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 been pretty stable since we deployed it, and everything seems to be working fine."
"Most valuable features are the network maps and server and network response time."
"Being able to graph and show data to management has improved our organization. We can show the data to the higher-ups. It shows them that it's picking up on these anomalies and doing its job."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is data hoarding because it catches threats on a frequent basis that we had no idea of."
"Most of the engineers I've worked with have been really good. Very knowledgeable and easy to work with."
"It is a good application, providing for real-time monitoring of the organization of data. It can basically identify points of peak traffic where possible issues are being caused."
"The most valuable features provided by this solution are visibility and information."
"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."
"Infoblox Secure DNS helped us protect our internal environment by mitigating and stopping attacks through the Internet using DNS protocols and queries."
"The security of the solution is perfect. It's very good at protecting us from attacks."
"Centralized management of DNS, DHCP, and IPAM helped us a lot in simplifying and automating the management of network and services."
"DHCP is a basic service, and they've been doing it for years, so it's mature and stable."
"The solution helps to identify and mitigate DNS attacks."
"Grid high availability technology ensured network reliability, resilient network services, failover, recovery, and seamless maintenance."
"The main advantages with Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection are the dashboards, the reporting system, and they have the GUI interface."
"The most valuable feature of Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection is its performance and visibility."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"One update that I would like to see is an agent-based client. Currently, Stealthwatch is network-based. A local agent could help manage endpoints."
"One thing I would like to see improved is if it could automatically be tied through ISE, instead of you having to manually get notifications and disable it yourself."
"The GUI could use some improvement. Being able to find features more easily would be a great improvement if it was simplified."
"Cisco could improve the administration for the customers."
"If they can make this product more web-based, that would be amazing."
"Its granularity for RBAC roles-based access control needs improvement."
"If there was one improvement I’d suggest it would be that it detect traffic through an intranet. The product requires that traffic flow through a managed network device. The product is designed mostly for enterprise environments and not smaller environments or businesses."
"We haven't seen ROI."
"The price could be reduced to improve the solution."
"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."
"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."
"I think only the technical documentation and administration of box could be a little bit improved."
"The solution is expensive."
"There is a steep learning curve to be able to use Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection well."
"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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