We performed a comparison between McAfee Application Control and VMware Carbon Black App Control based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about VMware, Check Point Software Technologies, McAfee and others in Application Control."We also like the Change Control. We can control how things get executed. It has signatures for different kinds of protocols."
"This is a basic solution; the policy screen is okay, and it's easy to configure."
"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."
"All the functions within VMware Carbon Black App Control are valuable."
"The visibility, reporting, and the ability to stop or prevent malicious or undesired applications from being installed are the most valuable features."
"The visibility is valuable."
"The effectiveness of application whitelisting is very good."
"The API integration is good."
"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."
"I would like to see better reporting and alerting features in the future."
"The intrusion detection features should also be improved. It is a very good feature but it should be maximized."
"I rate App Control six out of 10 for scalability."
"The solution should have overhead in keeping lists of applications that you want don't want to run."
"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."
"I would like to see the addition of some more features that are in other, similar solutions."
"The initial setup is somewhat complex."
"Carbon Black does not use the database for identifying the file, the fields, or malware."
"The reporting is not good and needs to be improved."
"Its setup is very complex, and it requires guidance from the support team, but it is well worth the effort."
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McAfee Application Control is ranked 3rd in Application Control while VMware Carbon Black App Control is ranked 1st in Application Control with 8 reviews. McAfee Application Control is rated 7.6, while VMware Carbon Black App Control is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of McAfee Application Control writes "Has signatures for different kinds of protocols but the licensing model is confusing ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Carbon Black App Control writes "We can isolate problem machines and limit their access". McAfee Application Control is most compared with , whereas VMware Carbon Black App Control is most compared with ThreatLocker Elevation Control, Ivanti Application Control, Check Point Application Control and Zscaler CASB.
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