VMware Carbon Black App Control Reviews

Name: VMware Carbon Black App Control
Brand: VMware
Rating: 4.6 (8 reviews)

4.6 out of 5

8 reviews
100% willing to recommend

What is VMware Carbon Black App Control?

Carbon Black is a leading provider of next-generation endpoint security. Carbon Black serves more than 3,700 customers globally, including 33 of the Fortune 100. As a cybersecurity innovator, Carbon Black has a strong heritage of innovative technology leadership in multiple endpoint security categories, including application control, endpoint detection and response (EDR), and next-generation antivirus (NGAV). Leveraging its big data and analytics cloud platform - the Cb Predictive Security Cloud - Carbon Black solutions enable customers to defend against the most advanced cyber threats, including malware, ransomware, and non-malware attacks. Deployed via the cloud, on premise, or as a managed service, customers use Carbon Black solutions to lock down critical systems, hunt threats, and replace legacy antivirus.

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VMware Carbon Black App Control is the #1 ranked solution in top Application Control solutions. PeerSpot users give VMware Carbon Black App Control an average rating of 9.2 out of 10. VMware Carbon Black App Control is most commonly compared to Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange Platform: VMware Carbon Black App Control vs Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange Platform. VMware Carbon Black App Control is popular among the midsize enterprise segment, accounting for 63% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a educational organization, accounting for 56% of all views.

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VMware Carbon Black App Control

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Abul Atti M Salem

Cybersecurity Consultant at KAFD DMC

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. More than two years. I rate Carbon Black App Control 10 out of 10 for stability. I rate App Control six out of 10 for scalability.…

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reviewer1535181

Chief Information Officer at a manufacturing company with 1-10 employees

We are small potatoes. We only have around 200 machines. We are actually in the middle of a review with it, which we are doing for the first time since we installed it. We're having the original guy who helped us through the implementation, which is rare these days because people usually don't stick around or you wouldn't get them back. He is an excellent security guy who works for VMware, and he told me of a 30,000 plus installation that he has done with 30,000 devices, machines, and servers, which is pretty big.

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Gian Michele Roletto

SOC Manager at Nais Srl

We use Carbon Black to protect our customers against security threats and attacks. We examine all of the issues in the customers' environment and determine whether they are real threats or false positives I use the console to check for threats and I find it to be very user-friendly. I would like…

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VMware Carbon Black App Control mindshare

As of January 2025, the mindshare of VMware Carbon Black App Control in the Application Control category stands at 30.2%, down from 34.1% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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PeerAnalyst reports

Type	Title	Date
Category	Application Control	Jan 21, 2025	Download
Product	Reviews, tips, and advice from real users	Jan 21, 2025	Download
Comparison	VMware Carbon Black App Control vs Check Point Application Control	Jan 21, 2025	Download
Comparison	VMware Carbon Black App Control vs Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange Platform	Jan 21, 2025	Download
Comparison	VMware Carbon Black App Control vs ThreatLocker Zero Trust Endpoint Protection Platform	Jan 21, 2025	Download

Title	Rating	Mindshare	Recommending
Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange Platform	4.2	N/A	98%	62 interviews Add to research
ThreatLocker Zero Trust Endpoint Protection Platform	4.5	9.9%	92%	18 interviews Add to research

Valuable Features

"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."
"The visibility is valuable."
"All the functions within VMware Carbon Black App Control are valuable."

Room for Improvement

"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."
"Carbon Black does not use the database for identifying the file, the fields, or malware."

Pricing

"Its price is reasonable and what is expected for these types of products."
"We pay a fee for support, which is renewed annually."
"The pricing for this product is competitive and our customers who told us that often, Carbon Back is the cheaper solution."

These insights are based on the in-depth reviews provided by peers to help you make a better buying decision.

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