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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
19th
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
5th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
22
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Domain Name System (DNS) Security category, the mindshare of EfficientIP DNS Firewall is 2.2%, up from 1.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense is 3.8%, down 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 Defense3.8%
EfficientIP DNS Firewall2.2%
Other94.0%
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.
GANESAN K - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Engineer at Safezone Secure Solutions Private Limited
Centralized DNS security has simplified subnet policies and now protects users across networks
The scheduled report feature for Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense needs improvement. The scheduled reports are sent with a standardized template from Infoblox. It would be highly beneficial if we had customization options for the scheduled reports. This is a key feature that many enterprise customers would be seeking, especially when they need to present reports to management. The reports should include pie charts or bar graphs indicating what traffic is coming and going through the system. Those chart types and drill-down details are also essential for the IT team. We need more customized reports that can provide different reports for the management team and for the IT team. The current reports are available but are not as helpful as customers need. We are currently dedicating logs manually and doing this as a service for our customers, but this should be handled by Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense. Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense is a bit expensive.

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."
"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 is policy redirecting and security reports."
"Once it is set up, it pretty much runs on its own."
"The reporting ability is helpful. It allows us to control what our users are able to resolve, and then be able to see reports on that."
"If you talk about competitors like F5, BlueCat, no solution is comparable to Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense."
"With the model we have, we are able to scale very easily if we need to."
"I find all the features of Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense, including asset discovery as well as DNS security, most valuable."
 

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 initial setup is not a simple "click-click-next" installation. It requires some level of experience ."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I would rate their customer service or technical support as not always good. You can be fortunate if you meet someone knowledgeable because most people try and get you to a certain point."
"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."
"The documentation needs to be improved because there are a lot of different models that it can be deployed in, and it's somewhat confusing determining what you need and how to set it up to best cover your use cases."
"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."
"When you buy the subscription, there are no additional costs to add any additional buttons."
"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."
"Infoblox BloxOne offers pretty good documentation. Check its documentation, then do a PoC. Infoblox is very good at providing PoCs."
"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."
"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."
"The licensing is set up such that you pay for the number of active users that you're defending at the moment."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
14%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Healthcare Company
8%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise15
 

Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense?
Regarding pricing, setup cost, and licensing, Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense is costly compared to other tools such as Cisco Umbrella and Palo Alto DNS security and DNS filter.
What needs improvement with Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense?
The policy in Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense is something complex. That needs to be simpler because it's difficult for someone without a high skill level to understand. The interface is fine, but ...
What is your primary use case for Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense?
My main use case for Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense is for DNS security. I generally use this for threat defense, which mostly comes under DNS itself. So, it's DNS security and protective DNS plat...
 

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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