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, Palo Alto Networks 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 effectively handled a traffic surge. For example, we have application forms replicated across our DCs. If our primary application becomes unavailable, BIG-IP automatically fails over to a client-unaware secondary application."
"F5 BIG-IP DNS is a stable solution."
"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."
"BIG-IP DNS's best feature is the Global Traffic Manager (GTM)."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is security."
"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."
"The management is very easy."
"Akamai SPS Threat Avert's pricing could be improved because it's a very expensive enterprise solution."
"The IP intelligent services are good for mitigating threats, but there are also false positives. So, it's not a standalone solution that can cover everything."
"The costs could always be a bit lower."
"It would be great to see a F5 BIG-IP DNS cloud version. What we within the Australian government are looking at doing is utilizing a secured DNS service much the same as the English GCHQ version of their protected DNS service."
"The monitoring capabilities of F5 BIG-IP DNS could be improved."
"I would like to see deeper integration with VMware in the sense that F5 compliments VMware, in the context of application availability."
"CNC (control and command) communication would be beneficial. We would like to have control and command blocking to prevent visiting malicious websites."
"The initial setup is a step-by-step process, so it can be a bit complicated for someone who's using it for the first time."
"The solution can improve by adding cloud integration through plugins or additional configurations so we can use F5 BIG-IP DNS to communicate with the cloud."
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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 4th 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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