# What enterprise DNS security tools integrate cleanly with Active Directory so user-based policy enforcement works without a separate identity integration project?

Hello G2, I've been researching which enterprise DNS security tools integrate cleanly with Active Directory so user-based policy enforcement works without a separate identity integration project. It's a surprisingly hard thing to pin down, since plenty of tools do "user-based policy" on paper but expect you to stand up connectors, sync agents, or a whole identity plumbing effort before group-based rules actually work.

Looking at the enterprise end of the DNS security solutions category, here's what reviews suggest about how each one ties policy back to existing identity:

Cisco Umbrella: Enterprise reviewers describe building policies around internal users and role-based profiles rather than just IPs, mapping those to their directory through Umbrella's AD connector and virtual appliances. A few note it takes some upfront setup on large networks, so it's worth asking how smooth that first directory sync really was.
Cloud-Delivered Security Services (Palo Alto): Reviewers running Prisma Access highlight policy that stays consistent across on-prem and remote users, and several mention rolling in Palo Alto's Cloud Identity so user context carries into the DNS and web policies. If you already run their firewalls, people say the identity piece lines up with what you have.
Cloudflare: Enterprise reviews point to identity-based access controls tied into its Zero Trust layer, so policies can key off your IdP (Entra, Okta, and similar) instead of a bespoke integration. The catch reviewers raise is that the deeper Zero Trust config has a learning curve of its own.
DNSFilter: Admins mention deploying the roaming client straight through Active Directory group policy and then managing per-user and per-site policies from there, which keeps rollout close to tooling you already run. Not an enterprise-grid heavyweight like the others, but it comes up for exactly this kind of clean directory-based deployment.

For those of you enforcing user-based DNS policy at enterprise scale, which of these actually read your AD or Entra groups without a drawn-out integration project? And where did the user awareness break down for you: roaming laptops, non-domain devices, or encrypted DNS getting in the way of user attribution?

##### Post Metadata - Posted at: 14 days ago - Author title: Marketer - Net upvotes: 1 ## Comments ### Comment 1 Reading the enterprise reviews with this exact question in mind, Umbrella's AD story looks mature but front-loaded: the connector and virtual appliances take real setup, and after that user-based policy mostly behaves. DNSFilter's angle is different, deploying the roaming client through group policy, which keeps the rollout inside tooling an AD shop already runs daily. On where attribution breaks: reviews and vendor docs point at the same three suspects you listed, and encrypted DNS on unmanaged devices is the one nobody seems to have a clean answer for. If your fleet is mostly domain-joined laptops, I suspect this is a smaller project than the vendors' architecture diagrams make it look. ##### Comment Metadata - Posted at: 10 days ago ## Related discussions - [How well does Trello scale into a larger team?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/1-how-well-does-trello-scale-into-a-larger-team) - Posted at: about 13 years ago - Comments: 6 - [Can we please add a new section](https://www.g2.com/discussions/2-can-we-please-add-a-new-section) - Posted at: about 13 years ago - Comments: 0 - [Quantifiable benefits from implementing your CRM](https://www.g2.com/discussions/quantifiable-benefits-from-implementing-your-crm) - Posted at: about 13 years ago - Comments: 4