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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Carbon Black EDR

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/ACarbon Black EDR is an on-premise incident response and threat hunting solution designed for security operations center (SOC) teams with offline environments or on-premises requirements.N/A

    pfSense

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/ApfSense is a firewall and load management product available through the open source pfSense Community Edition, as well as a the licensed edition, pfSense Plus (formerly known as pfSense Enterprise). The solution provides combined firewall, VPN, and router functionality, and can be deployed through the cloud (AWS or Azure), or on-premises with a Netgate appliance. It as scalable capacities, with functionality for SMBs. As a firewall, pfSense offers Stateful packet inspection, concurrent…

    $179

    per appliance

    Pricing
    Carbon Black EDRpfSense
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    SG-1100
    $179
    per appliance
    SG-2100
    $229
    per appliance
    SG-3100
    $399
    per appliance
    SG-5100
    $699
    per appliance
    XG-7100-DT
    $899
    per appliance
    XG-7100-1U
    $999
    per appliance
    XG-1537
    $1,949
    per appliance
    XG-1541
    $2,649
    per appliance
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Carbon Black EDRpfSense
    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
    Carbon Black EDRpfSense
    Considered Both Products
    Broadcom
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    Netgate (Rubicon Communications, LLC)
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    93%
    Would buy again
    13 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    14 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    13 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    11 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
    Features
    Carbon Black EDRpfSense
    Firewall
    Comparison of Firewall features of Carbon Black EDR and pfSense
    Feature
    Carbon Black EDR
    -
    Ratings
    pfSense
    7.6
    11 Ratings
    13% below category average
    Identification Technologies00 Ratings5.010 Ratings
    Visualization Tools00 Ratings7.08 Ratings
    Content Inspection00 Ratings4.011 Ratings
    Policy-based Controls00 Ratings10.011 Ratings
    Active Directory and LDAP00 Ratings7.09 Ratings
    Firewall Management Console00 Ratings9.510 Ratings
    Reporting and Logging00 Ratings8.011 Ratings
    VPN00 Ratings10.011 Ratings
    High Availability00 Ratings10.011 Ratings
    Stateful Inspection00 Ratings7.011 Ratings
    Proxy Server00 Ratings6.111 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Carbon Black EDRpfSense
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.6
    (24 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Carbon Black EDRpfSense
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Broadcom
    We are able to check if any phishing link was visited by the user or not. To check for the whether any file is executed on the machine or not. To check on which port connections are being made by the machine. To create custom watchlist for alert to be investigated by an analyst. To check every process executed in the machine for a specified range.
    Incentivized
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    Netgate (Rubicon Communications, LLC)
    I believe PFSense is well suited for both home lab environments as well as up to small to mid-size business environments on a tight budget. However, I would implore that anything in production requires the use of the authorized hardware that PFSense sells to receive support. However, in my experience, PFSense is a solid set-and-forget firewall solution.
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    Pros
    Broadcom
    • Process tree view of endpoint activity
    • Ability to pull files from host
    • Threat Intelligence integration
    • Isolate a host
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    Netgate (Rubicon Communications, LLC)
    • Easy to use. Good user interface design! Easy to understand and easy to set up.
    • Lower hardware requirement. 3 years ago, we used an old PC to run it. Now, we have changed to a router device with Celeron CPU and 8GB RAM. It runs smoothly with a 1000G commercial broadband.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Broadcom
    • Number of false positive which are triggered due to threat feeds are sometimes more needs to be fine tuned by the client.
    • In very rare scenarios processes are not captured properly.
    Incentivized
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    Netgate (Rubicon Communications, LLC)
    • I did kind of mention a Con in the Pro section with OpenVPN.
    • When I create a config for an employee other employees are able to login to that config.
    • I could be doing something wrong when I am making it - I am not afraid to admit that as I am pretty new to all of this, but it seems like it builds a key and I would think the key would be unique in some way to each employee, but I could be wrong.
    • I actually do not have a lot of Con's for this software - I did not get to set this up on our work network so I am not sure of any downfalls when installing.
    • I installed this on my personal machine in a Hyper-V environment to get a feel for it before I started working on it at work and it seemed pretty smooth. I didn't run into any issues.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Broadcom
    No answers on this topic
    Netgate (Rubicon Communications, LLC)
    The pfSense UI is easy to navigate and pretty go look at. It is much better than some high dollar firewalls that just throw menus you you. The pfSense UI is quick and responsive and makes sense 99% of the time. Changes are committed quickly and the hardware rarely requires a reboot. It just runs.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Broadcom
    No answers on this topic
    Netgate (Rubicon Communications, LLC)
    pfSense+ basic provides "As Available" email support. pfSense+ Pro offers 24 hr turn around email support. pfSense+ Enterprise offers 24/7 phone support.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Broadcom
    CB Response allows for a better view of what happened on the endpoint and provides more functionality out of the box then the FireEye Endpoint Security Product. CB Response allows you to basically have a remote connection into the CLI of an endpoint. This allows you to view the file system, run programs/scripts on the host, etc. FireEye Endpoint Security does not have this functionality.
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    Netgate (Rubicon Communications, LLC)
    Meraki has a unified management login for all devices, which is nice. It also has decent content filtering, both areas where pfSense is weaker. Where pfSense far ouclasses Meraki is in the ease of use and the other width of features. These include features such as better VPN interoperability, non-subscription based pricing, auditability, not relying on the infrastructure of a third party, more transparency of what's actually going on, easier to deploy replacements if hardware fails. Additionally, the NAT management for pfSense seems to be a bit better, as you can NAT between any network segment and not just the LAN segments out the WAN interfaces.
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    Return on Investment
    Broadcom
    • It is helping to protect us from potential loss of revenue that would be caused by malware or a compromised account.
    • It took some time in deploying in the environment , but that time is much worth it because of the results we are getting now.
    • It helps in hunting, which help us check and protect our environment from any cyber attacks.
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    Netgate (Rubicon Communications, LLC)
    • pfSense can be installed on commodity hardware with no licensing fees. With a simple less than 10 minute restore time, on most hardware, it's an extremely inexpensive way to achieve the same results that some of the more expensive vendors provide.
    • The easy to use interface has allowed configuration management to be preformed by lower level technicians with quick and easy training.
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