We performed a comparison between Symantec Endpoint Security 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."It notifies us if there's any suspicious file on any PC. If any execution or similar kind of thing is happening, it just alerts us. It doesn't only alert. It also blocks the execution until we allow it. We check whether the execution is legitimate or not, and then approve it or keep it blocked. This gives us a little bit of control over this mechanism. Fortinet FortiEDR is also very straightforward and easy to maintain."
"The setup is pretty simple."
"he solution is an anti-malware product that integrates well with other vendor products such as firewalls, SIEM, etc. It captures threat intelligence and gives you better visibility. The product also has sandboxing features."
"The solution was relatively easy to deploy."
"The most valuable feature is the analysis, because of the beta structure."
"It is stable and scalable."
"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."
"NGAV and EDR features are outstanding."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Great security and very user friendly."
"With Symantec, I always know this tool will be reliable and with the latest protection."
"It's a single-agent installation with many features including wireless protection."
"The initial setup is very simple and straightforward."
"Offers good antivirus and local firewall."
"The mobile application is valuable. You are able to see the reports of intrusions and the like on mobile devices. That is one of the coolest aspects."
"The most amazing qualities of Symantec Endpoint Protection is that it provides a total solution to all virus problems."
"Carbon Black has very good market strategies."
"We can access computers remotely if we need to."
"Once the solution is installed and configured correctly it does not require a lot of hands-on attention until you need upgrading."
"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."
"The tool is pretty stable."
"The product is pretty strong in terms of security and their features are very good in that respect."
"I like its reporting."
"We find the solution to be a bit expensive."
"The support needs improvement."
"We've encountered challenges during API deployment, occasionally resulting in unstable environments."
"The dashboard isn't easy to access and manage."
"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."
"Integration with Azure and SaaS provisioning tools could improve Fortinet FortiEDR."
"The amount of usage, the number of details we get, or the number of options that can be tweaked is limited in comparison to that with other EDR solutions"
"It takes about two business days for initial support, which is too slow in urgent situations."
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"Reporting in this solution needs improvement."
"If a machine is infected by ransomware, it's hard to recover the data. We don't have any data on the client, so we're not overly concerned about that. Still, it would be nice to have this feature if there are any future problems."
"Sometimes, when we are creating a new policy, some of the clients are not being updated with the latest policy."
"There was an administrative feature, which was available in the previous version, which has been removed. We would like that feature to be added again."
"We had an issue with the Broadcom migration. We had some problems with product support, and the deployment is tricky because it's an on-premises technology. Deploying any on-premises security solution is hard because you have to distribute the software."
"About four years back, Symantec's signature was very heavy and their signature patch was around 200MB or 300MB files."
"Users mostly complain that the solution slows down the system whenever something is scanned."
"The solution needs better overall compatibility with other products."
"The directions for Splunk are spot on, but it is difficult to find anything on integration with AlienVault,"
"The solution has to mature on container security and a lot of cloud environment security."
"The feature set for the firewall needs improvement."
"Carbon Black CB Defense has helped improve my organization by allowing us to have better data so that we can do correlation and get visibility into the alerts."
"The initial setup is complex."
"At this point, we're test-bedding several other providers right now to see if there's anything that does equally or better and that comes at a better price point."
"CB Defense could be more compatible with Linux, and its cloud provision could be improved."
Symantec Endpoint Security is ranked 5th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 139 reviews while VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is ranked 17th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 61 reviews. Symantec Endpoint Security is rated 7.6, while VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Symantec Endpoint Security writes "The solution has given us visibility into compliance within our whole system and helped us ensure everything is updated". 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". Symantec Endpoint Security is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks and Trend Micro Deep Security, whereas VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Trend Micro Deep Security, SentinelOne Singularity Complete and Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks. See our Symantec Endpoint Security vs. VMware Carbon Black Endpoint report.
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