We performed a comparison between Sophos EPP Suite and VMware Carbon Black Endpoint based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It notifies us if there's any suspicious file on any PC. If any execution or similar kind of thing is happening, it just alerts us. It doesn't only alert. It also blocks the execution until we allow it. We check whether the execution is legitimate or not, and then approve it or keep it blocked. This gives us a little bit of control over this mechanism. Fortinet FortiEDR is also very straightforward and easy to maintain."
"The most valuable feature is the analysis, because of the beta structure."
"Additionally, when it comes to EDR, there are more tools available to assist with client work."
"Impressive detection capabilities"
"Ability to get forensics details and also memory exfiltration."
"The product detects and blocks threats and is more proactive than firewalls."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the ability to customize it and to reduce its size. It lets you run in a very small window in terms of memory and resources on legacy cash registers."
"It is stable and scalable."
"The product is stable and has a user-friendly dashboard. It has good security features."
"The solution is useful for security purposes."
"This product is quite stable and there are no problems with it."
"We bought it because it was cost-effective."
"Sophos EPP Suite's most valuable feature is ease of use."
"Sophos EPP Suite's best feature is that the endpoints and firewalls remain synced."
"With Sophos, the scanning of viruses and scanning of the disk is done silently in the background."
"The solution efficiently protects the servers for our customers."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the support it provides."
"Carbon Black CB Defense has helped improve my organization by allowing us to have better data so that we can do correlation and get visibility into the alerts."
"We have another piece of that infrastructure that does what they call threat emulation. It's like sandboxing where it takes files that it doesn't know about, puts them in a VM-type environment, and it kicks them off to see if there's any malware or tendencies that might look like malware, that kind of thing."
"Carbon Black Cb Defense improved our endpoint level security. It helped to identify endpoint and infrastructure loopholes."
"The feature I found most valuable in Carbon Black CB Defense is the ongoing monitoring feature that works by emailing updates about any detections found."
"It significantly speeds up incident response times by alerting analysts immediately upon detecting potential issues."
"The visibility provided has been great."
"Provides visibility into the chain of attack and threats that use valid operating system processes to execute attacks."
"The solution is not stable."
"The security should be strong for the cloud. Some applications are on-prem and some are on the cloud. Fortinet should also have strong security for the cloud. There should be more security for the cloud."
"It takes about two business days for initial support, which is too slow in urgent situations."
"Cannot be used on mobile devices with a secure connection."
"The solution's installation from a central installation server could be improved because the engineers had a little bit of trouble getting it installed from a central location."
"The EDR console should have more extensive reporting. You shouldn't need to purchase FortiAnalyzer. It should be included in the EDR part. The security adviser cloud platform could be improved with more options for exclusive or intensive rules for devices."
"The dashboard isn't easy to access and manage."
"FortiEDR could add a separate scanning dashboard. In incident management, we prefer to remove the endpoint system from the environment and scan the system. We typically use Symantec for that, but if we want to use FortiEDR for that, then we need a scanning tab to clarify things."
"In the future, I would like to see better third-party integration so that it can work in conjunction with our ticket system."
"From our enrollment perspective, I would say maybe it could be a little lighter in terms of agent usage so that there is less computer utilization."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"We use cloud services quite a bit. Therefore, I would like to see integration with other security tools besides endpoint so that I'm not managing different tools separately. I would prefer to have a single security solution for my laptop and for managing other security things like passwords."
"There are also issues with the compatibility of the OS. When using Sophos with Windows and devices, most of them work well, but as soon as we work with macOS and Linux, many issues arise that we do not want to have."
"The encryption features are not as good as McAfee's."
"Sophos EPP Suite's support services need improvement."
"The solution could improve on the resource management, it is a bit heavy on the resources."
"This solution works well but needs lots of tuning and optimization."
"The application control can be improved. It should also have an automatic update of the agents."
"The UI interface needs improvement. The management needs further work in future versions."
"Adding an application and a device control feature would be a great help for this solution."
"I haven't run into anything that needs improvement. The website interface can be a little bit better, but it's still good as compared to most others."
"It is difficult to extract reports for ongoing scans"
"There is room for improvement in the support and service team."
"It would be nice to have additional forensic tools that you can build into the back end."
Sophos EPP Suite is ranked 27th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 55 reviews while VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is ranked 17th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 63 reviews. Sophos EPP Suite is rated 8.0, while VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Sophos EPP Suite writes "The solution provides endpoint detection and response with a nice-looking dashboard". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Carbon Black Endpoint writes "Centralization via the cloud allows us to protect and control people working from home". Sophos EPP Suite is most compared with Seqrite Endpoint Security, Trend Micro Deep Security, Trellix Endpoint Security and Coro, whereas VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, Trend Micro Deep Security and Cisco Secure Endpoint. See our Sophos EPP Suite vs. VMware Carbon Black Endpoint report.
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