Infoblox DDI Reviews

I work with Infoblox DDI for DNS management, which involves blocking malicious and suspicious URLs. This helps in protecting my organization's domain name system and involves deep investigation and policy enforcement to understand why certain URLs are being used.

Infoblox is a proactive DNS system that enhances organizational security by blocking and triggering alerts for malicious or suspicious URLs. It offers a deep level of investigation and policy enforcement to secure data and prevent breaches.

I am using Infoblox primarily for DNS, ITAM solutions along with DHCP. We also have some servers deployed in the cloud using BlocksOne for DNS and cybersecurity.

The UI is quite user-friendly and the support is available 24/7. The support team is knowledgeable and helpful. These features make Infoblox DDI preferable because users can get any kind of support, and the UI is easily trainable. We have many engineers, and they can be easily trained to use the UI.

We are working with InfoBlox DDI for our customers, as we find it very useful in securing at the base level. Some of our customers use it for DHCP, some for IP address management, and some for integrating DDI to utilize fewer resources with one platform.

The DDI solution is valuable for its ability to integrate DHCP, DNS security, and IP address management, along with threat intelligence into one platform. This consolidation allows for more efficient use of resources and enhances network security, both internally and externally. Additionally, InfoBlox DDI can be implemented as a cloud, on-premises, or a combination, offering flexibility to customers.

Infoblox DDI is a good tool if you want to centralize everything in your environment. Infoblox DDI can be a good product for you if you want to move from Windows to a Linux-based system. Earlier, when our company only had DNS servers, Linux wasn't supported very well. Linux supports and works very well with Infoblox. Nowadays, all operating systems require security since threats can come from Raspberry Pi, Chromebook, Android, or even Apple. All products need security and centralized security, and products by Infoblox can help with the centralized security part.

The three major features of Infoblox DDI are very good. Artificial intelligence is one of the areas in the solution where there are some shortcomings. When dealing with URLs, Infoblox needs a good team that takes care of the recategorizations. Zscaler is good since it can recategorize the website. Every day, millions of websites are newly launched, which may or may not be malicious. Malicious websites will get blocked if a company goes for recategorization. If the recategorization part is not taken care of properly, with millions of websites being launched every day, then the malicious websites will not get blocked. Zscaler has a good team to take care of the recategorization part within twenty-four hours, while Infoblox does not have such a team. Symantec and Palo Alto have good teams to take care of the recategorization part, while Infoblox does not have such types of teams. The aforementioned area can be considered for improvement in the solution. The recategorization part takes longer with Infoblox DDI compared to other companies like Symantec, Zscaler, and Palo Alto.

Infoblox DDI can be used as a DHCP server, DNS server agent, gateway, and access management tool.

Infoblox DDI is the best because it gives you AD authentication as well as group authentication. The solution's policies and features are good, and you can use it to configure a DNS server in one box. With the help of Infoblox DDI, you can use the control management portal and give access to one time passwords.

My environment didn't have user management, IDM access, IAM access, or identified access management. One of the benefits of implementing Infoblox DDI is that it supports both RADIUS and TACACS+. If some devices don't support RADIUS, you can use it with TACACS+ and vice versa. The solution handles these two features very well. The solution has good scalability and availability.

DDI stands for DNS, DHCP, and IPAM, so it's a complete solution that provides these three services without using different standalone servers for each one. It's perfect for any enterprise that wants a complete solution. We're working with a specific customer that needs their own servers without relying on an operator.

The solution is deployed on-premises. There are about 30 engineers using this solution in my organization.

By allocating IP addresses for each new site 

Allocate dhcp servers based on the standard you set per the organization 

Fail over between DHCP servers can be maintained automatically and errors can be triggered in a fast paced manner 

Allowing sites to communicate to different services 

URL resolution and domain name sets 

Different types of records can be maintained for uses 

The solution offers everything from basic management to automation in DevOps and includes the blocks and solutions they have.

The solution has provided us with major scalability capabilities. We can automate a lot of things within Infoblox. The API is so robust and easy to use - plus, it can integrate with most of the solutions we already have. Its automation and general capabilities have been really good.