Top VMware Carbon Black EDR Alternatives and Competitors
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Carbon Black EDR is an incident response and threat hunting solution designed for security operations center (SOC) teams with offline environments or on-premises requirements. Carbon Black EDR continuously records and stores comprehensive endpoint activity data, so that security professionals can hunt threats in real time and visualize the complete attack kill chain. It leverages the VMware Carbon Black Cloud’s aggregated threat intelligence, which is applied to the endpoint activity system of record for evidence and detection of these identified threats and patterns of behavior
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Whitelisting Blacklisting | Continuous Monitoring | Intrusion Detection Prevention | Automated Threat Response | Behavioural Analytics | Task Prioritization | Machine Learning | Malware Identification Accuracy | Agent Efficiency | IOC Tools | IOC Consumption | IR Capabilities | Analyst Workflows | API Integration
7.4
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Best Alternatives and Competitors to VMware Carbon Black EDR
Compare how VMware Carbon Black EDR stacks up to the competition in the areas that matter most to real users to short list options that will best fit your business needs.

Malwarebytes
ThreatDown EDR
9.1
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Score
+96
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88
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Compared to VMware Carbon Black EDR, ThreatDown EDR is:
More Innovative
More Caring
Easier to Customize
Better at Training
Better at Integrating
More Efficient
ThreatDown EDR (endpoint detection and response) is enriched by Malwarebytes global threat intelligence and its patented remediation engine that removes every trace of malware to prevent reinfection. Seven-day ransomware rollback ensures organizations can turn the clock back on attacks and restore systems.

Crowdstrike
Crowdstrike Falcon Platform
8.9
Composite
Score
+93
Emotional
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68
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Reviews Say
Compared to VMware Carbon Black EDR, Crowdstrike Falcon Platform is:
More Innovative
More Caring
More Respectful
More Efficient
Better at Integrating
Easier to Customize
The CrowdStrike Falcon platform leverages real-time indicators of attack, threat intelligence, evolving adversary tradecraft and enriched telemetry from across the enterprise to deliver hyper-accurate detections, automated protection and remediation, elite threat hunting and prioritized observability of vulnerabilities. Purpose-built in the cloud with a single lightweight-agent architecture, the Falcon platform delivers rapid and scalable deployment, superior protection and performance, reduced complexity and immediate time-to-value.

Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
8.6
Composite
Score
+89
Emotional
Footprint
47
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Compared to VMware Carbon Black EDR, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is:
More Innovative
Better at Integrating
Easier to Customize
Easier to Implement
Better at Training
Less Transparent
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is an enterprise endpoint security platform designed to help enterprise networks prevent, detect, investigate, and respond to advanced threats. Defender for Endpoint customers need to apply for the Microsoft Threat Experts managed threat hunting service to get proactive Targeted Attack Notifications and to collaborate with experts on demand. Experts on Demand is an add-on service. Targeted Attack Notifications are always included after you have been accepted into Microsoft Threat Experts managed threat hunting service.

SentinelOne
SentinelOne Singularity Platform
8.4
Composite
Score
+97
Emotional
Footprint
29
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Compared to VMware Carbon Black EDR, SentinelOne Singularity Platform is:
More Innovative
More Caring
More Efficient
More Respectful
Easier to Use
Easier to Customize
SentinelOne Singularity platform is an industry-first data lake that seamlessly fuses together the data, access, control, and integration planes of its endpoint protection (EPP), endpoint detection and response (EDR), IoT security, and cloud workload protection (CWPP) into a centralized platform. With Singularity, organizations gain access to back-end data across the organization through a single solution, providing a cohesive view of their network and assets by adding a real time, autonomous security layer across all enterprise assets.

Huntress Labs Incorporated
Huntress Managed Security Platform
8.3
Composite
Score
+96
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19
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Compared to VMware Carbon Black EDR, Huntress Managed Security Platform is:
More Innovative
More Caring
Better at Training
Better at Support
Easier to Implement
Easier to Customize
The Huntress Managed Security Platform quickly deploy and manage real-time protection for endpoints, email, and employees - all from a single dashboard. Protecting endpoints and Microsoft 365 identities doesn’t happen magically. See the features and services that act as our platform’s foundation.
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Sophos
Sophos Endpoint
8.0
Composite
Score
+87
Emotional
Footprint
51
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Reviews Say
Compared to VMware Carbon Black EDR, Sophos Endpoint is:
More Innovative
Easier to Customize
Better at Integrating
Easier to Implement
Better at Training
Less Inspiring
Sophos Endpoint powered by Intercept X delivers unparalleled protection, stopping advanced attacks before they impact your systems. Powerful endpoint and extended detection and response (EDR/XDR) tools let your organization hunt for, investigate, and respond to suspicious activity and indicators of an attack.

Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Cortex XDR
8.0
Composite
Score
+91
Emotional
Footprint
26
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Reviews Say
Compared to VMware Carbon Black EDR, Palo Alto Cortex XDR is:
More Innovative
Easier to Customize
More Caring
Better at Integrating
More Efficient
Less Transparent
To stay ahead of fast-moving threats, you need AI-powered endpoint security that continuously learns new attack techniques. Cortex XDR™ offers protection that blocks all malware, exploits and fileless attacks to keep your endpoints safe
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Cisco Systems
Cisco Secure Endpoint
7.9
Composite
Score
+99
Emotional
Footprint
12
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Compared to VMware Carbon Black EDR, Cisco Secure Endpoint is:
More Innovative
More Caring
More Efficient
Easier to Use
Easier to Customize
Better at Integrating
Secure Endpoint offers cloud-delivered, advanced endpoint detection and response across multidomain control points to rapidly detect, contain, and remediate advanced threats. Stop threats with built-in or completely managed endpoint detection and response (EDR), threat hunting, and integrated risk-based vulnerability management from Kenna Security The built-in SecureX platform delivers a unified view, simplified incident management, and automated playbooks. Our proactive, human-driven hunts for threats map to the MITRE ATT&CK framework to help you thwart attacks before they cause damage.

Trellix
Trellix Endpoint Security
7.9
Composite
Score
+89
Emotional
Footprint
38
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Compared to VMware Carbon Black EDR, Trellix Endpoint Security is:
More Innovative
Easier to Customize
More Caring
Better at Integrating
Better at Training
More Efficient
Protect and empower your workforce with an integrated security framework that protects every endpoint. Trellix (formerly McAfee Mvision) endpoint security solutions apply proactive threat intelligence and defenses across the entire attack lifecycle to keep your organization safer and more resilient.

Trend Micro
Trend Vision One
7.9
Composite
Score
+96
Emotional
Footprint
23
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Compared to VMware Carbon Black EDR, Trend Vision One is:
More Innovative
More Caring
More Respectful
Better at Training
More Efficient
Easier to Customize
Trend Vision One is a purpose-built threat defense platform that provides added value and new benefits beyond XDR solutions, allowing you to see more and respond faster. Providing deep and broad extended detection and response (XDR) capabilities that collect and automatically correlate data across multiple security layers—email, endpoints, servers, cloud workloads, and networks—Trend Micro Vision One prevents the majority of attacks with automated protection.

Cynet
Cynet 360
7.6
Composite
Score
+86
Emotional
Footprint
14
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Compared to VMware Carbon Black EDR, Cynet 360 is:
More Caring
More Respectful
More Innovative
Easier to Implement
Less Transparent
Less Inspiring
The Cynet security platform correlates and analyzes indicators across all fronts of the organization – networks, files, users and endpoints – to establish risk-ranking and hone in on previously unidentified threats. It is a complete, natively built, fully integrated and automated suite of cybersecurity capabilities in one, unified solution that is easy to deploy, operate and manage.
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