We performed a comparison between VMware Carbon Black App Control and Zscaler CASB based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Control solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The effectiveness of application whitelisting is very good."
"All the functions within VMware Carbon Black App Control are valuable."
"We use App Control to scan the network for virtual machines that have unauthorized applications. We can isolate the problem VMs and control application access."
"I use the console to check for threats and I find it to be very user-friendly."
"If any malicious activity, like VAT viruses, anything RNE, ZOD malware, or something similar, comes in we know that unless we approve it, it's going to be blocked."
"The visibility is valuable."
"The API integration is good."
"The visibility, reporting, and the ability to stop or prevent malicious or undesired applications from being installed are the most valuable features."
"Zscaler CASB's latency and architecture are excellent."
"The most valuable features of Zscaler CASB are API integration and DLP."
"The tool's scalability is good."
"Has a good zero trust feature."
"Overall, the solution does a pretty good job at web filtering."
"It has been helpful in maintaining our infrastructure. The granular level control it offers allows us to set application policies per application for each user."
"The solution should have overhead in keeping lists of applications that you want don't want to run."
"The initial setup is somewhat complex."
"I rate App Control six out of 10 for scalability."
"Carbon Black does not use the database for identifying the file, the fields, or malware."
"Another issue is that even sometimes if you approve, for example, Adobe as a publisher, you say any product or anything that's from Adobe has to run. It generally runs, but especially in a large environment and with a lot of users, sometimes, due to some certification validation issues or some other issue, it might stop the process from running. Genuine processes like Adobe and Chrome can get blocked. so that needs to be improved."
"The reporting is not good and needs to be improved."
"Its setup is very complex, and it requires guidance from the support team, but it is well worth the effort."
"I would like to see the addition of some more features that are in other, similar solutions."
"It needs to offer SSO, single sign-on, and items of that nature."
"User management can be improved."
"The pre-defined dictionaries could be improved."
"Zscaler CASB breaks down at times."
"Zscaler CASB should include integrations with other SaaS applications."
"The solution's granularity should be improved because it has limited granular options to control, visible, allow, block, delay, and receive."
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VMware Carbon Black App Control is ranked 1st in Application Control with 8 reviews while Zscaler CASB is ranked 6th in Application Control with 6 reviews. VMware Carbon Black App Control is rated 9.2, while Zscaler CASB is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of VMware Carbon Black App Control writes "We can isolate problem machines and limit their access". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zscaler CASB writes "A stable solution that provides API integration and DLP, but lacks integrations with other SaaS applications". VMware Carbon Black App Control is most compared with McAfee Application Control, ThreatLocker Elevation Control, Ivanti Application Control and Check Point Application Control, whereas Zscaler CASB is most compared with Skyhigh Security, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, ThreatLocker Elevation Control and Cisco Umbrella. See our VMware Carbon Black App Control vs. Zscaler CASB report.
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