Carbon Black
Carbon Black, now part of VMware, is a leading provider of advanced endpoint security solutions. Its offerings focus on protecting organizations from sophisticated cyber threats by delivering comprehensive endpoint protection, detection, and response capabilities. Carbon Black's technology provides deep visibility into endpoint activity, enabling security teams to proactively identify, investigate, and remediate threats across their IT environments.
Getting data in
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Carbon BlackCarbon Black is a source for endpoint protection that can be forwarded into Splunk for correlation with other security indicators and for alerting on detections of attacks. The Carbon Black event data is forwarded to Splunk by universal forwarders in JSON format. Carbon Black provides fields and tags in the endpoint security domain focusing on intrusion detection, system changes used for malware detection, and investigation. It also monitors network traffic, does protocol analysis, and tracks and alerts on application behavior. In the Common Information Model, Carbon Black data can be mapped to the Alerts, Intrusion Detection, Change, Network Traffic, or Endpoint data models, depending on the field. |
Splunk platform Splunk SOAR |
Configuration Splunk Lantern Articles |
VMware Carbon Black CloudVMware Carbon Black Cloud is a cloud-native endpoint protection platform (EPP) that unifies endpoint detection and response (EDR), next-generation antivirus (NGAV), and managed detection and response (MDR) capabilities. It provides advanced threat prevention, behavioral analysis, and continuous visibility to protect against modern cyberattacks. |
Splunk platform |
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VMware Carbon Black EDRVMware Carbon Black EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) is an on-premise solution that provides continuous recording of endpoint activity to enable security teams to hunt for threats, investigate incidents, and respond quickly to attacks. It offers deep visibility into endpoint events, making it easier to identify and remediate malicious behavior. |
Splunk platform |

