Cyber Security Analyst at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Jun 25, 2020
The reporting is not good and needs to be improved. It is plain and unattractive, and you need to do a lot of sorting to get it done. Having some form of executive management reporting, in case we need to present it to the board, would be helpful. The current reports are simply too plain for that.
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The solution should have overhead in keeping lists of applications that you want don't want to run.
Carbon Black does not use the database for identifying the file, the fields, or malware. It's not using the database, but the user behavior.
Its setup is very complex, and it requires guidance from the support team, but it is well worth the effort.
The initial setup is somewhat complex.
The reporting is not good and needs to be improved. It is plain and unattractive, and you need to do a lot of sorting to get it done. Having some form of executive management reporting, in case we need to present it to the board, would be helpful. The current reports are simply too plain for that.
I would like to see the addition of some more features that are in other, similar solutions.