• As technology evolves and threats shift shape, even the most constrained teams need comprehensive security ready for next-gen attacks.
• Symantec® CBX unites the experience, resources, and tool arsenal of cybersecurity legends Symantec and Carbon Black.
• This unified-agent powerhouse turns endpoint telemetry into broader attack-chain visibility, helping strapped teams see more, act faster, and defend better.

In a cyber kingdom where threats evolve daily, endpoint-centered defense still reigns across all realms of protection.

Why? Because even as machine-speed attacks expand to network and data and beyond, well-monitored endpoints are the starting point for total visibility into the larger attack chain. It’s ground zero for stopping attackers before they even get started. 

In CBX Fest’s recent session, How Endpoint Security Powers a Unified Platform, endpoint security experts Arjun Narang and Dominic Djannesari explore how Symantec CBX, the latest XDR platform to hit the scene, delivers comprehensive visibility, upskills over-worked SOC, and makes taking back control easier than ever before.  

Here are five things you need to know about the endpoint story behind CBX:

1. CBX is grounded in rich endpoint history

CBX is more comprehensive than other XDR solutions because it brings together the experience, R&D foundation, and cybersecurity war chests of two legends in the field. Both Symantec and Carbon Black are renowned for their status as legends of endpoint security. 

Carbon Black helped pioneer the EDR market by giving teams something they desperately needed: continuous endpoint visibility and tools ready to investigate and respond to this depth of intelligence. Symantec brought its own endpoint protection legacy, along with decades of leadership across DLP, Secure Web Gateway, and cloud security. Bringing them together amplifies broader visibility, smarter correlation, and enterprise-grade XDR built for SOCs of every capacity, users of every skill level, and every endpoint—from established to emerging.

2. One pane means less pain for your SOC

Siloed security is a thing of the past. And that’s a good thing, because silos kill endpoint visibility with communication breakdowns and specific tool expertise that doesn’t always translate. Attackers are integrated and comprehensive. Modern security structure must be too. 

Symantec CBX’s single UI console spares overburdened SOC teams a lot of pain. CBX puts endpoint telemetry, alerts, and cross-domain context in one place, so that every analyst gets the same information in a fully correlated and easily digestible format. A single user interface means no toggling between screens. No time wasted waiting on information from another tool. No need for an expert from another department to explain. CBX shows you, in one platform, what endpoints are impacted and what paths attackers took to get there. With a single console and a single agent, taking action is simple. 

3. CBX helps every analyst read the endpoint story

Today’s strapped SOC teams don’t have the headcount for subject matter experts with granular knowledge of a specific product. Luckily, the endpoint features that make CBX unique are  powerful teachers. 

• Built-in Incident Prediction sees attacks coming and directs SOC attention where it needs to go. 
• Investigations makes on-the-job upskilling easy by leveraging AI to create not just a summary, but a fully correlated attack-chain with detailed investigation steps and suggested remediations. 
• Threat Tracer converts this information into a clear visual representation of the entire attack chain across all channels and devices. Seeing detailed forensic analysis of attack after attack gives even a relative newbie impressive depth of knowledge in record time.
• SymantecAI Assistant stands at the ready to answer targeted, natural language queries and deliver everything from threat summaries to product support.

In a noisy environment, that context matters. 

4. Your policies, your way

No two security teams face the same challenges, and no two endpoint environments behave exactly the same. That’s why we made Symantec CBX easy to customize. 

• Making CBX your own happens in two ways: CBX uses machine learning to understand your environment and adapt automatically to reflect and protect the applications and behaviors you use most. 
• CBX’s Custom App Behavior allows customers to define a behavior and then determine whether they want to allow it, log it, or block it. 
• Symantec’s 40-year history of strong endpoint protection capabilities drives this level of customization. We’ve evolved from anti-virus, to behavioral analysis, to AI/ML models that combine all this experience to make detection and response accessible to all SOCs.

So no two CBX platforms will be exactly the same. Best of all, you can curate policies right from the console, with a user-friendly interface.

5. As endpoints proliferate, CBX keeps pace

Large scale doesn’t stop CBX from maintaining its level of protection. Built on the backbone of the Symantec and Carbon Black endpoint security technologies trusted by some of the world’s largest enterprises, CBX puts battle-tested protection and control in the hands of teams of every size. 

Device control is one example. CBX’s Symantec Endpoint Security Device Control capabilities extends coverage to Bluetooth devices, USB keyboards, microphones, and a host of other endpoints and external devices. This gives you control over whether and when users can access those devices, even as the count grows with your business. 

Because as endpoints multiply, visibility only matters if control can keep up. CBX gives SOC teams the leverage to enforce security consistently across a growing attack surface, without adding complexity at every step. When we say that we provide enterprise grade security for all we mean all—big and small.

Ready to take action?

Find out how CBX detects and protects at the endpoint to deliver comprehensive security that your SOC can put to work. Check out the latest CBX Fest session or connect with your in-region experts to get started on making CBX your team’s new favorite member. 

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