be improved."
"Technical support is an area that requires some improvement."
"Marketing needs improvement in Symantec Proxy, as it needs to catch up in sales here in the Asia Pacific region. Symantec Proxy licensing renewal also needs improvement."
"Improvements in log availability would greatly enhance its overall effectiveness."
"There are performance issues with all of the proxies."
"The initial setup is actually quite complex to install because our users don't have admin rights on the boxes and there's no remote install option by an administrator."
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Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense is ranked 6th in Domain Name System (DNS) Security with 15 reviews while Symantec Proxy is ranked 14th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 18 reviews. Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense is rated 8.0, while Symantec Proxy is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense writes "Improved the way that we look at data as it comes in and out". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Proxy writes "A user-friendly solution with good technical support". Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense is most compared with Cisco Umbrella, Palo Alto Networks DNS Security, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection, Zscaler Internet Access and Fortinet FortiGate SWG, whereas Symantec Proxy is most compared with Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway, Skyhigh Security, Netskope Next Gen Secure Web Gateway, Zscaler Internet Access and McAfee Web Gateway Cloud Service.
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