CrowdStrike vs Carbon Black

Not sure which endpoint security solution to choose? Discover the key differences between CrowdStrike and VMware Carbon Black – with free platform access.



3 reasons why

customers choose CrowdStrike over Carbon Black



One vendor, one platform, one agent

Thousands of customers just like you choose the world’s most advanced cloud-native platform, CrowdStrike Falcon® powered by the CrowdStrike Security Cloud, to secure the most critical areas of enterprise risk – endpoints and cloud workloads and identity. CrowdStrike stops breaches and enables you to stay ahead of today’s threats.

Unlike security solutions from legacy and infrastructure vendors, the cloud-native CrowdStrike Falcon Platform is purpose-built with a single lightweight- agent architecture offering you immediate time to value, reduced complexity, and unmatched scalability with superior protection and performance.

Better protection

CrowdStrike stops breaches by going beyond the basic signature-based prevention. The CrowdStrike Security Cloud is the world’s largest unified, threat-centric data fabric. Using world-class AI, the CrowdStrike Security Cloud creates actionable data, identifies shifts in adversarial tactics, and maps tradecraft in the patented Threat Graph to automatically prevent threats from ransomware and malware to zero day exploits.

The CrowdStrike Security Cloud correlates trillions of security events per day with indicators of attack, the industry’s leading threat intelligence and enterprise telemetry from across customer endpoints, workloads, identities, DevOps, IT assets and configurations.

Silences the noise, speeds up investigations

False positives create a huge amount of work that can bog down investigations and lead to alerts being missed. In comparative testing by leading independent third parties, CrowdStrike’s automated protection and remediation has been proven to stop more than 99.7% of malware and ransomware attacks - while generating ZERO false positives.

Eliminating noise and accelerating responses is especially challenging with limited security staff and hard-to-find skill sets. Today’s more sophisticated attacks require a mix of world-class automation and human expertise in the form of human-based threat-hunting, reviewing content and adding context to detections. CrowdStrike’s teams of elite threat hunters are working 24/7, proactively searching for stealthy threats that technology alone cannot detect.

Compare CrowdStrike to Carbon Black





Feature Carbon Black
Detection Signatureless
Advanced, signatureless protection through machine learning, behavioral analytics and integrated threat intelligence.
Signatures
Includes signature-based AV engine.
Maintenance Frictionless updates
No reboot required.
Reboot required
Sensor updates may require device reboots, including critical servers.
Delivery Cloud native
One platform for all workloads. Provides comprehensive protection coverage that can be deployed across Windows, Linux and macOS servers and endpoints.
On-premise & cloud
Inconsistency between on-premise and cloud versions: feature availability, macOS support, Linux distro support.
Industry recognition Tried, tested, proven
Recognized as a leader by industry analysts and independent testing organizations.
Inconsistent
Has limited participation in independent public tests.
Threat intelligence Integrated intel
Alerts are automatically enriched with CrowdStrike threat intelligence including actor attribution, sandbox analysis and malware search for the threat and all known variants.
Limited intel
Threat intelligence is limited to reputation and lists of indicators for watch lists.
Proactive threat hunting 24/7 proactive hunting
Elite team of experts proactively hunt, investigate and advise on threat activity.
Managed detection
Performs threat validation and triage on detected threats, not proactive threat hunting.

See why customers trust CrowdStrike

"When we engaged CrowdStrike, it was a complete 180. Now we've found that partner that will get us back to a stable operating point."

Jason Rooks
CI | Parkway Schools

"We don't have an antivirus solution that's waiting on signatures to be developed and pushed out. What we've got is that we're part of a larger collection of organizations that are running CrowdStrike, so any data that we see gets fed back into the system and someone else will benefit from that knowledge. And it's all because it is cloud-based."

Scott Stoops
Security Analyst | Ashland University

Protecting all companies from small business to enterprise


 

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Ready to try CrowdStrike for yourself?

Explore the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform, powered by the CrowdStrike Security Cloud, and see for yourself why CrowdStrike excels over the competition.

Try CrowdStrike free

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