We performed a comparison between EfficientIP DNS Guardian and F5 BIG-IP DNS 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."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."
"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."
"F5 provides us with a mechanism to accomplish complex product balancing."
"The security features, DDoS mitigation facilities, and SQL configuration are the most valuable aspects of this solution."
"The solution is easy to configure and deploy. It is scalable and works without any downtime. F5 BIG-IP DNS is a flexible solution."
"For one of our clients, F5 improved global server load balancing with an active-active site configuration for Disaster Recovery."
"BIG-IP DNS's best features are DNS monitoring and global service load balancing."
"It is easy to administer."
"BIG-IP DNS's best feature is the Global Traffic Manager (GTM)."
"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."
"The tool needs to improve its UI."
"I would like to see more marketing documentation, rather than technical documentation."
"The costs could always be a bit lower."
"Scalability is a concern, it could be improved."
"There is room for improvement in pricing. It is very pricey."
"I would like to see the login facilities improved, as well as more troubleshooting."
"F5's technical support responds a little slowly."
"The initial setup could be easier."
EfficientIP DNS Guardian is ranked 8th in Domain Name System (DNS) Security with 3 reviews while F5 BIG-IP DNS is ranked 3rd in Domain Name System (DNS) Security with 18 reviews. EfficientIP DNS Guardian is rated 7.6, while F5 BIG-IP DNS is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of EfficientIP DNS Guardian writes "Helps deal with DNS DoS attacks and corrupt DNS requests". On the other hand, the top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP DNS writes "Reliable with good security and management". EfficientIP DNS Guardian is most compared with Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection and Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense, whereas F5 BIG-IP DNS is most compared with Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection, Cisco Umbrella, BlueCat Edge and Akamai Secure Internet Access Enterprise.
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