We performed a comparison between Check Point Application Control and VMware Carbon Black App Control 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."This solution is stable and we have not had any issues."
"Its initial setup is very simple and straightforward."
"The automatic updates of new applications and signatures guarantee protection at all times without the need to apply a change manually."
"It blocks ransomware attacks that can affect performance-enhancing secure work environments with zero-day attacks."
"This platform has fully secured our applications with very powerful firewall security upgrades."
"It ensures that the health of each application can handle the set tasks and projects without any challenges."
"They have an excellent support team. They are fast and it is easy to escalate any situation."
"The most outstanding feature is the Check Point APK wiki."
"The effectiveness of application whitelisting is very good."
"All the functions within VMware Carbon Black App Control are valuable."
"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."
"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."
"I use the console to check for threats and I find it to be very user-friendly."
"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."
"Seeing the capabilities and features that we are using today, we can say that we could expect an additional feature that could allow us to integrate this management and even security with APIs."
"It would be nice if there was a platform and small application owners could come and send their own applications' name and IP information from there."
"We would like the product to be a bit more user-friendly in general."
"It is expensive."
"Check Point licenses are somewhat expensive."
"SD-WAN functionality can be added."
"We expect applications to be updated regularly."
"The initial setup was a bit difficult."
"The reporting is not good and needs to be improved."
"The solution should have overhead in keeping lists of applications that you want don't want to run."
"I rate App Control six out of 10 for scalability."
"The initial setup is somewhat complex."
"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."
"Carbon Black does not use the database for identifying the file, the fields, or malware."
"I would like to see the addition of some more features that are in other, similar solutions."
"Its setup is very complex, and it requires guidance from the support team, but it is well worth the effort."
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Check Point Application Control is ranked 1st in Application Control with 34 reviews while VMware Carbon Black App Control is ranked 2nd in Application Control with 8 reviews. Check Point Application Control is rated 8.8, while VMware Carbon Black App Control is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Check Point Application Control writes "Reliable, reduces management requirements, and lessens manual interventions". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Carbon Black App Control writes "We can isolate problem machines and limit their access". Check Point Application Control is most compared with Ivanti Application Control and WatchGuard Application Control, whereas VMware Carbon Black App Control is most compared with McAfee Application Control, ThreatLocker Elevation Control and Ivanti Application Control. See our Check Point Application Control vs. VMware Carbon Black App Control report.
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