EfficientIP DNS Firewall vs Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense comparison

EfficientIP and Infoblox are both solutions in the Domain Name System (DNS) Security category. EfficientIP is ranked #16, while Infoblox is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.3. EfficientIP holds a 1.8% mindshare in DS, compared to Infoblox’s 4.9% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of EfficientIP users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Infoblox users who would recommend it.

EfficientIP DNS Firewall

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94% willing to recommend

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We performed a comparison between EfficientIP DNS Firewall and Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

EfficientIP DNS Firewall

Ranking in Domain Name System (DNS) Security

16th

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

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 March 2026, in the Domain Name System (DNS) Security category, the mindshare of EfficientIP DNS Firewall is 1.8%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense is 4.9%, up from 4.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Domain Name System (DNS) Security Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense	4.9%
EfficientIP DNS Firewall	1.8%
Other	93.3%

Domain Name System (DNS) Security

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reviewer1080873

Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Easy to set up and use, and has a helpful network device inventory function

The vendor needs to do more to promote this product in certain regions, helping it to gain market share in territories where it is not widely adopted. The problem with this vendor is that they are too focused on revenue and sales numbers. If a partner is not able to generate the revenue that they're expecting, they put them on hold until they can generate interest and traction in their region for the products. It comes down to the management's mindset. They have a good product but they don't have much patience for a territory that is slow to adopt.

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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

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Pros

"This product has an inventory function to help maintain a list of the equipment, which is quite good."

"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."

"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."

"I would advise others to take the whole DNS Firewall subscription because it will add value to their solution."

"Threat Defense has helped protect data from being stolen or lost."

"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 has helped us improve in the way that we look at data as it comes in and out. We monitor and manage queries from every device that sits inside our company, e.g., every user, every laptop, and every query. When you type something into the web, Infoblox will scan or manage that. If it is going somewhere bad, then it will block them. From a metrics perspective, it gives us data, letting us go back and find those impacted or infected clients to either clean their devices or remove them from the network."

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

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Cons

"The vendor needs to do more to promote this product in certain regions, helping it to gain market share in territories where it is not widely adopted."

"The product could be cheaper."

"Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense is quite expensive, especially due to the significant increase in the subscription fee after the first year. This unexpected increase was a problem for us."

"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 research side and the reporting side need improvement. Both of those are items on the menu. They could use a little bit of cleanup to make their respective information more easily understood."

"The integration of threat intelligence with other solutions is challenging. If I want to expose threat intelligence, I cannot do it via taxi services. I have to call the API, but the customers are not into creating the APIs. The integration of embedded threat intelligence with other platforms should be better. Infoblox should work on this, and it should be easier for the end user to integrate it. It is very easy to deploy this solution. We should be able to integrate it with other platforms, such as the Next-Generation Firewall, with the same ease."

"The product is slightly more expensive compared to other DNS solutions."

"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

"The price of this product is very reasonable, especially considering that a company's reputation is priceless."

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Comms Service Provider

19%

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

11%

University

Financial Services Firm

17%

Healthcare Company

Manufacturing Company

Educational Organization

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

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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

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BloxOne Threat Defense, Infoblox ActiveTrust, Infoblox ActiveTrust Cloud

Overview

DNS Firewall prevents connected devices from becoming infected with malware and blocks their activity by enabling recursive DNS servers to stop or redirect queries from clients that want to access identified malicious domains and/or IPs.

EfficientIP

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

De Montfort University, STMicroelectronics, Leeds Beckett University

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

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