Carbon Black App Control vs. Trellix Data Center Security Suite

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Carbon Black App Control
Score 8.3 out of 10
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Carbon Black App Control is an application control product, used to lock down servers and critical systems, prevent unwanted changes and ensure continuous compliance with regulatory mandates.N/A
Trellix Data Center Security Suite
Score 9.5 out of 10
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Trellix Data Center Security Suite (formerly the Sentrigo Hedgehog Data Center Security Suite of products) is a database security option. McAfee acquired Sentrigo in 2011 to grow its own database security offerings.N/A
Pricing
Carbon Black App ControlTrellix Data Center Security Suite
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Carbon Black App ControlTrellix Data Center Security Suite
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Carbon Black App ControlTrellix Data Center Security Suite
Considered Both Products
Carbon Black App Control
Chose Carbon Black App Control
VMware Carbon Black EDR and VMware Carbon Black Endpoint
Chose Carbon Black App Control
VMware Carbon Black App Control [(formerly Cb Protection)] is just much more advanced and gives administrators much more insight into the security framework. The cost is higher but at the same time the features are much more advanced. It is also easy to move throughout the …
Chose Carbon Black App Control
The big difference between Protect and Barkly/AMP is how exactly it goes about what it's doing. Protect is application whitelisting and program reputation. So the way it's protecting you is using a proprietary reputation service, and hash values to identify applications, and …
Trellix Data Center Security Suite
Chose Trellix Data Center Security Suite
The Forecepoint product which we evaluated was better but this was a decision taken by the entire group.
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User Ratings
Carbon Black App ControlTrellix Data Center Security Suite
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
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8.0
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Likelihood to Renew
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3.0
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Support Rating
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2.0
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User Testimonials
Carbon Black App ControlTrellix Data Center Security Suite
Likelihood to Recommend
It is more suited to lock down critical systems and servers to prevent unwanted changes, although you can use it on daily basis on laptops and desktops, it needs constant attention and events analysis. For some scenarios i.e. financial institutions it is a must-have solution, as App Control now is a requirement 5 of PCI DSS.
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It is well suited for McAfee’s monitoring and virtual patching solutions for huge data and there are more features like automated discovery, port scans, and patch status, password integrity, and protections for database-specific risks.
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Pros
  • Device Control - you can view and allow/disallow the ability for certain devices to be used in your environment. Specifically we used this with USB drives. If you have one you want to use - whitelist the serial number. The rest can't be used. Simple and easy.
  • Software blocking. If you have an extremely dynamic software base (I doubt this is likely) this could get a bit annoying, but for most organizations like ours where we have specific applications that are required, and then the rest are a bit of an afterthought, it's easy to whitelist the correct applications that you want to be able to run in your environment. The rest can't run (in high enforcement). Users are able to easily request new applications, and you can set certain groups to be able to approve it on their own.
  • Solid platform - with few exceptions setting up new software was very easy (Dragon Medical was a bit tricky, but worked through it with support). Once you have your rules set up and the initial setup done, you tend not to have to do much of anything except to update on occasion and deal with a few requests for applications to be unblocked, or publishes approved.
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  • McAfee’s monitoring and virtual patching solutions
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Cons
  • More frequently updates of "Software Updaters".
  • Possibilities to tag within Yara rules.
  • Overall it is the best whitelisting solution I have used.
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  • There is a area of improvement in cloud version
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Likelihood to Renew
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Due to support issues only.
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Support Rating
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We did not get much expertise in the limited support extended by the Mcafee team.
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Alternatives Considered
The big difference between Protect and Barkly/AMP is how exactly it goes about what it's doing. Protect is application whitelisting and program reputation. So the way it's protecting you is using a proprietary reputation service, and hash values to identify applications, and then hitting a list of whitelisted programs to decide if you are able to run that or not, based on the policy you are in. There is a LOT of value in that. We actually are working on transitioning to Cisco Advanced Malware Protection (AMP). The main reason is cost (about the same cost as Cb Protect, but with (most of) the featureset of all 3 Carbon Black products for less than 1/3 of the total spend. AMP works differently, looking at a reputation service powered by Cisco's Talos cloud. You don't really have application whitelisting, but that also reduces how many "requests" you get for applications. So I'll have to find a different way to do whitelisting and USB blocking and the like, but I'm getting more visibility across my network and also built in antivirus (TETRA engine - ClamAV with some work). Barkly is an add that we are looking to put in as it looks at behavior of programs. So specifically it watches for privilege elevation and the like. Thus far all the big name problem children (WannaCry, other ransomware problems) have been caught natively in Barkly day 0.
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The Forecepoint product which we evaluated was better but this was a decision taken by the entire group.
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Return on Investment
  • Dashboards are easy to understand for management
  • We feel more secure than we were on our previous platform
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  • It has a positive impact on over data security and helps in managing data.
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