Which categories of data is collected by a sensor?

Products

• Carbon Black Cloud Endpoint Standard (formerly Cb Defense)
• Carbon Black Cloud Enterprise EDR (formerly Cb Threathunter)

Issue/Introduction

Which data categories are collected by a sensor?

Environment

• Carbon Black Cloud (formerly PSC) Sensor: All Versions
  • Audit & Remediation (was CB LiveOps)
  • Endpoint Standard (was CB Defense)
  • Enterprise EDR (was CB ThreatHunter)
  • Managed Detection (was CB ThreatSight)

Resolution

A sensor collects relevant data attributes falling under the following categories:

• Process Creations (selected data)
• File Modifications (selected data)
• Registry Modifications (selected data)
• Cross-process events (selected data)
• Network connections (all)
• Binary meta-data (all)

Additional Information

For more extensive details on which data are collected by the Carbon Black Cloud Sensor, please review below resources:

• Data Forwarder Schema - Carbon Black Developer Network
• VMware Carbon Black Cloud Privacy Datasheet
• carbon-black-cloud-transparency-notice-en