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GravityZone Business Security 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
6.5
GravityZone Business Security offers cost-effective protection and efficiency, with reduced manual updates and strong threat defense.
Sentiment score
7.1
Users reported significant ROI with VMware Carbon Black Endpoint, citing reduced malware and ransomware incidents, and 10% cost savings.
Comparatively, these American products are much better.
The primary ROI is achieving high safety levels for our network.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.5
GravityZone Business Security offers prompt, effective support with quick issue resolution and language-specific assistance, despite occasional response delays.
Sentiment score
6.4
VMware Carbon Black Endpoint support is generally praised as effective and knowledgeable, but some report delays and issues with tiered support.
Services like updates are handled professionally, ensuring stability and operational continuity.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
8.5
GravityZone Business Security smoothly scales with growth, simplifies expansions, and integrates licenses and devices with minimal server changes.
Sentiment score
7.5
VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is highly scalable and adaptable for various enterprises, praised for ease of adding tenants and managing environments.
GravityZone has scaled effortlessly as our organization has expanded, accommodating more devices and users without needing additional server purchases.
The effort of managing ten clients and the effort of managing ten thousand clients is insignificant.
It is quite scalable and easily scalable.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.7
GravityZone Business Security is praised for stability, reliable performance, ease of management, and superior threat protection despite occasional update issues.
Sentiment score
7.6
VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is stable, lightweight, reliable, and highly rated, though minor issues with sensors and updates occasionally occur.
Stability is crucial for us, given that the endpoint device is a main gate for attacks or malware.
 

Room For Improvement

GravityZone Business Security needs improvements in integration, user interface, performance, and additional features to enhance efficiency and ROI.
VMware Carbon Black Endpoint struggles with mobile support, complex UI, performance issues, inadequate reporting, and insufficient third-party integration.
It is more than adequate, just needing to keep up with industry changes.
It's not designed with current standards; it's not HTML5 and doesn't work well for navigation.
More customization freedom to accommodate unique environment needs could enhance the solution's flexibility.
 

Setup Cost

GravityZone Business Security is cost-effective, charging around $1 per device monthly, with competitive three-year licensing deals.
VMware Carbon Black Endpoint licensing is seen as expensive and inflexible, with prices ranging from $15 to $7,000 per node.
GravityZone is one of the cheapest solutions among its competitors.
Datto is offering a bundle for less than what we pay for Bitdefender.
The pricing is very reasonable.
 

Valuable Features

GravityZone Business Security offers comprehensive protection, easy management, cost-effectiveness, and detailed risk analysis, making it highly reliable.
VMware Carbon Black Endpoint offers robust remote security with intuitive real-time detection, AI-driven threat response, and centralized cloud control.
The threat detection capability is outstanding with no issues at all.
The best part is the risk management; it gives me real relief, and an overall idea of what all my systems are exposed to, where my weaknesses lie, and how I can address them—whether it's misconfigurations, user behavior creating the risk, or the OS software that isn't getting patched, or critical CVs that aren't getting mitigated.
Bitdefender's information is very thorough and allows us to understand when we need to wipe the system.
 

Categories and Ranking

GravityZone Business Security
Ranking in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)
31st
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
17
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
VMware Carbon Black Endpoint
Ranking in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)
22nd
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
63
Ranking in other categories
Security Incident Response (1st), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (17th), Ransomware Protection (5th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) category, the mindshare of GravityZone Business Security is 1.6%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is 1.6%, down from 2.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)
 

Featured Reviews

Wesam Qashou - PeerSpot reviewer
Achieving nearly complete protection with reliable configuration management and effective technical support
The most valuable features of GravityZone Business Security are its anti-malware and anti-virus capabilities. The firewall policies are considered very powerful, and it prevents many malicious issues. The solution has its own definitions for viruses or malware, providing timely detection updates. Additionally, their technical support is very effective, with knowledgeable engineers handling cases efficiently.
KarthikR1 - PeerSpot reviewer
The solution has an easy setup but needs to mature on cloud environment security
The maturity of the Kubernetes security is absent in Carbon Black CB Defense. The solution has to mature on container security and a lot of cloud environment security. Security is available only for Windows, while security for Linux and Mac is not very strong. The deadlock issue causes me to put more effort into installing an upgrade. The numerous issues with the environment of the product solution should be addressed. Work orders are taking more than two months to get resolved. There's been one issue open for two months, and the solution they gave is being implemented step by step. Still, it is not meeting the requirements and breaking the system. Hence, our business is completely disturbed.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
19%
Comms Service Provider
14%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Government
7%
Computer Software Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Bitdefender GravityZone Elite?
The product provides endpoint visibility and portal updates, which are very helpful.
What needs improvement with Bitdefender GravityZone Elite?
There are three main areas for improvement: Windows firewall, content filter, and support. This is one observation, though I have not studied it in length. When studying in depth, we have faced man...
What is your primary use case for Bitdefender GravityZone Elite?
We have partnerships with all of these vendors including Sophos, Bitdefender, Microsoft, Palo Alto, and many other vendors. We collect product reviews for them by calling on their behalf and asking...
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

GravityZone Elite
Carbon Black CB Defense, Bit9, Confer
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Archdiocese, Northstar, SeSa, W&W Informatik, Yamaha Motor Europe
Netflix, Progress Residential, Indeed, Hologic, Gentle Giant, Samsung Research America
Find out what your peers are saying about GravityZone Business Security vs. VMware Carbon Black Endpoint and other solutions. Updated: June 2025.
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