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."BIG-IP DNS's best features are DNS monitoring and global service load balancing."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is security."
"F5 BIG-IP DNS has been rock solid in terms of stability for years."
"The management is very easy."
"F5 BIG-IP DNS is useful, depending on how you use it."
"It is easy to administer."
"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."
"It's very stable."
"Grid high availability technology ensured network reliability, resilient network services, failover, recovery, and seamless maintenance."
"It is a stable solution."
"Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection allows us to manage our overall addresses and IT in one location. Many companies are using this solution, it is very popular."
"The security of the solution is perfect. It's very good at protecting us from attacks."
"Infoblox Secure DNS helped us protect our internal environment by mitigating and stopping attacks through the Internet using DNS protocols and queries."
"The solution's user interface is very smooth compared to other products."
"I like that Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection is one hundred percent good, performance-wise."
"Centralized management of DNS, DHCP, and IPAM helped us a lot in simplifying and automating the management of network and services."
"The initial setup is a step-by-step process, so it can be a bit complicated for someone who's using it for the first time."
"The costs could always be a bit lower."
"The monitoring capabilities of F5 BIG-IP DNS could be improved."
"The initial setup could be easier."
"There is room for improvement in pricing. It is very pricey."
"I would like to see more marketing documentation, rather than technical documentation."
"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."
"The solution's initial setup is complex compared to Fortinet."
"There should be better alerts for when attacks are happening."
"The solution's logging could be improved."
"I think only the technical documentation and administration of box could be a little bit improved."
"The solution is expensive."
"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 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."
"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."
"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."
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F5 BIG-IP DNS is ranked 5th 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, BlueCat Edge, Akamai Secure Internet Access Enterprise and Palo Alto Networks DNS Security, whereas Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection is most compared with Cisco Umbrella, Zscaler Internet Access, Palo Alto Networks DNS Security, 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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