We compared Cisco Umbrella and Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Features: Cisco Umbrella is highly regarded for its seamless integration with existing infrastructure, extensive range of security features, and ability to centrally manage security. Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection is highly regarded for its DHCP capabilities and debugging capabilities, Ansible scripts, and reporting.
Room for Improvement: Cisco Umbrella could enhance security by adding a transferring proxy feature and improving its Linux agent for Linux-based companies. Users say Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection could benefit from simplifying the dashboard display, improving API functionality, and enhancing integration with network elements.
Ease of Deployment: Based on the feedback, Cisco Umbrella has a simple and user-friendly initial setup that can be completed quickly in around 30 minutes. The setup process for Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection is considered complex but still manageable, requiring around an hour to finish.
Service and Support: Customers have praised Cisco Umbrella's support, describing it as excellent and superior to the customer service of other vendors. Opinions on Infoblox customer service varied, with some users describing it as a challenging experience.
Pricing: The cost of Cisco Umbrella differs based on the specific needs and approach of the customer, with flexible pricing and transparent charges. It is seen as reasonable and competitive by some, but a few perceive it as costly. Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection is considered a pricey solution. Infoblox offers various license types, but there might be limitations on sizing that necessitate an additional tier of license.
ROI: Cisco Umbrella has proven to be a valuable investment by addressing maintenance concerns, reducing expenses associated with hardware updates, and effectively thwarting threats. It offers enhanced visibility and aids in remediation efforts. The reported ROI of Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection is uncertain and may vary depending on the specific needs of the enterprise or carrier-grade usage.
Comparison Results: Cisco Umbrella is highly regarded for its simple setup process, seamless integration with infrastructure, and intuitive interface. It provides a comprehensive solution encompassing DNS security, secure internet gateway, and cloud firewall integration. At the same time, some users pointed to Umbrella's Linux agent support and interface as two areas that need improvement. Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection is praised for its DHCP capabilities. While the pricing for Cisco Umbrella is negotiable and considered reasonable, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection is perceived as expensive. Infoblox users had mixed experiences with customer support, whereas Cisco customer service is generally regarded as exemplary.
"We can have a full overview and a quick overview of all the DNS requests. For us, it's quite important."
"It enables us to go granular in the customization of blocking some categories on the DNS."
"I haven't needed to reboot the servers for years due to their excellent stability."
"One valuable feature is definitely its simplicity in terms of deployment. It is very easy to integrate it into the environment without any heavy lifting. Users didn't notice that we implemented it. You can start with a very low monitoring mode and start observing what Cisco Umbrella sees."
"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."
"I like the DNS layer security."
"It is user-friendly. It is easy to manage the solution."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to detect if a URL has malware or is vulnerable."
"The most valuable features of Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection are the services, DHCP, and debugging. Additionally, we can use APIs and ansible scripts."
"The most valuable feature of Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection is its performance and visibility."
"I like that Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection is one hundred percent good, performance-wise."
"The main advantages with Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection are the dashboards, the reporting system, and they have the GUI interface."
"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 solution helps to identify and mitigate DNS attacks."
"It is a stable solution."
"I feel that the application needs other characteristics that are available with other applications in the market."
"The design of the screens could be improved. Sometimes you're trying to look for information, for what you think is critical that should be on that first screen of the dashboard so that you can quickly take screenshots to have people help out, but you have to hop between screens to find little pieces of evidence."
"Cisco Umbrella should add some more documentation on proxies."
"Although Cisco Umbrella has an excellent global network footprint, there is still room for improvement and growth in this area. Additionally, there are bandwidth limitations associated with the connectors that need to be addressed. To be a viable solution for larger offices, Cisco Umbrella must continue to expand and improve its capabilities in these areas."
"I am unsure if Cisco Umbrella offers a Windows option for running the server."
"There are some situations where we would like to block things for specific user groups. I know that Umbrella does that, but it's not that easy.... when you want a specific task for specific rules and policies for user groups, you have to go three levels down in the menu, and it's hard to find where you do that task."
"I'd like to see this solution more closely integrate with other products Cisco has in its portfolio."
"I would like for their support to be faster."
"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."
"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."
"Infoblox lacks an extensive product portfolio."
"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."
"There is a steep learning curve to be able to use Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection well."
"They should release frequent updates for its on-premises version."
"The price could be reduced to improve the solution."
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Cisco Umbrella is ranked 1st in Domain Name System (DNS) Security with 51 reviews while Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection is ranked 2nd in Domain Name System (DNS) Security with 7 reviews. Cisco Umbrella is rated 8.8, while Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco Umbrella writes "We can see all of our locations in one place and only have to make changes once for all our locations". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection writes "Dashboards, reporting system, and GUI are good, but support and stability are bad". Cisco Umbrella is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Palo Alto Networks DNS Security, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks and Cloudflare DNS, whereas Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection is most compared with F5 BIG-IP DNS, Zscaler Internet Access, Palo Alto Networks DNS Security, EfficientIP DNS Guardian and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps. See our Cisco Umbrella vs. Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection report.
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