• Disconnected tools often create blind spots and complexity for already stretched-thin security teams. 
• A unified security approach like Symantec CBX lessens the burden by bringing endpoint, network, and data visibility under a single view. 
• With AI-driven insights, summaries, and capabilities that stop attackers in their tracks so analysts can fully investigate, CBX gives analysts the context they need to respond with confidence and block attacks earlier in the chain.  

Nowadays, security teams aren’t short on tools. They’re short on clarity. 

As environments grow more complex, many SOCs find themselves juggling multiple consoles, agents, and data sources. On average, teams manage 55 to 75 distinct security tools to secure their operations. Before you know it you’ve got 12 different consoles open, while looking through 20 different file logs, tracking this all on a separate spreadsheet as you try to figure out how things connect. 

And while layered security remains critical, it does create gaps in visibility—especially when tools don’t all speak the same language.  

This leads to slower investigations, missed context, and a mounting pressure on already stretched teams. In our latest CBX Fest session: Introducing the Unified Security Platform You’ve Been Waiting For, Kirk Hasty and Mike Schlanhart broke down all the ways a unified view can help organizations go from fragmented stacks to stronger, preventative security. 

1.  Improves visibility across endpoints, network and data

When tools operate in silos, visibility breaks down. Endpoint, network, and data signals are all tracked separately, making it much easier for threats to slip through and hide. Taking advantage of these gaps, attackers can even infiltrate legitimate software through living-off-the-land-attacks (LOTL) and quietly move laterally across systems. 

A unified view brings those layers together, empowering teams to see clearly into every corner of their attack surface. With Symantec CBX’s Threat Tracer feature, analysts can see relationships between processes, network connections, and data movement mapped out in real time. Instead of jumping between logs, teams can follow an attack through the entire chain, seeing where it spread and what it touched. 

2.  Saves critical time for threat hunting 

It’s common for analysts to have multiple tools, consoles, and query languages open during an investigation. That kind of workflow tends to slow everything down, especially for smaller teams managing multiple responsibilities. 

With investigations under a single view, rather than spread across multiple tools and query languages, analysts can move faster without losing context. That’s less time switching between tabs or trying to remember exactly how you got there and more time for proactively hunting threats. 

3.  Connects the dots with added context 

Too often security can feel like you’re putting a puzzle together or as Kirk and Mike put it, playing a game of Clue. You need all the pieces to understand what actually happened. 

When analysts can correlate endpoint activity with network connections and data movement, they gain the insight needed to make faster, informed decisions. That’s why CBX uses AI-driven analytics trained on hundreds of thousands of real-world attacks. Instead of generic summaries, CBX delivers the full narrative of what happened, so your teams can focus on the right actions. 

4.  Reduces alert noise and fatigue 

Without context, alerts appear as isolated events, even when they’re part of the same attack.  As thousands of alerts start coming in, you may start to ignore some, and that’s where you end up in big trouble. 

By correlating any related activity into a single dashboard, teams can move from hundreds of alerts to one clear narrative. Suddenly, 300 alerts become just one. So now, instead of forwarding massive volumes of raw telemetry to a SIEM, your teams can send only high-fidelity correlated investigations. That means less data to store and lower SIEM costs. 

5.  Simplifies operations for a faster, happier SOC

We’ll say it again: more tools doesn’t always mean better security. In many cases, they introduce complexity when multiple agents compete for visibility into the same system processes. This leads to performance issues and blind spots, often requiring complex exclusions that just add more risk. A unified, consolidated approach like CBX reduces that friction while still keeping visibility and arming your teams with the advantage. 

Symantec CBX: Bringing clarity to a complex digital world  

Symantec CBX, a unified XDR platform, combines the best of Symantec and Carbon Black to address one of security’s biggest challenges: making sense of everything happening across endpoints, network, and data. Instead of stitching together multiple tools through APIs, CBX is built with native correlation at its core, so teams don’t just know that something happened, they understand what happened, how it happened, and what to do next.

Carefully uniting deep endpoint visibility with network and data security, CBX eliminates the gaps attackers rely on (stealing the rug right from under them) while reducing the complexities that slow teams down.

What stood out the most from the first CBX Fest session wasn’t just CBX’s unified visibility, it was what teams can do with it: 

• Connect hundreds of events into a single investigation with AI-driven attack analytics 
• Map attacker activity step-by-step thanks to Threat Tracer visualizations 
• Clearly outline what happened and how to best respond through AI-generated Incident Summaries 
• Correlate endpoint, network, and data telemetry, ensuring everything speaks the same language with a unified data stream

Security that works the way SOC teams do 

Whether you’re part of a large enterprise or a lean team wearing multiple hats, bad actors and high-level threats do not discriminate. As you rightfully build layers to your security, you may encounter the same challenge: too many signals, not enough time. 

Symantec CBX helps teams of all sizes cut through that noise, reducing alert fatigue, simplifying workflows, and accelerating time to resolution. As the session put it, CBX helps teams “see more, stop more, and respond faster.”

Want to see CBX in action? 
This recap just scratches the surface of what CBX can deliver. Watch the full CBX Fest session to see how unified security actually works in practice—and what it could look like in your environment.