# Carbon Black > Carbon Black is an endpoint security company, now part of Broadcom (formerly VMware Carbon Black). Its cloud-native platform delivers next-generation antivirus, endpoint detection and response (EDR), threat hunting, live query, and application control. The Carbon Black Cloud developer network publishes REST APIs, a Python SDK, and integration guides. APIs authenticate with an API Id/Secret pair passed in an X-Auth-Token header against region-specific Carbon Black Cloud hostnames. ## APIs - [Carbon Black Cloud Platform API](https://developer.carbonblack.com/reference/carbon-black-cloud/platform-apis/): REST APIs for Endpoint Standard, Enterprise EDR, Audit and Remediation (live query), and Workload/Container protection. Base host (Prod 02): https://defense.conferdeploy.net ## Docs - [Developer Portal](https://developer.carbonblack.com/) - [Carbon Black Cloud documentation hub](https://developer.carbonblack.com/reference/carbon-black-cloud/) - [Authentication](https://developer.carbonblack.com/reference/carbon-black-cloud/authentication/): API Id/Secret via the X-Auth-Token header ({API Secret}/{API Id}) - [Platform API reference](https://developer.carbonblack.com/reference/carbon-black-cloud/platform-apis/) ## SDKs & Tools - [Carbon Black Cloud Python SDK (PyPI)](https://pypi.org/project/carbon-black-cloud-sdk/): pip install carbon-black-cloud-sdk - [Carbon Black Cloud Python SDK (source)](https://github.com/carbonblack/carbon-black-cloud-sdk-python) - [CBAPI legacy Python bindings (PyPI)](https://pypi.org/project/cbapi/): EDR and App Control - [Postman workspace](https://www.postman.com/carbon-black) - [GitHub organization](https://github.com/carbonblack) ## Community & Roadmap - [Broadcom / Symantec Enterprise community](https://community.broadcom.com/symantecenterprise) - [Roadmap (Trello)](https://trello.com/b/URJZ5Pn5) ## Repo artifacts - [Authentication profile](authentication/carbon-black-authentication.yml) - [Packages / SDKs](packages/carbon-black-packages.yml)