We performed a comparison between Cisco Umbrella and F5 BIG-IP DNS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Domain Name System (DNS) Security solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Umbrella, being one pane for managing, being all-encompassing, allows us to quickly go in, make a change, and it applies to either every location, if we want it to, or we can have policies in place that only apply to certain users or certain computers."
"You can manage and create policies based on a group of users. It can permit some URLs and block others."
"Cisco's technical support is pretty good. When a solution is available, they will find it. On a scale from one to ten with ten being the best, I'd rate Cisco's technical support at nine."
"Reports provide insight into internet usage and information helpful in creating QoS rules."
"It offers good visibility for the Administrator. The administrator has full visibility of what is blocked or has the knowledge of where users go when they are surfing the internet."
"It will protect, give you more robustness, and faster responses, compared to any firewalls or any of the proxy web servers."
"We immediately block impersonating users from accessing services over Cisco Umbrella-controlled devices."
"Cisco Umbrella is absolutely stable."
"F5 BIG-IP DNS has been rock solid in terms of stability for years."
"The GTM feature is very good, It's very useful, especially if we have multiple data centers. If we want to load balance traffic from multiple data centers, the GTM feature is very useful."
"BIG-IP DNS's best feature is the Global Traffic Manager (GTM)."
"F5 BIG-IP DNS is useful, depending on how you use it."
"For one of our clients, F5 improved global server load balancing with an active-active site configuration for Disaster Recovery."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is security."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten...Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The solution is easy to configure and deploy. It is scalable and works without any downtime. F5 BIG-IP DNS is a flexible solution."
"I'm hoping for the conversion of Cisco ZTNA's features from Duo to Umbrella."
"I would like to see more integration between Cisco Umbrella and Cisco DNA Center."
"Client delivery and client updates should be improved. Client delivery was not as easy as expected. Another area for improvement is the integration of escalation procedures for security issues."
"The price could be better. The price is definitely a bit high, but we have to pay a premium for Cisco products."
"If we're trying to deploy it to a Mac through Meraki, it's impossible. The method of deployment for a Mac, and the features available in Meraki, are not compatible at all."
"I would like to have more applications being recorded."
"If a hardware platform were provided for Umbrella, that would definitely improve the market for it... Especially when we are addressing governmental customers, they hesitate to connect to the cloud. That is where we need a hardware platform so that the solution can be used on-premises as well."
"Its price could be better."
"In the product, one of the shortcomings is related to its configuration part...Though you can find some manuals or F5 documents, in real life, it's very hard to understand this product."
"I would like to see the login facilities improved, as well as more troubleshooting."
"The solution can improve by adding cloud integration through plugins or additional configurations so we can use F5 BIG-IP DNS to communicate with the cloud."
"The IP intelligent services are good for mitigating threats, but there are also false positives. So, it's not a standalone solution that can cover everything."
"It would be great to see a F5 BIG-IP DNS cloud version. What we within the Australian government are looking at doing is utilizing a secured DNS service much the same as the English GCHQ version of their protected DNS service."
"The initial setup is a step-by-step process, so it can be a bit complicated for someone who's using it for the first time."
"CNC (control and command) communication would be beneficial. We would like to have control and command blocking to prevent visiting malicious websites."
"I sometimes encounter issues with the porting of F5 BIG-IP DNS."
Cisco Umbrella is ranked 1st in Domain Name System (DNS) Security with 108 reviews while F5 BIG-IP DNS is ranked 3rd in Domain Name System (DNS) Security with 18 reviews. Cisco Umbrella is rated 8.8, while F5 BIG-IP DNS is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cisco Umbrella writes "Protects endpoints wherever they are, always pushing people to the right locations to avoid malicious intent". On the other hand, the top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP DNS writes "Reliable with good security and management". Cisco Umbrella is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Palo Alto Networks DNS Security and Fortinet FortiGate SWG, whereas F5 BIG-IP DNS is most compared with Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection, EfficientIP DNS Guardian, BlueCat Edge and Akamai Secure Internet Access Enterprise. See our Cisco Umbrella vs. F5 BIG-IP DNS report.
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