We performed a comparison between Symantec Endpoint Security and VMware Carbon Black Endpoint based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Having all monitoring, response, tracking, and mitigation tools in one dashboard provides our analysts and SOC team with a comprehensive view at a glance."
"Fortinet is very user-friendly for customers."
"The stability is very good."
"Exceptions are easy to create and the interface is easy to follow with a nice appearance."
"The product detects and blocks threats and is more proactive than firewalls."
"Fortinet FortiEDR made our clients feel secure and more at ease, knowing that they had an EDR solution that would close the gap in their security posture."
"I like FortiClient EMS. FortiEDR has a lot of great features like lockdown mode, remote wipes, and encryption. I can set malware outbreak policies and controls for detecting abnormalities. You can also simulate phishing attacks."
"This is stable and scalable."
"The most valuable feature for our organization is the antivirus, as our staff is the target of zero-day malware and viruses."
"The solution detects malware very well."
"Their threat protection is very good. We are managing a good number of users thanks to the solution and we are pretty satisfied with it."
"This product is valuable for ransomware protection, general malware protection, and network exploitation protection."
"It's customizable, we're able to tune it to work with our products."
"With a single console, you get control over Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android. This control is most valuable."
"One of the features is the ability to frequently get virus signature updates."
"The best thing about Symantec is its ability to control our endpoints from a single point. You can manage the antivirus definitions, upgrades, remote scanning, etc., from one console."
"The product allows us to focus on endpoint and antivirus protection."
"There's lots of very useful documentation online to help troubleshoot and learn about the product."
"It gives you all of the information in a short and sweet fashion."
"It has intelligent learning behind it and we have been very successful in preventing attacks."
"Provides visibility into the chain of attack and threats that use valid operating system processes to execute attacks."
"The solution is extremely scalable."
"It uses machine learning and behavioral analytics for advanced threat detection and response."
"The tool is pretty stable."
"FortiEDR can be improved by providing more detailed reporting."
"The amount of usage, the number of details we get, or the number of options that can be tweaked is limited in comparison to that with other EDR solutions"
"The support needs improvement."
"FortiEDR could add a separate scanning dashboard. In incident management, we prefer to remove the endpoint system from the environment and scan the system. We typically use Symantec for that, but if we want to use FortiEDR for that, then we need a scanning tab to clarify things."
"Detections could be improved."
"I would like the solution to extend beyond endpoint protection and include other attack surfaces such as other network components."
"Making the portal mobile friendly would be helpful when I am out of office."
"The dashboard isn't easy to access and manage."
"This solution needs better compatibility with services and applications."
"The solution already has support for Windows, Mac, and Linux but it could improve by having better support for Linux. We have run into some problems when there are upgrades. If they can improve this point, Symantec would be good for endpoint protection as well as for a critical server."
"The agent shouldn't use up so many resources at the endpoint when scanning and protecting."
"The management of the server is a bit complex."
"Every time an OS comes out, I have to upgrade the Symantec product. They don't know how to patch it. If they would produce a patch instead of uninstalling or installing over the current version and rebooting I'd be a lot happier with the product."
"There is room for improvement in the zero-day threat detection system."
"About four years back, Symantec's signature was very heavy and their signature patch was around 200MB or 300MB files."
"The technical support could be a bit better."
"This solution works well but needs lots of tuning and optimization."
"The application control can be improved. It should also have an automatic update of the agents."
"I haven't run into anything that needs improvement. The website interface can be a little bit better, but it's still good as compared to most others."
"Right now, Carbon Black CB Defense doesn't support cloud computing and Kubernetes."
"It is difficult to extract reports for ongoing scans"
"The directions for Splunk are spot on, but it is difficult to find anything on integration with AlienVault,"
"The node management could be much better. The one thing that they cannot do very easily is change the tenant from a backend."
"The device control feature could also be compatible with the user’s profile as well."
Symantec Endpoint Security is ranked 5th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 140 reviews while VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is ranked 16th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 61 reviews. Symantec Endpoint Security is rated 7.6, while VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Symantec Endpoint Security writes "The solution has given us visibility into compliance within our whole system and helped us ensure everything is updated". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Carbon Black Endpoint writes "Centralization via the cloud allows us to protect and control people working from home". Symantec Endpoint Security is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, Trend Micro Deep Security and Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks, whereas VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Trend Micro Deep Security, SentinelOne Singularity Complete and Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks. See our Symantec Endpoint Security vs. VMware Carbon Black Endpoint report.
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