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Carbon Black EDR

Composite Score

7.3 /10

CX Score

7.6 /10

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What is Carbon Black EDR?

Carbon Black EDR is an incident response and threat hunting solution designed for Security Operations Center teams with offline environments or on-premises requirements. Carbon Black EDR continuously records and stores endpoint activity data so security professionals can hunt threats in real time and visualize the complete attack kill chain, using the Carbon Black Cloud’s aggregated threat intelligence.

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Carbon Black EDR Ratings

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84 Likeliness to Recommend

1
Since last award

95 Plan to Renew

78 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

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+88 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Carbon Black EDR?

5% Negative

0% Neutral

95% Positive

Pros

Client Friendly Policies
Fair
Altruistic
Reliable

Feature Ratings

Average 76

Intrusion Detection Prevention

IOC Consumption

IOC Tools

Whitelisting Blacklisting

Malware Identification Accuracy

Continuous Monitoring

Machine Learning

Automated Threat Response

Agent Efficiency

Behavioural Analytics

Task Prioritization

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 77

Ease of IT Administration

Breadth of Features

Vendor Support

Quality of Features

Ease of Implementation

Usability and Intuitiveness

Business Value Created

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Data Integration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Customization

Carbon Black EDR Reviews

Paul A.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Finance
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

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Submitted Mar 2025

Incident Response and Remediation at its fines.

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Carbon Black EDR from other similar products?

VMware Carbon Black EDR differentiates itself with its comprehensive endpoint data collection, intuitive attack chain visualization, and real-time threat hunting capabilities, allowing security professionals to quickly identify, understand, and respond to threats. Also Carbon Black continuously records and stores comprehensive endpoint activity data, providing a rich data feed for security teams to analyze and hunt threats.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Threat Intelligence and Machine Learning , learning to detect and prevent both known and unknown threats.

What do you dislike most about this product?

I am having issues with Watchlists custom detection that continuously monitors the environment for potential threats and suspicious activity.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Make sure you have a detailed plan to deploy product and setup in possible DMZ or sandbox mode.

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Efficient Service
Inspires Innovation
Caring

Jacob H.

Role: Sales Marketing
Industry: Telecommunications
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

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Submitted Sep 2024

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Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Carbon Black EDR from other similar products?

Where VMware Carbon Black EDR stands out from other solutions is that the product has primacy detection of threats and auto-remediation, which saves time on actual security breaches. Furthermore, its user-friendly and organization characteristics ensure that, even for people who have no knowledge in cybersecurity, they can use it well.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The best feature of VMware Carbon Black EDR is its ability to observe the activities of the systems and determine the main issues or threats that are present and ready to attack; I can then respond and counter them rapidly.

What do you dislike most about this product?

On the flip side, what I find unfavourable is that it tends to somewhat bring down the speed of the system, but that is a minor issue given the advantages of the tool.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Overall, it is advantageous and I will advise anyone seeking to improve a company’s security defense system to prefer VMware Carbon Black EDR. It helps identify threats before they happen, it has a friendly user interface and it could respond automatically to threats and thus it is an inevitable tool in the modern technological world. Do not leave this opportunity to go and use it today and enjoy the calm you get from protecting your valued data!

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Enables Productivity
Trustworthy

Tanvi P.

Role: Sales Marketing
Industry: Media
Involvement: End User of Application

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Submitted Mar 2024

Can have more functionalities in their console

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Carbon Black EDR from other similar products?

Their endpoint detection and response rate is top notch

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The fact that security provided is very reliable. Its quite enhanced.

What do you dislike most about this product?

You can't setup and configure the tool on your own due to certain types of complexities and hence you would need a support hand to walk you through.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Reliable but not easy to use in the first go. Can become handy with subsequent uses.

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Trustworthy
Caring
Client's Interest First

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Carbon Black EDR Ratings

84 Likeliness to Recommend

1 Since last award

95 Plan to Renew

78 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+88 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Carbon Black EDR?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Intrusion Detection Prevention Through event monitoring, the detection, countermeasure and prevention of possible security incidents or threats.

IOC Consumption Ability to consume IOCs.

IOC Tools Full export capabilities are simple to execute.

Whitelisting Blacklisting Whitelisting and blacklisting of applications and websites that are either certified to be safe, or suspected to be malicious.

Malware Identification Accuracy Malware identification and fingerprinting can provide extensive and deep indicators and analysis of malware detected.

Continuous Monitoring Allows customers to select specific third parties which are continuously monitored, with alerts generated for significant changes in risk scores

Machine Learning Can provide deep behavioural insights.

Automated Threat Response Automatic response to threats.

Agent Efficiency Agents are lightweight and create few conflicts or performance impacts.

Behavioural Analytics Includes real-time dashboard visualizations, detailed & summary reporting on user behaviour.

Task Prioritization Ability to assign a priority to tasks.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

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Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

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Carbon Black EDR Reviews

Paul A.

Incident Response and Remediation at its fines.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Jacob H.

Here, I will provide my insight of VMware Carbon B

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Tanvi P.

Can have more functionalities in their console

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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