Regarding the real-time monitoring feature with VMware Carbon Black Endpoint, it is helpful in addressing unseen threats.

I find the behavior analysis feature beneficial.

I assess VMware Carbon Black Endpoint's machine learning capabilities in detecting unknown threats as fantastic. The behavior and analytics feature employs machine learning, and these are features which make the product and give that distinguishing, differentiating factor.

The intelligent threat hunting capabilities have impacted my customers' cybersecurity efforts by giving them the edge to be prepared well in advance. Whenever this feature provides prediction, you know what action to take. You are aware of a possible attack and what kind of attack it may be, so you are much better prepared.

VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is a highly stable solution.

The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the support it provides. In my company, whenever we face any issues or downtime with the solution, there is no need to adhere to any timeline wherein we can only get support from the vendor within business hours since it provides support twenty-four hours and seven days a week.

When it comes to the pros of Carbon Black CB Defense, it produces a lot of events as per the MitraVax framework, which is good. It provides continuous monitoring and threat detection on endpoints and responds to security incidents. It uses machine learning and behavioral analytics to detect and respond to advanced threats.

The solution is cloud based which makes it easy to use for remote devices or work-at-home situations. 

The solution supports full trust or signature-based approvals. 

You can get very granular and band out policies or applications without having to do hash values. You can band through the entire environment by execution of the name or desk IDXE. This can be achieved on the policy side because of the signature, IOC, or naming convention itself. This is very effective for pushing more blockage or removing threats across the board. 

The solution has a very nice API on the back end for remoting into a system and executing scripts or utilizing self automation. This is useful for monitoring several different companies in a workspace or workbook-type format. For example, I report and send out mass emails from a clickable button in an Excel workbook. The APIs all exist for each client. I push out automatic endpoint monitoring and reports every single day at a particular time, with a simple clickable button that serves as a scheduled task for fifty clients. 

The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is one of the best EDR tools in the market.

The tool is pretty stable.

I rate Carbon Black CB Defense an eight out of ten for the ease of its initial setup.

I found the offline scanning to be particularly useful. Compared to CrowdStrike, it had better IT capabilities and beautiful analytics. Overall, it was cost-effective too.

The Carbon Black CB Defense feature I found most valuable is that it gives us the ability to do log analysis as well as the current state of the environment and activity on the user machines.

Sandboxing is one of the features I found to be the most valuable in Carbon Black CB Defense.

The new feature that we're deploying, the new offering from Carbon Black, is MDR, which stands for manage, detect, and response. It's the most valuable feature because Carbon Black will be continuously checking the logs, and they will be advising us on how to improve some of the policies as well as review the logs. If there are any nefarious agents or things happening on the end points, they will know. 

They also have the ability to take action based on what we've already agreed upon, what rights we give them, or what we tell them they can or can't do as part of their response. Hypothetically, if there's a rogue machine that is trying to infect other machines, we can tell them that they should try to contact us, but if they don't get a hold of anybody in GreenFirst IT in 15 minutes, they should go ahead and quarantine that machine. They can take actions, they can do remediation or response. Instead of advising, they will be taking action.

Customers want solutions that provide endpoint detection and response. The traditional antivirus solutions and the market trend are changing. Customers are asking for the latest technologies. Carbon Black has very good market strategies. We do the marketing activities and promote the product to the customers.

The Intel fit was very extensive and comprehensive enough. The visualization tree product feature in this CB defense is quite good. These are the two more notable product features.

The pricing is excellent.

The solution is stable.

I'm on the security department, so it's just in the layer of our prevention to give us protections against, for example, ransomware that might kick off and try to execute different files. If someone downloads something or whatever, it has to be whitelisted first. It has to be approved before it can run it all.

That's better to me than some signature-based thing, because it protects against zero-day. There are things that it doesn't know about, so it has to check them. We have Check Point now as well, but we have a Check Point on our firewalls, not our endpoints.

We have another piece of that infrastructure that does what they call threat emulation. You may have heard of it. It's like sandboxing where it takes files that it doesn't know about, puts them in a VM-type environment, and it kicks them off to see if there's any malware or tendencies that might look like malware, that kind of thing.

It's also a zero-day type of prevention thing, but it kicks them off in a safe environment so that you can see what it's doing. You need integration with Check Point to do that, but that integration went away with the latest release, the one we just put out there.

That was a big part of why we liked Carbon Black, because it is integration to not only do the whitelisting, but also we could have automatic rules set up so that if a new file got downloaded by a user, we could automatically send that over to Check Point and it could do its emulation on it in the sandbox. And if it came back clean, then we could automatically approve it.

We wouldn't have to go through a manual process of having our people approve every single file that comes across as having been seen before. So, it was a really good way to work those two products together. But that went away. And so now I'm like, "Okay, what are we going to do now?" I hadn't looked at the Harmony Endpoint at all.

I haven't looked at Check Point's piece, but I was wondering to myself, "If it does something like Carbon Black was doing and then we already have Check Point on the other one, that would work." So, that was what I was trying to do.

The solution is very useful and easy to handle. You don't need much intervention with this product.

The platform's capability to protect endpoints, conduct live analysis, and detect system communication with malicious domains was valuable. 

The product’s most valuable feature is incident detection and response.

The most valuable feature of the solution is its EDR functionality. The osquery functionality of the product is also very good since it allows us to investigate special cases. Vulnerability management is another good feature of the product.

The feature I found most valuable in Carbon Black CB Defense is the ongoing monitoring, though I'm not sure if it's because of the solution, or if it's because of Red Canary. The ongoing monitoring feature works by emailing updates about any detections found.

The best feature of this solution is that we have a live response, which is really tailored to our needs. 

Some of the valuable features I have found are the online documentation of the solution is well organized and thorough. I like the simplicity of bypass and the visualization of the active components. If I want to know which file is being utilized and what sub-files it is calling, the visualization given is very helpful.

I would like to see them continue to run some of the AI-type comparisons. I know everyone is really secretive about what they do and what they have engineered, but I think Cylance was a good market disruptor years ago with their approach. Now we see SentinelOne and everyone is approaching that piece of the puzzle similarly now. I just would like to see more of a comparison. We have done our own technical comparison but it is fairly expensive. All solutions have pros and cons, if more third-party organizations or teams could evaluate how each product works in pros and cons many people would benefit.

For Carbon Black Endpoint, the possibility of integration with different other software's log servers is the important thing. Having just one point of view is more interesting so you don't need to go to different places to see all the information.

The whole purpose of the product, like application control, is very good, and also if you need to update some policies, it works well and instantly.

The solution has a library where we can have multiple threat intels onboarded. We just have to subscribe to a particular site intel and they'll provide us with all of the truncated details so that we can create IOCs and alerts on the basis of those IOCs. 

It's one of the best features because there are multiple third-party vendors who can provide us with site intel in one location. You just have to subscribe to them, and they'll start providing you with IOCs. If a new attack starts, you will have all the basic IOCs on that list, which can be used to identify if the same attack is happening in your environment.

We can isolate devices in just two clicks. That's also a great feature. We can remediate and repair devices from a central location. It's not too difficult to use that particular tool. The user interface is very easy to understand. You are not required to roam around the console to find where the alert went. It's easy to resolve that.

When we onboarded Carbon Black, there weren't many EDR solutions available in the market. It was one of the best tools when it was launched. We don't have any complaints with the tool. The tool is very good. It highlights many of the alerts and events.

One of the most valuable features is that it will block vulnerable sites. If there was a connection between one of our devices to a known malware site, it will block it. Then also alerts our SOC.

I found it very valuable as a whole. It is good at detecting anything and has kept us very safe. It is also very easy to use. 

The solution will prevent communication of one compromised device with another. 

The protection of the user machines has been great. For example, if a laptop gets stolen, or let's say, an employee gets let go, the product provides us with the ability to actually lock people out of the network and handle remote wipes and stuff like that.

The initial setup is very easy.

The visibility provided has been great.

The ease of deployment is definitely a great selling feature.

The stability is good and the product is pretty lightweight.

The solution scales well.

The solution allows you to override it and manually install an application if you need it ti.

It's very good at alerting you to malicious content or unauthorized software. 

We can access computers remotely if we need to.

Once the solution is installed and configured correctly it does not require a lot of hands-on attention until you need upgrading.

The solution's most valuable aspect is its process monitoring due to the fact that it doesn't necessarily use signature-based definitions. It uses processor-based definitions. If a process tries to spawn some type of malicious process, it'll stop it.

The initial setup is easy.

The organization has to protect against users and Carbon Black does just that for the company. What I mean by that is not all users are savvy enough to understand, "Hey, I shouldn't be running this or I get a pop-up on a browser and I don't click on it." Carbon Black stops that if they do.

The solution is extremely scalable.

Technical support is excellent. It's also stable, scalable, and easy to implement.

I like its protection very much. It protects and allows us to lock the environment pretty tightly. Nothing that is not approved through Carbon Black can run in the environment. There is no default. Everything goes through Carbon Black Protect, and everything has to be first approved. Every software is considered to be guilty before prove innocent.

What I find most interesting is the performance of the end-point client, as well as the capability of detecting any activity on the end-user while using their browsers to navigate the internet. 

To monitor that activity from a security standpoint, detecting cross-site scripting or SQL injection activities that might be coming out from the browser. That's a very needed feature that allows it to distribute the security across the company and not centralizing it only on the firewalls or in the intrusion detection systems. 

The solution is quite customizable.

It's easy to set up the solution.

There's lots of very useful documentation online to help troubleshoot and learn about the product.

The EDR was amazing. It was very responsive. It did an excellent job of providing us the information we needed in a timely fashion, as long as the latest agent was up-to-date on the client.

What I like the most about it is the dynamic grouping, where you get to group endpoints based on setup criteria. That's pretty cool. I like the simplified policy management and simplified white-listing process. Coming from McAfee, management has been much simpler and much easier to look at. 

I like the simplified management, it has a nice UI, and it's very simple.

Carbon Black works completely differently from other products. We tested different products and Carbon Black was selected because it does not remove a virus but it kills any suspect operations and it's up to the admin to check the scenario. It kills the "effect," if you will. If you receive ransomware or anything suspicious, it will kill the process unless you allow it, after receiving warnings.

I cannot say it's pure AI, but the way it works is that it stops any suspicious activity, not based on signature-based attacks. It works in a way that it detects that a given effect is unusual.

Also, you can deploy it through the cloud so that even if your stuff is outside of your controlled environment, you are still under control, based on the policies you create. The policies are controlled through the cloud. For example, if I don't allow anyone to do a certain activity or to install a particular app, and a consultant or a partner who is not part of our environment is doing so, it will stop them as well. Because of COVID-19, we are all working from home. Imagine if the centralization and control provided by the product were not on the cloud. We would lose control of the people working from home. So the centralized cloud control is one of its more effective aspects.

The product's most valuable feature is its ability to be fully integrated with the VMware environment.

The solution's most valuable feature is live response. We can verify and view the task list and the processes. Also, we can create policies with its help.

It is a very complete platform. It is very useful for my customers.

Carbon Black CB Defense is ideal for a medium-sized business. It is not, in my opinion, suited for large enterprise companies.

Carbon Black works very well for the endpoint. It explains the situation very clearly.

The product is pretty strong in terms of security and their features are very good in that respect. Their research engine, the antivirus engine, it's very strong compared to any other product on the market right now.

The solution is stable.

They do have options on the market that can scale. 

Technical support is great.

It's not too difficult to set up and the deployment is fast. 

It is stable and easy to set up.

Using Open API, we were able to freely perform the necessary integration with our other security solutions.
CB Defense allows us to see our whole process as it starts on our endpoint.

The threat analysis functionality is good.

I like its reporting.

The security, specifically the endpoint security that the solution provides, is its most valuable aspect.

The initial setup is pretty straightforward.

I like the historical features, interface, and integration.

It has intelligent learning behind it and we have been very successful in preventing attacks.

• The triage feature that shows you the whole kill chain of the attack/malware is useful. It shows how the malware get into the endpoints and show what it has been done
• The solution is easy to use and easy to deploy as it is cloud solution, no appliance is needed to deploy on premise

The most valuable feature is that it detects and stops malicious executables.

Admins can use the portal to obtain a command shell on an endpoint to perform further investigation.

The offline networking is the most important feature. Some of our users are engineers that work offsite, and they can still be on the solution, which is also great.

The biggest feature out of Carbon Black is its ability to dive in with more depth. You can look at the entire kill chain and understand, not only if an alarm or identified incident is truly a true security issue versus a false positive, and it allows us to backtrack and figure out why it actually happened and how it got into the environment. It also helps us determine what other things may have been impacted along with it, from an asset standpoint. It allows us to go into more depth than a more traditional antivirus, like Symantec.

Symantec is more of a traditional antivirus. A lot of it is signature-based. It works quite well for normal protection. It is pretty stable and consistent. It seems to work across the board. There are no real issues to speak of it, which is a definitely a positive thing. One of the more beneficial things is that it does include the active endpoint firewall with it, which allows your endpoints to have a bit more above the standard Windows firewall, then collect all the logs from that. This is a good feature from their firewall piece. Also, the logging out of Symantec is quite good, as you put a lot of great logs into a SIEM or any other log collector from the platform.

The difference between the two products is the level of visibility and depth that you get when investigating alarms or issues. You can go a bit deeper with Carbon Black. Symantec does have an additional add-on, which we have not seen since it is a relatively new component. They call it Advanced Threat Protection. It uses the same endpoint, but has a separate license with additional costs, which is meant to allow you to go a little deeper in terms of endpoint and incident investigations. However, it doesn't provide the interactive drill down, prevention, and response capabilities that you need to be able to isolate a system, delete files, or actively kill processes which have been helpful with Carbon Black.

Data analysis is the most valuable feature because of the whitelist database. It is different than standard IDS solutions.

I think something that is the most valuable is the time-lining capability for any breach activity. It gives us the ability for us to actively threat hunt. This is not something where it's a passive response tool where we watch things happen. In contrast, it actually does some heuristics, and some behavioral analysis, and we're able to do some prevention with it as well. I think that's really the strongest attribute, and it makes this a more aggressive tool than others.

Carbon Black Defense has a higher detection ratio because it's cloud-based and it also does a lookup to virus total, so it is out of like 65 vendors that are normally listed in virus total, if there are any kind of hits out of those, in that case, it is getting recognized as a known Malware or a suspected Malware. Under these categorizations, we are able to see a spike in the detection ratio. It is enlightening us with respect to what are the programs that are generally used in our environment and how they are compliant with our environment.

• The software uses very few resources; it is almost invisible to the end user. 
• Behavioral Monitoring stops known malicious events before they even begin. 
• The whitelist: Being a Casino, we have some odd software packages. Being able to whitelist them is a must.
• The option to quarantine a device and use the cloud-based portal to gain a “shell” on the infected machine. With this, we can dump the entire system memory to a machine in our lab, then run analysis.

Carbon Black Cb Defense has a nice component called Alert Triage. It has helped to detect threats across the data. It contains full details of the process execution "kill chain" and "go live" for immediate remediation.

The go live, because it is possible to answer incidents while they are still occurring and minimize the effects.

CB Defense is more powerful, and you can take more actions than others. Its security features and signatures are constantly updated, so it is more effective than other security solutions. We can integrate with XCDR. Carbon Black EDR integrates with Carbon Black EDE. But you don't need to integrate CB Defense with other external security solutions.