We performed a comparison between Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense and Symantec Proxy 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."Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense furthers the existing security posture rather than replacing or trying to replace any existing products."
"Our ability to detect data exfiltration was minimal before Infoblox and the cloud portal was instituted for us. In terms of DNS security as a whole, we had some capability with our firewalls, but this is a lot more specialized because we're sending all of our DNS requests to Infoblox. I'd say we improved 100%."
"The reporting ability is helpful. It allows us to control what our users are able to resolve, and then be able to see reports on that."
"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 valuable feature is blocklisting. It's good at what I like to describe as the "silly side cases." We have this annoying security architecture that says we must do this, that, and the other, so we try to make it easier on ourselves."
"The most valuable feature is policy redirecting and security reports."
"With the model we have, we are able to scale very easily if we need to."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Symantec Proxy is the support and autoscaling."
"The initial setup of Symantec Proxy is easy."
"Symantec Proxy’s technical support is very good."
"The product is very good, and the URL filtering database is great."
"The tool's most valuable features are content-to-content filtration and SCCM protection."
"Global Intelligence Network is the best feature of the product."
"It enables us to manage bandwidth for users based on their privilege levels. For example, if a user wants to use a certain application or resource, we can provide access based on their privileges."
"It is easy to use, and it is stable and scalable. You don't need a large team for deployment and maintenance."
"The research side and the reporting side need improvement. Both of those are items on the menu. They could use a little bit of cleanup to make their respective information more easily understood."
"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."
"We would like to see more reporting capabilities that are now offered only with the on-premises reporting appliance."
"The product could be cheaper."
"The product is slightly more expensive compared to other DNS solutions."
"This is not just Infoblox, this could be any portal provider, cloud provider, sometimes they change the look of the customer-facing options and it's not completely clear why they make the change."
"The dashboard and reporting features need improvement. The user needs more informative dashboards so they can get to the results directly without getting deep in the report to get to the information."
"A lot of their documentation needs improvement."
"The deployment is quite difficult."
"The tool’s reporting features must be improved."
"Activating the SSL inspection is one of the challenges. We are currently moving to the O365 cloud, and one of the challenges is the performance when all of our users are connected to O365 by a proxy."
"Improvements in log availability would greatly enhance its overall effectiveness."
"The solution is quite complex."
"The traffic filtering could improve. Our firewall traffic is limited. Additionally, it would be helpful if there was a dashboard and reporting feature."
"Technical support is an area that requires some improvement."
"Symantec Proxy needs to include content management capabilities."
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Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense is ranked 6th in Domain Name System (DNS) Security with 15 reviews while Symantec Proxy is ranked 14th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 18 reviews. Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense is rated 8.0, while Symantec Proxy is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense writes "Improved the way that we look at data as it comes in and out". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Proxy writes "A scalable enterprise-level tool with advanced features that provide accurate database categorization". Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense is most compared with Cisco Umbrella, Palo Alto Networks DNS Security, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection, Zscaler Internet Access and EfficientIP DNS Guardian, whereas Symantec Proxy is most compared with Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway, Skyhigh Security, Netskope Next Gen Secure Web Gateway, McAfee Web Gateway Cloud Service and Zscaler Internet Access.
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