SentinelOne vs Carbon Black

SentinelOne or Carbon Black? Both platforms take a single-agent approach that meet multiple use cases to include EPP, EDR, threat hunting and remediation. Both also have innovator/visionary statuses (as of 2021) from independent comparisons.

SentinelOne is now a Leader on Gartner's Magic Quadrant whereas Carbon Black retains its Visionary status. This could be because Carbon Black is more of a NGAV platform, whereas SentinelOne delivers a full EPP.

This was highlighted in the recent MITRE ATT&CK APT 29 report, where Carbon Black missed 28 detections with SentinelOne only missing 7 (the lowest number of misses across all platforms tested).

If you're looking for a next generation endpoint protection solution and these two are on your long list, here's a direct comparison page to help.

Endpoint Protection: Key considerations

• Is it easy to deploy and manage?
• Is it dependent on cloud command and control for detection and response?
• How effective has it been against zero-day attacks?
• Do you have feature parity across Windows, Mac and Linux?
• How does it perform in real world test scenarios?
• What do other customers say about it?

Comparison of Business Benefits and Features

Business Benefits
Autonomous prevention, detection, and recovery from threats in real-time.	Yes - Leverages cloud-delivered threat intelligence and custom watchlists to automate repetitive hunts.	Yes
Fast Recovery	Partial / Manual	Yes - Can be automated or 1-click
OS freedom (Windows / Mac / Linux feature parity)	No feature parity	Yes
Fewer alerts with more context	Tanzu Observability dependent - context includes both the metrics and traces.	Yes
AI-powered prevention, detection, response, and threat hunting.	Yes	Yes
API integration	Yes - pull metrics from the Kubernetes APIs.	Yes
Scalability	Yes - scale to thousands of containers.	Yes - Support for containers and serverless workloads, especially Kubernetes dynamic workloads.
Higher accuracy across entire attack surface.	Yes - Visualise entire attack chain with corresponding easy-to-follow details to uncover root causes.	Yes - Consistent identification of tactics and techniques in the MITRE Phase 2 evaluations.
Centralised Visibility	Yes - single agent and console.	Yes - full storyline.
Automation & Control	Yes - VMWare uses Infrastructure as Code (IaC) so modifications are completely repeatable and can be processed automatically.	Yes - Automated mitigation options via the Storyline Active Response Capability.
Data analytics	Yes - Store detailed forensic data for post-incident investigation.	No - SentinelOne does not have its own network security sources to add.
Collection and reporting of; inventory, config and policy management of endpoint devices.	Yes - automate ongoing reporting on patch levels, user privileges, disk encryption status, and more to track and maintain a desired posture.	Yes
Mobile Threat Defence	No	Yes
Ease of deployment	Yes - Simplify deployment with out-of-the-box policies.	Yes - Excellent timeliness and quality of customer support.
Features
AI across user endpoints, containers, cloud workloads, and IoT devices.	Yes	Yes - New IoT discovery and protection capabilities in its Ranger product.
Static & Behavioural AI	Yes - Consolidate threat intelligence for your environment to automatically detect suspicious behaviour.	Yes
Exploit protection	Partial - cloud dependent.	Yes + context
Lateral movement	Yes- Isolate infected systems and remove malicious files to prevent lateral movement.	Yes + context
Remediation	Yes	Automated
Rollback	No	Automated
Integrated threat feeds	Yes	Yes
Remote shell	Yes - but limited command set.	Yes
Device control	Yes - Gain visibility into precise details about current state of all devices - on and off the network.	Yes - Device discovery via Ranger.
Firewall control	Yes - Secure end-of-life systems with allowlisting policies.	Yes
Bluetooth control	No	Yes
Threat hunting	Yes	Yes - full storyline
Deep visibility	Yes - distributed tracing via Tanzu Observability.	Yes
Event Correlation	Yes	Yes
Execution Restriction	Yes - but false positives.	Yes
Vulnerability scanning	Yes - built-in risk scoring.	Yes - Priority list of vulnerable applications.
Security patching	Yes	Yes
Triage	Yes - Gain alert coverage and threat triage across your entire deployment.	Yes - Investigate in seconds with automated correlations and Storyline.
Disk Encryption	Yes	No - Missing add-on for fully featured DLP.

Industry and Peer Reviews

Gartner Peer Insights

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms May 2021

Independent Testing

	TESTING BODY
Scored good results in Telemetry	APT29 2020	Scored record results: Least missed detections Most high-quality detections Most correlated detections
Top ROI score 2019		Top ROI score and Recommended rating 2019
N/A		99.8% block rate across Windows testing
Only 1 false positive detection on Windows		100% protection against zero-day malware attacks on Windows
		In top 10 vendors Recognized for the commitment to pushing the boundaries of autonomous technology — delivering innovation at scale and speed, and shaping the endpoint market.
N/A		Performs better than several legacy AV products for the following: Quickest boot time Quickest install time Smallest install size Lowest CPU usage during scan

Pricing

All prices calculated at per endpoint per month, for comparison purposes.

Pricing is 'starting from' and based on list pricing. It can be subject to change, volume discounts etc.

Correct at February 2021