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D3 Security vs VMware Carbon Black Endpoint comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 2, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

D3 Security
Ranking in Security Incident Response
11th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) (20th), AI-SOC (28th), AI-Powered Security Automation (5th)
VMware Carbon Black Endpoint
Ranking in Security Incident Response
3rd
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
65
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (27th), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (28th), Ransomware Protection (8th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Security Incident Response category, the mindshare of D3 Security is 6.3%, up from 4.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is 8.0%, up from 7.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Security Incident Response Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
VMware Carbon Black Endpoint8.0%
D3 Security6.3%
Other85.7%
Security Incident Response
 

Featured Reviews

Muhammad Aamir Riaz - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager Security Operation Center at The Bank of Punjab
Offers open API for integrating any available tools without any recurring costs
Before committing, I recommend a Proof of Concept (POC) or demo first. This way, you can see if the product aligns with your specific use cases and security needs. Knowledge transfer is key, and D3 Security's team excels in this area. During the POC, your analysts gain valuable product knowledge, putting them ahead of the curve for deployment. In our case, the learning curve was steep initially, but by the end of the POC, my team was already building playbooks independently. D3 Security also schedules dedicated knowledge transfer sessions during the POC, making it a win-win for both parties. Since technology transfer is crucial for government entities like ours, this approach eliminates the need for additional learning after deployment, unlike with certain competitors like the Fortinet FortiSOAR case. While Fortinet FortiSOAR achieved the desired tasks, its knowledge transfer process was lacking, leaving us with a shaky foundation. D3 Security's approach solidifies the learning and empowers our team. Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten.
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

"It is an out-of-the-box automated integration with our 20 departments. We perform L1 LiveOps automatically through the portal."
"The solution's valuable feature is its GUI. It has more than 450 connectors, which are excellent for connecting devices and automating integration. The solution has all the features we need. We deployed it in our environment, and it's fully integrated. Thanks to their open APIs, the seamless integration makes everything work well together."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is one of the best EDR tools in the market."
"The solution is stable and the policy can be configured with flexibility, as it comes with its own pre-built standard policy and also allows us to write our own, which means the solution serves us going forward."
"Carbon Black Cb Defense improved our endpoint level security. It helped to identify endpoint and infrastructure loopholes."
"For the Windows endpoints, it was incredibly useful, nothing got through it, which is a bad thing in some cases because we hadn't tagged the certificate platform appropriately."
"I found the offline scanning to be particularly useful."
"The triage feature that shows you the whole kill chain of the attack or malware is useful because it shows how the malware gets into the endpoints and what it has done, and the solution is easy to use and easy to deploy as it is a cloud solution with no appliance needed on-premise."
"VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is a highly stable solution."
 

Cons

"The reporting, especially custom reporting, needs to be improved. Additionally, it would be better if it could be hosted on Linux."
"Reporting needs improvement. MTTR and MTTD metrics aren't directly available in playbooks and require manual effort to achieve."
"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."
"The directions for Splunk are spot on, but it is difficult to find anything on integration with AlienVault,"
"Right now, Carbon Black CB Defense doesn't support cloud computing and Kubernetes."
"The application control can be improved. It should also have an automatic update of the agents."
"The product cannot perform an on-demand scan. They could add this particular feature."
"There are many different controls that are needed to be put into place for upgrading that makes it difficult. Having to re-engineer your IT infrastructure to match their software, as opposed to having it integrate and work independently causes difficulties. When there is an update to any software everyone has to be involved."
"Technical support needs some improvement. They don't seem to respond so well to technical help."
"The local technical support is very poor, but the support from headquarters is very nice."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The pricing [is] more or less the same as other similar solutions."
"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 product’s price is less expensive than other vendors."
"VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is an expensive product."
"The product is expensive. There are some additional costs apart from the standard licensing charges attached to the solution."
"CB Defense is available on a yearly subscription and is priced by the number of endpoints."
"The platform is expensive."
"Price-wise, VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is a highly-priced solution. Regarding the licensing cost of the solution, one needs to opt for an annual subscription."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
27%
Computer Software Company
12%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Construction Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Construction Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business31
Midsize Enterprise9
Large Enterprise33
 

Questions from the Community

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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 is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Carbon Black CB Defense?
My rating for the pricing of VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is that it is not cheap, but it is also not as inexpensive as I would prefer.
 

Also Known As

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Carbon Black CB Defense, Bit9, Confer
 

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Sample Customers

S&P Global, Scotiabank, Cybereason, Cummins
Netflix, Progress Residential, Indeed, Hologic, Gentle Giant, Samsung Research America
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