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Huntress Managed EDR vs VMware Carbon Black Endpoint comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 28, 2024
 

Categories and Ranking

Huntress Managed EDR
Ranking in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
8th
Average Rating
9.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.8
Number of Reviews
25
Ranking in other categories
Managed Detection and Response (MDR) (2nd)
VMware Carbon Black Endpoint
Ranking in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
15th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
63
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (20th), Security Incident Response (1st), Ransomware Protection (4th)
 

Featured Reviews

Andy Larin - PeerSpot reviewer
Effortless to use and is one of the easiest products to deploy
Huntress is effortless to use. It's one of the easiest products to deploy. Pushing out through our RMM is simple, and using it is straightforward once it's on a machine. The end user doesn't have to do anything. Everything comes back to us. I love that the alerts are human-curated. They take a look at alerts before we get them. Other products are very noisy. They'll send you an alert about anything. About 95 percent of those alerts go to Huntress first. They check to make sure that it's real and only alert us if it's actionable, something that requires our attention. When I get an alert from Huntress, it must be looked at. I love that. It saves a ton of time for my people. It can fix low-severity threats. Their team is 24/7, whereas my team is not. We want them to take action on known bad things. Sometimes, that means fixing the problem or isolating the machine so multiple machines aren't getting hit. I love that they can address those issues within a very short time.
Matthew Weisler - PeerSpot reviewer
Great granularity for policies or applications without needing hash values
The solution is cloud based which makes it easy to use for remote devices or work-at-home situations. The solution supports full trust or signature-based approvals. You can get very granular and band out policies or applications without having to do hash values. You can band through the entire environment by execution of the name or desk IDXE. This can be achieved on the policy side because of the signature, IOC, or naming convention itself. This is very effective for pushing more blockage or removing threats across the board. The solution has a very nice API on the back end for remoting into a system and executing scripts or utilizing self automation. This is useful for monitoring several different companies in a workspace or workbook-type format. For example, I report and send out mass emails from a clickable button in an Excel workbook. The APIs all exist for each client. I push out automatic endpoint monitoring and reports every single day at a particular time, with a simple clickable button that serves as a scheduled task for fifty clients.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"After deployment, it takes some time to scan and process everything. Huntress has effectively flagged issues such as password files on desktops, which it identifies as low-level alerts. It also handles more significant threats effectively."
"Huntress is extremely well-written software. I used to be a developer, and I see how they've written it. It's excellent. I've never had an issue with it crashing a machine. It's small, tight code."
"It is clear, simple, and easy to use. There are things that I can automate in terms of escalation, but if I want to go into the settings and play with it, I can. They provide detailed remediation steps, explaining why an issue is a problem and what steps to take."
"Huntress' best feature is the threat-hunting expertise that is part of their 24/7 SOC."
"Huntress helps us replace traditional antivirus solutions with an EDR. I like how easy it is to use and deploy. Support is good- they've responded quickly when I've had issues. I like it a lot so far. It reports valuable information and filters out things I don't need to know."
"Users usually note improvements in a matter of days. In others, it is immediately. It varies according to the environment."
"What stands out most is their human element: when faced with an unknown threat, real people, not just automated processes, are investigating it, and they're people we trust."
"The most valuable aspect of Huntress is its ability to isolate legacy systems from the network, preventing the spread of threats."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"The feature I found most valuable in Carbon Black CB Defense is the ongoing monitoring feature that works by emailing updates about any detections found."
"One of the most valuable features is that it will block vulnerable sites. If there was a connection between one of our devices to a known malware site, it will block it."
"I rate Carbon Black CB Defense an eight out of ten for the ease of its initial setup."
"You can deploy it through the cloud so that even if your stuff is outside of your controlled environment, you are still under control, based on the policies you create. The policies are controlled through the cloud. For example, if I don't allow anyone to do a certain activity or to install a particular app, and a consultant or a partner who is not part of our environment is doing so, it will stop them as well."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is one of the best EDR tools in the market."
"​Provides visibility into the chain of attack and threats that use valid operating system processes to execute attacks.​"
"The initial setup is very easy."
 

Cons

"The existing features are perfect. However, I think they could add a more robust set of security features like dark web scanning, penetration testing, and risk assessment for clients. We would have one tool for everything. We wouldn't have to go to multiple vendors to pull something together. That would be more beneficial for us."
"I had been requesting Huntress support for macOS for a while, and they recently rolled it out, making it generally available within two months. Having a regular support line would be good."
"The solution's UI is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"The integration with our RMM could be better."
"I'd like Huntress to implement a component that can analyze network traffic for specific sites."
"I am anxiously watching to see how they evolve their MDR for Office 365. If anything, I would like more automated remediation capabilities in their MDR for Office 365."
"Some of Huntress' reporting could be improved."
"Huntress has a cyber education platform, but it lacks all the languages we need."
"The product's stability could be improved."
"It would be nice to have additional forensic tools that you can build into the back end."
"With the on-prem one, the bug has been reported by the community in early January or February, something like that, at the beginning of the year, and it's still not addressed. They have released two versions since then, and yet neither of them addresses this specific issue."
"There's some disparity between the on-premise and the cloud type of application."
"Report generation can be improved."
"It would be a better solution if Carbon Black Cb Defense had an on-promise solution and a virus auto delete or quarantine."
"The solution needs expanded endpoint query tools."
"Adding an application and a device control feature would be a great help for this solution."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"While other options have emerged since Huntress' arrival, I believe it still offers the best value for the features and services it provides."
"The tool’s price is very good. You just need to pay for the standard license. However, you need to pay the additional cost for Microsoft Defender."
"The Huntress pricing is an excellent value for what the product provides."
"It works well for an MSP."
"The pricing is competitive, in line with Huntress's offerings, and aligns well with our business model."
"Huntress is priced fairly for the services and value it provides."
"I rate the product pricing six out of ten for the Malaysian market. However, I would rate it a three out of ten for the Australian, New Zealand, or Singapore markets."
"It is simple. It is reasonable. They raised my prices this year. We never like price increases, but they continue to add value, so we just keep adding agents as we grow and as our clients grow."
"VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is an expensive product."
"The licensing cost is on the more expensive side, but I thought it was worth it because they did a good job. It was one of the vendors I truly didn't have to worry about too much until this latest upgrade."
"The pricing is very high."
"The solution has almost the same price as other different kinds of infrastructures, but it offers a lot of different features."
"The product is expensive. There are some additional costs apart from the standard licensing charges attached to the solution."
"Carbon Black might be a touch more expensive than Symantec. They tend to get a premium for their capabilities. They're sort of an industry leader in a lot of areas with the functionality that they provide."
"​The cost/benefit factor has great relevance in Cb Defense implementations​."
"The pricing [is] more or less the same as other similar solutions."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
17%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Insurance Company
8%
Retailer
7%
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Government
10%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Huntress?
It is very easy to use. It is a great solution. They are one of the better vendors that I have ever worked with since I have been in the industry.
What needs improvement with Huntress?
One issue is the managed antivirus. Huntress takes control of the antivirus built into Windows Defender, but it doesn't if, for some reason, Defender isn't working properly and doesn't attempt to f...
What is your primary use case for Huntress?
We roll Huntress out across the board. It's in our base security shield, so we use it everywhere. We also use ThreatLocker. It's an application for allowlisting and blocklisting. It blocks any soft...
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

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Carbon Black CB Defense, Bit9, Confer
 

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Sample Customers

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Netflix, Progress Residential, Indeed, Hologic, Gentle Giant, Samsung Research America
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