VMware Carbon Black Endpoint Scalability
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Imad Taha
Group CIO at a construction company with 10,001+ employees
We have about 1,000 users. Scaling is always possible because it's a cloud solution.
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Randy Lahti
Founding Partner, Security Architect at ISS
The scalability of the solution has been good. We implemented a couple of large POCs. We have some clients and colleagues that are running it at scale, with more than 5,000 endpoints with great success. We are pleased overall. Most of our clients are mid-cap or small enterprises.
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Uday S
Director-International Trade Operations - India Middle East at Dow
I would say that it is a scalable solution considering a few cases, but for some cases, it may not look like a scalable solution. In general, It is a scalable solution.
My company's customers are mostly enterprise-sized businesses, and there are more than 50,000 users of the solution worldwide.
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In terms of reliability, it is a good product. I would rate it an eight out of ten.
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reviewer1754481
IT Infrastructure and Security Manager at a paper AND forest products with 1,001-5,000 employees
There have been no issues with the scalability.
It's on every single node, so I cannot increase it anymore than that.
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AlexWalker1
Cyber Security and Compliance Consultant at Caretower
I rate the tool’s scalability a three out of ten. My clients have more than 500 users.
I rate Carbon Black CB Defense a six out of ten for scalability. Recently, an event was not loading because of some issue with the AWS site.
Our organization is completely deployed with Carbon Black CB Defense. Some machines are sometimes not supported by Carbon Black CB Defense. In such cases, we use some other tool.
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reviewer1619394
Group CIO at a construction company with 10,001+ employees
The scalability of the solution is good and affordable. I would rate the scalability a nine out of ten. There are over 300 users in our company using the solution.
View full review »At this point we have not encountered any issues with scalability, but time will tell how much scaling is feasible for us.
View full review »Around 500 users are using VMware Carbon Black Endpoint in our organization.
I rate the solution ten out of ten for scalability.
Carbon Black CB Defense is a scalable product.
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KELVIN LARRUE
Senior Director, Information Technology at C.E. Niehoff & Co.
I have no comment on the scalability of Carbon Black CB Defense at this point.
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Karthik Balakrishnan
Senior Security Consultant at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
I would say, not really. But we have a, how to say, our hands are tied down in terms of generating reports to understand or analyze the trend or anything of that sort. Because when you look at the EPO, you will be able to do certain trend analysis on the basis of the data that is already available in the database. But ,we can hardly take any kind of a report out of Carbon Black, so I think that should be something that should be more user-friendly. They are asking us to use API's, and not everybody is well-versed with API's or scripting.
They also do have a limitation on that, in terms of pulling out the raw data of events. The event generation is like a 1:10 ratio like I said. That detection is also on the same base. So if you have to pull out a report for an end-point count of, say, 35,000 to 40,000 endpoints, the events will be on the higher side. So, the limitation is set to 5,000, which is not realistic.
View full review »I would rate the scalability of this solution an eight, on a scale from one to 10, with one being the worst and 10 being the best.
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reviewer1799544
Lead IT Security Analyst at a government with 501-1,000 employees
The solution is scalable. We have never had an issue.
Medium to large companies will be selecting Carbon Black solutions mainly due to the fact that they needed this to better the security posture checks in the environment, typically in the more regulated environment. Regulatory, regulated environments or companies that are more security-centric will go for this type of product.
While it can scale, it only supports non-HA. Scalability is quite limited. You can only scale vertically - not horizontally.
I rate the platform’s scalability an eight out of ten.
View full review »It is scalable.
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Darrick Kristich
Founder/CEO at KRISTICH SECURITY SERVICES LLC
The scalability is about the same between Carbon Black and Symantec. I don't know that we've actually tried to use them in an environment that was large enough to cause us any sort of issues, or even thought twice about scalability. Both of these products work quite well in extremely large environments.
One thing to consider with Carbon Black is you do have much more data. You can define many more policies that are more specific to groups. The management of that becomes more difficult as the environment gets larger. I don't think that necessarily is the case with Symantec. It might end up being a bit more time consuming to manage Carbon Black as it gets larger. In terms of these products' capabilities and the ability to support large environments all the way down to small ones, I don't think it matters.
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reviewer2251128
Head Of Information Security Department at a insurance company with 201-500 employees
Around ten to eleven people use the solution in our company.
It is easy to scale. I would rate the scalability a ten out of ten.
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JiniTung
Senior Consultant at Palsys
The platform is very easy to scale. It is suitable for small and medium businesses.
View full review »It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.
Around 22 people in my organization use the solution.
My company does have plans to increase the use of the solution.
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reviewer2173167
Cyber Security Manager Senior Specialist at a university with 501-1,000 employees
It is a scalable solution.
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Shibu Lona
ICT/Systems Application Engineer at Honeywell
On a scale of one to ten, I would give it a nine for being highly scalable.
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Syed Faisal
ICT Manager at SecurEyes
The solution is stable and the policy can be configured with flexibility. The solution comes with its own pre-built standard policy. Yet, we can write our own, which means the solution serves us going forward.
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reviewer1465668
Senior NOC Security Engineer at a wholesaler/distributor with 51-200 employees
I have found this solution to be highly scalable. We have clients that are large-size companies using this solution.
View full review »It's scalable because it's based on the cloud.
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reviewer1450803
Information Security Specialist at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees
The product can be scaled pretty high. We have about 3000 sensors deployed. However, it can go a lot higher than that. It depends on your internet connection for the reporting or the information, basically.
We have kind of a desktop security team that is about five individuals that administer the product part-time, and that can access the console. A couple of them are the ones that spend the most time in it.
We use the solution extensively and we may look at expanding the EDR - stepping up to one of the other products and adding capabilities. Therefore, we're likely to increase usage in some form in the future.
View full review »There are versions of the product that can scale.
We have about three customers that use the product at this time. It's not that many as it's not a well-known product in our region.
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reviewer1516587
System Eng at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees
The scalability is very good. It's pretty much unlimited at this point. A company can scale however much they like with no trouble.
We have over 500 licenses. The use cases are mostly for our servers and our workstation user roles are drafters, engineers.
We use the solution enterprise-wide. I'm not going to increase usage except maybe to increase the license count if servers or workstations go up.
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reviewer1352382
Senior Infrastructure and Security Engineer at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
It is scalable. We have about 400 machines here, and everyone is using it. It protects 400 nodes. We have one server that serves all nodes. The number of machines is growing slowly. We had 350 machines earlier, and in one year, the number is 400.
View full review »CB Defense is scalable so long as the deployment has been done correctly.
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reviewer1762626
IT Administrator at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
I believe it is very scalable. In terms of its users, for the most part, there are only two of us using it. I am the IT administrator and primary user, and we have an IT support person who handles PCs and backs me up on servers. We are taking care of its deployment and maintenance.
We are looking at the possibility of expanding its usage in the future to include desktops.
View full review »I feel that this is a scalable solution. There are around 80 to 90 employees at our organization who are using Carbon Black CB Defense.
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reviewer1265103
Cyber Security Consultant with 1,001-5,000 employees
Given the number of people that are using it, I would consider it as scalable without having specific details on the performance, on the central management, or the management points. I would say that, due to the behavior of the solution with the end-users, it's a good solution. It is scalable.
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reviewer1439934
Infrastructure and support manager at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees
We didn't have any problems scaling this solution.
It did the job. It was great for Windows, but it had no Mac support and had nothing for Linux, which makes it hard.
We had 150 users in our organization. Their roles varied from CSF departments through to my C-suite.
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reviewer1344240
IT Infrastructure - Global Head at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
The solution can scale if you need it to. That's not a problem at all.
We have more than 10,000 people using the solution currently.
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reviewer917823
IT Manager - System Administration at a pharma/biotech company with 501-1,000 employees
I'm not aware of the scalability capabilities yet, as I don't have the entire company on it yet. We are still in testing mode. We just got the cloud deployment three weeks ago. So I can't really answer that truthfully.
Right now, we have seven people on the solution currently.
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reviewer1785597
IT Manager at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
I am satisfied with the scalability. We use it across the company and all of the users have it on their laptops. It's a mixture of IT people, finance, doctors, lawyers, dentists, and other professional services. It's a wide range of people and there are about 180 in total.
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Gian Michele Roletto
SOC Manager at Nais Srl
The scalability of Carbon Black CB Defense is very good.
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HeathLord
Vice President of Sales (previously Sales Engineer) at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
The scalability is pretty easy.
Their offer to add to a tenant or spin up a new tenant, given the client sizes is large enough, has been pretty easy management so far.
I'm a managed service provider, and within my organization we only have between 40 and 50 employees managing endpoints for several thousand. My perspective will be slightly different. So, even though we use it as a company, we use this for our clients as well.
100% of our staff is trained on the use of Carbon Black because from the technical perspective, we need to be able to handle that as technicians and engineers.
As far as our clients, they don't know the difference. They don't see issues, they don't have attacks.
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Jayandra Wickramasinghe
Senior Systems engineer at SAT
No scalability issues.
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Kostia Tkachov
IT Security Solutions Engineer at Softprom
This is a scalable product.
View full review »No issues.
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reviewer1300992
Owner at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
It will be very scalable.
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SrSecuria175
Sr. Security Analyst, Enterprise Architecture and Security at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We are not a very big company, so scalability is not very relevant to us.
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reviewer1454073
Security Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
It is scalable.
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VMware Carbon Black Endpoint
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about VMware Carbon Black Endpoint. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
768,415 professionals have used our research since 2012.