The Sharing section of the Create Group or Edit Group panel includes the following settings.

Setting

Description

Share Binary hashes with Carbon Black

Select this option to be notified of any binary that is flagged by Carbon Black Collective Defense Cloud.

For more information about this choice, do the following from the Sharing section of the Create Group or Edit Group page:

  1. Click Share Settings to open the Sharing page for the Carbon Black EDR server.

  2. On the Sharing page, scroll to Endpoint Activity Sharing.

  3. In the Carbon Black column next to Binary Hashes & Metadata, click the current setting (Enabled, Disabled, or Partial) for a description.

Send events to Carbon Black

Select this option to:

  • Allow advanced analysis of your aggregated process execution events by the Carbon Black Threat Research Team.

  • Give your enterprise access to enhanced Carbon Black Threat Intel information that is only available to those who participate in the community program.

The Carbon Black Threat Research Team receives process events (as shown on the Process Analysis page) for more detailed analysis of the behavior of a process as it executes at the customer site.

For more information, see Process Search and Analysis.

Allow Carbon Black to analyze unknown binaries

Select this option t o get advanced analysis of binary content from the Carbon Black Threat Research Team. By sharing binaries with Carbon Black, our researchers will perform advanced static analysis of your binaries to alert you to suspicious activity. Select this option to detect new variants of known malware.

For more information about this choice, do the following:

  1. Click Share Settings.

  2. Scroll to Endpoint Activity Sharing.

  3. Click the current setting (Enabled, Disabled, or Partial) for a full description.

Default settings for the sensor group sharing settings are defined on the global Sharing page, which you can access in the following ways:

  • Click the Share Settings link in the sensor group Sharing section.

  • Click Username> Sharing Settings .

For more information, see Data Sharing Settings.