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Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense pros and cons

Vendor: Infoblox
4.0 out of 5
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PROS

Offers comprehensive threat detection and protection
Enhances network security with real-time updates
Seamlessly integrates with existing security infrastructure
Reduces overall security management workload
Scalable to meet various organizational needs

CONS

Limited functionality in certain environments
Initial setup can be complex
Occasional integration issues with other systems
Higher cost compared to some competitors
Limited customer support response time
 

Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense Pros review quotes

TN
Sep 10, 2021
Our ability to detect data exfiltration was minimal before Infoblox and the cloud portal was instituted for us. In terms of DNS security as a whole, we had some capability with our firewalls, but this is a lot more specialized because we're sending all of our DNS requests to Infoblox. I'd say we improved 100%.
EK
Jun 10, 2021
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.
reviewer1602792 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 16, 2021
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.
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reviewer1629072 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 18, 2021
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.
reviewer1659537 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 26, 2021
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.
LL
Jun 28, 2021
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.
reviewer2034057 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 23, 2022
The most valuable feature is blocklisting. It's good at what I like to describe as the "silly side cases." We have this annoying security architecture that says we must do this, that, and the other, so we try to make it easier on ourselves.
JB
Oct 19, 2021
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.
DonovanOlsen - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 6, 2023
Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense furthers the existing security posture rather than replacing or trying to replace any existing products.
it_user1149558 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 31, 2019
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.
 

Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense Cons review quotes

TN
Sep 10, 2021
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.
EK
Jun 10, 2021
A lot of their documentation needs improvement.
reviewer1602792 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 16, 2021
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.
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reviewer1629072 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 18, 2021
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.
reviewer1659537 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 26, 2021
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.
LL
Jun 28, 2021
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.
reviewer2034057 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 23, 2022
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.
JB
Oct 19, 2021
They could work on the UI of their website and make their website more user-friendly.
DonovanOlsen - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 6, 2023
The initial setup is not a simple "click-click-next" installation. It requires some level of experience .
it_user1149558 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 31, 2019
We would like to see more reporting capabilities that are now offered only with the on-premises reporting appliance.