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Mimecast Insider Risk Management and Data Protection vs VMware Carbon Black Endpoint comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 9, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
7.5
Organizations find it challenging to quantify ROI from Mimecast but emphasize savings, security benefits, and reduced admin time.
Sentiment score
5.6
VMware Carbon Black Endpoint offers strong protection, reducing malware and saving 10% in costs, showing significant value within six months.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
8.8
Mimecast Insider Risk Management's support is praised for quick, knowledgeable, and courteous service with proactive communication and minimal wait times.
Sentiment score
6.3
VMware Carbon Black's support is knowledgeable yet occasionally slow, with variability in global and local assistance quality.
Regarding the technical support of Broadcom, they are responsive and helpful.
Senior VP, Technology & Leading Technology Office at a outsourcing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.9
Mimecast offers smooth scalability and ease in license and storage expansion, with minimal difficulties across diverse environments.
Sentiment score
7.1
VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is praised for scalability and ease of deployment, despite some challenges with report generation.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.8
Mimecast Insider Risk Management is stable and reliable, with minor issues typically linked to external factors or unsupported setups.
Sentiment score
7.5
VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is generally stable and efficient, with minor integration issues and occasional latency quickly addressed.
 

Room For Improvement

Mimecast's usability is hindered by limited reporting, confusing interface, Java dependency, and inadequate backup features and speed.
VMware Carbon Black Endpoint needs better integration, user interface, system compatibility, pricing, support, and enhanced features for improved client satisfaction.
 

Setup Cost

Mimecast offers scalable pricing, multi-year discounts, and robust support, providing good value despite initially high costs.
VMware Carbon Black's pricing is high and inflexible, with users preferring user-based over endpoint-based licensing options.
 

Valuable Features

Mimecast offers seamless, low-impact data protection with intuitive management, real-time backups, customizable risk scoring, and cross-platform functionality.
VMware Carbon Black Endpoint offers advanced threat detection, cloud management, machine learning, and centralized control for efficient incident management.
I assess VMware Carbon Black Endpoint's machine learning capabilities in detecting unknown threats as fantastic.
Senior VP, Technology & Leading Technology Office at a outsourcing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Mimecast Insider Risk Manag...
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
78
Ranking in other categories
Data Loss Prevention (DLP) (20th)
VMware Carbon Black Endpoint
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
64
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (38th), Security Incident Response (7th), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (36th), Ransomware Protection (8th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Mimecast Insider Risk Management and Data Protection and VMware Carbon Black Endpoint aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Mimecast Insider Risk Management and Data Protection is designed for Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and holds a mindshare of 2.5%, up 1.6% compared to last year.
VMware Carbon Black Endpoint, on the other hand, focuses on Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP), holds 1.8% mindshare, down 1.9% since last year.
Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Mimecast Incydr2.5%
Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention8.3%
Varonis Platform6.1%
Other83.1%
Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
VMware Carbon Black Endpoint1.8%
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint7.8%
CrowdStrike Falcon6.7%
Other83.7%
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)
 

Featured Reviews

Chuck_Mackey - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Cybersecurity Consulting at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Provides comprehensive visibility and protection, helps in identifying the gaps in security, and comes with excellent onboarding support
In a couple of instances, we had a little bit of trouble in getting it distributed throughout the organization. We ultimately managed to do it, but they talk about it being a pretty simple process, and it became a little laborious. It would just turn away. The agents were not being distributed. It was just churning and churning and churning. When we were looking for specific categories of data, it was getting bogged down, but that was not even so much Code42, although some of it was their issue. It really has to do with the overall infrastructure and what the organization is prepared to do. If the infrastructure or the networking is a little hinky or you don't have a really finely tuned network infrastructure environment and your patches aren't up to date on your servers and your endpoints, it could get a little sticky. Other than that, it was okay. We really didn't have much problem beyond that. It took a couple of days to sort that out, but it was no big deal.
reviewer2689206 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior VP, Technology & Leading Technology Office at a outsourcing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Behavior analytics has strengthened threat prediction yet still needs to improve overall standing
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.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
12%
Performing Arts
7%
Financial Services Firm
6%
Outsourcing Company
5%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Government
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business24
Midsize Enterprise24
Large Enterprise30
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business31
Midsize Enterprise9
Large Enterprise31
 

Questions from the Community

What is your primary use case for Code42 Incydr?
Data Leakage Protection on large scale environments. This can be to protect against leakage on endpoints and servers that consist of highly classified or propriety information. It can be added on a...
What to choose: an endpoint antivirus, an EDR solution or both?
I can recommend Carbon Black, an award-winning next-gen anti-virus (NGAV) and endpoint detection and response (EDR) security solution. The CB Predictive Security Cloud platform combines multiple hi...
What's the difference between Carbon Black CB Response and Carbon Black CB Defense?
Carbon Black offers two different levels of Endpoint Detection and Response. One is the VM Carbon Black Cloud Endpoint Standard (CB Defense), and the other is the Carbon Black Endpoint Detection an...
What do you like most about Carbon Black CB Defense?
VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is a highly stable solution.
 

Also Known As

Mimecast Incydr, Code42 Next-Gen DLP, Code42 Next-Gen Data Loss Protection, Code42 Forensic File Search, Code42 Backup + Restore
Carbon Black CB Defense, Bit9, Confer
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Adobe, Okta, Samsung, Taylormade, Boston University, Lending Club, North Highland, Stanford University, Ping Identity, Qualcomm, Pandora.
Netflix, Progress Residential, Indeed, Hologic, Gentle Giant, Samsung Research America
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