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Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection vs TitanHQ WebTitan comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 12, 2024
 

Categories and Ranking

Infoblox Advanced DNS Prote...
Ranking in Domain Name System (DNS) Security
2nd
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
TitanHQ WebTitan
Ranking in Domain Name System (DNS) Security
5th
Average Rating
9.4
Number of Reviews
17
Ranking in other categories
Secure Web Gateways (SWG) (19th), Internet Security (7th), Web Content Filtering (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Domain Name System (DNS) Security category, the mindshare of Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection is 23.0%, up from 19.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TitanHQ WebTitan is 3.4%, down from 3.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Domain Name System (DNS) Security
 

Featured Reviews

Wojciech Wrzesień - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 9, 2024
Complements AR, NDR, and vulnerability scanners to ensure compliance
It plays a crucial role in clients' cybersecurity strategy. It complements other systems such as AR, NDR, and vulnerability scanners. DNS security is essential in IT because it helps ensure compliance with best practices and standards like ISO 27001. For clients considering cybersecurity beyond…
Michael Mok - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 12, 2022
Enables us to effortlessly filter out the content that we do not want, including specific websites or domains
WebTitan enables us to effortlessly filter out the content that we do not want, including specific websites or domains. Covering offsite workers used to be less important, but employees are increasingly working from home, so it's helpful that WebTitan covers all our employees regardless of where they are. Our licensing model covers all our users. We've seen some reduction in attacks since implementing WebTitan, and I think this will significantly improve once we automate our blocklist. It accounts for about a quarter of our larger security arsenal, but we have other tools to protect against malware, phishing, viruses, etc. It has also saved some money on web filtering. It's a much more economical solution compared to Cisco Umbrella. And while it doesn't improve the end-user experience per se, it increases our IT team's effectiveness at preventing users from accessing harmful content. At the end of the day, WebTitan is there to restrict users from navigating to malicious websites. Obviously, users would prefer to go where they want, but WebTitan helps us protect them from malicious websites and phishing links. So in that sense, it's been great.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Centralized management of DNS, DHCP, and IPAM helped us a lot in simplifying and automating the management of network and services."
"It enhances DNS security and integrates with the IPAM system. It provides robust IP management and DNS security. One of its key features is the automatic response to malicious or incorrect domains."
"The solution helps to identify and mitigate DNS attacks."
"The main advantages with Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection are the dashboards, the reporting system, and they have the GUI interface."
"Grid high availability technology ensured network reliability, resilient network services, failover, recovery, and seamless maintenance."
"The solution's user interface is very smooth compared to other products."
"The most effective feature we find is the ability to log traffic."
"Infoblox Secure DNS helped us protect our internal environment by mitigating and stopping attacks through the Internet using DNS protocols and queries."
"The solution offers very good self-authentication. It has a lot of protocols and ways to authenticate users by ID, or by Active Directory Integration. It's able to take credentials from the Active Directory Domain Controllers."
"Not a whole lot of oversight is required after WebTitan is installed. I get email notifications and occasionally browse the reporting. This is pretty important because I don't have the bandwidth to actively monitor all this stuff 24/7. It is just not possible. Therefore, it is important that it doesn't require a lot of my time once it is deployed and working."
"The most valuable feature is web filtering, where we are able to blacklist and whitelist sites on the fly."
"It has been easy to understand and use the customization options provided by WebTitan."
"The monitoring abilities of the product are the most valuable for us. As you deploy it, you can adapt it. As you monitor, if employees go to things that you don't like, or to things that you need to allow, the ability to monitor and see how much is necessary—where they're getting shot down or blocked—is helpful."
"The web filtering is the most valuable feature. The OTG client was the determining factor."
"One of the most valuable features is the setup, right out-of-the-box. We rarely touch anything to do with WebTitan. That low administration is one of the huge features."
"The web content filter is the most valuable feature."
 

Cons

"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."
"The solution is expensive."
"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."
"There needs to be more capabilities in order to configure the console itself instead of the user interface dashboard. Configuring the DNS or DHCP through the console instead of the GUI dashboard would be better."
"There should be better alerts for when attacks are happening."
"The solution's logging could be improved."
"They should release frequent updates for its on-premises version."
"I think only the technical documentation and administration of box could be a little bit improved."
"There were a few little glitches in the beginning when rolling out the client app that resides on laptops."
"The interface is a little dated and a little awkward at times. That's a minor problem. It's workable."
"The Oauth1 protocol has a lot of issues with authentication and it made it very difficult to initially authenticate with the API."
"I would like to have a live chat feature with their support. This is one of the things that I like that they haven't offered yet. If they have live support, then at least I can work with an engineer when I have a problem and not have to wait for the engineer to respond."
"I wasn't aware of WebTitan's Azure AD integration until now. The takeaway is that those types of enhancements should be broadcast from TitanHQ a little more openly than they are."
"On occasion, we whitelist a site and it still gets blocked. To get it working, we have to remove it and then re-add it a couple of times, until it finally takes hold."
"WebTitan could improve the software module and the platform's overall stability, and its competitors have a more sophisticated user interface. We have found some bugs as well as some issues with functionality and security that we've already forwarded to TitanHQ."
"I've been trying to install an OTG on Windows 7 machines, and I simply can't get it to work."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is expensive."
"The price of Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection could be reduced, it is expensive."
"I am not sure about the price of the solution, but I heard it is expensive."
"Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection is a little more expensive than other vendors."
"There are no additional costs to the standard licensing price of the solution."
"The cost could be lower, though it is not currently prohibitive for larger companies."
"It's very reasonably priced. We don't have to go for a monthly plan or anything like that. There are no extra costs in addition to the standard licensing fee."
"WebTitan helps reduce costs associated with web filtering. In the event that somebody was compromised due to browsing the Internet, there will be at least one device offline. The time and energy spent cleaning that thing up and getting it back online, as well as having that user set up with some sort of a solution so they can continue working, makes it well worth the money. If a single device has been compromised, my time and the potential of having to buy additional hardware is worth at least a couple thousand dollars. Worst case scenario, if our entire organization or the majority of our organization got compromised, then it could get into the 50,000-plus for recovery. It depends on if it is a massive ransomware attack where it has pretty much crippled our entire business."
"The licensing, although I can't remember the exact cost, was very affordable. I want to say it was maybe $40 per license."
"The pricing of WebTitan is good. It's the right price. We paid more and more for Cisco Umbrella."
"It's very aggressively priced, which is something that we definitely like."
"The pricing is good. It's a substantial cost, but they've held their prices over the years, which has been good."
"For licensing, if I remember right, we told them how many users we have, and they told us the price, which we okayed. There were no add-ons. There might be a slight increase like everybody else, but there weren't any add-ons."
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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
19%
Government
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
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 pricing for Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection is on the higher side. We rated it as a seven out of ten on the pricing scale where ten is the most expensive
What needs improvement with Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection?
There is room for improvement in some parts since it could be better in enhancing DNS Security. The solution could use some enhancements to save time for DNS security processes.
What do you like most about TitanHQ WebTitan?
The monitoring abilities of the product are the most valuable for us. As you deploy it, you can adapt it. As you monitor, if employees go to things that you don't like, or to things that you need t...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for TitanHQ WebTitan?
I contracted the product myself and that's what I like. The billing is simple. It's on the company credit card. And by doing it myself, rather than through a reseller, I was able to develop the rel...
What needs improvement with TitanHQ WebTitan?
The interface is a little dated and a little awkward at times. That's a minor problem. It's workable. And while I really liked how they set me up, by telling me not to assign it to my own email and...
 

Also Known As

Infoblox Secure DNS
WebTitan, WebTitan Web Filter
 

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Sample Customers

Colruyt Group, Council Rock School District, Danone, GlaxoSmithKline, The Hershey Company 
Clarks, Pepsi, Purple, Comcast, Virgin, McDonalds, Sprint, Adtran, Xirrus, Eir, ViaSat
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