IBM Resilient vs VMware Carbon Black Cloud comparison

IBM and VMware are both solutions in the Security Incident Response category. IBM is ranked #3 with an average rating of 7.3, while VMware is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.0. IBM holds a 10.9% mindshare in IRP, compared to VMware’s 7.5% mindshare. Additionally, 75% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 93% of VMware users who would recommend it.

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75% willing to recommend

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93% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 2, 2025

IBM Resilient and VMware Carbon Black Cloud are both powerful solutions in the incident response and endpoint protection market. IBM Resilient has an upper hand in flexibility and comprehensive integration, while VMware Carbon Black Cloud is more efficient in threat hunting and real-time response.

Features: IBM Resilient is known for its incident response capabilities, ease of integration with IBM tools, flexibility, and comprehensive stack that supports customization and dynamic management of security incidents. VMware Carbon Black Cloud excels in threat hunting and real-time response, providing efficient context during incidents and scalability across platforms, emphasizing its endpoint protection.

Room for Improvement: IBM Resilient could improve its integration with third-party solutions, technical support, and pricing adjustments. VMware Carbon Black Cloud needs enhancements in user experience with streamlined watchlist management, better network communication visibility, and reduced false positives.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: IBM Resilient offers flexibility with on-premises deployment but has reports of delayed technical support responses, indicating a need for better response times. VMware Carbon Black Cloud provides hybrid and public cloud deployment options but faces challenges in specialized technical support availability, with average user satisfaction levels.

Pricing and ROI: IBM Resilient is seen as moderately expensive, with enterprise licensing based on user volume, raising concerns about high support and renewal costs. VMware Carbon Black Cloud is perceived as expensive but offers significant cost savings through its licensing model, although both solutions encounter challenges in calculating precise ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Resilient

Ranking in Security Incident Response

3rd

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) (13th)

VMware Carbon Black Cloud

Ranking in Security Incident Response

6th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (47th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the Security Incident Response category, the mindshare of IBM Resilient is 10.9%, up from 6.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Carbon Black Cloud is 7.5%, down from 10.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Usman Bhatti

Senior Officer Security Operations Center at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Simple deployment, scalable, but lacking third-party solution compatibility

Integrating IBM Resilient with other applications can be very difficult and technically challenging. Often, they use the excuse that you are using the latest version of an application, such as an endpoint security system, and they don't have an API or support for it at the moment. There is no automation in the SOAR solution. It's worth noting that many third-party add-on applications needed to be purchased separately to integrate with IBM Resilient. While there were built-in applications available for incident remediation, the selection was limited. Additionally, integrating third-party applications was often a difficult and time-consuming process due to the technical complexity involved.

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Tom Kar

Senior Security Specialist at Sopra

Shows promise for endpoint detection and response, with room for improvement in complexity and pricing

VMware Carbon Black Cloud is a user-friendly solution that can isolate machines from the rest of the network. When a machine is quarantined, it cannot communicate with any other machines on the network except for the Carbon Black Cloud server. This allows you to investigate the machine without the risk of malware escaping to the network. Carbon Black Cloud's server can communicate with the quarantined machine through DNS and VSCP. This allows you to collect data from the machine, such as system logs, process activity, and registry changes. This data can be used to investigate the infection and determine the next steps. CrowdStrike and Cybereason are also popular EDR solutions. They offer similar features to VMware Carbon Black Cloud but may have different strengths and weaknesses. It is important to evaluate all of your options before choosing an EDR solution. Additionally, it is complex to use, and the pricing should be improved.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It's really simple and has a flexible interface."

"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."

"The most valuable features of IBM Resilient are its flexibility and customization options for incident response."

"What I like most about IBM Resilient is that it has a complete stack, which means you don't need to use different OEM products because you have all you need under the IBM Resilient umbrella. You don't need to worry much about integrations and components because you're working with tested and proven architecture."

"The initial setup of IBM Resilient is not that complex since my company already has a support license that we use internally. In general, the product's deployment phase is not that complex."

"The most valuable thing about it is how easy it is to navigate the user interface."

"The solution is easy to use."

"As a whole, the product is stable...Technical support is very good."

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"The solution does very well as a baseline EDR and provides good process-level management."

"It is nice when you're in a situation where you think someone's device is compromised and that there's some malware getting into your fleet."

"For setup, the server can be given to you as a VM image and with minimal configuration needed."

"VMware Carbon Black Cloud is a user-friendly solution that can isolate machines from the rest of the network."

"Carbon Black Cb Response excels at providing context to indicators when responding to incidents. It allows responders to understand the entire scope of an incident and quickly contain it to minimize impact and disruption."

"Setting up and managing the setup for this solution is okay. It is stable, scalable, and it runs just fine. No issues with technical support."

"Integration and scalability are the most valuable."

"The market information they gather from the community is really good. Their configuration capabilities are good."

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Cons

"The product must provide more integration with other tools."

"The integration could be improved so that it is easy to integrate with other solutions."

"Integrating IBM Resilient with other applications can be very difficult and technically challenging. Often, they use the excuse that you are using the latest version of an application, such as an endpoint security system, and they don't have an API or support for it at the moment. There is no automation in the SOAR solution."

"There are shortcomings with IBM Resilient's technical support team that can be considered for improvement in the future."

"The implementation could be a bit simpler."

"The ability to analyze incidents needs to be improved in the solution."

"What could make IBM Resilient better is if IBM increased the number of built-in integrations with different products from other vendors or third-party products."

"It is not very straightforward to set up custom integrations, especially with services like Azure. You need an additional server for integration."

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"The threat intelligence feed could use some fine tweaking."

"The cloud console has a lot of bugs and issues in the analysis part."

"There have been some performance issues when deploying on Windows Server, but I believe Carbon Black is working on that."

"The dashboard should be more user-friendly."

"It's not highly available, so you have to have a core server. If the primary server goes down, you need a new one. It's not available at the same time, however. It's not automatically swapped from one server to another."

"Training and education for both partner and customer, including product marketing need to be improved."

"They have different products, but if we wanted to take their protection and their EPR, then we would need to have two agents"

"It's not simple."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The licensing cost for IBM Resilient is not too expensive, but it's not affordable, so it's moderately expensive. Regarding price, I'm rating the solution seven out of ten. The company pays for the license yearly, based on the number of users. Apart from the cost of the license you need to pay for each user, you also need to spend an initial investment for the base platform. You also have to pay for IBM Resilient support."

"Pricing for the solution is good, in my opinion."

"There are no costs except for the support services that our company pays in addition to the licensing charges attached to the solution."

"It is very expensive."

"We could create unlimited users using the license we had purchased."

"There is a license you need to pay for in order to use this product."

"The cost of the product is quite high."

"I would rate the tool’s pricing a three out of ten. The tool’s pricing is on a yearly basis."

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"The solution is very inexpensive so there is great cost savings to using it."

"We had no issues purchasing through our preferred reseller and were able to get a fair price even when not purchasing direct. Carbon Black Enterprise Response didn’t break the bank, though adding on the matching antivirus and anti-malware components of the Protect product was more than we could afford, even with some discounting. Cb Response is really designed to complement Carbon Black’s Defense product. While Response can be used on its own, coupling with Defense seems like the best strategy if you can afford the price tag."

"You need to pay for the licensing of the product. The pricing is costly."

"VMware Carbon Black Cloud is an expensive solution."

"Pricing for this solution could be made lower."

"Purchase Professional Services up front as part of the implementation package, then renew hours annually to ensure you have adequate support for upgrades and enhancements. Overbuy by at least 10% to account for infrastructure growth."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

32%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

17%

Real Estate/Law Firm

13%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about IBM Resilient?

It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Resilient?

I am not the one in charge of pricing, so I am not sure about the costs.

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What needs improvement with IBM Resilient?

Integration with some devices, including Cisco PowerPower and certain antivirus products, has limitations.

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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...

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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...

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What do you like most about Carbon Black CB Response?

Threat hunting is the most valuable feature of VMware Carbon Black Cloud.

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Overview

The Resilient Incident Response Platform (IRP) is the leading platform for orchestrating and automating incident response processes.

The Resilient IRP quickly and easily integrates with your organization’s existing security and IT investments. It makes security alerts instantly actionable, provides valuable intelligence and incident context, and enables adaptive response to complex cyber threats.

IBM

Fortify Endpoint and Workload Protection Legacy approaches fall short as cybercriminals update tactics and obscure their actions. Get advanced cybersecurity fueled by behavioral analytics to spot minor fluctuations and adapt in response. Recognize New Threats Analyze attackers’ behavior patterns to detect and stop never-before-seen attacks with continuous endpoint activity data monitoring. Don’t get stuck analyzing only what’s worked in the past. Simplify Your Security Stack Streamline the response to potential incidents with a unified endpoint agent and console. Minimize downtime responding to incidents and return critical CPU cycles back to the business.

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Sample Customers

Golden Living, Health Equity, USA Funds

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