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Check Point Application Control vs VMware Carbon Black App Control comparison

Check Point Software Technologies and VMware are both solutions in the Application Control category. Check Point Software Technologies is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.8, while VMware is ranked #1 with an average rating of 10.0. Check Point Software Technologies holds a 5.7% mindshare in AC, compared to VMware’s 24.6% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Check Point Software Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of VMware users who would recommend it.
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100% willing to recommend
 

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We performed a comparison between Check Point Application Control and VMware Carbon Black App Control based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

Check Point Application Con...
Ranking in Application Control
4th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
37
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
VMware Carbon Black App Con...
Ranking in Application Control
1st
Average Rating
9.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Application Control category, the mindshare of Check Point Application Control is 5.7%, down from 9.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Carbon Black App Control is 24.6%, down from 32.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Evans Vs - PeerSpot reviewer
Very useful visibility, granular policy enforcement, and application risk assessment
The solution's primary use cases include application visibility and control, enforcement of security policies, risk mitigation, and bandwidth management.  It has enhanced security posture, increased visibility and control, policy enforcement, and improved compliance, etc.                      The…
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reviewer1535181 - PeerSpot reviewer
Very stable, reasonable price, works well, and provides good visibility and reporting
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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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Its implementation is simple."
"This product logs & monitors event traffic for each application, giving us better visibility."
"Being able to choose specific applications in our policy rule base in order to better manage access and bandwidth utilization has had a significantly positive impact on our environment and saved a lot of management time."
"This platform has fully secured our applications with very powerful firewall security upgrades."
"The most outstanding feature is the Check Point APK wiki."
"With Check Point Application Control we can say we improved our legacy and have made them more secure. Now we are able to allow specific applications on respective service and we are allowed those respective services only."
"The most important characteristic is granularity, which allows our teams to have different security profiles depending on the department to be protected."
"The overall security of the environment has been greatly improved by the Check Point NGFWs. Before implementing the Check Point solutions, we relied on the Cisco ACLs and Zone-Based firewalls configured on the switches and routers, which in fact a simple stateful firewall, and currently appear to be not an efficient solution for protecting from the advanced threats."
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"I use the console to check for threats and I find it to be very user-friendly."
"The visibility is valuable."
"All the functions within VMware Carbon Black App Control are valuable."
"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 API integration is good."
"The effectiveness of application whitelisting is very good."
"The visibility, reporting, and the ability to stop or prevent malicious or undesired applications from being installed are the most valuable features."
"If any malicious activity, like VAT viruses, anything RNE, ZOD malware, or something similar, comes in we know that unless we approve it, it's going to be blocked."
 

Cons

"Malware threats can advance attacks when there are no timely measures to curb online phishing attacks."
"I think that the pricing for the Check Point products should be reconsidered - we found it to be quite expensive to purchase and to maintain (the licenses and the support services need to be prolonged regularly), or create some additional bundles of the software blades with significant discounts in addition to the current Next Generation Threat Prevention & SandBlast (NGTX) and Next Generation Threat Prevention (NGTP) offers."
"The whitelisting approach should only be on very specific applications. In which only a server should access a certain application and nothing else. If you miss something, you will have to always be investigating why it doesn't have access or why an application is not working."
"The blocking characteristics for filtering content currently are not so customizable."
"The one feature that could be improved would be the ability to see implicit rules that are defaulted on the policy."
"The set performance monitoring systems are complex to interpret and scale down their operations."
"It is expensive."
"The initial setup was a bit difficult."
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"Carbon Black does not use the database for identifying the file, the fields, or malware."
"The solution should have overhead in keeping lists of applications that you want don't want to run."
"Its setup is very complex, and it requires guidance from the support team, but it is well worth the effort."
"The initial setup is somewhat complex."
"I would like to see the addition of some more features that are in other, similar solutions."
"The reporting is not good and needs to be improved."
"I rate App Control six out of 10 for scalability."
"Another issue is that even sometimes if you approve, for example, Adobe as a publisher, you say any product or anything that's from Adobe has to run. It generally runs, but especially in a large environment and with a lot of users, sometimes, due to some certification validation issues or some other issue, it might stop the process from running. Genuine processes like Adobe and Chrome can get blocked. so that needs to be improved."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's a bit expensive and it could be cheaper, but it's part of business politics."
"I think application control has become a basic feature and it should be enabled automatically, without having to purchase a separate license for it."
"The blade has its cost but you can take advantage of the license package to pay less for it."
"The price of Check Point Application Control is high. The support and ecosystem around the solution are expensive."
"Check Point Application Control is expensive. The tool's licensing costs are yearly."
"We pay a fee for support, which is renewed annually."
"Its price is reasonable and what is expected for these types of products."
"The pricing for this product is competitive and our customers who told us that often, Carbon Back is the cheaper solution."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
22%
Computer Software Company
10%
Construction Company
9%
Government
8%
Educational Organization
49%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Computer Software Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Check Point Application Control?
It has many important features that have greatly helped the company and the IT department.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Check Point Application Control?
Based on the current market, everything looks good.
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At this time, Check Point Application control is the best on the market.
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Also Known As

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CB Protection, Carbon Black CB Protection
 

Overview



Check Point Application Control provides the industry’s strongest application security and identity control to organizations of all sizes. It enables IT teams to easily create granular policies, based on users or groups, to identify, block or limit usage of thousands of Web applications and widgets.

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Check Point Software Technologies

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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Sample Customers

SEB, Luma Arles, Terma, Aerospace, Midwest Rubber
Kaas Tailored, Core-Mark, Indeed, Hologic, Landmark Credit Union, Project Worldwide
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