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DeepArmor vs VMware Carbon Black Endpoint comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

DeepArmor
Ranking in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)
71st
Average Rating
2.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
VMware Carbon Black Endpoint
Ranking in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)
32nd
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
63
Ranking in other categories
Security Incident Response (2nd), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (24th), Ransomware Protection (7th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) category, the mindshare of DeepArmor is 0.1%, up from 0.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is 1.7%, down from 2.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
VMware Carbon Black Endpoint1.7%
DeepArmor0.1%
Other98.2%
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)
 

Featured Reviews

Muhammad Fahad - PeerSpot reviewer
Security needs improvement and email scanning features are not included
The email scanning feature is not available in DeepArmor. We cannot use this for email scanning. There are many options that are not available in DeepArmor. We cannot use separate applications for different internet applications or for different internet scanning. This is why we cannot use it. I would like to see additional features such as email scanning, which should be included, or malware detections, and other cybersecurity features should be included. It could also be more secure.
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

"It is easy to install."
"The product is pretty strong in terms of security and their features are very good in that respect."
"Carbon Black Cb Defense improved our endpoint level security. It helped to identify endpoint and infrastructure loopholes."
"The data analysis is the most valuable because of the whitelist database. It is different than standard IDS solutions."
"Carbon Black has very good market strategies."
"The tool is pretty stable."
"The product's most valuable feature is its ability to be fully integrated with the VMware environment."
"This product has the capability of uploading scripts to the tool and this is a very comprehensive feature."
"The product allows us to focus on endpoint and antivirus protection."
 

Cons

"The email scanning feature is not available in DeepArmor."
"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."
"I am not sure whether Carbon Black CB Defense can be considered as a stable solution or not."
"The UI interface needs improvement. The management needs further work in future versions."
"The product's reporting capabilities are an area of concern where improvements are required."
"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 solution needs better overall compatibility with other products."
"Based on all the security roles and the release privilege, it could take time for an application to be whitelisted and approved for use."
"When you view the triage, it will show you everything within a given time frame, and not only the attack that caused the alert, which is what I want to see. It shows you all the events during that time, and that can be quite confusing."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"There are licensing fees."
"The product is expensive. There are some additional costs apart from the standard licensing charges attached to the solution."
"This is a really expensive product and we pay licensing fees on a yearly basis."
"Carbon Black provides competitive pricing."
"The product’s price is less expensive than other vendors."
"The solution has almost the same price as other different kinds of infrastructures, but it offers a lot of different features."
"The licensing cost is on the more expensive side, but I thought it was worth it because they did a good job. It was one of the vendors I truly didn't have to worry about too much until this latest upgrade."
"Carbon Black might be a touch more expensive than Symantec. They tend to get a premium for their capabilities. They're sort of an industry leader in a lot of areas with the functionality that they provide."
"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."
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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business31
Midsize Enterprise10
Large Enterprise29
 

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Carbon Black CB Defense, Bit9, Confer
 

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