We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP DNS and Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection 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."The most valuable feature of the solution is security."
"F5 BIG-IP DNS is a stable solution."
"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."
"The solution is easy to configure and deploy. It is scalable and works without any downtime. F5 BIG-IP DNS is a flexible solution."
"F5 provides us with a mechanism to accomplish complex product balancing."
"BIG-IP DNS's best features are DNS monitoring and global service load balancing."
"The security features, DDoS mitigation facilities, and SQL configuration are the most valuable aspects of this solution."
"The configuration process is straightforward, making it easy to set up wide IPs and distribute traffic across local US sites and data centers via VPN."
"Centralized management of DNS, DHCP, and IPAM helped us a lot in simplifying and automating the management of network and services."
"The security of the solution is perfect. It's very good at protecting us from attacks."
"I like that Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection is one hundred percent good, performance-wise."
"The solution helps to identify and mitigate DNS attacks."
"The solution's user interface is very smooth compared to other products."
"Grid high availability technology ensured network reliability, resilient network services, failover, recovery, and seamless maintenance."
"The most valuable feature of Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection is its performance and visibility."
"The main advantages with Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection are the dashboards, the reporting system, and they have the GUI interface."
"F5's technical support responds a little slowly."
"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."
"I would like to see more marketing documentation, rather than technical documentation."
"The costs could always be a bit lower."
"The solution's initial setup is complex compared to Fortinet."
"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."
"Scalability is a concern, it could be improved."
"CNC (control and command) communication would be beneficial. We would like to have control and command blocking to prevent visiting malicious websites."
"There needs to be more capabilities in order to configure the console itself instead of the user interface dashboard. Configuring the DNS or DHCP through the console instead of the GUI dashboard would be better."
"They are not supporting high query logging. They have a very limited size for the syslog, so they are usually asking for external storage, external network, and integration in order to keep the syslog. If you are considering the high volume traffic of the carrier-grade, then the syslog will hold for around five to 10 minutes. This is not enough time and it is being rotated. This is the main issue and the main limitation that we face with them that they need to work on."
"There is a steep learning curve to be able to use Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection well."
"Infoblox lacks an extensive product portfolio."
"They should release frequent updates for its on-premises version."
"The service monitoring information could be simplified of this appliance and the information displayed on the dashboards could be improved. I have not found one dashboard to be perfect. For example, in Splunk, I can create a dashboard in Grafana. However, in Grafana, it takes a very long time to create them. There should be another API to do it better."
"There should be better alerts for when attacks are happening."
"The solution is expensive."
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F5 BIG-IP DNS is ranked 3rd in Domain Name System (DNS) Security with 18 reviews while Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection is ranked 2nd in Domain Name System (DNS) Security with 12 reviews. F5 BIG-IP DNS is rated 8.6, while Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP DNS writes "Reliable with good security and management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection writes "Stable, with good performance, and has no issues, support-wise". F5 BIG-IP DNS is most compared with EfficientIP DNS Guardian, Cisco Umbrella and BlueCat Edge, whereas Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection is most compared with Cisco Umbrella, Palo Alto Networks DNS Security, Zscaler Internet Access, EfficientIP DNS Guardian and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps. See our F5 BIG-IP DNS vs. Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection report.
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