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."The stability is very good."
"he solution is an anti-malware product that integrates well with other vendor products such as firewalls, SIEM, etc. It captures threat intelligence and gives you better visibility. The product also has sandboxing features."
"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."
"The solution was relatively easy to deploy."
"Fortinet has helped free up around 20 percent of our staff's time to help us out."
"It is stable and scalable."
"The price is low and quite competitive with others."
"The main thing is that I feel safe. Because the processes that have been used to get a handle on the attackers are much better than other competitors"
"The visualization is very good."
"It's open-source and free to use."
"The most valuable features are the speed, detail, and visualization. It has the latest standards."
"Elastic is straightforward, easy to integrate, and highly customizable."
"It is scalable."
"Elastic Security is very customizable, and the dashboards are very easy to build."
"I like that it's a SIEM platform. I like that I can sell Elastic Security quickly. Elastic Security has a large community that can support users."
"We've found the initial setup to be quite straightforward."
"I like its reporting."
"The product enables device controls, helping us protect the devices and prevent data leakages."
"VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is a highly stable solution."
"It uses machine learning and behavioral analytics for advanced threat detection and response."
"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."
"Carbon Black Defense has a higher detection ratio because it's cloud-based and it also does a lookup to virus total."
"The best feature of this solution is that we have a live response, which is really tailored to our needs."
"I feel that the initial setup was straightforward and not complex."
"Detections could be improved."
"The dashboard isn't easy to access and manage."
"ZTNA can improve latency."
"The amount of usage, the number of details we get, or the number of options that can be tweaked is limited in comparison to that with other EDR solutions"
"The solution should address emerging threats like SQL injection."
"Cannot be used on mobile devices with a secure connection."
"There's room for improvement in the quick response time and technical support for integration issues, especially when dealing with multiple vendors."
"FortiEDR can be improved by providing more detailed reporting."
"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 had issues with scalability. Logstash was not scaling and aggregation was getting delayed. We moved to Fluentd making our stack from ELK to EFK."
"There is room for improvement in the Kibana dashboard and in the asset management for the program."
"Upgrades currently released as stacks when it should be a plugin or an extension to save removal and reinstallation."
"The biggest challenge has been related to the implementation."
"Better integration with third-party APMs would be really good."
"Authentication is not a default in Kibana. We need to have another tool to have authentication and authorization. These two should be part of Kibana."
"Elastic Security's maintenance is hard and its scalability is a challenge. There are complications in scaling and upgrading. The solution needs to also provide periodic upgrade checks."
"The application control can be improved. It should also have an automatic update of the agents."
"Its compatibility can be improved. It did crash a server during deployment, which is not something that I want to happen. Its deployment should also be easier. The whole deployment cycle needs to be simplified. It is an enterprise solution, and to set it up right now, you have to be an expert."
"The product's reporting capabilities are an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The solution has to mature on container security and a lot of cloud environment security."
"Right now, Carbon Black CB Defense doesn't support cloud computing and Kubernetes."
"Report generation can be improved."
"The product's stability could be improved."
"What was rolled out to my company are mixed versions of Carbon Black CB Defense, so what I'd like to see in the next release is more synchronization, where it can detect the endpoint that's running an old version and suggest updates."
Elastic Security is ranked 16th in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) with 59 reviews while VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is ranked 12th in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) with 61 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, Trend Micro Deep Security and SentinelOne Singularity Complete. See our Elastic Security vs. VMware Carbon Black Endpoint report.
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