Competitive Analysis:

Cynet vs. VMware Carbon Black

Last update: February 2023

Companies today are turning to Cynet and newer Extended Detection and Response (XDR) solutions that provide expanded
visibility across their environment, preventing and detecting endpoint, network, user and cloud-based threats on a single
platform. Cynet 360 AutoXDRTM also provides extended automated response capabilities to greatly reduce the burden on
security teams and ensure threats are quickly and properly addressed before damage can be done.

Cynet 360 AutoXDR has many advantages over VMware Carbon Black Endpoint, especially for companies with lean security
teams that can’t afford the time required to leverage many focused solutions that cater to very large corporations. VMware
Carbon Black Endpoint is designed to be used by a large team of expert users that are looking for copious data and highly
customizable configuration options. This approach, however, is overwhelming for leaner security teams that do not have the
bandwidth to appropriately support the tool. A highly complex and time-consuming configuration, and minimal automatic
remediation are just some of the issues with VMware Carbon Black Endpoint.

Top reasons to choose Cynet over VMware Carbon Black

Designed for efficiency Designed for large teams

Cynet 360 AutoXDR automatically collects and VMware Carbon Black is a complex product that
correlates alerts and related data to identify requires significant fine-tuning, best suited for the
suspicious or problematic activity, all presented on large enterprises that use it.
a streamlined dashboard.

Elite protection against Average protection

today’s threats VMware Carbon Black only detected 90 of the
Cynet detected 107 of the 109 MITRE ATT&CK 109 MITRE ATT&CK techniques (82.5%), leaving
techniques (98.5%), scoring the 3rd highest result customers significantly exposed.
across all vendors.

Highly rated, highly affordable Premium pricing

Cynet 360 is consistently ranked by users as one VMware Carbon Black achieves average user
of the easiest to use XDRs and comes at an ratings and comes with a premium price tag,
affordable price point, reducing your security TCO. driving up your security TCO.

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Cynet 360 AutoXDR Difference
Detailed Explanation

Attack Detection & Prevention VMware Carbon Black Endpoint is a traditional endpoint solution
Detailed Explanation that focused on file/process-based threats: malware, exploits,
fileless, macros etc., and typically achieves good results in that
context. However, it lacks the ability to identify and block attacks
that manifests only in anomalous network traffic (lateral movement,
data exfiltration and network-based credential theft) or user
behavior (anomalous login of compromised user account).

Cynet 360 AutoXDR continuously collects and analyzes endpoint,

user and network activities within the protected environment,
powering the ability to identify and block both file/process-based
attacks, as well network and user based ones, rendering complete
coverage beyond the capabilities of VMware Carbon Black.

Response Coverage
Advanced cyberattacks target all parts of the environment:
endpoints, files, process, user accounts and network traffic.

Unlike VMware Carbon Black Endpoint, which has a limited number

of endpoints/file remediations (isolate, kill process and delete/
quarantine file), Cynet provides a complete set of remediation tools
for infected endpoints, malicious files/processes, compromised
user accounts and attacker-controlled traffic. Moreover, Cynet
360 AutoXDR can act as a response orchestration interface that
communicates with core components such as firewalls and
Active Directory to expand the response process across the entire
environment.

Automation
Cynet 360 AutoXDR supports response automation with both
provided and user created remediation playbooks that chain
together discreet remediation actions to a single flow. These
playbooks enable the security team to radically scale their capacity
by automating repetitive tasks, increasing the share of attacks that
are addressed and resolved by Cynet 360 AutoXDR without need
of human intervention.

Managed Detection and Response (MDR)

Cynet’s CyOps team operates a 24/7 SOC, providing Cynet Elite and
Ultimate customers with full MDR services. CyOps continuously
monitors, trains and optimizes Cynet 360 AutoXDR detection
algorithms based on over 30 threat intelligence feeds and detected
attacks.

CyOps provides customers with the additional services:

• Alert monitoring
• Attack investigation
• Threat hunting
• Remediation guidance
• Exclusions, whitelisting and system fine tuning

Monitoring & Control Continuous monitoring of all entities and activities in the
environment is enables users to discover exposed attack surfaces
and address them (vulnerable systems and apps, unchanged user
passwords, etc.), and by that eliminate the risk of up to 60% of
common attack vectors.

Cynet 360 AutoXDR automates the collection and correlation of

executed file/processes, user account activities, file access and
network traffic, introducing unmatched speed and ease to all
monitoring and control workflows.

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Cynet 360 AutoXDR vs. VMware Carbon Black Endpoint Comparison

Detection & Prevention

Multilayered malware protection

Signature based

ML based static analysis

Dynamic analysis (sandbox)

Compromised user account detection

Anomalous user logins

Preset user activity rules

Malicious Network traffic

Tunneling based data exfiltration

Credential theft

(LLNMR\NBT-NS attacks)

Lateral movement (pass the hash

etc.)

Reconnaissance (scanning attacks)

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Response

Isolate, Restart, Change IP, Delete/Disable

Host remediation Service, Delete/Disable Scheduled Task, Isolate, Run Command, RunScript.
Run Command, Run Script

User remediation Disable/Enable, Reset Password

Network remediation Block Traffic, Clear DNS Cache

Orchestration

Expand remediation across the

environment infrastructure: firewall, proxy,
AD, etc.

Automation

Chain discreet remediation actions to a

single flow that runs automatically when a
predefined alert is triggered

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Infrastructure

Number of Agents 1 1

Agent impact on endpoint performance

Clashes with existing software, manual Lightweight agent with minimal to zero Three separately developed agents
exclusions, blue screens impact pieced together

Deployment model Flexible: on-prem, SaaS or Hybrid On-Prem, SaaS

Self-distributing agent

Auto-deployment on newly joined

endpoints without need of manual
configuration

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