We performed a comparison between EfficientIP DNS Guardian and Palo Alto Networks DNS Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Infoblox, F5 and others in Domain Name System (DNS) Security."You can run a DNS server directly from EfficientIP to help mitigate all DNS attacks from various sources. This is a very good feature."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is DNS security."
"It is a very stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Palo Alto Networks DNS Security is a stable solution."
"DNS security is required to filter out the DNS traffic, any DNS-based attacks, DNS DDoS attacks, and DNS amplification attacks."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is DNS filtering."
"The product is easy to install."
"The stability is excellent and the product is very mature."
"EfficientIP DNS Guardian's deployment documentation is very hard to find. The tech support's response is slow."
"EfficientIP DNS Guardian has a certain default behavior that didn't meet our company's requirements."
"The solution’s scalability could be improved."
"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."
"We would like to have cloud-based management."
"The solution can capture more market if made more cost-competitive than Infoblox or Cisco Umbrella."
"There should be an on-premise version of this solution."
"The product should provide email protection."
"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."
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EfficientIP DNS Guardian is ranked 8th in Domain Name System (DNS) Security with 3 reviews while Palo Alto Networks DNS Security is ranked 4th in Domain Name System (DNS) Security with 12 reviews. EfficientIP DNS Guardian is rated 7.6, while Palo Alto Networks DNS Security is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of EfficientIP DNS Guardian writes "Helps deal with DNS DoS attacks and corrupt DNS requests". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks DNS Security writes "Enhances our internal DNS and that it blocks malicious DNS queries". EfficientIP DNS Guardian is most compared with Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection, F5 BIG-IP DNS and Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense, whereas Palo Alto Networks DNS Security is most compared with Cisco Umbrella, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection, Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense, EfficientIP DNS Firewall and DNSFilter.
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