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Stormshield Endpoint Security vs VMware Carbon Black Endpoint comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 9, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Stormshield Endpoint Security
Ranking in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)
60th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
VMware Carbon Black Endpoint
Ranking in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)
37th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
63
Ranking in other categories
Security Incident Response (6th), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (30th), Ransomware Protection (8th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) category, the mindshare of Stormshield Endpoint Security is 0.3%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is 1.8%, down from 1.9% 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 Endpoint1.8%
Stormshield Endpoint Security0.3%
Other97.9%
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)
 

Featured Reviews

it_user745593 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Project Manager, PMP at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
Protects the global station and has good stability
The feature I find most valuable is that it protects the global station The solution's integration with the Windows environment could be better. The solution needs better integration with products, if it did, it would have the assumption of better security. I've been using the solution since…
Nikunj Kamboj - PeerSpot reviewer
Cybersecurity Analyst at OnX Canada
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 feature I find most valuable is that it protects the global station."
"I feel that the initial setup was straightforward and not complex."
"The biggest feature out of CarbonBlack is its ability to dive in with more depth. You can look at the entire kill chain and understand, not only if an alarm or identified incident is truly a true security issue versus a false positive, and it allows us to backtrack and figure out why it actually happened and how it got into the environment."
"The threat analysis functionality is good."
"You can deploy it through the cloud so that even if your stuff is outside of your controlled environment, you are still under control, based on the policies you create. The policies are controlled through the cloud. For example, if I don't allow anyone to do a certain activity or to install a particular app, and a consultant or a partner who is not part of our environment is doing so, it will stop them as well."
"The portal is easy to use and manage."
"Carbon Black Defense has a higher detection ratio because it's cloud-based and it also does a lookup to virus total."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is one of the best EDR tools in the market."
"Carbon Black Cb Defense improved our endpoint level security. It helped to identify endpoint and infrastructure loopholes."
 

Cons

"The solution's integration with the Windows environment could be better."
"This solution could have greater granular control on how certain applications work."
"The EDR portion could be better. I'm not a big fan, but it works."
"What was rolled out to my company are mixed versions of Carbon Black CB Defense, so what I'd like to see in the next release is more synchronization, where it can detect the endpoint that's running an old version and suggest updates."
"Based on all the security roles and the release privilege, it could take time for an application to be whitelisted and approved for use."
"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 would like to see the user credentials feature improved. I would also like to see more reporting features and better ways to roll the reports out."
"The local technical support is very poor, but the support from headquarters is very nice."
"I would personally give the tech support a rating of seven out of ten."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"CB Defense is available on a yearly subscription and is priced by the number of endpoints."
"The product is expensive. There are some additional costs apart from the standard licensing charges attached to the solution."
"The pricing is very high."
"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."
"The solution has almost the same price as other different kinds of infrastructures, but it offers a lot of different features."
"The pricing [is] more or less the same as other similar solutions."
"The platform is expensive."
"This is a really expensive product and we pay licensing fees on a yearly basis."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
12%
Computer Software Company
10%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
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Company SizeCount
Small Business31
Midsize Enterprise9
Large Enterprise30
 

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What to choose: an endpoint antivirus, an EDR solution or both?
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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

SkyRecon Systems StormShield Security Suite
Carbon Black CB Defense, Bit9, Confer
 

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Sample Customers

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Netflix, Progress Residential, Indeed, Hologic, Gentle Giant, Samsung Research America
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