We performed a comparison between Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense and Palo Alto Networks DNS Security 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."The most important features for us are preventing DDOS DNS attacks."
"The automatic blocklists are most valuable. A box can maintain several lists from which we can choose if we need to block more or less. We don't have to manually manage the lists ourselves. They're automatically updated."
"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%."
"With the model we have, we are able to scale very easily if we need to."
"The product is stable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the granularity for which you can categorize what you want to block versus what you don't want to block."
"The dossier feature is perfect for starting an investigation."
"Palo Alto Networks DNS Security is a stable solution."
"We now have insight into our DNS requests and we can actively see how many thousands of malicious requests have gotten knocked down in the last day or week that we didn't have before. There's more insight for both security and more insight."
"When comparing other cloud-based DNS security solutions to this one I have found the main beneficial feature in this solution to be we do not need to change our architecture."
"So, in general, it's very stable because the process to deliver new features and new releases in not so long...I rate the scalability a nine out of ten."
"DNS sinkhole is a valuable feature."
"DNS security is required to filter out the DNS traffic, any DNS-based attacks, DNS DDoS attacks, and DNS amplification attacks."
"The product is easy to install."
"The most valuable feature is DNS filtering."
"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."
"The initial setup is not a simple "click-click-next" installation. It requires some level of experience ."
"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."
"Within the past two years, we discovered certain bugs in their products. The resolution of these bugs took a little too much time, especially if our production environment is down for a certain amount of time, then we are losing money. That is hard to convey to Infoblox support, e.g., we actually need the system up and running again within two or three hours. The awareness of these so-called production down incidents is not really easy to convey."
"A lot of their documentation needs improvement."
"The integration of threat intelligence with other solutions is challenging. If I want to expose threat intelligence, I cannot do it via taxi services. I have to call the API, but the customers are not into creating the APIs. The integration of embedded threat intelligence with other platforms should be better. Infoblox should work on this, and it should be easier for the end user to integrate it. It is very easy to deploy this solution. We should be able to integrate it with other platforms, such as the Next-Generation Firewall, with the same ease."
"We would like to see more reporting capabilities that are now offered only with the on-premises reporting appliance."
"The product is slightly more expensive compared to other DNS solutions."
"The installation is more complex because the solution has another approach to security."
"I'm not really sure what needs improvement. The only hiccup I've really seen is a couple of the DNS requests get flagged as the Sophos traffic instead of DNS traffic, but that's more of their app detection in the DNS Security. I haven't really seen any issues with the DNS security."
"The scalability can be improved."
"With Palo Alto Networks DNS Security, sometimes the DNS clients don't work well, and they get disconnected, making it an area where improvements are required."
"Every vendor that sells DNS or firewalls needs to be able to protect against DNS look-up attacks and DNS naming hacks. This is true of Palo Alto as well as others."
"The product should provide email protection."
"The solution can capture more market if made more cost-competitive than Infoblox or Cisco Umbrella."
"The solution’s scalability could be improved."
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Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense is ranked 6th in Domain Name System (DNS) Security with 14 reviews while Palo Alto Networks DNS Security is ranked 4th in Domain Name System (DNS) Security with 11 reviews. Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense is rated 8.0, while Palo Alto Networks DNS Security is rated 8.6. 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 Palo Alto Networks DNS Security writes "The solution is affordable, easy to configure, and blocks malicious domains". Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense is most compared with Cisco Umbrella, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection, Zscaler Internet Access, Fortinet FortiGate SWG and EfficientIP DNS Firewall, whereas Palo Alto Networks DNS Security is most compared with Cisco Umbrella, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection, EfficientIP DNS Firewall, DNSFilter and Akamai Secure Internet Access Enterprise. See our Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense vs. Palo Alto Networks DNS Security report.
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