We performed a comparison between Cisco Umbrella and EfficientIP DNS Guardian 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."Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Cisco's support is better nowadays."
"What we like most is security and how easy it is to integrate with other appliances."
"DNS protection, domain blocking, SIP component, and the Cisco Umbrella roaming client are the valuable features of Cisco Umbrella."
"When we have laptops that leave the building, they could connect to public WiFi before they establish a VPN connection back into the company. For that duration or that period of time when they're not docked in the network or on a VPN, they effectively don't have that full layer of security that I provide inside the building. This tool stands in during that period of time, and we extend the security settings through their basic firewall or their cloud-based firewall at that time. So, we do content filtering and control access, but they also are looking at new domains, IP addresses, and bad requests. They're blocking them on my behalf when a laptop is not sitting behind our security appliances."
"The single-pane-of-glass management is very important. We have a very small team. We can't spend a lot of time going from product to product to product to either investigate or set up policy. We need to have one place that we can go to and set everything up."
"The most valuable features are the dashboard, visibility, and reporting capabilities. Our customers can see how much Umbrella is protecting their organization. If you don't know what you've got, you can't protect it. With Umbrella, you get the visibility and see the protection that it's providing. We can get PDF reports on a weekly basis of any malware activities and any denial of service or command-and-control-type activities."
"Reports provide insight into internet usage and information helpful in creating QoS rules."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to filter malware sites that could infect clients or allow them to download infected files."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is 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."
"It is a very stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"If the virtual appliances could also gather traffic bandwidth reports, that would be great."
"With any Cisco product, it's the licensing side of things that needs improvement."
"There are a couple of different pieces that have different portals. I know they're working on getting them all into one portal, but that's probably the biggest thing that needs improvement right now. It's not a single pane of glass yet."
"There are cheaper solutions in the market"
"I would like to see a graphical representation of the entire network."
"I would like to have more applications being recorded."
"Cisco Umbrella should introduce an on-premises device."
"It's easier for us to have support features with companies who are Cisco representatives, but sometimes, it's hard for us to get the help we need without having to use our contacts within Cisco."
"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."
Cisco Umbrella is ranked 1st in Domain Name System (DNS) Security with 108 reviews while EfficientIP DNS Guardian is ranked 8th in Domain Name System (DNS) Security with 3 reviews. Cisco Umbrella is rated 8.8, while EfficientIP DNS Guardian is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Cisco Umbrella writes "Protects endpoints wherever they are, always pushing people to the right locations to avoid malicious intent". On the other hand, the top reviewer of EfficientIP DNS Guardian writes "Helps deal with DNS DoS attacks and corrupt DNS requests". Cisco Umbrella is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Palo Alto Networks DNS Security and Fortinet FortiGate SWG, whereas EfficientIP DNS Guardian is most compared with Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection, F5 BIG-IP DNS and Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense.
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