We performed a comparison between Sophos EPP Suite and VMware Carbon Black Endpoint based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product detects and blocks threats and is more proactive than firewalls."
"The stability is very good."
"The price is low and quite competitive with others."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the ability to customize it and to reduce its size. It lets you run in a very small window in terms of memory and resources on legacy cash registers."
"Fortinet has helped free up around 20 percent of our staff's time to help us out."
"It is a scalable solution...The initial setup of Fortinet FortiEDR was straightforward."
"Additionally, when it comes to EDR, there are more tools available to assist with client work."
"The solution was relatively easy to deploy."
"The most valuable feature is endpoint detection and response."
"What I like best about Sophos EPP Suite is that it's a good product. What's nice about it is that after I installed it on my computer, the tool detects and eliminates most of the problems, malware, and vulnerabilities. It works very well and is very efficient because it doesn't use up many resources from my computer. For me, Sophos EPP Suite is the best security and antivirus solution. In terms of its endpoint capabilities, I'm unable to comment on other Sophos security devices, but it seems Sophos EPP Suite has a next-generation firewall feature, though I didn't use it, and it may not be comparable to other next-generation firewalls. My current firewall is a next-generation firewall from Fortinet, and it's the best firewall for me in terms of cost and security, but for endpoint protection, I use Sophos EPP Suite, and it has the best security for my device. The tool is also good for organizations. It's the best tool."
"The web control and the application control are two good features."
"The most valuable feature is the central administration and management."
"The solution is useful for security purposes."
"The solution efficiently protects the servers for our customers."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos EPP Suite is the accounting and reporting services are good and professional. The business features of the solution are very useful, such as the reporting page for clients. It provides a clear understanding of usage, including how much traffic has been used and how much is remaining. Additionally, it's user-friendly and easy to understand. Overall, the solution is good, useful, and has a helpful user interface."
"So easy to deploy and use that you really don't even need their technical support."
"It uses machine learning and behavioral analytics for advanced threat detection and response."
"The solution has a very nice API on the back end for remoting into a system and executing scripts or utilizing self automation."
"Carbon Black Cb Defense has a nice component called Alert Triage. It contains full details of the process execution "kill chain" and "go live" for immediate remediation."
"This product has the capability of uploading scripts to the tool and this is a very comprehensive feature."
"I rate Carbon Black CB Defense an eight out of ten for the ease of its initial setup."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is one of the best EDR tools in the market."
"Behavioral Monitoring stops known malicious events before they even begin."
"It gives you all of the information in a short and sweet fashion."
"The security should be strong for the cloud. Some applications are on-prem and some are on the cloud. Fortinet should also have strong security for the cloud. There should be more security for the cloud."
"FortiEDR could add a separate scanning dashboard. In incident management, we prefer to remove the endpoint system from the environment and scan the system. We typically use Symantec for that, but if we want to use FortiEDR for that, then we need a scanning tab to clarify things."
"Cannot be used on mobile devices with a secure connection."
"We'd like to see more one-to-one product presentations for the distribution channels."
"To improve Fortinet, we need to see more features and technology areas at the endpoint level introduced."
"The amount of usage, the number of details we get, or the number of options that can be tweaked is limited in comparison to that with other EDR solutions"
"I haven't seen the use of AI in the solution."
"They can include the automation for the realtime updates. We have a network infrastructure with remote sites. Whenever they send updates, they are not automated. We have to go into the console and push those updates. I wish it was more automated. The update file is currently around 31 MB. It could be smaller."
"There could be enhancements made to the DLP."
"I would like to have more logging features to help more deeply analyze traffic."
"There has been an increase of about 7-10% in recent months. That's why we face issues with customers who have been using it since 2017."
"It would be ideal if the price could be lowered a little bit."
"The product should improve support and provide more scalable clustering."
"Sometimes there are issues with the antivirus back logs."
"The product's filtering and stability can be better."
"Sophos is lacking in the granularity of optimization, so having more control would be better."
"Sensor deployment requires extensive fine-tuning, and creating deployment packages is time-consuming."
"The support is poor."
"They will most likely need to create or include a feature that checks the network."
"The node management could be much better. The one thing that they cannot do very easily is change the tenant from a backend."
"Performing a malware scan usually takes a lot of time, more than 24 hours."
"Occasionally, we'll have issues with the latest version and they'll basically tell us that they will improve it in the next iteration. They need to work on their version release quality."
"Right now, Carbon Black CB Defense doesn't support cloud computing and Kubernetes."
"As far as I know, Carbon Defense has nothing that can be installed on mobile devices. It lacks a defense solution for mobile devices, especially mobile tablets. I would like to see support for mobile devices and the pricing should be less than the pricing for a normal workstation."
Sophos EPP Suite is ranked 26th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 52 reviews while VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is ranked 17th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 61 reviews. Sophos EPP Suite is rated 8.0, while VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Sophos EPP Suite writes "The solution provides endpoint detection and response with a nice-looking dashboard". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Carbon Black Endpoint writes "Centralization via the cloud allows us to protect and control people working from home". Sophos EPP Suite is most compared with Trend Micro Deep Security, Seqrite Endpoint Security, Trellix Endpoint Security and Coro, whereas VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Trend Micro Deep Security, SentinelOne Singularity Complete and Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks. See our Sophos EPP Suite vs. VMware Carbon Black Endpoint report.
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