It’s time for the cybersecurity industry to face an uncomfortable truth: The tools meant to make organizations safer are often the very systems slowing them down, and sometimes leaving them vulnerable.
The problem is that security stacks are built over time from disparate tools that prevent analysts from seeing the full operating environment. Smaller security teams have relied on vendors to solve the challenge of integrating various products—and too often, vendors have fallen short, making it too difficult to gather and correlate the telemetry needed to understand what’s really happening across endpoints, networks, and data.
While large enterprises have the resources to manage and integrate complex security stacks, left behind are the organizations that make up the largest swath of the cybersecurity customer market: smaller, less-resourced security teams that increasingly face AI-powered, enterprise-grade threats but lack the budgets and in-house expertise to implement enterprise-grade defenses. These sophisticated attacks can decimate smaller organizations, turning them into casualties of an escalating cyber war fueled by nefarious AI agents that never miss a day of work.
These security teams don’t just need better tools. They need an advantage. Now they have one.
Today we’re introducing Symantec CBX, a groundbreaking new extended detection and response (XDR) solution that combines all the best capabilities of Symantec and Carbon Black into a unified, cloud-based platform. Symantec CBX is the first new product to integrate features from these two iconic brands. But more importantly, it’s the first fully featured XDR platform built expressly for smaller teams looking to evolve their security protections, but that lack the expertise and resources needed to configure and optimize traditional enterprise-class XDR solutions.
In Symantec CBX, we’ve distilled decades of innovation from Symantec and Carbon Black into a platform that solves the problem of correlating and making sense of telemetry across endpoints, networks, and data. Typically, the various tools within security stacks attempt this via API integrations. But those fragmented couplings are often incomplete and leave dangerous gaps in visibility and actionable insight. Security analysts may understand that something is happening—they just don’t always know what it is or what to do about it.
The problem grows worse as attack surfaces expand. Organizations send more and more data to costly SIEM platforms, leading to a waterfall of challenges, from endless false positives that waste analyst time to murky outcomes that frustrate corporate management looking for evidence that security programs are working. These are costs smaller organizations can’t afford.
Symantec CBX solves this by combining into a single cloud platform Symantec’s robust prevention, data security, and network security features with Carbon Black’s pioneering EDR technology for deep visibility, exceptional threat detection, and rapid response across attack surfaces. Spared from log-centric ingestion, security teams detect incidents more precisely and can act more confidently.
With Symantec CBX, native telemetry correlation sits at the center of a vast array of advanced capabilities that, until today, were available only from multiple point solutions. In CBX, we have integrated breakthrough features from Symantec and Carbon Black that make teams smarter and more efficient. Here’s what security teams can look forward to:
AI that makes life easier for humans at the helm. We’ve strategically deployed AI to deliver meaningful improvements to security workflows, resulting in capabilities that simply aren’t available anywhere else. Take Carbon Black Threat Tracer, which allows any analyst to see all adversary activity in a single pane. (Even junior analysts can understand immediately where attackers came in, how they executed their attack, and what data they accessed across endpoint, network, email, and cloud environments.) The CBX platform also includes Symantec Adaptive Protection, which uses AI to stop living off the land (LOTL) attacks before they do damage. And Symantec’s Incident Prediction, the groundbreaking feature we introduced last year, predicts an attacker’s next four to five moves so teams can stop threat actors moving laterally to steal data or shut down systems.
More complete insights for faster remediation. Incident Summaries, another AI-powered feature, gathers comprehensive data about incidents and presents them in well-written, intuitive summaries and remediation guidance so any analyst can engage mitigation when and where it makes sense.
Enterprise-grade network and data protections. Drawing from the best of Symantec Secure Web Gateway (SWG) and Symantec DLP solutions, this new XDR platform defends the network and data domains by stopping malicious traffic at the network edge, while packaging data security essentials from our acclaimed DLP offerings to ensure that sensitive data stays where it belongs. Via the integrated Symantec Cloud SWG Express, this new platform even supports post-quantum computing cryptography protocols, thus shielding organizations from the threat of increasingly common “harvest now, decrypt later” attacks, and relieving concerns over the prospect of attackers someday unlocking encrypted data.
Meaningful outcomes and rapid time to value. Security managers are expected to continuously improve their team’s performance, but that’s not easy when disjointed solutions create needless friction and confusion, and multiple dashboards steal time from an already busy day. We built Symantec CBX with the features and unified management console that enable the outcomes security teams need most: driving down SIEM and operational costs, rescuing analysts from alert fatigue, speeding time to resolution, meeting governance requirements, and demonstrating progress by improving metrics. Out-of-the-box policy configurations make CBX easy to implement and deliver immediate value.
Symantec CBX is aimed squarely at the heart of the cybersecurity market, empowering and enabling security teams of virtually any size with a platform that puts them first. No other XDR solution is built so specifically for organizations laboring under tight budgets, too few resources, a persistent lack of senior expertise, chronic alert fatigue, and the ever-more–daunting threat of AI-powered attacks.
Symantec CBX is the XDR platform for this moment and this market. As the first new solution from Broadcom to integrate capabilities from both Symantec and Carbon Black, CBX is the realization of our strategy to deliver on the “better together” pledge we made when these two legendary brands first came together under Broadcom’s Enterprise Security Group. And it’s the ideal solution for our global network of Catalyst Partners, with their deep regional expertise and close customer relationships, as they help organizations struggling to keep up in an environment of constant change and unrelenting challenges.
Overwhelmed security teams need an advantage, and now they have one.
Starting in April, we're kicking off CBX Fest, a five-part webinar series diving deep into each facet of CBX, to show how it all comes together. But good news for anyone in San Francisco for RSAC 2026. You can visit Booth N-5345 to see Symantec CBX in action.
Jason Rolleston
General Manager, Enterprise Security Group, Broadcom
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