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Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection vs Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Infoblox Advanced DNS Prote...
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
16
Ranking in other categories
Domain Name System (DNS) Security (2nd)
Microsoft Defender for Clou...
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
33
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) (4th), Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) (13th), Microsoft Security Suite (11th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Security Software solutions, they serve different purposes. Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection is designed for Domain Name System (DNS) Security and holds a mindshare of 23.2%, up 19.5% compared to last year.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, on the other hand, focuses on Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB), holds 18.0% mindshare, down 23.8% since last year.
Domain Name System (DNS) Security
Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB)
 

Featured Reviews

Wojciech Wrzesień - PeerSpot reviewer
Complements AR, NDR, and vulnerability scanners to ensure compliance
One challenging aspect of Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection pricing for the integrator is the difficulty of estimating the cost after the initial presentation, particularly in relation to the company's size. Determining the exact amount needed to purchase the solution can be complex. Additionally, understanding the typical setup and deployment costs is important.
Anthony Alvarico - PeerSpot reviewer
Provides discovery, data exfiltration, and sensitive data exposure at low cost
The deployment process is quick, taking two to three days. The implementation and customization require more time. We need to adjust the setup to fit the client's needs, which involves fine-tuning notifications and alerts to avoid overwhelming them. First, you need the appropriate licensing. Once you have that, go to security.microsoft.com and integrate with Defender for Endpoints to receive information. While you can ingest logs from different firewalls, such as Palo Alto or Cisco, we usually implement them with Defender for Endpoints. Once a laptop or desktop is set up in Defender for Endpoints, integrating Cloud Apps with the endpoints allows us to collect the data easily. I rate the initial setup a nine out of ten, where one is difficult and ten is easy.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"DHCP is a basic service, and they've been doing it for years, so it's mature and stable."
"Grid high availability technology ensured network reliability, resilient network services, failover, recovery, and seamless maintenance."
"Infoblox DNS Protection provides complete DDI solutions, allowing customers to easily manage their IP addresses and integrate them with DNSSEC and DSCP."
"Infoblox Secure DNS helped us protect our internal environment by mitigating and stopping attacks through the Internet using DNS protocols and queries."
"Infoblox offers granularity and advanced DNS protection to mitigate DNS attacks. It's a very secure solution."
"Infoblox is a DDI solution that offers more than just DNS security, providing unique protection for IT management and DSCP."
"The security of the solution is perfect. It's very good at protecting us from attacks."
"The most valuable features of Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection are the services, DHCP, and debugging. Additionally, we can use APIs and ansible scripts."
"The feature that helps us in detecting the sensitive information being shared has been very useful. In addition, the feature that allows MCAS to apply policies with SharePoint, Teams, and OneDrive is being used predominantly."
"If your business requirements are relatively simple, it can get the job done."
"The most effective features for data protection are data loss prevention (DLP) and data classification."
"It's very easy to install and it includes the Intune portal from Microsoft where I can control all the devices from one place."
"Everything from Microsoft is integrated. You receive regular reports on them all. You can push your reports, logs, and security alerts, which are all integrated. It is crucial that these solutions work natively together to deliver coordinated detection and response across our environment."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its monitoring."
"On-demand scanning is the most valuable feature. In addition, it's a fairly fluid product. It syncs back to the cloud and provides metrics. It's pretty intelligent."
"It does a great job of monitoring and maintaining a security baseline. For us, that is a key element. The notifications are pretty good."
 

Cons

"There should be better alerts for when attacks are happening."
"There is room for improvement in some parts since it could be better in enhancing DNS Security."
"Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection could be more user-friendly because you need knowledge if you want to use it. To handle the solution, you need to be a subject matter expert, so this is one area for improvement."
"The price could be reduced to improve the solution."
"There is a steep learning curve to be able to use Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection well."
"They are not supporting high query logging. They have a very limited size for the syslog, so they are usually asking for external storage, external network, and integration in order to keep the syslog. If you are considering the high volume traffic of the carrier-grade, then the syslog will hold for around five to 10 minutes. This is not enough time and it is being rotated. This is the main issue and the main limitation that we face with them that they need to work on."
"They should release frequent updates for its on-premises version."
"One challenging aspect of Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection pricing for the integrator is the difficulty of estimating the cost after the initial presentation, particularly in relation to the company's size."
"I believe it's only set to be integrated with Microsoft Defender for identity and identity protection. I would like to see it available for use with something like Office 365 Defender. I don't think it's integrated with that yet."
"Generally, the pricing can always be improved along with the management system."
"I want them to enhance in-session policy."
"Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps’s technical support services needs improvement."
"In the future, I would like to see more plug-and-play capabilities that use AI to tell you what needs to be done. It would be helpful if it scanned our devices and made security suggestions, on a configuration basis."
"I would like for it to be available on Mac and for it to support all of the features of Microsoft financing products. It is really for Windows."
"We sometimes get errors when we create policies, which is somewhat annoying because some policies stop working due to misconfigurations. We find this challenging because it limits our options for troubleshooting an issue."
"We are having trouble with our continuous reporting configuration and struggling with configuring the collector properly with our log parsing."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I am not sure about the price of the solution, but I heard it is expensive."
"There are no additional costs to the standard licensing price of the solution."
"Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection is a little more expensive than other vendors."
"The solution is expensive."
"The price of Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection could be reduced, it is expensive."
"The product's pricing seems fair."
"Microsoft offers bundle discounts and a pay-as-you-go option."
"The E5 license offers everything bundled. People are moving to Microsoft because you buy one license and it gives you everything."
"The cost could be improved when you need to pay for anything. For example, refreshing files takes time to load, though it may be my Internet. To improve the refresh time, Microsoft says that we need to pay for a Premium license, and I don't like paying for things that help make a solution better."
"I'm not totally involved in the pricing part, but I think its pricing is quite aggressive, and its price is quite similar to Netskope. Netskope has separate licensing fees or additional charges if you want to monitor certain SaaS services, whereas, with MCAS, you get 5,000 applications with their Office 365. It is all bundled, and there's no cost for using that. You only have the operational costs. In the country I am in, it is a bit difficult to get people with the required skill sets."
"The pricing is fair."
"It is a little bit expensive. When you want to have the complete package with Office 365, Defender, and everything else, it is expensive."
"The price could be better and should be reconsidered."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection?
The solution's user interface is very smooth compared to other products.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection?
The overall pricing is quite high, which poses a challenge when selling this product to the customer.
What needs improvement with Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection?
The overall pricing of Infoblox is high, particularly for the Bangladesh market, and the licensing model is challenging. The architectural design required a lot of work, and an additional block is ...
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What do you like most about Microsoft Cloud App Security?
It does a great job of monitoring and maintaining a security baseline. For us, that is a key element. The notifications are pretty good.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Cloud App Security?
Honestly, it is expensive. I would rate the price as eight out of ten.
 

Also Known As

Infoblox Secure DNS
MS Cloud App Security, Microsoft Cloud App Security
 

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Sample Customers

Colruyt Group, Council Rock School District, Danone, GlaxoSmithKline, The Hershey Company 
Customers for Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps include Accenture, St. Luke’s University Health Network, Ansell, and Nakilat.
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