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Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Net...
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Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
122
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (4th), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (5th), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (3rd), Ransomware Protection (2nd), AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platforms (1st)
Barkly [EOL]
Average Rating
5.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
VMware Carbon Black Endpoint
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
65
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (26th), Security Incident Response (4th), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (28th), Ransomware Protection (8th)
 

Featured Reviews

ABHISHEK_SINGH - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Process Expert at A.P. Moller - Maersk
Gained full visibility and streamlined threat detection through behavior-based insights and AI integration
Initially, we got to have a lot of false positives when we onboarded, but nowadays it's quite smooth. We have fine-tuned our security policies and allowed different levels of policies to get rid of those false positives. Currently, we are getting a fairly good amount of incidents that are not false positives or benign, but actionable items. The process is streamlined. In the initial days, the operations used to get involved in a lot of benign and other activities, but now the process is streamlined. We are leveraging the auto-detection and remediation plans. The operations teams are now more involved in other business roles as well, not just looking into the logs and fetching out what's happening there. They have fixed a lot of things. Initially, they didn't have IAC code drift detection, cloud posture management, or security posture management, but they have those now. They purchased different vendors and did a merger with that. They have now Prisma Cloud that gets integrated and now they are working with Cortex Cloud. Everything that was negative has now been addressed, and the product altogether looks to be in a very better and mature shape now. Currently, it's more or less detecting the workloads with AI-based best practices. Since most organizations are consuming AI agents and other things, we are looking forward to seeing what other feature enhancements Palo Alto can support in that.
MD
Senior System Administrator at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
Has an easy to use interface but lacks features and customization options
The product could stand to be a bit more advanced. It's very simple. You don't have a lot of ability to customize properly. For example, it does not handle whitelisting properly. So, in general, it could offer more sophisticated control and more refined options to be able to customize it better. I would also like to see better version information in the changelog. The product doesn't tell you what's changed until it's too late. So, it would be nice to know what's changed between versions of the reports so you can see more easily what might cause a problem and what is probably innocuous.
PM
CTO at Microsoft
Improved incident investigation has supported response while core protection still needs progress
VMware Carbon Black Endpoint does not have easy integration, as there are many complexities with the Ribitava API, which is very deep. I rate this solution overall as a five or six on a scale from one to ten. I have integrated VMware Carbon Black Endpoint with other tools that are helpful. I think this solution should be targeted at small clients, because adoption will grow more with small businesses tomorrow.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Being a cloud solution it is very flexible in serving internal and external connections and a broad range of devices."
"They did what they said, and this solution could apply to any scenario."
"The stability of this product is very good."
"My advice for anybody who is considering Cortex XDR is that it is a complete solution, and has very good features."
"Stability is a primary factor, and then there's the ease of distribution and policy management; Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is very easy to work with, and we're quite happy with them."
"It is a simple platform to use."
"It can automatically correlate events and logs, which is very helpful for an IT administrator. It can correlate different kinds of malware activities over a network, agent, or host system. You do not need to do it manually. It is a good feature. It is also a user-friendly solution. We have deployed it on the cloud because our space does not provide any flexibility for on-premises deployment, but Palo Alto has added some flexibility to install it on-premises. It must be like the same Cortex XDR agent for all the VPN services, web filtering services, and everything else."
"The most valuable features are the fact that it was running in the background and it would intercept any weird stuff, and the fact that it would send things directly to the cloud for sandboxing. It's quite practical."
"For a next-generation antivirus, this solution is pretty inexpensive."
"Very easy to install and use."
"I found it very valuable as a whole; it is good at detecting anything and has kept us very safe, and it is also very easy to use."
"Carbon Black Cb Defense has a nice component called Alert Triage; it has helped to detect threats across the data and contains full details of the process execution kill chain and go live for immediate remediation."
"We've actually been really happy with them because they do a good job, have been pretty easy to manage, and have had good support."
"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 kills any suspect operations and lets the admin check the scenario, effectively stopping any suspicious activity based on unusual behavior rather than signatures."
"The data analysis is the most valuable because of the whitelist database. It is different than standard IDS solutions."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is one of the best EDR tools in the market."
"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 most valuable feature is that it detects and stops malicious executables."
 

Cons

"The product's pricing needs improvement. They could provide more discounts. Additionally, the dashboard and control panel could be enhanced."
"Cortex XDR should have a lightweight agent, and the agent size should not be heavy."
"Cortex XDR could be improved with more GUI features."
"A potential area of improvement for Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is the cost."
"On the pricing aspect, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks needs to have a more reasonable rate, particularly for customers in Sri Lanka and Asian countries."
"There is a severe gap in functionality between Windows, Linux, and Mac versions. For example all folder restriction settings are Windows only. Traps 5.0+ does not have SAML / LDAP integration."
"The downsides of Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks are that in many incidents, when I enter the causality chain, there are numerous logs."
"For working with the solution, you only really need a web browser, however, we've found that working on Chrome, for example, is horrible."
"The product could stand to be a bit more advanced. It's very simple."
"It lacks more sophisticated features and opportunity for customization."
"The product's stability could be improved."
"In the next release, it would help if we can get better control over containers."
"I am not sure whether Carbon Black CB Defense can be considered as a stable solution or not."
"Enterprise capabilities are probably a hindrance for a large organization to take up such a product."
"The initial setup is complex."
"I would personally give the tech support a rating of seven out of ten."
"The Mac support needs improvement, as it had next to none."
"This product should be cheaper."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Cortex XDR’s pricing is very reasonable."
"Traps pays for itself within the first 16 months of a three-year subscription. This is attributed to OPEX savings, as security teams spent less time trying to identify and isolate malware for analysis as a result of a reduction in malware incidents, false positives, and breach avoidance."
"When we first bought it, it was a bit expensive, but it was worth it. The licensing was straightforward."
"In terms of the cost Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is very expensive because we are a Mexican company and when you translate dollars to pesos the cost is very high. The solution is very expensive for Mexican companies. I understand that they have international prices, but I do not think it offsets the price enough for many companies in countries, such as Mexico. The amount it is reduced is not a massive percentage."
"This is an expensive solution."
"I feel it is fairly priced."
"Very costly product."
"The cost of Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is $55 to $90 USD per endpoint per month."
"It is an inexpensive when compared to other next-generation products."
"The price for the solution is completely at government level, meaning one which is very high."
"I am not really involved in the pricing of this product. But, from my understanding, it is OK for us."
"The cost is a considerable factor, but the benefit factor is the most important. When you compare it with other products, the price is high. Carbon Black will negotiate the price."
"We have branches, we have different companies, but we cannot buy less than 100 licenses. This does not make sense to me... It should be more flexible. I can understand their saying, "Okay, to be a customer you need 100," but to add on to that number it should be something very straightforward. If I need to add five, for example, I shouldn't need to add 100."
"The product is expensive. There are some additional costs apart from the standard licensing charges attached to the solution."
"In terms of licensing costs, Carbon Black CB Defense was all associated with CROW and the services my company is using with them, so it came all-inclusive."
"The pricing [is] more or less the same as other similar solutions."
"This is a really expensive product and we pay licensing fees on a yearly basis."
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Top Industries

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Comms Service Provider
14%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Construction Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
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Outsourcing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Construction Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business50
Midsize Enterprise21
Large Enterprise57
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business31
Midsize Enterprise9
Large Enterprise33
 

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Also Known As

Cyvera, Cortex XDR, Palo Alto Networks Traps
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Carbon Black CB Defense, Bit9, Confer
 

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