We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR and VMware Carbon Black Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, Splunk and others in Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR)."Sentinel has features that have helped improve our security poster. It helped us in going ahead and identifying the gaps via analysis and focusing on the key elements."
"I like the KQL query. It simplifies getting data from the table and seeing the logs. All you need to know are the table names. It's quite easy to build use cases by using KQL."
"The analytics has a lot of advantages because there are 300 default use cases for rules and we can modify them per our environment. We can create other rules as well. Analytics is a useful feature."
"It is quite efficient. It helps our clients in identifying their security issues and respond quickly. Our clients want to automate incident response and all those things."
"It is easy to implement (turn on) - does need a skilled analyst to develop queries and playbooks."
"The in-built SOAR of Sentinel is valuable. Kusto Query Language is also valuable for the ease of writing queries and ease of getting insights from the logs. Schedule-based queries within Sentinel are also valuable. I found these three features most useful for my projects."
"The ability of all these solutions to work together natively is essential. We have an Azure subscription, including Log Analytics. This feature automatically acts as one of the security baselines and detects recommendations because it also integrates with Defender. We can pull the sysadmin logs from Azure. It's all seamless and native."
"The best functionality that you can get from Azure Sentinel is the SOAR capability. So, you can estimate any type of activity, such as when an alert was triggered or an incident was found."
"It was useful as a ticketing tool."
"The solution provides threat intelligence with EDR."
"Many different playbooks are available and can be customized."
"It is a scalable solution."
"It has an extensive list of integrations that are available out of the box which makes it easy to start."
"The repository of playbooks and the integration between Palo Alto and IBM QRadar are some useful features"
"What I like most about Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR is how user-friendly it is for development. It is much simpler to work with compared to similar tools I've used."
"The most valuable feature is automation."
"Carbon Black Cb Response excels at providing context to indicators when responding to incidents. It allows responders to understand the entire scope of an incident and quickly contain it to minimize impact and disruption."
"The most valuable features are its lightweight design, ensuring minimal impact on end-users, and its real-time protection."
"The most valuable feature of VMware Carbon Black Cloud is the possibility of securing any PC worldwide."
"For setup, the server can be given to you as a VM image and with minimal configuration needed."
"Probably the most valuable feature of CB Response is its ability to isolate a host and take it off the network, so it's not spreading anything. We have two security operations centers around the globe. When an SOC analyst sees something on an endpoint, they can use Carbon Black Response to isolate that host from the customer's environment and prevent any kind of lateral spread."
"They're highly stable in comparison with other solutions I have."
"Setting up and managing the setup for this solution is okay. It is stable, scalable, and it runs just fine. No issues with technical support."
"The solution does very well as a baseline EDR and provides good process-level management."
"If their UI was a bit more streamlined and easy to find when I need it, then that would be a great improvement."
"The built-in SOAR is not really good out-of-the-box. The SOAR relies on logic apps and you almost need to have some kind of developer background to be able to make these logic apps. Most security people cannot develop anything..."
"We'd like also a better ticketing system, which is older."
"It could have a better API to be able to automate many things more extensively and get more extensive data and more expensive deployment possibilities. It can gain some points on the automation part and the integration part. The API is very limited, and I would like to see it extended a bit more."
"One key area that can be improved is by building a strong integration with our XDR platform."
"In terms of features I would like to see in future releases, I'm interested in a few more use cases around automation. I do believe a lot of automation is available, and more is in progress, but that would be my area of interest."
"It has been a challenge with Azure Sentinel to onboard the Syslog server from FortiGate. Azure Sentinel can work better on that shift between the Syslog server and a firewall."
"At the network level, there is a limitation in integrating some of the switches or routers with Microsoft Sentinel. Currently, SPAN traffic monitoring is not available in Microsoft Sentinel. I have heard that it is available in Defender for Identity, which is a different product. It would be good if LAN traffic monitoring or SPAN traffic monitoring is available in Microsoft Sentinel. It would add a lot of value. It is available in some of the competitor products in the market."
"It is not a very scalable solution."
"I would love to see more flexibility on what we can display and design on the dashboards."
"With Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR, managing its setup phase can be a complicated task."
"The integration could be better. Cortex, for example, does not work with iPhone."
"I would like to see Cortex become less dependent on Active Directory and group policies to manage the deployment. Maybe I need to update my understanding of how to deploy it, but that's the way I know how to use it."
"The user interface could be a bit better."
"The solution's technical support could be better."
"Previously, when Demisto was, there was a community edition; we could use it, reinstall it, and customize it. Since Palo Alto took over, it has become more financially oriented. It's business, but they could offer a pro model and a lighter model for different needs."
"The threat intelligence feed could use some fine tweaking."
"One area for improvement is the maturity of its vulnerability features."
"The solution can only handle about 500 bans or blocks."
"The solution's support could be improved."
"The product detects too many false positives initially and it could integrate better with other security solutions."
"The solution needs to simplify the process of adding custom watchlists, as well as embrace YARA for rule creation."
"They need to improve the batch console. It needs more capabilities. We are limited by the ones it provides..."
"The support team of Carbon Black CB Response needs improvement. At present, they need a lot of information. Then they give you an answer that they already gave you. You tell them it didn't work, and then they take a long time."
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Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR is ranked 2nd in Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) with 41 reviews while VMware Carbon Black Cloud is ranked 2nd in Security Incident Response with 18 reviews. Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR is rated 8.4, while VMware Carbon Black Cloud is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR writes "Enables the investigators to go through the review process a lot quicker". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Carbon Black Cloud writes " Shows promise for endpoint detection and response, with room for improvement in complexity and pricing ". Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR is most compared with Cortex XSIAM, Splunk SOAR, Fortinet FortiSOAR, Swimlane and IBM Resilient, whereas VMware Carbon Black Cloud is most compared with VMware Carbon Black Endpoint, Fidelis Elevate and Splunk SOAR.
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