Carbon Black
Provides cloud-native endpoint protection and detection using continuous behavioral analytics and a massive threat intelligence data lake, enabling organizations to prevent, detect, and respond to advanced threats in real time.
Last updated Jun 6, 2026 by ATDb automated enrichment
- Industry
- Cybersecurity / Endpoint Security
- Business Model
- SaaS
- Target Market
- Enterprise
- Employee Count
- 1001-5000
- Funding
- $190M
- Revenue Range
- $200M-$500M
- Parent Company
- Broadcom (via VMware)
- API Available
- Yes
A leading cloud-native endpoint security and EDR platform, now part of Broadcom's VMware security portfolio, competing at the top tier of the enterprise endpoint protection market.
Carbon Black was founded in 2002 (originally as Bit9) and became a leading endpoint security company known for its next-generation antivirus (NGAV) and endpoint detection and response (EDR) capabilities. The company rebranded to Carbon Black in 2016 after acquiring the Carbon Black EDR product line, and went public on NASDAQ in 2018. Its platform leverages a cloud-native architecture and continuous behavioral monitoring to detect and prevent sophisticated attacks that evade traditional signature-based security tools. In 2019, VMware acquired Carbon Black for approximately $2.1 billion, integrating its endpoint security capabilities into VMware's broader security portfolio. Under VMware, Carbon Black continued to operate as a distinct product brand — VMware Carbon Black — offering solutions such as Carbon Black Cloud, CB Defense, CB Response, and CB ThreatHunter. The platform is widely recognized for its use of behavioral analytics, threat intelligence, and a massive data lake of endpoint telemetry to identify and respond to threats in real time. Following Broadcom's acquisition of VMware in 2023, the Carbon Black product portfolio was absorbed into Broadcom's enterprise software strategy. The Carbon Black brand continues to exist within Broadcom's VMware security offerings, serving enterprise customers across industries including finance, healthcare, government, and technology. Its significance lies in pioneering cloud-delivered endpoint protection and EDR, helping shape modern zero-trust and XDR security architectures.
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