BlueCat Integrity vs. CyberSentriq DNS Filtering

It can act as a reasonable DNS and DHCP solution if money allows you chose to have a dedicated (virtual) appliance.

Incentivized

It is well suited for any org with the need to control the web access of their users. It has succeeded in all of our deployment scenarios such as in a school, or many non profit organizations. We do not have a need for it on our own machines.

Incentivized

• IP management
• DNS server
• TFTP

Incentivized

• Activity monitoring.
• In terms of cost it is affordable.
• Direct synchronization with Boundless Automation, this integration helps improve the management of networks at scale to increase efficiency, speed up operations and more.
• It can be accessed from anywhere with an Internet connection.
• It is intuitive and easy to use.

Incentivized

• GUI interface could use some touch-ups. For example, saving a configuration is not the easiest thing to do.
• Hypervisor compatibility (currently doesn't support Nutanix AHV).
• Not too many KBs publicly available.

Incentivized

• A mobile roaming client would be good
• Reports for clients are sometimes fairly basic, some users prefer more in depth reports

Incentivized

For all it's worth, it's a Linux based appliance and does offer a high availability design. It does offer IP address management and can scan your network through ICMP and SNMP. It does support role-based access controls for admins.

Incentivized

Cost and umbrella had an issue with us as we had a hard time trying to make it work and never did figure out why it would not work. The reporting was lacking from what we could tell but again we could not get the trial working. So it was more cursory

Incentivized

• CONS: Not up to speed with market-leading virtualization technologies such as Nutanix.
• PROS: Reliable solution.
• PROS: The design can be confusing for the folks used to Infoblox as it utilized 1 controller called Bluecat Address Manager and the actual DNS/DHCP servers named BDDS.

Incentivized

• WebTitan DNS Filter helps keep our employees focused on the job at hand.
• The cloud service eliminates having to trade in/up obsolete hardware every 3-5 years.
• Initial setup and configuration is straight forward and not terribly complicated.

Incentivized