Akamai Secure Internet Access Enterprise vs Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense comparison

Akamai and Infoblox are both solutions in the Domain Name System (DNS) Security category. Akamai is ranked #11 with an average rating of 8.0, while Infoblox is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.3. Akamai holds a 2.0% mindshare in DS, compared to Infoblox’s 4.8% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Akamai users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Infoblox users who would recommend it.

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Akamai Secure Internet Access Enterprise and Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense 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.

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Categories and Ranking

Akamai Secure Internet Acc...

Ranking in Domain Name System (DNS) Security

11th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

5.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Secure Web Gateways (SWG) (24th)

Infoblox BloxOne Threat Def...

Ranking in Domain Name System (DNS) Security

7th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

5.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Domain Name System (DNS) Security category, the mindshare of Akamai Secure Internet Access Enterprise is 2.0%, up from 1.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense is 4.8%, up from 4.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Domain Name System (DNS) Security Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense	4.8%
Akamai Secure Internet Access Enterprise	2.0%
Other	93.2%

Domain Name System (DNS) Security

Featured Reviews

MeshwaShah

Senior Analyst at Deloitte

Have successfully routed high-volume application traffic through secure channels and maintain compliance across client environments

CDN capability is what I appreciate about Akamai Secure Internet Access Enterprise. It protects applications that are internet-facing or public-facing. Akamai Secure Internet Access Enterprise is a product which has very good features and capabilities. I have worked on Radware also, but Radware has some limited capabilities. Akamai Secure Internet Access Enterprise has positively impacted my organization. We have around 62 applications within our firm which are now routing traffic through Akamai Secure Internet Access Enterprise. It has fewer false positives, which is something we haven't encountered yet. I assess the impact of Akamai's real-time threat filtering as 10 out of 10, and I am satisfied with this feature.

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reviewer2703357

Analyst at a educational organization with 10,001+ employees

Valuable analytics integration improves data insights but needs fewer restrictions

What is valuable about the Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense is especially the monitoring and reporting, which provides valuable information. The integration with any SIEM is very valuable for getting DNS query analytics, and this is very important. The threat analytics tools in the Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense improve security response through integration with another platform, allowing you to gain insights on your own data happening within your own Infoblox BloxOne.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Akamai Secure Internet Access Enterprise is a product which has very good features and capabilities."

"The threat intelligence feature is particularly valuable when used with another product of Akamai, as their researchers continuously update this threat feed database, making it an effective tool for defending against and blocking bad actors, public malicious IPs, harmful hashes, and malicious URLs."

"The best feature of Akamai SPS Threat Avert is that it's very user-friendly compared to other technologies."

"The dossier feature is perfect for starting an investigation."

"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 automatic blocklists are most valuable. A box can maintain several lists from which we can choose if we need to block more or less. We don't have to manually manage the lists ourselves. They're automatically updated."

"Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense furthers the existing security posture rather than replacing or trying to replace any existing products."

"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."

"BloxOne provides automatic sharing of network context data, which affects our speed of threat response and provide real-time threat intelligence. Our security operations needs this to do their work. It makes us feel safer."

"Overall, I would rate the Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense as 8.5 out of 10."

"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."

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Cons

"From a financial standpoint, I do not believe Akamai Secure Internet Access Enterprise is cost-effective when compared to other solutions available in the industry."

"Akamai SPS Threat Avert's pricing could be improved because it's a very expensive enterprise solution."

"Their support response time needs improvement. They take on average one week to respond, which is not satisfactory given how critical applications are to the organization."

"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."

"We would like to see more reporting capabilities that are now offered only with the on-premises reporting appliance."

"The product could be cheaper."

"The initial setup is not a simple "click-click-next" installation. It requires some level of experience ."

"I have faced quite a few problems in my eight months of experience with the product in GTS, despite it being a relatively short period."

"They could work on the UI of their website and make their website more user-friendly."

"The setup was horrible. About a year ago, Infoblox made us re-enroll all our on-prem DNS servers by a set date to a specific version, or it would stop working. I told my colleague, "Oh, here, we have to upgrade the servers and reconnect them to the CSP." That did not go well at all."

"This is not just Infoblox, this could be any portal provider, cloud provider, sometimes they change the look of the customer-facing options and it's not completely clear why they make the change."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Provided the features Akamai SPS Threat Avert provides, it is bound to be expensive."

"It's a pricey solution because it's for the advanced kind of customer."

"It is a very expensive system. You need to go over the licensing before purchase to make sure you're getting what is needed, not anything extra."

"If you only wanted the DNS filtering and none of the other products built into Threat Defense, it would be nicer if they could do that a la carte since we are not really using a lot of the solution."

"Infoblox BloxOne offers pretty good documentation. Check its documentation, then do a PoC. Infoblox is very good at providing PoCs."

"There is a significant charge for this product but I think that it's worth it when we look at what it's able to prevent."

"The licensing is set up such that you pay for the number of active users that you're defending at the moment."

"When you buy the subscription, there are no additional costs to add any additional buttons."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

16%

Government

Marketing Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

16%

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

No data available

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	12

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Akamai SPS Threat Avert?

Since Akamai Secure Internet Access Enterprise is not being used in our campus environment, as our users do not route their internet through Akamai, I cannot provide detailed feedback on areas for ...

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What is your primary use case for Akamai SPS Threat Avert?

Akamai Secure Internet Access Enterprise is designed to protect users' access to the internet.

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What advice do you have for others considering Akamai SPS Threat Avert?

Our organization does not utilize the internet access feature of Akamai Secure Internet Access Enterprise because our company routes internet traffic through our public ISPs rather than through Aka...

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What do you like most about Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense?

The most valuable feature is policy redirecting and security reports.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense?

Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense can be expensive for the commercial sector, particularly in Egypt, as this sector does not have a huge budget compared to banking or oil and gas, as the regulations ...

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What needs improvement with Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense?

If Infoblox invests in network observability, especially from the perspective of DNS and IP address observability, it could be a significant improvement.

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Also Known As

Akamai Enterprise Threat Protector, Akamai ETP, Akamai SPS Threat Avert

BloxOne Threat Defense, Infoblox ActiveTrust, Infoblox ActiveTrust Cloud

Overview

Safely connect users & devices to the internet with a secure web gateway.

Akamai Secure Internet Access Enterprise (SIAE) enables security teams to proactively identify, block, and mitigate targeted threats such as malware, ransomware, phishing, and data exfiltration that exploit the Domain Name System (DNS). Powered by real-time intelligence from Akamai Cloud Security Intelligence and Akamai’s proven, globally distributed recursive DNS platform, Enterprise Threat Protector efficiently delivers security, control, and visibility to the enterprise while easily integrating with your existing network defenses.

Akamai

Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense strengthens and optimizes your security posture from the foundation up, giving you the visibility, control and automation to secure the hybrid workplace. Operating at the DNS level, BloxOne Threat Defense uncovers threats that other solutions do not and stops attacks earlier in the threat lifecycle. Through pervasive automation and ecosystem integration, it drives efficiencies in SecOps, increases the effectiveness of the existing security stack, secures digital and work-from-anywhere efforts and lowers the total cost for cybersecurity.

Infoblox

Sample Customers

MCNC, Educational Testing Service

Council Rock School District, EagleView, Schneider Electric, Baptist Memorial Health Care, American University

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