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 valuable feature is blocklisting. It's good at what I like to describe as the "silly side cases." We have this annoying security architecture that says we must do this, that, and the other, so we try to make it easier on ourselves."
"With the model we have, we are able to scale very easily if we need to."
"The product is stable."
"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%."
"When it comes to helping to detect DNS threats, BloxOne is good on all fronts. The number of false positives is very low, close to none. More than once it has detected new names or lookalike names and protected us and saved us from bad characters."
"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 most valuable feature is policy redirecting and security reports."
"The dossier feature is perfect for starting an investigation."
"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."
"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."
"The most valuable features of the solution are DNSSEC and the domain generation algorithm."
"DNS sinkhole is a valuable feature."
"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."
"The support team has good knowledge about the solution."
"The most valuable feature is DNS filtering."
"Palo Alto Networks DNS Security is a stable solution."
"The onboarding is a little rough at times, and you need to have some information at hand. It is pretty good, but it would be useful to have a few good examples to set up things like data exfiltration."
"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 product could be cheaper."
"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."
"The initial setup is not a simple "click-click-next" installation. It requires some level of experience ."
"The product is slightly more expensive compared to other DNS solutions."
"They could work on the UI of their website and make their website more user-friendly."
"We would like to see more reporting capabilities that are now offered only with the on-premises reporting appliance."
"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."
"We would like to have cloud-based management."
"Pricing is one of the areas of concern in Palo Alto Networks DNS Security since it is an expensive product. I feel that the product's pricing is an area that could be improved."
"The installation is more complex because the solution has another approach to security."
"The product should provide email protection."
"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 solution can capture more market if made more cost-competitive than Infoblox or Cisco Umbrella."
"The scalability can be improved."
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Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense is ranked 6th in Domain Name System (DNS) Security with 15 reviews while Palo Alto Networks DNS Security is ranked 5th 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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