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Norton Security Premium [EOL] vs VMware Carbon Black Endpoint comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Norton Security Premium [EOL]
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
VMware Carbon Black Endpoint
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
65
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (27th), Security Incident Response (3rd), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (28th), Ransomware Protection (8th)
 

Featured Reviews

RC
Project Manager at Amdocs
User-friendly solution with good blocking
I mainly use Security Premium as an antivirus.  Security Premium's best features are blocking, notifications, and the user interface. Security Premium's cost could be lower. I've been using Security Premium for a year. Security Premium is stable - I haven't faced any issues or bugs while using…
PM
CTO at Microsoft
Improved incident investigation has supported response while core protection still needs progress
VMware Carbon Black Endpoint does not have easy integration, as there are many complexities with the Ribitava API, which is very deep. I rate this solution overall as a five or six on a scale from one to ten. I have integrated VMware Carbon Black Endpoint with other tools that are helpful. I think this solution should be targeted at small clients, because adoption will grow more with small businesses tomorrow.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Norton Security Premium is good, and it's pretty simple to install."
"We tried a few: Kaspersky, Trend Micro, we used McAfee, we used Norton; we tried them all on our entire fleet of computers, and we realized that in terms of ease of use and resource consumption, Norton is something that is acceptable to us."
"The antivirus aspect of the solution is very good, and the support we receive from Norton is excellent."
"Protects me from internet vulnerability."
"The dashboard is good."
"In general, technical support has been helpful."
"With the heightened security around phishing, identity theft, and malware, this is a good product."
"Security Premium's best features are blocking, notifications, and the user interface."
"CB Defense is more powerful, and you can take more actions than others, and its security features and signatures are constantly updated, so it is more effective than other security solutions."
"The solution has a very nice API on the back end for remoting into a system and executing scripts or utilizing self automation."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is one of the best EDR tools in the market."
"The portal is easy to use and manage."
"The product is very smooth and pretty simple."
"The capabilities of this tool are almost limitless."
"The most valuable feature is that it detects and stops malicious executables."
"The biggest feature out of CarbonBlack is its ability to dive in with more depth. You can look at the entire kill chain and understand, not only if an alarm or identified incident is truly a true security issue versus a false positive, and it allows us to backtrack and figure out why it actually happened and how it got into the environment."
 

Cons

"They say Norton Security Premium is an all-in-one solution, but we don't know exactly what's in it, e.g. they didn't make an effort to explain the difference between a virus scan and a ransomware scan."
"The only problem with Norton Antivirus is that it consumes a lot of resources like CPU and memory in the background. Whenever it's scanning, my laptop becomes very slow, and the worst part is you cannot do anything about it. As this product is secured by my local IT team, you cannot even kill that process, and that's what I've felt about many other antivirus solutions. I'm using McAfee for personal use, and I have the same problem."
"I don't like the password manager of Norton Security Premium. I really dislike it."
"The solution can improve the security modules."
"It would be helpful for me if this solution works on our cloud backup data."
"The product is an antivirus, it should be updated automatically when needed."
"I do not find it to be scalable."
"The only problem with Norton Antivirus is that it consumes a lot of resources like CPU and memory in the background."
"Integration is difficult, but CB Defense is more powerful than others. It is difficult to implement but easy to pick up many detections."
"The tech support communicates, but it's just not with movement."
"The UI interface needs improvement. The management needs further work in future versions."
"As far as I know, Carbon Defense has nothing that can be installed on mobile devices. It lacks a defense solution for mobile devices, especially mobile tablets. I would like to see support for mobile devices and the pricing should be less than the pricing for a normal workstation."
"I'm actually looking for a replacement because of the fact that we lost that integration."
"The application control can be improved. It should also have an automatic update of the agents."
"The local technical support is very poor, but the support from headquarters is very nice."
"I would personally give the tech support a rating of seven out of ten."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The licensing fee for this solution is not expensive."
"If they could come down in price that would be good. It's not exactly the lowest."
"The solution gives the value for the money."
"Pricing for this software is competitive."
"We have a yearly license, and each license is around 20 or 30 Jordanian Dinars plus taxes."
"I don't pay for a license."
"Security Premium is highly-priced."
"As I have been a long-time customer, I was given a fair price of $49.95 per month for the first four to six months."
"Carbon Black provides competitive pricing."
"This is a really expensive product and we pay licensing fees on a yearly basis."
"The solution has almost the same price as other different kinds of infrastructures, but it offers a lot of different features."
"The product’s price is less expensive than other vendors."
"The licensing cost is on the more expensive side, but I thought it was worth it because they did a good job. It was one of the vendors I truly didn't have to worry about too much until this latest upgrade."
"The pricing is annually based and operates through another department than mine."
"The platform is expensive."
"VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is an expensive product."
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Outsourcing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Construction Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise6
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business31
Midsize Enterprise9
Large Enterprise33
 

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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...
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 is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Carbon Black CB Defense?
My rating for the pricing of VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is that it is not cheap, but it is also not as inexpensive as I would prefer.
 

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Norton Internet Security
Carbon Black CB Defense, Bit9, Confer
 

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