We performed a comparison between Carbon Black CB Defense and Trend Micro Deep Security based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Carbon Black CB Defense comes out on top in this comparison. This solution has ongoing monitoring that will immediately notify users of any anomalous behavior. Many users feel Trend Micro Deep Security can be very draining on resources, which can be problematic.
"In addition to providing our clients a view of what's happening in their data centers, it also does virtual patching in the data center. It enhances the security in the data center big time."
"The most valuable features of the solution we have enabled in our organization are its anti-malware capabilities, applications, web reputation, and integrity monitoring."
"We find that their technical support team is always accessible and willing to assist."
"The tool provides information on server activities and hosts."
"It can scale well."
"There's useful monitoring on offer."
"Support and threat prevention are the most valuable features of this solution."
"I switched to Trend Micro because of its good marketing techniques."
"CB Defense is more powerful, and you can take more actions than others. Its security features and signatures are constantly updated, so it is more effective than other security solutions."
"Carbon Black has very good market strategies."
"The solution is very useful and easy to handle. You don't need much intervention with this product."
"The solution has a very nice API on the back end for remoting into a system and executing scripts or utilizing self automation."
"It is a very complete platform."
"The new feature that we're deploying, the new offering from Carbon Black, is MDR, which stands for manage, detect, and response. It's the most valuable feature because Carbon Black will be continuously checking the logs, and they will be advising us on how to improve some of the policies as well as review the logs. If there are any nefarious agents or things happening on the end points, they will know."
"One of the most valuable features is that it will block vulnerable sites. If there was a connection between one of our devices to a known malware site, it will block it."
"I found the offline scanning to be particularly useful."
"Trend Micro Deep Security security and scalability could be improved."
"I would like to see XDR features and endpoint sensor become available."
"The tool needs to improve its subscription."
"I've not worked with CrowdStrike Falcon, but one of our customers also had CrowdStrike Falcon on some of the devices. I was only supporting Trend Micro. They had a ransomware attack, but Trend Micro didn't detect that particular ransomware attack, whereas CrowdStrike did."
"The solution should focus on the EDR part and probably have an integrated data leak prevention module."
"The initial setup was complex."
"A minor issue in Trend Micro Deep Security is that once the tool is upgraded, it shows some machines as offline or not reported while showing a recent update as outdated. The tool has some server connection issues."
"We want to see improved authentication."
"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."
"Right now, Carbon Black CB Defense doesn't support cloud computing and Kubernetes."
"The solution has to mature on container security and a lot of cloud environment security."
"The device control feature could also be compatible with the user’s profile as well."
"CB Defense could be more compatible with Linux, and its cloud provision could be improved."
"They will most likely need to create or include a feature that checks the network."
"The support is poor."
"It is difficult to extract reports for ongoing scans"
Trend Micro Deep Security is ranked 1st in Virtualization Security with 35 reviews while VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is ranked 13th in EPP (Endpoint Protection for Business) with 28 reviews. Trend Micro Deep Security is rated 8.4, while VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Trend Micro Deep Security writes "Supports virtual patching, and is easy to deploy, use, and manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Carbon Black Endpoint writes "The manage, detect, and response feature enables Carbon Black to continuously check logs and advise us on how to improve some of the policies". Trend Micro Deep Security is most compared with Trend Micro Apex One, CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Symantec Endpoint Security and SentinelOne Singularity Complete, whereas VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, Secureworks Red Cloak Threat Detection and Response and Cisco Secure Endpoint.
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