Palo Alto Networks DNS Security Valuable Features

Billy Tang - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager, Finance IT at Sun Hung Kai & Co. Limited

The most valuable features of the solution stem from the ability that it provides to switch gateways. The product allows you to choose different gateways globally.

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Ahmed Hesham - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security Engineer at Raya Integration

DNS sinkhole is a valuable feature. It helps to know which users are compromised. The product can see all the DNS traffic.

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RM
Security Consultant at Airpel

DNS security is required to filter out the DNS traffic, any DNS-based attacks, DNS DDoS attacks, and DNS amplification attacks.

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Domain Name System (DNS) Security
March 2024
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Porleng Phatt - PeerSpot reviewer
Pre-Sales Engineer at eCam Solution Co., Ltd

The most valuable features of the solution are DNSSEC and the domain generation algorithm.

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Mirko Minuzzo - PeerSpot reviewer
Business development manager for Palo Alto Networks at Westcon-Comstor

It's difficult to speak about the features I found to be valuable because today, there are bundles of other solutions that put everything together at a very good price. So it's something amazing. Our customers appreciate only buying them. So instead of buying one single feature, they buy all the features together.

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Prem Raj - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Information Technology Security Officer at alpha

Palo Alto Networks DNS Security is a stable solution.

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JF
Senior Technical Project Manager at a university with 10,001+ employees

Palo Alto has a range of products. They have very secure 600 DNS as well as 100 DNS. They have anti-hacking features which are quite useful. They have virus protection within the firewall.

They have other products that are geared towards protecting the DNS. All of their product line is highly secure with built-in security. You can protect DNS within the firewall as most of the features are built-in. It's not like a product within the firewall. It's already built-in.

The initial setup is very, very straightforward.

The scalability is good.

The stability is excellent and the product is very mature.

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MP
Digital Infrastructure & Cybersecurity GTM Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution can be used as an antivirus. It is also useful for inspection. A lot is working well.

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AH
Production Operator at Al Ghurair Investments

The most valuable feature is DNS filtering.

This is a highly-integrated system tool.

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KS
Network Engineer at a educational organization with 11-50 employees

The autofocus piece that gives us insights into how many requests we have and how many malicious requests get denied is the most valuable feature. We didn't really have eyes on the DNS queries. We had some filtering done, but we didn't know which pieces it knocked down and how much work it was doing.

The comprehensiveness of DNS Security against emerging DNS layer threats is very good. They seem to have updates nearly daily.

My understanding is that it would protect against DNS tunneling, rebinding, and dangling DNS attacks. Any of the malicious-type attacks, like getting blocked, are important for us because we're trying to keep our network secure.

Features specifically relevant to DNS Security, like proactively digging for potential cybercriminal activities, C2, phishing, and grayware hosting are very important to us because they're malicious attempts at the network and Palo Alto knocks it down.

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DS
Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

When comparing other cloud-based DNS security solutions to this one I have found the main beneficial feature in this solution we do not need to change our architecture. There was no need to change the configuration or to do any modification to the user's end. The user's DNS will be the same, the traffic will flow through the same firewall, and it will give us the DNS level security. For other OEMs or other solutions, we need to map their DNS to the public DNS and there is a need to modify the DNS at the user level. Additionally, the solution works in real-time and it is easier to deploy users. For example, to deploy 1,000 - 2,000 users having to do the modifications in each user's IT environment would take a lot of time.

Additionally, I have found the solution to be very user-friendly.

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Buyer's Guide
Domain Name System (DNS) Security
March 2024
Find out what your peers are saying about Palo Alto Networks, Cisco, Infoblox and others in Domain Name System (DNS) Security. Updated: March 2024.
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