Cortex XDR® consistently outperforms Carbon Black and other EDR/XDR vendors, with stellar results in both the AV-Comparatives EPR and MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations. Building upon proven best-in-class endpoint protection, Cortex XDR accurately uncovers stealthy attacks, so SOC teams can quickly analyze and contain threats. Carbon Black’s inferior test results reflect their reliance on a third-party partner for threat prevention and lack of comprehensive detection and response capabilities.
Carbon Black customers should also be concerned about potential problems following Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware. Can you risk potential price increases and reduced R&D investment for a solution that already falls behind in prevention and detection? It’s time to seek a better EDR solution from an innovative security partner you can trust to stop future threats.
With Behavioral Threat Protection and AI-driven local analysis, Cortex XDR bests Carbon Black in independent third-party testing, stopping real-world attacks like the Log4Shell, SpringShell and Follina exploits. In the 2022 MITRE ATT&CK Evaluation, Cortex XDR blocked all 10 attacks and 99% of all protection substeps, compared to nine attacks and just 53% of substeps for Carbon Black.
These results reflect the better protection Cortex XDR provides over Carbon Black, which relies on a third-party partner to fill the gap in prevention. Don’t partner with a provider that has to outsource such a critical capability.
When it comes to detection and visibility, performance matters. In the 2022 MITRE ATT&CK evaluations, Cortex XDR detected all 19 steps as well as 107 of 109 substeps with technique-level detections, while Carbon Black only detected 46 of 109 substeps. Missed detections can result in significant and costly consequences. Cortex XDR has broad detection capabilities, using machine learning and user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) to uncover stealthy threats. It can take EDR a step further by extending visibility across endpoint, network, cloud and third-party data. Carbon Black only collects data from endpoints with no integration from other tools or data sources.Clearly Superior Detection
Cortex XDR reduces investigation time by 88%,* automating many of the investigation and response activities required of an analyst using Carbon Black. Related alerts are automatically grouped into incidents, revealing the root cause and full detail associated with each alert. Carbon Black does not provide incident-level management, leaving analysts to contend with alert overload and manual correlation and enrichment. This can result in alert fatigue, overlooked threats, and critical delays in attack response.
* Palo Alto Networks SOC analysis showing reduced investigation time from 40 minutes to 5 minutes.
In the 2022 MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations, Carbon Black either missed entirely or provided an inferior level of detail about attack actions in 68% of all possible technique-level detections.
Cortex XDR delivered 100% threat protection and 100% detection of all attack steps for the second year in a row, with 97% of technique detections providing the highest level of detail into attack steps to enable analysts to more quickly and accurately respond to events.