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Google Security Operations vs VMware Carbon Black Endpoint comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Google Security Operations
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) (16th)
VMware Carbon Black Endpoint
Average Rating
7.8
Number of Reviews
63
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (18th), Security Incident Response (1st), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (15th), Ransomware Protection (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Security Software solutions, they serve different purposes. Google Security Operations is designed for Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) and holds a mindshare of 1.1%, down 2.1% compared to last year.
VMware Carbon Black Endpoint, on the other hand, focuses on Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP), holds 2.1% mindshare, down 2.7% since last year.
Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR)
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)
 

Featured Reviews

CR
Apr 26, 2023
Great for reporting and ticketing for SOC MxDR client environments and has a great, supportive community
There are so many incredible features in the Chronicle SOAR platform that it's difficult to narrow down the list, however, if I had to choose, I would say that the most valuable features are the playbook builder and the integrations. The playbook builder allows us to establish workflows for the various case types that our analysts encounter within the SOC. These can be as granular or as high level as they need to be depending upon our business objectives and alert priorities. In turn, the tremendous number of integrations in the marketplace and the IDE (to custom-develop new integrations) are what make the playbooks as powerful as they are. Together, the integrations and playbooks make it simple to integrate powerful new capabilities and workflows.
Durai  Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 25, 2023
The solution is expensive, support is poor, and it takes time to understand the product
Customers want solutions that provide endpoint detection and response. The traditional antivirus solutions and the market trend are changing. Customers are asking for the latest technologies. Carbon Black has very good market strategies. We do the marketing activities and promote the product to the…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The most valuable feature of Siemplify is the playbooks that can be created."
"The playbooks feature in Siemplify is crucial for automation. We've utilized both standard and custom integrations with other security operation solutions, enhancing our flexibility. The user interface is generally straightforward, although recent changes may require some adjustment and Siemplify's integrations and capabilities offer potential support for various compliance requirements."
"Without hyperbole, I have never, in my entire career, encountered a vendor or a vendor community as awesome as Siemplify. Siemplify and the Siemplify Community quite literally made it possible for our SOC to increase almost five-fold in our number of clients and number of analysts and to go from a Monday to Friday 9-5 shop to a 24/7 shop all in the span of under a year and a half and all while continually adding capabilities and improving the services we offer to our clients."
"The solution has a library where we can have multiple threat intels onboarded. We just have to subscribe to a particular site intel and they'll provide us with all of the truncated details so that we can create IOCs and alerts on the basis of those IOCs."
"We can access computers remotely if we need to."
"What I like the most about it is the dynamic grouping, where you get to group endpoints based on setup criteria. That's pretty cool. I like the simplified policy management and simplified white-listing process."
"I rate Carbon Black CB Defense an eight out of ten for the ease of its initial setup."
"VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is a highly stable solution."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"It has intelligent learning behind it and we have been very successful in preventing attacks."
"Once the solution is installed and configured correctly it does not require a lot of hands-on attention until you need upgrading."
 

Cons

"I'm inclined to say that I'd love to see some Machine Learning capabilities integrated into the platform, however, I just attended a demo this morning where Siemplify gave a sneak peek into some Machine Learning capabilities that they are currently developing and have roadmapped for release soon."
"We often encounter minor issues that could be improved, but we maintain communication with the developers and submit feature requests. Recently, I requested enhancements such as improved search functionality within playbooks and expanded options for exporting case data."
"Building the playbooks could be easier and the integration could improve. It is a difficult process, such as what API connections need to be made."
"I would like to see improvements made so that we can better see all of the processes."
"I would personally give the tech support a rating of seven out of ten."
"The solution needs expanded endpoint query tools."
"The product's stability could be improved."
"It could be a bit complicated. You have to be very familiar with Carbon Black to understand what it is doing and why it is doing. I would like to have more explanations and simplification in the user interface. It would be good to get help and see more explanations. It should tell us that a software is blocked and the reason for it. It would be good to be able to build chains in terms of what caused what, what worked, and what caused an issue. We are now moving from Carbon Black to Cortex XDR. While choosing antivirus software, we were also looking at Carbon Black because it also has an antivirus package, and it is next-generation, but we were told that Carbon Black doesn't support firewalls. We have Palo Alto firewalls. We would have chosen this solution if it supported firewalls, in particular next-generation firewalls, but unfortunately, it doesn't. Therefore, we decided on Cortex XDR because it integrates with Palo Alto firewalls."
"There is room for improvement in the support and service team."
"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."
"There's some disparity between the on-premise and the cloud type of application."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"This is a really expensive product and we pay licensing fees on a yearly basis."
"The cost is a considerable factor, but the benefit factor is the most important. When you compare it with other products, the price is high. Carbon Black will negotiate the price."
"Its pricing was very good, which is one of the reasons I went to it as an alternative. It is on a yearly basis. There are no additional fees."
"The pricing is annually based and operates through another department than mine."
"​The cost/benefit factor has great relevance in Cb Defense implementations​."
"Overall, it was cost-effective too."
"The product is quite reasonable."
"The license is annual. It's a standard license."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
19%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Educational Organization
7%
Retailer
7%
Computer Software Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

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Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Siemplify?
The playbooks feature in Siemplify is crucial for automation. We've utilized both standard and custom integrations with other security operation solutions, enhancing our flexibility. The user inter...
What needs improvement with Siemplify?
We often encounter minor issues that could be improved, but we maintain communication with the developers and submit feature requests. Recently, I requested enhancements such as improved search fun...
What is your primary use case for Siemplify?
Siemplify has streamlined various tasks such as configuring playbooks, integrations, and running reports. It helps automate security incident response processes through configuration setup and prov...
What to choose: an endpoint antivirus, an EDR solution or both?
I can recommend Carbon Black, an award-winning next-gen anti-virus (NGAV) and endpoint detection and response (EDR) security solution. The CB Predictive Security Cloud platform combines multiple hi...
What's the difference between Carbon Black CB Response and Carbon Black CB Defense?
Carbon Black offers two different levels of Endpoint Detection and Response. One is the VM Carbon Black Cloud Endpoint Standard (CB Defense), and the other is the Carbon Black Endpoint Detection an...
What do you like most about Carbon Black CB Defense?
VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is a highly stable solution.
 

Also Known As

Siemplify ThreatNexus
Carbon Black CB Defense, Bit9, Confer
 

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