We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in Network Monitoring Software."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"It has improved our internal knowledge of what's going on with the network, and that's helpful."
"It's a dependable product that is able to pinpoint where we have vulnerabilities if they occur."
"It's easy to set up. The deployment takes one or two days. You need to collect the data from a device and then direct it to the portal."
"The most valuable feature is NetFlow. The beginning of any security investigation starts with NetFlow data."
"Visibility. The ability to look East and West. To see what is passing through your circuits, where it is coming from, and how big it is."
"The beginning of any security investigation starts with net flow data."
"The ability to send data flow from other places and have them all in one place is very valuable for us."
"Most of the engineers I've worked with have been really good. Very knowledgeable and easy to work with."
"Grid high availability technology ensured network reliability, resilient network services, failover, recovery, and seamless maintenance."
"I like that Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection is one hundred percent good, performance-wise."
"The most valuable feature of Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection is its performance and visibility."
"DHCP is a basic service, and they've been doing it for years, so it's mature and stable."
"The most valuable features of Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection are the services, DHCP, and debugging. Additionally, we can use APIs and ansible scripts."
"It is a stable solution."
"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."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"One update I would like to see is an agent-based client. Currently StealthWatch is network based."
"We would like the solution to make more advances in the way that Extreme Networks has been doing."
"They should include Citrix VDIs in the next release."
"We haven't seen ROI."
"The GUI could use some improvement. Being able to find features more easily would be a great improvement if it was simplified."
"The configuration of the solution was quite complex."
"The initial setup was complex."
"I would like to see it better organized when I'm looking at it."
"There is a steep learning curve to be able to use Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection well."
"Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection could be more user-friendly because you need knowledge if you want to use it. To handle the solution, you need to be a subject matter expert, so this is one area for improvement."
"The solution's logging could be improved."
"Infoblox lacks an extensive product portfolio."
"The solution is expensive."
"The price could be reduced to improve the solution."
"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."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection is ranked 2nd in Domain Name System (DNS) Security with 12 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Network Analytics writes "Increased the visibility of what is happening in our network". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection writes "Stable, with good performance, and has no issues, support-wise". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection is most compared with Cisco Umbrella, F5 BIG-IP DNS, Zscaler Internet Access, Palo Alto Networks DNS Security and EfficientIP DNS Guardian.
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