Carbon Black

Carbon Black is an endpoint security company, now part of Broadcom (formerly VMware Carbon Black), whose cloud-native platform delivers next-generation antivirus, endpoint detection and response (EDR), threat hunting, live query, and application control. The Carbon Black Cloud platform spans Endpoint Standard, Enterprise EDR, Audit and Remediation, and Workload/Container protection, alongside the on-premises Carbon Black EDR and App Control products. Its developer network at developer.carbonblack.com publishes REST APIs, a Python SDK, and integration guides for security operations, threat intelligence, and automated remediation. APIs authenticate with an API Id/Secret pair passed in an X-Auth-Token header against region-specific Carbon Black Cloud hostnames.

Carbon Black is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Security, Endpoint Security, Endpoint Detection and Response, and Threat Detection.

Carbon Black’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, authentication, and 11 more developer resources.

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19.1/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 19/100 slowing library Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

1 API

Company Security Endpoint Security Endpoint Detection and Response Threat Detection Cybersecurity Cloud Security

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 19.1/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 10.1 / 17

Access Clarity 0.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 6.2 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.8 / 15

Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0

12 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 0.0 — up to +20.0 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 2.6 — up to +12.7 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
NIST CMVP FIPS 140 Validated Cryptographic Modules (FIPS 140-1 / 140-2 / 140-3)	standard	26.8 (thin)	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Carbon Black Cloud Platform API

REST APIs for the Carbon Black Cloud platform — Endpoint Standard, Enterprise EDR, Audit and Remediation (live query), and Workload/Container protection. Authentication uses an ...

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Carbon Black Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Carbon Black Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

Postman

SDKs

Packages

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Roadmap

Roadmap

Support

Support

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

ParentCompany

ParentCompany

Subsidiary

Subsidiary

Source (apis.yml)

aid: carbon-black
deliveryModel:
  model: library
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Library · distributed through package registries, no callable service
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/carbon-black.png
name: Carbon Black
description: Carbon Black is an endpoint security company, now part of Broadcom (formerly VMware Carbon Black), whose cloud-native
  platform delivers next-generation antivirus, endpoint detection and response (EDR), threat hunting, live query, and application
  control. The Carbon Black Cloud platform spans Endpoint Standard, Enterprise EDR, Audit and Remediation, and Workload/Container
  protection, alongside the on-premises Carbon Black EDR and App Control products. Its developer network at developer.carbonblack.com
  publishes REST APIs, a Python SDK, and integration guides for security operations, threat intelligence, and automated remediation.
  APIs authenticate with an API Id/Secret pair passed in an X-Auth-Token header against region-specific Carbon Black Cloud
  hostnames.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/carbon-black/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- kleiner-perkins
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-08-21'
x-docs-platform: readthedocs
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-09-21
x-docs-hosting: aws-cloudfront
tags:
- Company
- Security
- Endpoint Security
- Endpoint Detection and Response
- Threat Detection
- Cybersecurity
- Cloud Security
tags_raw:
- Company
- Security
- Endpoint Security
- EDR
- Threat Detection
- Cybersecurity
- Cloud Security
apis:
- name: Carbon Black Cloud Platform API
  description: REST APIs for the Carbon Black Cloud platform — Endpoint Standard, Enterprise EDR, Audit and Remediation (live
    query), and Workload/Container protection. Authentication uses an API Id/Secret pair in an X-Auth-Token header against
    a region-specific Carbon Black Cloud hostname.
  humanURL: https://developer.carbonblack.com/reference/carbon-black-cloud/platform-apis/
  baseURL: https://defense.conferdeploy.net
  properties:
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/carbon-black-authentication.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: ParentCompany
  url: https://apis.io/providers/vmware/
  name: VMware
  x-relationship: acquisition
  x-generated-by: broadcom-family:2026-08-21
  x-acquired: 2019
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/carbon-black-domain-security.yml
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developer.carbonblack.com/
- type: Website
  url: https://developer.carbonblack.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.carbonblack.com/reference/carbon-black-cloud/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://developer.carbonblack.com/reference/carbon-black-cloud/platform-apis/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://developer.carbonblack.com/reference/carbon-black-cloud/authentication/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/carbonblack
- type: Roadmap
  url: https://trello.com/b/URJZ5Pn5
- type: Postman
  url: https://www.postman.com/carbon-black
- type: Support
  url: https://community.broadcom.com/symantecenterprise
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/carbon-black-packages.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/carbon-black-packages.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/carbon-black-authentication.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/carbon-black-llms.txt
- type: Subsidiary
  url: https://apis.io/providers/confer/
  name: Confer Technologies
  x-relationship: acquisition
  x-generated-by: broadcom-family:2026-08-21
  x-acquired: 2016
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence
x-parent: vmware
x-relationship: acquisition
x-acquired: 2019

Carbon Black API — frequently asked questions

Does Carbon Black have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Carbon Black, including Carbon Black Cloud Platform API.

How do I authenticate with the Carbon Black API?

Carbon Black uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Carbon Black Authentication.

Is the Carbon Black API ready for AI agents?

Carbon Black has a Kin Score of 19.1 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 2.5 (human-only), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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