We performed a comparison between Cisco Umbrella and Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense 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."They have a wealth of articles in their knowledge base. This has given me the freedom to troubleshoot on my own time. "
"The documentation is good, and we have been able to resolve any issues ourselves."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its reliability."
"The most valuable features for us include tenant lock, content filtering, and DLP solutions, looking for PII and information being exfiltrated."
"Umbrella, being one pane for managing, being all-encompassing, allows us to quickly go in, make a change, and it applies to either every location, if we want it to, or we can have policies in place that only apply to certain users or certain computers."
"Cisco Umbrella is a totally different solution. They are the first to come up with this idea of security. It's a totally new concept of security for everybody, for every time, real time, perfectionism."
"Improves security through DNS visibility, which can block malware, phishing, C&C, etc."
"Cisco Umbrella is absolutely stable."
"The automatic blocklists are most valuable. A box can maintain several lists from which we can choose if we need to block more or less. We don't have to manually manage the lists ourselves. They're automatically updated."
"The dossier feature is perfect for starting an investigation."
"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."
"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."
"Infoblox has helped us improve in the way that we look at data as it comes in and out. We monitor and manage queries from every device that sits inside our company, e.g., every user, every laptop, and every query. When you type something into the web, Infoblox will scan or manage that. If it is going somewhere bad, then it will block them. From a metrics perspective, it gives us data, letting us go back and find those impacted or infected clients to either clean their devices or remove them from the network."
"With the model we have, we are able to scale very easily if we need to."
"When it comes to helping to detect DNS threats, BloxOne is good on all fronts. The number of false positives is very low, close to none. More than once it has detected new names or lookalike names and protected us and saved us from bad characters."
"The most important features for us are preventing DDOS DNS attacks."
"In the future, they should combine some of the Cisco AMP features that they already have, for anti-malware purposes."
"The reporting could be improved by way of the information that's displayed. For example, when you pull a report, it shows an internal employee going to many websites, but you can spin that right down by saying a lot of it is being cached."
"It needs better integration with external threat feeds to improve scoring."
"Their support should be improved. It is necessary that the support is efficient. It is not really easy to get a resolution for an issue from Cisco support. They should be faster and more efficient."
"If the virtual appliances could also gather traffic bandwidth reports, that would be great."
"Data reporting could be improved."
"I would like to have more applications being recorded."
"Something on our end that might make it better is alerting going to our ticketing system. It's not something that we have discussed, but that would be a proactive option for us to provide a learning experience for the staff."
"The product could be cheaper."
"A lot of their documentation needs improvement."
"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."
"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."
"The documentation needs to be improved because there are a lot of different models that it can be deployed in, and it's somewhat confusing determining what you need and how to set it up to best cover your use cases."
"The product is slightly more expensive compared to other DNS solutions."
"The initial setup is not a simple "click-click-next" installation. It requires some level of experience ."
"Endpoint solutions need to improved."
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Cisco Umbrella is ranked 1st in Domain Name System (DNS) Security with 108 reviews while Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense is ranked 6th in Domain Name System (DNS) Security with 15 reviews. Cisco Umbrella is rated 8.8, while Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense 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 Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense writes "Improved the way that we look at data as it comes in and out". Cisco Umbrella is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks and Palo Alto Networks DNS Security, whereas Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense is most compared with Palo Alto Networks DNS Security, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection, Zscaler Internet Access, EfficientIP DNS Guardian and Fortinet FortiGate SWG. See our Cisco Umbrella vs. Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense report.
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