Looking to Switch from VMware Carbon Black?
Prevent Breaches, Ransomware, and Data Loss with Sophos
Sophos makes it easy to replace VMWare Carbon Black and achieve superior cybersecurity outcomes. Our customers value our prevention-first approach, which saves them time and effort. We use defenses that dynamically adapt to hands-on-keyboard attacks. You can manage Sophos products through the world's most trusted cloud-native security platform or our 24/7 managed detection and response (MDR) service.
Proactive Protection
Customers need every defense layer to stop attacks early. VMWare Carbon Black falls short.
Proactive Protection
Sophos’ prevention-first approach combined with adaptive defenses reduces the risk of data breaches and the reliance on detection and response. By stopping more threats upfront, resource-stretched IT teams have fewer incidents to investigate and resolve. VMWare Carbon Black lacks dynamic defenses, web protection, and comprehensive exploit prevention, increasing the risk of cyberattacks.
Third-Party Testing
Sophos consistently tops independent third-party test - VMWare Carbon Black does not participate.
Third-Party Testing
Third-party testing helps organizations make informed decisions about their technology stack and security investments. Sophos believes in the informational and transparency value of regular participation in third-party tests. We have received high scores for performance, ease of use, and effectiveness in tests from SE Labs, AV-Test, and other third-party evaluators. The question you should ask: Who would you trust?
A Unified Security Ecosystem
Cybercriminals don’t just attack endpoints. Get the full picture with Sophos.
A Unified Security Ecosystem
Consolidate your defenses by integrating your endpoint, server, network, mobile, email, cloud security, and third-party security controls in our Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem, which VMWare Carbon Black can’t match, is built for organizations of all sizes and capabilities, and is managed by you or our MDR service for threat detection, investigation, and response. VMWare Carbon Black assumes organizations have their own SOCs with fully trained analysts.
Sophos vs. VMWare Carbon Black
| FEATURES | Sophos | VMware Carbon Black |
| Attack surface reduction with multiple technologies with web protection, application control, and device control that effectively reduce possible vectors of attack and data loss | Partially provided | |
| Defenses that automatically adapt to human-led attacks |
Not provided |
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| Automated Account Health Check to maintain a strong security posture |
Not provided |
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| Endpoint detection and response (EDR) functionality | ||
| Alert triage and assistance | ||
| Extensive threat-hunting and investigation capabilities | ||
| Integrated extended detection and response (XDR) enables analysts to hunt for and respond to threats across your environment, correlate information, and pivot between endpoint, server, network, mobile, email, public cloud, and Microsoft 365 data | Partially provided | |
| Designed for large enterprise organizations with a full in-house security operations center | Partially provided | |
| MDR service provides 24/7 threat hunting, detection, and remediation to organizations of all sizes; our service is delivered by expert analysts to organizations with and without an SOC, and these analysts are accessible via phone and email | Partially provided | |
| Integration with third-party security controls to leverage your existing security investments and provide full visibility into your environment and detections and alerts to your team and the MDR team | Partially provided | |
| Delivers proven results, which is reflected in third-party tests and evaluations | Partially provided |