We compared CrowdStrike Falcon and VMware Carbon Black Endpoint based on our users reviews in five parameters. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: Comparing CrowdStrike Falcon to VMware Carbon Black Endpoint, both have straightforward setup processes, although CrowdStrike Falcon is considered relatively more manageable. CrowdStrike Falcon offers comprehensive protection, ease of deployment, crowdsourced intelligence, and strong detection and prevention features. Users also find it easy and straightforward. However, it may require expertise and guidance during setup and lacks certain features like ransomware protection and additional antivirus functionality. On the other hand, VMware Carbon Black Endpoint also provides a straightforward setup process but might be challenging for users unfamiliar with Carbon Black. It offers continuous monitoring, threat detection and response, prevention of zero-day threats, extensive threat intel, and good integration capabilities. However, there are difficulties in making changes at the tenant level and GUI improvements are needed. Additionally, some users mention slower technical support as a drawback.
"Fortinet is very user-friendly for customers."
"I get alerts when scripts are detected in the environment."
"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."
"Fortinet FortiEDR made our clients feel secure and more at ease, knowing that they had an EDR solution that would close the gap in their security posture."
"Forensics is a valuable feature of Fortinet FortiEDR."
"Impressive detection capabilities"
"It is a scalable solution...The initial setup of Fortinet FortiEDR was straightforward."
"The stability is very good."
"It's ability to do threat hunting is really great, quite robust, and even allows you to do hygiene stuff."
"Since we deployed CrowdStrike, the network has become much calmer, and we now understand the sources of infections, which helps us prevent them from spreading."
"The most valuable feature is that we don't need to re-image machines as much as we had to."
"It helps us to identify the threats according to the behavior of any process that is running on any particular system. It helps immensely to identify any malicious behavior on any endpoints."
"CrowdStrike displays a threat score when it detects an infection. This is helpful because not all detections are the same. It will classify them as ransomware, malware, phishing, etc. This feature helps us prioritize and cross-check with other EDR tools."
"The most valuable feature of CrowdStrike Falcon is crowdsourcing intelligence."
"This solution has made the lives of the IT staff much easier, compared to the previous one."
"The solution has improved my organization by automating the detection and reporting of unwanted applications so we're aware of them and can respond appropriately."
"It is a very complete platform."
"The product is pretty strong in terms of security and their features are very good in that respect."
"I rate Carbon Black CB Defense an eight out of ten for the ease of its initial setup."
"The solution is stable."
"Behavioral Monitoring stops known malicious events before they even begin."
"We can access computers remotely if we need to."
"The solution has a very nice API on the back end for remoting into a system and executing scripts or utilizing self automation."
"I like its reporting."
"Detections could be improved."
"It takes about two business days for initial support, which is too slow in urgent situations."
"FortiEDR can be improved by providing more detailed reporting."
"The solution is not stable."
"Intelligence aspects need improvement"
"Once, we had an event that was locked and blocked, but information about it came to us two or three days later."
"The EDR console should have more extensive reporting. You shouldn't need to purchase FortiAnalyzer. It should be included in the EDR part. The security adviser cloud platform could be improved with more options for exclusive or intensive rules for devices."
"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"
"To simplify the budgeting process for our clients, CrowdStrike should consider offering bundled packages that include essential features."
"I have experience with a product called SentinelOne, which has a feature that allows for the customization of query languages. I would like to see such a feature for CloudStrike."
"The pricing is a bit too high."
"The technical support team often just replies to an issue with a link to an article rather than actually calling back and talking to someone and making sure the problem is solved. To me, that's kind of weak."
"Tighter integration around XDR could be included."
"It can be expensive depending on the features you select."
"We'd like to see more integration capabilities."
"If CrowdStrike can further expand its support for XDR compatibility, that would give it an edge over all the other competing new products."
"The solution has to mature on container security and a lot of cloud environment security."
"Needs improvement in the area of infrastructure for on-premise installation."
"This solution could have greater granular control on how certain applications work."
"But here, we hardly can take any kind of a report out of Carbon Black, so I think that should be something that should be more user-friendly."
"The feature set for the firewall needs improvement."
"There are many different controls that are needed to be put into place for upgrading that makes it difficult. Having to re-engineer your IT infrastructure to match their software, as opposed to having it integrate and work independently causes difficulties. When there is an update to any software everyone has to be involved."
"A search bar in the investigation page and some AI-related tasks like outgoing alerts, or recent tactics that are being used in the market, must be embedded in the tool so that it's easier to find alerts."
"There's some disparity between the on-premise and the cloud type of application."
CrowdStrike Falcon is ranked 3rd in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 107 reviews while VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is ranked 17th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 62 reviews. CrowdStrike Falcon is rated 8.8, while VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of CrowdStrike Falcon writes "Easy to set up with good behavior-based analysis but needs a single-click recovery option". 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". CrowdStrike Falcon is most compared with Microsoft Defender XDR, Darktrace, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Trend Micro Deep Security and Tanium, whereas VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, Trend Micro Deep Security, Symantec Endpoint Security and Cisco Secure Endpoint. See our CrowdStrike Falcon vs. VMware Carbon Black Endpoint report.
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