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Carbon Black App Control vs. Vulcan Cyber (discontinued)

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    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

    Vulcan Cyber (discontinued)

    Score7.4 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Vulcan Cyber was an exposure and vulnerability risk mitigation platform, acquired by Tenable in early 2025. The product is no longer available for sale, and functionality has been integrated into the Tenable One Exposure Management platform's vulnerability solution.N/A
    Pricing
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    Pricing Offerings
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    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
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    Considered Both Products
    Broadcom
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    12 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    9 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    12 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    83%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    Features
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    Threat Intelligence
    Comparison of Threat Intelligence features of Carbon Black App Control and Vulcan Cyber (discontinued)
    Feature
    Carbon Black App Control
    -
    Ratings
    Vulcan Cyber (discontinued)
    7.9
    11 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Network Analytics00 Ratings7.77 Ratings
    Vulnerability Classification00 Ratings8.310 Ratings
    Automated Alerts and Reporting00 Ratings7.411 Ratings
    Threat Analysis00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Automated Threat Identification00 Ratings8.011 Ratings
    Vulnerability Management Tools
    Comparison of Vulnerability Management Tools features of Carbon Black App Control and Vulcan Cyber (discontinued)
    Feature
    Carbon Black App Control
    -
    Ratings
    Vulcan Cyber (discontinued)
    7.4
    11 Ratings
    12% below category average
    IT Asset Realization00 Ratings8.28 Ratings
    Configuration Monitoring00 Ratings6.43 Ratings
    Vulnerability Intelligence00 Ratings7.411 Ratings
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    User Ratings
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    7.1
    (12 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    7.0
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    User Testimonials
    Carbon Black App ControlVulcan Cyber (discontinued)
    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.
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    It's really challenging at times to contend with multiple vulnerabilities on a daily basis, and having a way to make sense of what actually needs to be prioritized and what can be shifted further down the task list is extremely helpful. Because the solution suggests what your next step should be in mitigating a specific vulnerability, it helps us save time and research by enabling us to immediately take action after being informed about an issue.
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    Pros
    Broadcom
    • Controls file writes, executions of the scripts
    • Defends from process injections, memory protection
    • Visibility and lock down posibilities
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    • Identifies vulnerabilities and they are easily understood.
    • Easy to identify remedies in an instant.
    • Campaign feature is a true time saver
    • Our CSM, Nino, is the best I have ever worked with!
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    Cons
    Broadcom
    • Perhaps more specific training.
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    • Deduping of assets could be better.
    • The weighting of vulnerabilities is hard to describe to non technical executives.
    • The Business Groups and Tagging needs improvement. Or at least allow tags to be removed if not needed. Now they are static from the API feed.
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    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.
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    I wasn't here at the time when the company compared different vulnerability management platforms so I'm not sure on the reasoning and difference between the 2. It could be that the team went through different choices and found Vulcan to be the best fit. It's hard for me to say why Vulcan was specifically chosen
    Incentivized
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    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.
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    • Allows much better prioritizing of which assets are most vulnerable
    • Allow a better understanding of what assets are actually under real threat vs. what is assumed to be vulnerable, but the real world fact is the system would be hard to reach internally, so it's not as vulnerable.
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