TrustRadius: an HG Insights company

Carbon Black App Control vs. LevelBlue DbProtect

Save this comparison

Save this comparison

Add Product

Recommended Comparisons

    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Carbon Black App Control

    Score6.7 out of 10
    N/ACarbon 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

    LevelBlue DbProtect

    Score4.5 out of 10
    N/ALevelBlue Data Security, or DbProtect (formerly from Trustwave), actively strengthens security, resilience, and access controls across top data storage systems, enhancing the organization's overall security posture.N/A
    Pricing
    Carbon Black App ControlLevelBlue DbProtect
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Carbon Black App ControlLevelBlue DbProtect
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details——
    More Pricing Information
    Best Alternatives
    Carbon Black App ControlLevelBlue DbProtect
    Small Businesses
    Rencore Code (SPCAF)
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall
    Score7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Trend Vision One Email and Collaboration Security
    Score9.9 out of 10
    Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall
    Score7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Checkmarx
    Score7.6 out of 10
    Netwrix Auditor
    Score8.3 out of 10
    All AlternativesView all alternativesView all alternatives
    User Ratings
    Carbon Black App ControlLevelBlue DbProtect
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    4.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Carbon Black App ControlLevelBlue DbProtect
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Broadcom
    Cb Protect is best suited somewhere where you want to maximize the lockdown of workstations. So moving past no local admin rights to blocking specific applications and peripherals. The idea would be to have a list of applications you want to run, and then anything else is not able to be used. As stated prior, if you have a very fluid environment where you are having all sorts of new applications installed frequently (I feel for you!!) this is still do-able, but it misses the general idea. I think especially in environments that are more sensitive to new applications, like banks, healthcare systems etc, this is a good fit. The ability to look at application levels, drift, unapproved software etc is very useful.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    LevelBlue
    Monitoring database activity internally was a huge concern for my company, which is why we implemented DbProtect. I would recommend this to anyone that has lower end traffic on their SQL servers. My company appeared to be too big for DbProtect and was not a good fit, but it would be useful for a smaller company.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Pros
    Broadcom
    • Controls file writes, executions of the scripts
    • Defends from process injections, memory protection
    • Visibility and lock down posibilities
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    LevelBlue
    • Easy to create filters.
    • Interface was easy to use.
    • Process to create filters as straight forward.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Cons
    Broadcom
    • Perhaps more specific training.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    LevelBlue
    • Speed of interface.
    • The trace function utilized high resources at times and would sometimes crash servers.
    • Support could have been better, but this is when the company was under Trustwave and even the owners before then.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Alternatives Considered
    Broadcom
    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.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    LevelBlue
    The price is the complete opposite and Imperva provided things that DbProtect did not. I would suggest a cleaner interface and more reporting in DbProtect. These things may exist now, but did not when I was a customer of DbProtect. DbProtect when configured correctly will do what you want it to and help secure databases.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Return on Investment
    Broadcom
    • App Control can ensure Continuous Compliance.
    • Solution can reduce expenses on different security software.
    • Nowadays Zero Trust approach is very important for any organization and Application control is one of the main parts of it.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    LevelBlue
    • Increase employee efficiency by putting all the information in front of us via alerts.
    • Helped secure our database tables.
    • I believe better customer service is needed for this product.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    ScreenShots