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Trend Micro Endpoint Encryption vs VMware Carbon Black Endpoint comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Trend Micro Endpoint Encryp...
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
21
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Encryption (6th)
VMware Carbon Black Endpoint
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
63
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (27th), Security Incident Response (2nd), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (20th), Ransomware Protection (6th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Endpoint Security solutions, they serve different purposes. Trend Micro Endpoint Encryption is designed for Endpoint Encryption and holds a mindshare of 3.1%, down 4.8% compared to last year.
VMware Carbon Black Endpoint, on the other hand, focuses on Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP), holds 1.6% mindshare, down 2.5% since last year.
Endpoint Encryption
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)
 

Featured Reviews

Sampath Acharya - PeerSpot reviewer
Full disk encryption safeguards data effectively and customer service provides excellent support
There weren't too many challenges with the setup. The initial setup is a little bit difficult as it requires skill. A person without the necessary experience or skill cannot handle it. Overall, I'd rate the implementation process seven out of ten. Deployment times vary depending on customer enrollment. If there are more than 100 machines, it might take 45 to 60 days.
Nikunj Kamboj - PeerSpot reviewer
Integrates well with our existing SIEM tool and helps in identifying suspicious activities
The solution's integration with our existing security infrastructure is good. Whenever we have any alert in VMware Carbon Black Endpoint, we can easily that alert in our SIEM tool and check logs from the SIEM tool itself. VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is just a secondary security tool for us, and we are just monitoring the alerts from it. The solution's behavioral analytics feature helps in identifying suspicious activities pretty well. Whenever we have even a small thing, we get an alert. The solution is deployed on the cloud in our organization. Performance-wise, the solution is doing great in terms of connecting to the host directly. Performing a malware scan usually takes a lot of time, more than 24 hours. A malware scan is something that we do only on Carbon Black for the old endpoint devices and servers. It used to take sometimes three days to perform. I would recommend the solution to other users. Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The disk encryption is great."
"We use the solution for data encryption."
"It's a secure and quick solution."
"We're very satisfied with Trend Micro support."
"The most valuable feature is the support for email."
"The solution is good overall. All of its features are good."
"The most valuable feature of Trend Micro Endpoint Encryption is security."
"Trend Micro Endpoint Encryption has good performance and is secure."
"It gives you all of the information in a short and sweet fashion."
"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."
"The solution has a very nice API on the back end for remoting into a system and executing scripts or utilizing self automation."
"There's lots of very useful documentation online to help troubleshoot and learn about the product."
"​Provides visibility into the chain of attack and threats that use valid operating system processes to execute attacks.​"
"It actually does some heuristics, and some behavioral analysis."
"The feature I found most valuable in Carbon Black CB Defense is the ongoing monitoring feature that works by emailing updates about any detections found."
"The initial setup was fairly easy."
 

Cons

"There are recovery issues that arise."
"It is not easy to integrate with third party solutions."
"Compared to Bitlocker or McAfee Disk Encryption, it's not quite as robust."
"Trend Micro Endpoint Encryption currently lacks something similar to a firewall that can detect any vulnerabilities."
"Support from them was not fast."
"In the next release, it would be better if it was more user-friendly. It is a little complicated for the average technical person. If they can make it more user-friendly, it would be much easier and more helpful."
"If Trend Micro Endpoint Encryption comes up with a SaaS solution, it will be better rather than just having an on-premises solution."
"We would like to see a wider, better dashboard for the purposes of monitoring the users of the Trend Micro software."
"But here, we hardly can take any kind of a report out of Carbon Black, so I think that should be something that should be more user-friendly."
"With the on-prem one, the bug has been reported by the community in early January or February, something like that, at the beginning of the year, and it's still not addressed. They have released two versions since then, and yet neither of them addresses this specific issue."
"The initial setup is complex."
"Sensor deployment requires extensive fine-tuning, and creating deployment packages is time-consuming."
"The pricing could be more reasonable."
"In my company, we face issues sometimes when there is a need to write custom rules or we want to write for some rules that are different from the standard rules provided by the solution."
"The product's reporting capabilities are an area of concern where improvements are required."
"In the next release, it would help if we can get better control over containers."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"One of the reasons we decided to go with Trend Micro Endpoint Security is because of its cost effectiveness."
"I rate the product price a six on a scale of one to ten, where one is high price, and ten is low price."
"We pay for Trend Micro Endpoint Encryption every six months. The price of the solution is reasonable."
"The drive encryption of Trend Micro Endpoint Encryption could improve. Some of my customers have some problems."
"I rate the product price a seven on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive."
"The solution's licensing costs are yearly."
"You have to pay for the license annually."
"VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is an expensive product."
"Overall, it was cost-effective too."
"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 platform is expensive."
"I am not really involved in the pricing of this product. But, from my understanding, it is OK for us."
"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."
"CB Defense is available on a yearly subscription and is priced by the number of endpoints."
"Its pricing was very good, which is one of the reasons I went to it as an alternative. It is on a yearly basis. There are no additional fees."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Government
15%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Computer Software Company
9%
Performing Arts
7%
Computer Software Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

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Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Trend Micro Endpoint Encryption?
If Trend Micro Endpoint Encryption comes up with a SaaS solution, it will be better rather than just having an on-premises solution.
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

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Carbon Black CB Defense, Bit9, Confer
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Alertboot, Beth Israel Deaconess Care Organization (BIDCO), Bulgarian American Credit Bank, Independent Investigations Office of BC (IIOBC), Rush University Medical Center, United Way of Greater Atlanta
Netflix, Progress Residential, Indeed, Hologic, Gentle Giant, Samsung Research America
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