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VMware Carbon Black Endpoint vs ZoneAlarm comparison

 

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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

VMware Carbon Black Endpoint
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
63
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (33rd), Security Incident Response (4th), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (27th), Ransomware Protection (7th)
ZoneAlarm
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
Anti-Malware Tools (18th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Endpoint Security solutions, they serve different purposes. VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is designed for Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) and holds a mindshare of 1.8%, down 2.2% compared to last year.
ZoneAlarm, on the other hand, focuses on Anti-Malware Tools, holds 2.6% mindshare, up 2.0% since last year.
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
VMware Carbon Black Endpoint1.8%
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint9.9%
CrowdStrike Falcon7.9%
Other80.4%
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)
Anti-Malware Tools Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
ZoneAlarm2.6%
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint13.7%
F-Secure Total5.9%
Other77.8%
Anti-Malware Tools
 

Featured Reviews

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.
Bala_Krishna - PeerSpot reviewer
Security suite has protected individual devices from threats, while installation and network features require improvements
BIG-IP is actually the LTM, Link Load Balancer, which comes with ASM, meaning Application Security Module. It consists of multiple modules, such as ASM, SWG, and a domain DNS manager. ZoneAlarm allows defining trusted and public networks, which helps maintain security in public Wi-Fi environments. It offers comprehensive protection, securing PCs against threats. Users do not experience any system slowdowns while scanning. Harmony Browser protects all your browsing activity and is bundled with Harmony Endpoint and Harmony Connect. It provides a small but effective security layer and sometimes comes packaged with the larger Harmony suite.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Carbon Black Cb Defense has a nice component called Alert Triage. It contains full details of the process execution "kill chain" and "go live" for immediate remediation."
"I found it very valuable as a whole. It is good at detecting anything and has kept us very safe. It is also very easy to use."
"It significantly speeds up incident response times by alerting analysts immediately upon detecting potential issues."
"The product's most valuable feature is its ability to be fully integrated with the VMware environment."
"Carbon Black has very good market strategies."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the support it provides."
"There's lots of very useful documentation online to help troubleshoot and learn about the product."
"ZoneAlarm protects all computers from viruses, spyware, and hackers."
"This antivirus is regularly updated, and the updates can be scheduled."
"It is easy to use through interfaces and easy to configure each of the customizations we created based on the characteristics that we wanted."
"The product's most valuable feature is the detection engine due to its ability to identify threats."
"It gives us security for the users' mobiles and ends up protecting us in a significant way."
"The solution maintains reasonable scalability."
"Personally, I find the Game Mode of the Firewall very useful."
"The solution really focused on giving more security than an antivirus."
 

Cons

"It would be a better solution if Carbon Black Cb Defense had an on-promise solution and a virus auto delete or quarantine."
"The device control feature could also be compatible with the user’s profile as well."
"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."
"A search bar in the investigation page and some AI-related tasks like outgoing alerts, or recent tactics that are being used in the market, must be embedded in the tool so that it's easier to find alerts."
"The pricing could be more reasonable."
"There is room for improvement in the support and service team."
"The node management could be much better. The one thing that they cannot do very easily is change the tenant from a backend."
"The GUI and reporting should be addressed and the product's administration features need fine tuning."
"Some of our users say that the interface is a little bit outdated for 2020, and want it to be more modern and cozy."
"Perhaps the primary area for potential enhancement is to make it faster, ensuring a more seamless experience while maintaining robust security features."
"The solution's efficiency in threat containment and overall protection needs improvement."
"I would like it to be integrated with the Check Point centralization solution like Infinity Portal. It would be great to be able to manage it through the same website."
"Currently, the client is only available for the Windows Operating System but it would be good if it were released for Mac OS as well."
"They should release a single update with all the necessary characteristics to avoid being in a cycle of consecutive updates."
"We'd like better performance of the network equipment. There are high-speed environments where an immediate response is required."
"ZoneAlarm should be a light application that does not take too much memory in mobile phones."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We have branches, we have different companies, but we cannot buy less than 100 licenses. This does not make sense to me... It should be more flexible. I can understand their saying, "Okay, to be a customer you need 100," but to add on to that number it should be something very straightforward. If I need to add five, for example, I shouldn't need to add 100."
"I am not really involved in the pricing of this product. But, from my understanding, it is OK for us."
"The solution has almost the same price as other different kinds of infrastructures, but it offers a lot of different features."
"​The cost/benefit factor has great relevance in Cb Defense implementations​."
"The product is expensive. There are some additional costs apart from the standard licensing charges attached to the solution."
"The pricing [is] more or less the same as other similar solutions."
"The price for the solution is completely at government level, meaning one which is very high."
"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."
"We have to pay a yearly licensing fee for ZoneAlarm, which is cheap."
"I rate the product pricing a seven out of ten."
"We use the free version of the software, but it can be upgraded to the paid Extreme Security edition."
"This is a freeware product and I recommend using it."
"The pricing is reasonable, with a yearly renewal license costing seventy dollars."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
12%
Computer Software Company
11%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
14%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Hospitality Company
8%
Educational Organization
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business31
Midsize Enterprise9
Large Enterprise30
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business15
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise4
 

Questions from the Community

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.
What do you like most about ZoneAlarm?
ZoneAlarm protects all computers from viruses, spyware, and hackers.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ZoneAlarm?
ZoneAlarm has an acceptable price. Not much detail can be provided as I am not the one to judge the price.
What needs improvement with ZoneAlarm?
Check Point support needs improvement. Currently rated at 9 out of 10, more support is required. There are some concerns on support that need addressing. The integration of new products with their ...
 

Also Known As

Carbon Black CB Defense, Bit9, Confer
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Sample Customers

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