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."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."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"Fortinet FortiEDR's firewalling, rule creation, monitoring, and inspection profiles are great."
"It is very easy to set up. I would rate my experience with the initial setup a ten out of ten, with ten being very easy to set up."
"Ability to get forensics details and also memory exfiltration."
"It is a scalable solution...The initial setup of Fortinet FortiEDR was straightforward."
"The stability is very good."
"Sophos EPP Suite has the capability to stop infections from spreading around the internal network even after the problems have infiltrated it."
"The most valuable features of Sophos EPP Suite are the synchronized threat and ransomware protection."
"Sophos EPP Suite's most valuable feature is ease of use."
"It is a scalable platform."
"With Sophos, the scanning of viruses and scanning of the disk is done silently in the background."
"The performance and scalability are impressive. We can install it on various computers."
"The product’s selling point is its ability to protect against zero-day threats and its integration with the firewall."
"Our experience with Sophos has been notable; it's database-driven and efficiently integrates to inspect and protect us against biases, malware, and attacks."
"The software uses very few resources; it is almost invisible to the end user."
"This product has the capability of uploading scripts to the tool and this is a very comprehensive feature."
"I rate Carbon Black CB Defense an eight out of ten for the ease of its initial setup."
"The data analysis is the most valuable because of the whitelist database. It is different than standard IDS solutions."
"It gives you all of the information in a short and sweet fashion."
"The solution has a library where we can have multiple threat intels onboarded. We just have to subscribe to a particular site intel and they'll provide us with all of the truncated details so that we can create IOCs and alerts on the basis of those IOCs."
"It is a stable solution...The initial setup of VMware Carbon Black Endpoint was easy."
"The product enables device controls, helping us protect the devices and prevent data leakages."
"We've had a lot of false positives; things incorrectly flagged that require manual configuration to allow. Even worse, after we allow a legitimate program, it sometimes gets flagged again after an update. This has caused a lot of extra work for my team."
"The solution should address emerging threats like SQL injection."
"I would like the solution to extend beyond endpoint protection and include other attack surfaces such as other network components."
"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."
"I haven't seen the use of AI in the solution."
"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."
"Everything with Fortinet having to do with their cloud services. They need to invest more in their internal infrastructure that they are running in the cloud. One of the things I find with their cloud environment compared to others' is that they go cheap on the equipment. So it causes some performance degradation."
"It takes about two business days for initial support, which is too slow in urgent situations."
"The solution is not easy to use in comparison to other endpoint security solutions."
"The management console need improvement."
"Configuring notifications is lagging a bit behind the curve as the product should be able to direct exactly where any notification type is sent."
"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."
"The only drawback is that it requires a little more system configuration."
"The solution could be more stable."
"The solution lacks technical support."
"The solution has a strange technical support process where you need to move through all of these tiers before you can get to someone who can help you. They should streamline the process and make it easier to speak to the correct level of support from the outset."
"This product should be cheaper."
"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."
"The support is poor."
"Needs improvement in the area of infrastructure for on-premise installation."
"The tech support communicates, but it's just not with movement."
"Performing a malware scan usually takes a lot of time, more than 24 hours."
"The local technical support is very poor, but the support from headquarters is very nice."
"Based on all the security roles and the release privilege, it could take time for an application to be whitelisted and approved for use."
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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