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Trend Micro Deep Security vs VMware Carbon Black Endpoint comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 12, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Trend Micro Deep Security
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
89
Ranking in other categories
Virtualization Security (1st), Cloud and Data Center Security (8th)
VMware Carbon Black Endpoint
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
63
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (21st), Security Incident Response (1st), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (15th), Ransomware Protection (5th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Security Software solutions, they serve different purposes. Trend Micro Deep Security is designed for Virtualization Security and holds a mindshare of 41.3%, down 45.1% compared to last year.
VMware Carbon Black Endpoint, on the other hand, focuses on Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP), holds 1.8% mindshare, down 2.5% since last year.
Virtualization Security
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)
 

Featured Reviews

Usman Bhatti - PeerSpot reviewer
High availability, effective VPM, and responsive support
There is room for improvement with Trend Micro Deep Security, as there are instances where installations may need to be redone. There seem to be glitches when working with older Windows servers, such as those from 2003 or 2005, requiring us to uninstall and reinstall the product to resolve the issue.
Nikunj Kamboj - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"There are compliance issues for legacy applications and after applying OS security patches. The product's HIPS (Host Intrusion Prevention System) modules do the job for you automatically, without any downtime."
"The integration options of Trend Micro Deep Security have been particularly valuable."
"The file integrity and log inspection are game-changing features for us."
"The most valuable and advanced feature of the solution is the ability to check vulnerabilities."
"The most valuable features of the solution we have enabled in our organization are its anti-malware capabilities, applications, web reputation, and integrity monitoring."
"DLP, Data Loss Prevention, and the complexity of how we manage the console and how this client, or this tool, will notify us when there is something going wrong within the server and endpoint, is good."
"The most valuable feature is the virtual patching."
"There is a degree of set it and forget it in regards to the actual endpoints and what you can do with the console, which is nice."
"The product allows us to focus on endpoint and antivirus protection."
"I rate Carbon Black CB Defense an eight out of ten for the ease of its initial setup."
"The tool is pretty stable."
"It actually does some heuristics, and some behavioral analysis."
"The product enables device controls, helping us protect the devices and prevent data leakages."
"The solution is extremely scalable."
"There's lots of very useful documentation online to help troubleshoot and learn about the product."
"For Carbon Black Endpoint, the possibility of integration with different other software's log servers is the important thing. Having just one point of view is more interesting so you don't need to go to different places to see all the information."
 

Cons

"The default reports provided don't provide much insight."
"We are not very happy with Trend Micro Deep Security since it is not able to detect many viruses and bugs."
"The tool should integrate SIM functionality. It should also improve customer support."
"There should be signature-based advanced and responsive features."
"The solution could use more integration."
"The email relays and proxies could be improved."
"It would be helpful if they could send emails notifying their users about the recommended upgraded versions to address the newly discovered vulnerabilities."
"As for what could be improved, I think it should come with an XDR facility without any extra cost. They're always releasing new features, but we need to pay extra for them."
"There's some disparity between the on-premise and the cloud type of application."
"The GUI and reporting should be addressed and the product's administration features need fine tuning."
"Report generation can be improved."
"In my company, we face issues sometimes when there is a need to write custom rules or we want to write for some rules that are different from the standard rules provided by the solution."
"It would be nice to have additional forensic tools that you can build into the back end."
"In our company, we also wanted to have network detection, like a host-based IDS on VMware Carbon Black Endpoint, but we did not get it."
"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."
"The EDR portion could be better. I'm not a big fan, but it works."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We did not purchase it through the AWS Marketplace because we have used Trend Micro in the past."
"From a pricing perspective, I would say the product is economical...The payments are made on a yearly basis towards the licensing of the solution."
"Licensing fees are paid yearly."
"Purchasing on the AWS Marketplace is like shopping on Amazon Prime."
"The tool's pricing is quite high."
"The solution’s pricing is reasonable."
"We are an original partner with AWS, so a couple of customers chose to directly take it from AWS Marketplace. A couple of customers will want us to take care of the billing. So, it's a mixed type of reaction that we receive from the customer."
"We need to make yearly payments for the solution's licensing. There are different pricing models, like subscription-based and perpetual."
"This is a really expensive product and we pay licensing fees on a yearly basis."
"The license is annual. It's a standard license."
"The product is quite reasonable."
"​The cost/benefit factor has great relevance in Cb Defense implementations​."
"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."
"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 pricing is very high."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
41%
Computer Software Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Computer Software Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Government
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

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What to choose: an endpoint antivirus, an EDR solution or both?
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What's the difference between Carbon Black CB Response and Carbon Black CB Defense?
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What do you like most about Carbon Black CB Defense?
VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is a highly stable solution.
 

Also Known As

Deep Security
Carbon Black CB Defense, Bit9, Confer
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Rush University Medical Center, Guess? Inc., Mazda Motor Logistics Europe, MEDHOST, KSC Commercial Internet Co., Ricoh Company Ltd., Square Enix, SoftBank Telecom, Telecom Italia, United Way of Greater Atlanta, A&W Food Services of Canada
Netflix, Progress Residential, Indeed, Hologic, Gentle Giant, Samsung Research America
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