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EfficientIP DNS Firewall vs Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

EfficientIP DNS Firewall
Ranking in Domain Name System (DNS) Security
17th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Infoblox BloxOne Threat Def...
Ranking in Domain Name System (DNS) Security
7th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Domain Name System (DNS) Security category, the mindshare of EfficientIP DNS Firewall is 2.0%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense is 4.7%, 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
ProductMindshare (%)
Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense4.7%
EfficientIP DNS Firewall2.0%
Other93.3%
Domain Name System (DNS) Security
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer1080873 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Sanchit Makkar - PeerSpot reviewer
Soc For Ddi at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Advanced DNS defense has blocked malicious domains and has improved threat investigation
Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense offers a wide range of security feeds including malware, ransomware, domain generation algorithms, and many more types of feeds, along with security over category blocking of domains. A unique feature in Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense is the ability to identify look-alike domains, where we can input our own domains and public domains that may confuse users. Security feeds such as malware, ransomware, and domain generation algorithms have helped our organization when an end user received a spam email containing a non-secure URL or a malicious domain, which was successfully blocked by Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense, protecting our assets.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"This product has an inventory function to help maintain a list of the equipment, which is quite good."
"This product is very stable. The entire Amazon Web Service, AWS, is powered by EfficientIP."
"Using the reporting, we can tell that we have gained an extra layer of protection. Just by looking at it, we can see what is being blocked before it even makes it to the firewall. It is definitely working."
"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."
"I find all the features of Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense, including asset discovery as well as DNS security, most valuable."
"We love BloxOne Threat Defense."
"I would advise others to take the whole DNS Firewall subscription because it will add value to their solution."
"The product is stable."
"Once it is set up, it pretty much runs on its own."
"Overall, I would rate the Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense as 8.5 out of 10."
 

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 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."
"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."
"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."
"Customer support is good, but sometimes there is a lack of clarity that the technical assistant team struggles to deliver, leading us to escalate cases for a more in-depth understanding of the tool."
"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."
"They could work on the UI of their website and make their website more user-friendly."
"The dashboard and reporting features need improvement. The user needs more informative dashboards so they can get to the results directly without having to search deep into the report to pull out information."
"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 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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of this product is very reasonable, especially considering that a company's reputation is priceless."
"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."
"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."
"It's a pricey solution because it's for the advanced kind of customer."
"When you buy the subscription, there are no additional costs to add any additional buttons."
"Infoblox BloxOne offers pretty good documentation. Check its documentation, then do a PoC. Infoblox is very good at providing PoCs."
"The licensing is set up such that you pay for the number of active users that you're defending at the moment."
"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."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
18%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Computer Software Company
11%
Construction Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Healthcare Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
6%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise13
 

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense?
I find the pricing of Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense reasonable. They have recently changed the pricing model and shifted to a token-based system. I believe that this is a more modern method being...
What needs improvement with Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense?
I believe that blacklisting in Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense cannot be simplified. From the perspective of what I can modify, there is nothing and no improvement needs to be required. You need to...
What is your primary use case for Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense?
I have not integrated Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense with other security tools, but recently, I believe I have integrated it with a SIEM solution.
 

Also Known As

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BloxOne Threat Defense, Infoblox ActiveTrust, Infoblox ActiveTrust Cloud
 

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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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