VMware Carbon Black Endpoint Stability

IT
Group CIO at a construction company with 10,001+ employees

It is stable. It does not use a lot of CPU or RAM. This is one of its good points.

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RL
Founding Partner, Security Architect at ISS

The stability of the solution has been good. I like the fact that their call home is a single port, 443, a well-known port with a backup port, 54443. Their architecture, that way is easy for network admin to understand and open up and passing firewalls. In contrast with ATP, ATP has a lot of port requirements, It is much more complex and easy to misunderstand ATP communications until you really dig hard to see how does it work. This solution is much simpler that way. Additionally, performance-wise, user agents seem to hover around 1%-2%, it is fairly efficient and lightweight.

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UK
Director-International Trade Operations - India Middle East at Dow

Sometimes, my company's customers have issues with the solution, and at other times, it is a good solution. Whenever a person tries to install any software, VMware Carbon Black Endpoint will interrupt and stop that installation process. If a person faces the aforementioned issue with the solution, then they can raise a ticket so that our company can investigate and provide a resolution.

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KarthikR1 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at NCR Corporation

In terms of stability, since it is hosted on the AWS side, which is Carbon Black Cloud, if something goes down, we may have to do a lot of patching and monitoring. However, we usually receive updates and educate the users on changes in the background. Proper training should be provided to the users so that they are prepared for any changes happening in the background from the AWS website.

Overall, I would rate the stability a seven out of ten because sometimes the communication breaks down, but they are working to resolve the issue, and many teams are involved. However, we don't have much visibility into their efforts, which need improvement. It should be crystal clear what is happening in the backend, and the administrators should communicate this clearly so that we can work accordingly and meet the requirements.

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MK
IT Infrastructure and Security Manager at a paper AND forest products with 1,001-5,000 employees

Carbon Black is a very capable tool. It's a very strong product.

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GM
Lead IT Security Analyst at a government with 501-1,000 employees
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Cyber Security and Compliance Consultant at Caretower

I rate the stability a nine out of ten.

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KarthikR1 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at NCR Corporation

There are a lot of issues with the solution's stability. I rate Carbon Black CB Defense a four out of ten for stability.

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IT
Group CIO at a construction company with 10,001+ employees

I would rate it a nine out of ten. It was very stable.

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RizwanAlam - PeerSpot reviewer
AVP - Information Security Governence & Risk Management at Allied Bank Limited

The solution is not always ideal, but it is pretty stable. We did face a few issues, in the response feature for example, but they were resolved.

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Nikunj Kamboj - PeerSpot reviewer
Cybersecurity Analyst at OnX Canada

I haven’t faced any issues with the solution’s stability.

I rate the solution ten out of ten for stability.

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Abbasi Poonawala - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Enterprise Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
KL
Senior Director, Information Technology at C.E. Niehoff & Co.

I haven't had any major degradation in the performance of Carbon Black CB Defense, so I find it stable. It's holding up very well.

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KB
Senior Security Consultant at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We had some issues with the stability. In regards to the driver file, and the CTI files, there were some issues.  In addition, there were a couple of issues with servers and the workstations. It was an intermittent issue, and not widespread. But it was basically because the current organization I'm working with, we created a lot of in-house applications. They don't go very much hand-in-hand with Carbon Black enabled. They have certain behaviors, like they inject code into themselves, which is a design that they have. Even the Microsoft authorized or licensed tools exhibit such kind of a behavior. And these behaviors are being identified as a malicious behavior. 

I think it would be better if they can have an application database, where if these kind of applications are performing this, you can bypass, or you can overlook them. Something like that would be helpful. Otherwise, we will have to manually bypass them or allow them logs, as per the policy configuration for these applications. It takes a little bit of an extra time in terms of developing a new tool in the in-house application, as concerned.

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WAKKAS AHMAD - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Consultant at Mahle

I would rate the stability of this solution a seven, on a scale from one to 10, with one being the worst and 10 being the best.

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AB
Executive Business Analyst & Advisor at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

 It implements and integrates very well with other security tools, cybersecurity tools.

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Andrew Nai - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Infrastructure Engineer at Government of Singapore

Stability-wise, the product has been quite stable. There's no issue. The maintenance was quite straightforward, and if you don't really touch it, you won't have stability problems. 

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Adriano Gross - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Consultant at a recruiting/HR firm with 10,001+ employees

The product has good stability.

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Isanka Attanayake - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager - Information Technology Infrastructure and Development Support at Royal Ceramics

The solution is really stable. 

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DR
Threat and Vulnerability Engineer at Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey

Stability is one thing that's not robust. Other products are faster, but as far as the CB Defense, it's slow. We had some issues with the sensors and we also saw slowness on the Windows side, Windows file share, which actually was fixed in the next new version of the sensor.

I'm the only network security person here. But the other users who have different roles have access as well. In my team, there are five or six people. But I'm the only one actually directing changes.

We use it on a daily basis. 

There are always alerts so I'll always have to check into alerts and see what's going on and then do some more analysis. If it's a new application we are implementing that will also need to be configured on Carbon. 

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DK
Founder/CEO at KRISTICH SECURITY SERVICES LLC

We've been quite happy with the stability of Carbon Black. 

Symantec has a much longer history of having a good, proven, stable platform. That is the big difference. 

I can't really speak to any particular issues that we've had with one versus the other. They both seem pretty good.

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MR
Head Of Information Security Department at a insurance company with 201-500 employees

It is a stable solution.

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Ricardo Franco Mahecha - PeerSpot reviewer
VMware Consultant at V2S Corporation

I would rate the stability a nine out of ten.

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JT
Senior Consultant at Palsys

Stability-wise, the product could be better. 

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Luciano Batalha - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at EVONICEVONIC

The performance and stability of the product is very good and simple. The tool is very fast to analyze issues. It is a very stable tool. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

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EK
Cyber Security Manager Senior Specialist at a university with 501-1,000 employees

It is mostly a stable solution, but sometimes there are stability issues.

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SL
ICT/Systems Application Engineer at Honeywell

I would say the stability is high a nine on a scale of one to ten.

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SF
ICT Manager at SecurEyes

The solution is scalable. 

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MP
IT Cybersecurity at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

The stability could be better. It changes from version to version and from day to day. Sometimes it works perfectly, and sometimes there are issues and we need to close it and re-open the application.

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KO
Senior NOC Security Engineer at a wholesaler/distributor with 51-200 employees

The solution has been working well, nothing stands out as an issue.

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Ashish Dubey - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Security Analyst at SecurityHQ

It's a stable product.

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LA
Information Security Specialist at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees

The stability of the solution is good. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It seems to be a little bit lighter on resources than our previous antivirus.

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Nadeem Syed - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at Haniya Technologies

The stability has been excellent. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable. The performance is good. 

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JS
System Eng at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution is generally mostly stable. We tend to try to stay one version back in order to get better stability. I've run into problems already where Carbon Black has flagged certain things in a later release that they weren't flagging previously and it disrupts my user base.

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IG
Senior Infrastructure and Security Engineer at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees

It works. I was actually very surprised about its stability. It is in a virtual environment. It works in a VMware environment for us. Sometimes, latency discrepancies are very high, but it is pretty stable.

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JM
IT Administrator at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

It is stable.

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Ramesh RP - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Analyst at Halian

I am not sure whether Carbon Black CB Defense can be considered to be a stable solution or not.

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JB
Cyber Security Consultant with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's pretty stable. We haven't heard of any issues and we don't know yet about usage and security issues outside of the performance or any stabilities in the product itself. So far I would say that I consider it stable - very stable in fact.

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JG
Infrastructure and support manager at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees

The stability of the on-premises servers had no issues but the resource allocation on the clients was a bit high, especially with having to run two agents. The detection agent, the Whitelist, and the control agent.

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MS
IT Infrastructure - Global Head at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

The solution is quite stable. We find it to be a reliable product. There aren't bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze.

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SS
IT Manager - System Administration at a pharma/biotech company with 501-1,000 employees

While the on-prem has some bugs we have been dealing with, so far, after using the could for three weeks, it's like night and day. It's been very stable. There are no bugs or glitches.

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TT
IT Manager at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

Stability-wise, it is good.

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GR
SOC Manager at Nais Srl

Carbon Black CB Defense is a very stable product.

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MP
Information Security Consultant at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

At this stage, we have not experienced any issues.

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HL
Vice President of Sales (previously Sales Engineer) at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

The stability is fantastic!

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KT
IT Security Solutions Engineer at Softprom

CB Defense is a stable solution. I do not remember any situations where there are any problems with sensors or endpoints. Just all information about the processes at the endpoint is collected and sent to the Cloud.

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CS
Assistant Technical Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We haven't encountered any bugs.

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it_user835107 - PeerSpot reviewer
Incident Response Analyst at a security firm with 51-200 employees
SS
Owner at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

After the initial system crash, I haven't had any issues.

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AE
Cyber Security Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

CB Defense is stable.

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MN
Sr. Security Analyst, Enterprise Architecture and Security at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

It is a stable product.

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AU
Security Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

It is stable.

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Buyer's Guide
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.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.