Morphisec vs VMware Carbon Black Endpoint comparison

Morphisec and VMware are both solutions in the Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) category. Morphisec is ranked #56, while VMware is ranked #21 with an average rating of 7.7. Morphisec holds a 0.4% mindshare in EPP, compared to VMware’s 1.7% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Morphisec users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of VMware users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 9, 2024

VMware Carbon Black Endpoint and Morphisec are competing in the endpoint security category. Based on user feedback and various reports, Morphisec seems to have the upper hand due to its innovative approach and lightweight footprint, which offer compelling advantages.

Features: VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is noted for advanced threat detection, response capabilities, and integration capabilities. Morphisec stands out with its moving target defense, simplicity, and proactive attack prevention. While both have strong features, Morphisec's simplicity and proactive defense are particularly appreciated.

Room for Improvement: VMware Carbon Black Endpoint users report system performance impacts, complexity in configuration, and challenges with resource consumption. Morphisec users suggest enhancements in logging, reporting features, and adding some advanced functionalities. VMware's issues are mainly performance-related, while Morphisec focuses on expanding functionality.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: VMware Carbon Black Endpoint receives mixed feedback on deployment ease due to a steep learning curve but has excellent customer support. Morphisec is praised for its straightforward deployment process and solid customer service. Users find Morphisec simpler to deploy but value VMware's robust support.

Pricing and ROI: VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is considered pricier, offset by comprehensive security features that provide good ROI. Morphisec is notable for its cost-effectiveness and strong ROI driven by its lightweight and proactive model. Despite VMware's higher cost, both products offer compelling value in their own ways.

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Categories and Ranking

Morphisec

Ranking in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)

56th

Ranking in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

59th

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Vulnerability Management (58th), Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) (33rd), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) (36th), Threat Deception Platforms (14th)

VMware Carbon Black Endpoint

Ranking in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)

21st

Ranking in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

15th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Security Incident Response (1st), Ransomware Protection (5th)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) category, the mindshare of Morphisec is 0.4%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is 1.7%, down from 2.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

Islam Shaikh

Senior Manager - IT at IndiGrid Limited

Lightweight, detects everything quickly, and takes corrective action

We sometimes have to depend on the support team to know what action we should take. If the solution for an alert can be built into the report that we are getting, it will save time, and the interaction with support would be less. At times, corrective action is required, but at times, we don't need to take any action. It would be good if we get to know in the report that a particular infection doesn't require any action. It will save us time and effort. Other than that, nothing else is required. They have taken care of everything. We are getting alerts, and we can have multiple admins. We get a good model with this view.

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Nikunj Kamboj

Cybersecurity Analyst at OnX Canada

Integrates well with our existing SIEM tool and helps in identifying suspicious activities

The solution's integration with our existing security infrastructure is good. Whenever we have any alert in VMware Carbon Black Endpoint, we can easily that alert in our SIEM tool and check logs from the SIEM tool itself. VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is just a secondary security tool for us, and we are just monitoring the alerts from it. The solution's behavioral analytics feature helps in identifying suspicious activities pretty well. Whenever we have even a small thing, we get an alert. The solution is deployed on the cloud in our organization. Performance-wise, the solution is doing great in terms of connecting to the host directly. Performing a malware scan usually takes a lot of time, more than 24 hours. A malware scan is something that we do only on Carbon Black for the old endpoint devices and servers. It used to take sometimes three days to perform. I would recommend the solution to other users. Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

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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

"We have seen it successfully block attacks that a traditional antivirus did not pick up."

"All the alerts are on the dashboard, which is quite simple and useful for us. You can easily check all the alerts that are being blocked or allowed, or whatever the action is. You can easily see that and you can take the necessary actions. You can add a PowerShell extension or any activities for blocking at your network level or for endpoints."

"The biggest feature is that it hides everything from your operating system that's running in-memory from anything to try to run against it. That's the most unique thing that's on the market. There's nothing else out there that's quite like that. That's a big selling point and why we went with it. It does exactly what the design does. If you can't find it, you can't execute against it."

"Morphisec's in-memory protection is probably the most valuable feature because it stops malicious activity from occurring. If something tries to install or act as a sleeper agent, Morphisec will detect and stop it."

"Morphisec makes it very easy for IT teams of any size to prevent breaches of critical systems because of the design of their tool. When we evaluated Morphisec, the CIO and I sat and listened. What attracted us to them is the fact that it stops activity at the point of detection. That saves a lot of time because now we are not investigating and trying to trace down what to turn off. We have already prevented it, which makes it very much safer and more secure."

"Since using Morphisec we have seen a downturn in attacks because Morphisec protects us versus Defenders and whatnot that are signature-based. I know we have not had any issues with ransomware or other zero-day attacks that we've seen with machines that, all of a sudden, have become before we instituted the product. Now the machine had to be re-imaged and there was a loss of data because something was on the machine. You couldn't really determine what was on the machine because nothing was picking it up. The products we were using weren't picking it up."

"Morphisec is a straightforward solution that is efficient and very stable."

"Morphisec has enabled us to become a lot less paranoid when it comes to staff clicking on things or accessing things that they shouldn't that could infect the whole system. Our original ransomware attack that happened came from someone's Google drive and then just filtered on through that. It has put our minds at ease a lot more in running it. It's also another layer of security that has been proven to be effective for us."

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"Carbon Black has very good market strategies."

"The initial setup was fairly easy."

"The whole purpose of the product, like application control, is very good, and also if you need to update some policies, it works well and instantly."

"I like its reporting."

"It gives you all of the information in a short and sweet fashion."

"The initial setup is very easy."

"It is stable and easy to set up."

"The tool is pretty stable."

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Cons

"The weakest point of this product is how difficult it is to understand the reasons for an alert. This is a problem because it is hard to determine whether an attack is real or not."

"It would be useful for them if they had some kind of network discovery. That kind of functionality I think would give IT administrators a little bit more confidence that they have 100 percent coverage, and it gives them something to audit against. Network discovery would be one area I would definitely suggest that they put some effort into."

"We sometimes have to depend on the support team to know what action we should take. If the solution for an alert can be built into the report that we are getting, it will save time, and the interaction with support would be less. At times, corrective action is required, but at times, we don't need to take any action. It would be good if we get to know in the report that a particular infection doesn't require any action. It will save us time and effort."

"It might be a bit much to ask, but we are now beginning to use Morphisec Scout, which provides vulnerability information. At this time, it's recognizing vulnerabilities and reporting them to us, but it's not necessarily resolving them. There's still a separate manual process to resolve those vulnerabilities, primarily through upgrades. We have to do that outside of Morphisec. If Morphisec could somehow have that capability built into it, that would be very effective."

"We started in the Linux platform and we deployed to Linux. The licensing of that has been kind of confusing between Linux licensing and Windows licensing. The overall simplicity of licensing or offering an enterprise license to just cover everything and then we don't have to count needs improvement."

"The only area that really needs improvement is the reporting functionality. Gathering the detailed information that is in the system for an executive, or for me as a director, could be better. Some of the interface and reporting aspects are a little bit dated. They're working on it."

"Automating reports needs improvement. I would like to have better reporting capabilities within it or automated reporting to be a little bit more dynamic. That's something I know they're working on. We literally are in the process. We started the process a week and a half ago of going to their latest version, so I've not seen their latest one up and running yet."

"I haven't been able to get the cloud deployment to work. When there's an update, I'm supposed to be able to roll it out for the cloud solution, but right now I'm continuing to use our SCCM solution to update it."

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"The feature set for the firewall needs improvement."

"They will most likely need to create or include a feature that checks the network."

"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."

"The solution needs better overall compatibility with other products."

"There could be more knowledge. I think they made a mistake when they took away the Check Point integration, because it provides more automation and also more threat intelligence."

"What was rolled out to my company are mixed versions of Carbon Black CB Defense, so what I'd like to see in the next release is more synchronization, where it can detect the endpoint that's running an old version and suggest updates."

"The directions for Splunk are spot on, but it is difficult to find anything on integration with AlienVault,"

"This solution works well but needs lots of tuning and optimization."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Compared to their competitors, the price of Morphisec is not that high. You can easily deploy it on a large-scale or small-scale network."

"The pricing is definitely fair for what it does."

"It is priced correctly for what it does. They end up doing a good deal of discounting, but I think it is priced appropriately."

"We are still using a separate tool. I know for our 600 or I think we're actually licensed for up to 700 users, it runs me 23 or $24,000 a year. When you're talking to that many users plus servers being protected, that's well worth the investment for that dollar amount."

"Licenses are per endpoint, and that's true for the cloud version as well. The only difference is that there is a little extra charge for the cloud version."

"It is an annual subscription basis per device. For the devices that we have in scope right now, it is about $25,000 a year."

"Our licensing is tied into our contract. Because we have a long-term contract, our pricing is a little bit lower. It is per year, so we don't get charged per endpoint, but we do have a cap. Our cap is 80 endpoints. If we were to go over 80, when we renewed our contract, which is not until three years are over. Then, they would reevaluate, and say, "Well, you have more than 80 devices active right now. This is going to be the price change." They know that we are installing and replacing computers, so the numbers will be all over the place depending on whether you archive or don't archive, which is the reason why we just have to keep up on that stuff."

"Price-wise, it's on the higher side. A traditional antivirus solution is cheaper, but in terms of security and manageability, its ROI is better than a traditional antivirus. I would recommend it to anybody evaluating or considering an antivirus solution. If your system gets compromised, the cost of ransom would be a lot more. This way, it saves a lot of cost."

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"The platform is expensive."

"CB Defense is available on a yearly subscription and is priced by the number of endpoints."

"Price-wise, VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is a highly-priced solution. Regarding the licensing cost of the solution, one needs to opt for an annual subscription."

"Carbon Black provides competitive pricing."

"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 cost/benefit factor has great relevance in Cb Defense implementations."

"It's reasonable in price"

"This is a really expensive product and we pay licensing fees on a yearly basis."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Outsourcing Company

14%

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Government

10%

Manufacturing Company

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Also Known As

Morphisec, Morphisec Moving Target Defense

Carbon Black CB Defense, Bit9, Confer

Overview

Morphisec integrates seamlessly with platforms like Microsoft Defender, offering signatureless protection against zero-day threats and ransomware. It enhances existing endpoint solutions with minimal maintenance through its set-and-forget deployment, providing heightened security and reduced false positives.

Morphisec strengthens defense strategies by merging memory morphing and signatureless protection to effectively block zero-day attacks and ransomware. It operates efficiently within existing infrastructure, reducing system impact and maintenance needs. Users find its full visibility dashboard invaluable. Despite its strengths, cloud deployment and reporting features can be improved. Stability, alerts, and integration with other systems pose challenges for users, impacting usability and support quality.

What are Morphisec's key features?

Seamless Integration: Works with Microsoft Defender for comprehensive dashboard visibility
Memory Morphing: Hides processes to reduce attack surfaces
Signatureless Protection: Prevents threats without impacting performance
Automatic Threat Blocking: Uses inbuilt intelligence to detect risks
Set-and-Forget Deployment: Simplifies management and reduces maintenance

What benefits should users consider in reviews?

Quick Deployment: Fast setup without disrupting operations
Enhanced Protection: Provides an additional defense layer against advanced threats
Cost-Effectiveness: Works with existing licenses, minimizing extra investments
Improved Compatibility: Integrates smoothly with current antivirus systems
Minimal System Impact: Operates efficiently without overloading resources

In security-focused industries, Morphisec is crucial for protecting workstations and servers against sophisticated attacks like ransomware. Its signatureless technology offers early threat detection, while compatibility with existing systems ensures seamless integration, providing advanced protection without additional licensing costs.

Morphisec

VMware Carbon Black Endpoint provides comprehensive endpoint security against ransomware, spyware, malware, and viruses, catering to both cloud and on-premise environments.

VMware Carbon Black Endpoint facilitates endpoint detection and response, threat hunting, application control, antivirus support, and protection for virtual and physical machines. Features include intelligent learning, whitelisting, and integration with other security tools, making it suitable for distributors, MSPs, and enterprises seeking advanced threat defense and real-time monitoring. With its capability to detect and stop malicious executables, it supports both offline and online environments and offers tools like command shell access for deeper investigation.

What are the key features of VMware Carbon Black Endpoint?

Intelligent learning: Improves detection capabilities over time.
Whitelisting: Allows only approved applications to run.
Integration with other security tools: Enhances overall security posture.
Centralized cloud control: Manages endpoints from a single interface.
Command shell access: Offers deeper investigation capabilities.
Dynamic grouping: Facilitates organized endpoint management.
Simplified policy management: Streamlines security policy implementation.
API for system remoting: Allows remote system access and management.
Twenty-four-seven support: Provides continuous assistance and response.

What are the benefits of VMware Carbon Black Endpoint?

Real-time monitoring: Offers constant vigilance against threats.
Threat hunting: Identifies and mitigates threats proactively.
Historical data analysis: Assists in understanding past incidents and patterns.
Improved endpoint protection: Enhances overall endpoint security.
Enhanced threat detection: Reduces exposure to advanced threats.

VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is implemented across various industries including technology, healthcare, and finance. Organizations utilize it in cloud and hybrid environments, enhancing their security frameworks with real-time monitoring, intelligent learning, and robust threat detection capabilities tailored to their specific industry needs.

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Sample Customers

Lenovo/Motorola, TruGreen, Covenant Health, Citizens Medical Center

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

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