We performed a comparison between EfficientIP DNS Firewall and Palo Alto Networks DNS Security 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."This product has an inventory function to help maintain a list of the equipment, which is quite good."
"DNS security is required to filter out the DNS traffic, any DNS-based attacks, DNS DDoS attacks, and DNS amplification attacks."
"The stability is excellent and the product is very mature."
"The most valuable features of the solution are DNSSEC and the domain generation algorithm."
"When comparing other cloud-based DNS security solutions to this one I have found the main beneficial feature in this solution to be we do not need to change our architecture."
"The support team has good knowledge about the solution."
"We now have insight into our DNS requests and we can actively see how many thousands of malicious requests have gotten knocked down in the last day or week that we didn't have before. There's more insight for both security and more insight."
"I would rate the scalability a nine out of ten."
"So, in general, it's very stable because the process to deliver new features and new releases in not so long...I rate the scalability a nine out of ten."
"The vendor needs to do more to promote this product in certain regions, helping it to gain market share in territories where it is not widely adopted."
"The installation is more complex because the solution has another approach to security."
"There should be an on-premise version of this solution."
"The product should provide email protection."
"The scalability can be improved."
"Sometimes, it blocks legitimate traffic for custom applications, requiring manual intervention."
"The solution can capture more market if made more cost-competitive than Infoblox or Cisco Umbrella."
"Every vendor that sells DNS or firewalls needs to be able to protect against DNS look-up attacks and DNS naming hacks. This is true of Palo Alto as well as others."
"With Palo Alto Networks DNS Security, sometimes the DNS clients don't work well, and they get disconnected, making it an area where improvements are required."
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EfficientIP DNS Firewall is ranked 15th in Domain Name System (DNS) Security while Palo Alto Networks DNS Security is ranked 4th in Domain Name System (DNS) Security with 12 reviews. EfficientIP DNS Firewall is rated 8.0, while Palo Alto Networks DNS Security is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of EfficientIP DNS Firewall writes "Easy to set up and use, and has a helpful network device inventory function". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks DNS Security writes "Enhances our internal DNS and that it blocks malicious DNS queries". EfficientIP DNS Firewall is most compared with Cisco Umbrella, BlueCat Edge and Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense, whereas Palo Alto Networks DNS Security is most compared with Cisco Umbrella, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection, Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense, DNSFilter and Akamai Secure Internet Access Enterprise.
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