We performed a comparison between Elastic Security and VMware Carbon Black Endpoint based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I like FortiClient EMS. FortiEDR has a lot of great features like lockdown mode, remote wipes, and encryption. I can set malware outbreak policies and controls for detecting abnormalities. You can also simulate phishing attacks."
"It is a scalable solution...The initial setup of Fortinet FortiEDR was straightforward."
"Fortinet FortiEDR's scalability is quite good, and you can add licenses to the solution."
"The console is easy to read. I also like the scanning part and the ability to move assets from one to the other."
"The ease of deployment and configuration is valuable. It's very easy compared to other vendors like Sophos. Sophos' configuration is complex. Fortinet is a lot easier to understand. You don't need a lot of admin knowledge to do the configuration."
"Fortinet has helped free up around 20 percent of our staff's time to help us out."
"Impressive detection capabilities"
"Fortinet is very user-friendly for customers."
"Elastic Security is a highly flexible platform that can be implemented anywhere."
"Elastic Security is very easy to adapt."
"It's simple and easy to use."
"Enables monitoring of application performance and the ability to predict behaviors."
"It is scalable."
"The feature that we have found the most valuable is scalability."
"The most valuable feature of Elastic Security is that you can install agents, and they are not separately licensed."
"Elastic has a lot of beats, such as Winlogbeat and Filebeat. Beats are the agents that have to be installed on the terminals to send the data. When we install beats or Elastic agents on every terminal, they don't overload the terminals. In other SIEM solutions such as Splunk or QRadar, when beats or agents are installed on endpoints, they are very heavy for the terminals. They consume a lot of power of the terminals, whereas Elastic agents hardly consume any power and don't overload the terminals."
"I found it very valuable as a whole. It is good at detecting anything and has kept us very safe. It is also very easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is that it detects and stops malicious executables."
"The visibility provided has been great."
"Some of the valuable features I have found are the online documentation of the solution is well organized and thorough. I like the simplicity of bypass and the visualization of the active components."
"The initial setup was fairly easy."
"VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is a highly stable solution."
"The portal is easy to use and manage."
"It is a scalable solution...The initial setup was straightforward."
"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."
"There's room for improvement in the quick response time and technical support for integration issues, especially when dealing with multiple vendors."
"The SIEM could be improved."
"We've encountered challenges during API deployment, occasionally resulting in unstable environments."
"I haven't seen the use of AI in the solution."
"Once, we had an event that was locked and blocked, but information about it came to us two or three days later."
"I would like the solution to extend beyond endpoint protection and include other attack surfaces such as other network components."
"Detections could be improved."
"The setup process is complex. You need a solid working knowledge of networking, operating systems, and a little programming."
"In terms of improvement, there could be more automation in responding to and evaluating detections."
"We are paying dearly for the guy who is working on the ELK Stack. That knowledge is quite rare and hard to come by. For difficulty and availability of resources, I would rate it a five out of 10."
"In terms of what could be improved with Elastic, in some use cases, especially on the advanced level, they are not ready made, so you'll have to write some scripts."
"We set up a cron job to delete old logs so that we wouldn't hit a disk space issue. Such a feature should be available in the UI, where old logs can be deleted automatically. (Don’t know if this feature is already there)."
"There isn't really a very good user experience. You need a lot of training."
"This solution is very hard to implement."
"Better integration with third-party APMs would be really good."
"It would be a better solution if Carbon Black Cb Defense had an on-promise solution and a virus auto delete or quarantine."
"The UI interface needs improvement. The management needs further work in future versions."
"But here, we hardly can take any kind of a report out of Carbon Black, so I think that should be something that should be more user-friendly."
"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."
"The solution needs better overall compatibility with other products."
"The EDR portion could be better. I'm not a big fan, but it works."
"The solution would be more effective if there was a way to block automatically based on behavior."
"It would be nice to have additional forensic tools that you can build into the back end."
Elastic Security is ranked 16th in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) with 59 reviews while VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is ranked 14th in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) with 62 reviews. Elastic Security is rated 7.6, while VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Elastic Security writes "A stable and scalable tool that provides visibility along with the consolidation of logs to its users". 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". Elastic Security is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel, IBM Security QRadar and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, whereas VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, Trend Micro Deep Security and CyberArk Endpoint Privilege Manager. See our Elastic Security vs. VMware Carbon Black Endpoint report.
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