Consolidation of eight different antiviruses into one platform saved us costs, time, and human resources
What is our primary use case?
We use SentinelOne's EDR platform. We use Ranger for network discovery. It helps to find out any endpoints that do not have an agent or rogue devices that may come up on the network that are not protected. It allows us to isolate them until we have the proper protections in place.
We are starting to delve into Identity.
How has it helped my organization?
The EDR platform has helped us achieve our business goals by providing the best security against ransomware, which is the number one threat to our business.
We have seen a lot of benefits since we deployed SentinelOne many years ago. We were able to consolidate around eight different antiviruses globally. It saved us licensing costs, human capital, and the amount of time it takes to keep up with some of the legacy technologies.
Other than that, the product gives us so much visibility to things. We did not have that visibility before. It also gave us access to every endpoint globally from a single platform. My engineers and my SOC operators are able to touch every endpoint globally in a matter of seconds. We are able to consolidate all the data that we are getting from the platform. We then build rule sets and protections and automate playbooks to be able to help save time so that we can focus on some of the bigger threats that we have.
SentinelOne has had a huge impact on our risk management posture. In my viewpoint, any threats, especially with ransomware being the biggest threat to our business, can lead to downtime for operations. If manufacturers are not making the product, we are not making money.
SentinelOne has helped us improve our analyst efficiency because of the simple fact that it is a single singular platform where they have access to every endpoint data that is out there in the world in our scope of devices. It gives them the ability at their fingertips to dive deep into the telemetry data that they need to make a justification or make a decision about a threat.
SentinelOne helps us reduce noise. We also leverage SentinelOne Vigilance as a managed service provider, which takes away the load from my analysts. It enables us to develop playbooks to cut down the noise and helps us to prioritize what matters the most, which makes us way more efficient. It makes us speedier when it comes to the time to react to a threat.
SentinelOne, especially the Vigilance team, helps us to reduce false positives. It is not only because the technology itself is so good at what it does; it is also because of the information that we get related to a threat or an alert. The information is enough for us to have some sort of disposition on what that is. We can then write a rule or mute that through a click of a button so that it is not constantly coming to the surface.
SentinelOne helps us with our incident response process tenfold. We have so many options, from automation to using Purple AI, to give my analysts more confidence in their abilities. It is an amplifier. It is not a replacement. It is a way for them to build their confidence and skill set, but it also increases our efficiency and our time to respond to threats. The storylines with SentinelOne were probably one of the first things that caught my attention back when EDR was new to the market. They help the analyst develop a storyline or improve the storyline that they have already developed.
SentinelOne helps us with our mean time to detect by the fact that we have every endpoint consolidated into one platform. We have the prioritization based on the rule sets, the type of devices, the classification of the data it holds, or the classification of the department or the sensitivity of a manufacturing process in that environment. These methods help to cut the detection time for my analysts.
The platform provides multiple ways to communicate. With the addition of Vigilance and their main services, there is a very drastic reduction in the mean time to respond based on the information they give us. The information that we receive from those methods helps us to make a lot quicker decisions with the threats.
From an organizational perspective, SentinelOne helps me and empowers my team to be able to communicate to the business about some of the adversarial threats that we have in our environment. A lot of times when an endpoint or a production or line unit is impacted, the teams come to us with reports of a false positive, but in fact, it is not. SentinelOne helps us to educate, inform, and reinforce to the organization why we are here. We are here to help. We are here to help the business grow.
What is most valuable?
When we first looked at SentinelOne, we had a very distributed legacy antivirus environment. Through SentinelOne's platform, we were able to consolidate about eight different antiviruses globally, thus saving money and time. There were savings in terms of human capital or the amount of time it takes to keep up with some of those legacy technologies.
What needs improvement?
Like any vendor, SentinelOne had its challenges, but throughout our history as a partner and as a customer, they followed through with every commitment they made. That is huge. I do not look for a vendor, I look for a partner—a long-term partner. CISOs need partners to be successful. We have to lean on each other. There are things that they can do to improve the console or improve the product, and they are making strides in it. One value that I can bring to them is the fact that I am on the advisory board. As a customer, we bring problems or challenges or even opportunities to them that they take back to their product teams and marketing teams to come up with a solution. Being able to ride side by side with some of the developments they are making now, in the near future, or in the far future is pivotal to the success of a security organization.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have been using SentinelOne's EDR platform since 2018.
How are customer service and support?
The support teams speak various languages worldwide, which is beneficial for a multinational corporation like ours. We have teams across the world, and having support in native languages saves us time and increases efficiency.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We had a very distributed legacy antivirus environment before and selected SentinelOne for its consolidated platform.
We are also using a different SIEM solution currently but are considering migrating to full XDR in the future. We rely very heavily on managed services and Vigilance. We have a small security team, but over time, we will be able to build some hybrid models or hybrid approaches and start to go towards XDR.
When we looked at the EDR, having a single agent was a big deal. We have come a long way since then, but one of the primary reasons why we chose SentinelOne was their ability to package everything from a single agent.
What was our ROI?
The ROI is significant with SentinelOne, as it saves us money, time, and human resources by consolidating eight different antiviruses into one unified platform globally.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
SentinelOne makes licensing easy by reducing the number of modules or packages that they have to offer. A lot of other vendors make licensing very complicated with separate modules or separate costs. By bundling necessary features, SentinelOne ensures that security leaders are not left confused by options. This bundling of necessities has served our needs well.
As they bring on more technologies and more offerings, they are either bundled with the premium packages or other packages they have or they are bundled separately as another SKU.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We compared SentinelOne against its competitors while evaluating EDR solutions. SentinelOne stands out to me from the competition because they stand by every commitment they make. They are extremely transparent and extremely collaborative with the customer base. They take back everything that the customers bring to the table and make the product better. It is a two-way street. We also have to give. We are giving that money for a product, so we are investing in them. At the same time, we want to have a voice. They allow us to have a voice. The fact that they are a true partner sets them apart from the competition.
Their transparency, their willingness to work with customers and receive feedback, and the humility to admit their faults but figure out a way forward with their trusted partners or customers set them apart from the competition. They have done a good job of getting the endpoints correct. They have done a good job at saturating the market with such a good endpoint product. The endpoint data is the most critical telemetry data that we have. If you think about network and email, those are all delivery methods, but a crime is only committed at the target location, which is the endpoint. With that being the most valuable information we have, they have done such a good job with that. They are already there at the endpoint. There are a lot of other things they can do to improve the data that they have with things like identity and network discovery. There are opportunities where you take Purple AI out and put it on top and extend the width or breadth of your security team. You can extend the breadth of reach across multiple facets or multiple layers of defense from one single platform.
What other advice do I have?
AI is huge. It is a topic that comes with a lot of different variables. Some are good, and some are not so good. AI as a whole is not something to fear. It is no different than what mobile computing or cloud computing was. We have to embrace it. Embracing it empowers security organizations, security leaders, and security teams. It empowers them to make more and better decisions, and it also saves some time because a lot of the things that they are doing can be automated through the use of AI. It empowers the defenders, and by empowering them, it saves them time and allows them to focus on more important projects, more important topics, or more important threats. AI can help us cut down our mean time to detect and mean time to respond.
I have had several colleagues looking at SentinelOne and comparing them against some of the competitors, which is what you are supposed to do. To those who are considering purchasing SentinelOne, I would advise moving beyond the product. Do not just consider the product when evaluating SentinelOne. Focus on the leadership, product development teams, and their commitment to working closely with customers for long-term success.
SentinelOne is a true partner. We have had our issues. We have had our incidents. There were some times when I was desperate and needed help. They have been there. They are not there at the meat of it. They have traveled that road all the way to the end with me. That speaks volumes. To colleagues and people who are not yet using SentinelOne, I would recommend taking a look. Go beyond the curtain, the actual product, and the marketing. Look into the teams. Look into the leadership. Look into the success of other customers out there like myself. Call them. Talk to them. Challenge the product and challenge the teams, but do not let the first responses ever be the answer you go with. Continue to develop that relationship. That is what you should look for as a partner.
On a scale of one to ten, SentinelOne is definitely a ten. That is not just product-specific, customer support-specific, or road map-specific. A lot of different areas combined give it that score. Having a true partnership means that you are bringing everything to the table. You are helping each other grow.
Top-notch support, well-designed console, and is less expensive than others
What is our primary use case?
We use SentinelOne Singularity Complete for all of our endpoints, including virtual machines, physical servers, and laptops.
How has it helped my organization?
The solution gives us a good sense that the systems are secured against malware, drive-by fileless attacks, and advanced behavioral attacks. This is our primary reason for having the product, and it does a good job in that regard.
It does not require a lot of management. It is hard to quantify the time savings but it does not require a lot of our time. If I spend an hour a week on it, that is a lot.
It is hard to quantify the reduction in the mean time to detect unless you are a pretty big organization and you are tracking that. However, it has been able to detect things and alert about them pretty much instantly in the console. We also get emails right after that. In terms of the Vigilance MDR service, one Saturday morning, I tripped an alert for something I was doing. I thought of waiting and seeing how long it would take on a Saturday morning at 10 AM for them to jump in and figure it out. They took about 20 minutes.
Any good endpoint security product should reduce your organizational risks, and SentinelOne Singularity Complete has done that. It is almost impossible to quantify the reduction.
We were able to easily realize its benefits within 30 days.
What is most valuable?
The console is light years better than the CrowdStrike console, which had just a bunch of different screens cobbled together. It is much more unified and much easier to work with. It is very nicely designed. It is one of the better user interfaces I have ever seen for web application management.
The product is pretty easy to manage and pretty easy to deploy. It also has a pretty low resource footprint.
What needs improvement?
The false alerts can be annoying, especially during administrative tasks. We have had a number of occasions where the software impacted a third-party application, so the application would either not run or exhibit other technical issues. We were also not getting any alerts in the console to indicate that SentinelOne was having a negative interaction with the product. Finally, after hours of troubleshooting, we turned off the endpoint security for the product, and the application just started working fine. We have probably had a good half dozen of those. It is quite annoying.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have had experience with SentinelOne Singularity Complete for two years.
How are customer service and support?
Their support is top-notch. I have been in the business for thirty years, and I have dealt with just about every support company out there. I am used to mediocre enterprise support, but SentinelOne's support is very good, deserving a ten out of ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We were running CrowdStrike prior to SentinelOne. We were using CrowdStrike Complete, but it was simply way too expensive to sustain for our budget. We were looking for something that was equally capable and did not have a huge price tag with it, so we ended up going with SentinelOne and their Vigilance MDR service.
SentinelOne Singularity Complete has not helped us consolidate other solutions. It was a one-for-one replacement for CrowdStrike. It has not helped us to get rid of anything at this point.
I have used Bitdefender in the past. We had their GravityZone Ultra, which had XDR Complete, but there were so many alerts. We would literally spend hours. We would pick a day a week or a day every couple of weeks and try to trace down alerts and clear out the console. From that perspective, SentinelOne does give off fewer false positives. However, when we are dealing with administrator or network administrator or developer tools, for obvious reasons, they tend to trip the alerts on the product. For normal end-user work, there are seldom any false positives or alerts that are not valid. It is almost never. I am the IT director, and it is always tripping on things I am doing. When I install some encryption software or disk wipe software, I get many alerts in SentinelOne, but for the actual end-users, typically, we do not get any false positives.
How was the initial setup?
We use their public cloud. We deploy the agents ourselves. We do the updates through their public cloud, but we do the initial deployment ourselves.
The initial setup was pretty straightforward. There are some nuances to the product, naturally. It is an enterprise-class endpoint security product, so there are things that you need to learn and understand about how it works. The same is true of CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Cortex, or any other product in the same category.
We have multiple locations with about 35 remote users.
What about the implementation team?
We used their onboarding service, which was very helpful because we would have meetings every week or two with the actual SentinelOne employee engineer to talk about our deployment and ask questions about particular features and best practices. It was worth the extra expense.
I had one other network administrator working on it with me, and I just assigned him the task of deploying software and working with me on some of the policy configurations.
I do most of the maintenance on it. The maintenance typically requires adding an exclusion here or there, troubleshooting an issue, or uploading logs for support to look at an issue or a question that we have. I do not spend 50 hours a year on it.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
SentinelOne is significantly less expensive than CrowdStrike. I recently did a price comparison between CrowdStrike and SentinelOne to determine where we are going for the next three years. CrowdStrike is 200% to 300% the cost.
For their complete service, we were paying CrowdStrike 45K for 85 endpoints for a year. We have stepped down, and we are doing MDR and not having SentinelOne manage our policies and things. We have 200 endpoints, and our yearly cost is 17K, so we have gone from 45K to 17K. From a detection standpoint, depending upon which MITRE framework tests you look at, both vendors jockey up and down in the top ten. They are pretty comparable from a performance and efficacy standpoint, so there is not a 200% to 300% gap there.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I always do a round-robin. My final three ended up being Palo Alto Network's Cortex product and CrowdStrike's Falcon product, the lesser version of their MDR Overwatch product.
The thing that I did not like about Overwatch was that they would tell you that something was going on and here is what you should do, but they would not help you with it. SentinelOne was a little bit more helpful in terms of hopping in. Ultimately, Palo Alto is not support-friendly. I use Palo Alto Firewalls, and their support is not that great. It has not been for a while, so I hesitate to go into their endpoint security as well. It is also expensive. It requires a lot more infrastructure and cost to deploy. It is probably more akin to CrowdStrike from a cost perspective.
I briefly considered Bitdefender's MDR solution using GravityZone where they did the MDR piece of it. It was probably half or a third of what we would have spent for SentinelOne, but I did not have the sense that it was quite the next-gen product that I was looking for, even though it scored pretty well.
All these are very similar because they base their activity on what a piece of software is trying to do on the system. It is a real-time behavioral analysis. They do not use predefined signatures from the last 25 years. They are trying to do things in real time. In terms of how long it takes to have visibility into what an application is doing and how quickly they can lock it down once they have the visibility, each vendor scores differently, but each of these three would generally be considered in anybody's top five.
SentinelOne is fairly innovative. I like what they are doing with the integration of their Purple AI for being able to do real-language queries of their telemetry data. You do not need to know all the correct syntax, which helps us non-SecOps folks who have to dabble in it periodically. We can do real-world queries. I have not asked for pricing on that. It is probably more than I want to pay for it, given that we do not get too much use out of this kind of feature, but they are continuing to innovate in that regard. From that perspective, it is a good product.
What other advice do I have?
SentinelOne Singularity Complete is very mature at this point.
We have not yet had an occasion to integrate it, although, in a couple of weeks, we are going to be integrating their Cloud Funnel service with another MDR provider, Red Canary. We have not done that yet, and we have not made use of their other interoperability pieces.
They have two Ranger products. One is the Ranger Identity Protection product, which is kind of an add-on product, and the other one is more of a rogue detection product. We did subscribe to the Ranger Identity Protection product, but it was so difficult to work with that we finally stopped using it. It was a subscription.
Our correlation is whatever is going on in the endpoints. We are not pulling in Palo Alto firewall telemetry, or Okta or O365 data at this point, but we are moving in that direction. We are simply using it for endpoint security and for their Vigilance MDR service.
SentinelOne is good as a strategic partner. We are in the third year of our three-year contract and plan to continue with them. We are not going to go directly to them. We are going to go through one of their partners, Red Canary, but we will be using the SentinelOne Complete product and then using Red Canary to do the MDR along with active remediation and SIEM ingestion of our Okta data, our Palo Alto firewall data, and our O365 data. They can then begin to cross-correlate events and attacks across different attack surfaces of ours.
I would rate SentinelOne Singularity Complete a nine out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Other
Single Visibility Platform (SVP)
What do you like best about the product?
So, First of all SentinelOne Singularity provides the best visibility of all the threats, covering network to every connectivity layers with very Easy and Simple GUI. Singularity not only covers the Endpoint but also covers the Infection Layers if any attack or malware is detected. You can integrate this Singularity with multiple threat analytics and threat feeders, also with your On-going SIEM/SOAR platform. If i talk about implementation it's basically SaaS, so you dont need to worry about the complex and lengthy process while implementing SentinelOne Singularity. We all know this SentinelOne is amongst the Market LEADER, hence it's customer support is really quick and effective.
What do you dislike about the product?
Personally i dont dislike anything in SentinelOne Singularity as it provides numerous benefitial features which will help and sorted out the complex scenarios in multiple organisation.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
SentinelOne Singularity is not only a generic EDR, infact it's a bundle of EDR, Advanced Threat Detection, XDR, VA Scan, EPP which covers each and every unique and important cyber security portfolios. This will help not only me but many organisation as i have pitched this product to multple customers and they're already very much satisfied with this Singularity solution as they dont need multiple product to be managed separately. This is a USP of SentinelOne Singularity which benefits the customer with the ease of usage.
Provides centralized management but doesn't work very well with Linux endpoints
What is our primary use case?
We used it only for six months. Initially, it turned out to be a good product, but then we had an issue, so we stopped using it. We are now using CrowdStrike.
From an endpoint perspective, we have a heterogeneous environment. We have Windows, we have Mac, and we have Linux endpoints. We deployed it on all the endpoints, all different operating systems, and cloud instances as well. Our AD was also integrated along with the identity solution, but the issues specifically get reported on the endpoints for open-source or Linux. That is why we decided not to move forward with it.
By implementing SentinelOne Singularity Complete, we wanted security for our endpoints. After COVID, endpoint security became even more critical because our perimeter was more exposed. It was expanding wherever the end users were, so endpoint security became much more critical. Previously, in terms of endpoint security, the traditional antivirus, anti-malware, and endpoint protection were disconnected systems. We did not have any offline correlation, log collection, or policy management, whereas SentinelOne, as well as CrowdStrike, come with a central console. For compliance requirements, such as ISO, SOC 2, or PCI, we have to provide evidence in terms of the status of the endpoint patches and security posture. That is possible through the central console. That was the motivation for us to move to one of these products. SentinelOne was our first choice, but we ran into a specific issue.
We had not specifically signed up for any risk management, but we were also looking to expand that to a completely managed SOC where we do the log correlation as well. When we initially started, we only started with the endpoint, identity, and cloud.
How has it helped my organization?
The main reason for getting this solution was that it was a new-gen endpoint solution for having an organization-wide view of security vulnerabilities or abnormal behavior. That was the main reason we got started with SentinelOne Singularity Complete. It gave us a lot of that information. It also helped us with compliance requirements. In the case of any specific instance or any abnormal behavior, its reports certainly helped us with the root cause analysis and collection of logs. It helped us in providing or collecting the evidence that we could use in our compliance reports to ensure proper reporting for relevant legal entities.
The ranger product helped us to do discovery of endpoints. We could identify our rogue devices.
SentinelOne Singularity Complete helped to reduce alerts. It groups the alerts. If you have similar alerts coming from the same server or a couple of servers at a similar time frame, it groups them and sends a single alert along with the device ID. This way, you have less number of alerts for the team to work on. If the agent itself is not in the running state or does not have the latest signatures available, it basically groups the alerts and tries to create a single alert. You have all the endpoints listed out, and you can take action against that particular issue rather than the same issue being reported from thousands of machines together. It is hard to provide the metrics, but generally, it helped quite a bit. I had around 8,000 endpoint licenses, and if 20% of the services started reporting the same issue, there would have been 1,500 to 1,600 alerts in a minute. It merges them into a single alert. We can also define a real-time action. A single alert helps our backend team to take action easily. The same is applicable to the SentinelOne support as well. If certain patches or certain actions are required to mitigate an issue, their team can do the mitigation in one shot and the fixes get pushed to all the servers that were reporting that particular issue. In one shot, you can automate and orchestrate your mitigation.
SentinelOne Singularity Complete helped reduce the mean time to detect and the mean time to resolution. There was at least a 10% reduction.
SentinelOne Singularity Complete did not help us save any direct costs, but there is an opportunity in terms of manhours saved in the backend because of having all these features integrated. There were indirect cost benefits. We saved a lot of hours because our engineers did not have to keep an eye on all the alerts. They could automate certain actions. That was an indirect cost benefit. I cannot list any direct cost benefits. These are costly products.
SentinelOne Singularity Complete absolutely helped reduce organizational risk. It is meant for that. We had different levels of reporting available. We could have an executive view. We could view the standards or framework that we were using. We could see the level of compliance to various standards in terms of percentage. We could also define the actions by accepting something as a risk or mitigating that by orchestrating.
What is most valuable?
There is centralized reporting and view. We can have role-based access management where technical people or monitoring people can have a central dashboard with a single view of all the endpoints. Whether our endpoints are running on Windows, Mac, Linux, or any flavor of operating systems, and even mobile devices, we can have a central dashboard through which we can do complete user management and policy management. We can have a complete security posture organization-wise, department-wise, or business-wise.
They have a good data lake kind of feature where you can ingest all the security logs. They can be from your endpoint, your identity management system, or your cloud. They can be from any of those services, so you get to do log analytics. That is one of the features that I liked about it. The same capability is also available with CrowdStrike which we are now exploring because of the issue with SentinelOne. However, at the time, with SentinelOne Singularity Complete, because of log analytics, we could do threat intel or sandboxing or have custom logic written for any specific kind of reaction. Those kinds of things were quite easy.
Log analytics and a couple of other things were also pretty good.
What needs improvement?
We ran into production issues related to CPU utilization on Linux endpoints. Our production environment's performance got degraded like anything. After a lot of debugging, we figured out that because it consumed a big percentage of the CPU and memory. Some of the applications were restarting automatically or randomly. We had an auto-healing infrastructure, so if the system memory was available, the application would restart on its own. When this issue got prolonged, we could see a lot of service failures because of being out of memory. This issue started hitting us wherever we had persistence connection requirements. Because existing connections were breaking completely, any transaction that somebody was doing online got terminated, and that was a big issue.
They should improve it for the open-source or Linux endpoints. They can provide customizations where we can limit the on-access CPU utilization or memory utilization. It should honor the specified limit and use only a limited percentage of CPU and memory rather than utilizing all the CPU or memory available on a system.
Other than that, I do not have any input. There is a lot of potential. There are a lot of possibilities for orchestration and sandboxing. Because we hit one particular issue, we were not able to continue using it, but I see a lot of opportunities there.
For how long have I used the solution?
With SentinelOne Singularity Complete, we did not work for a long time. We gave away this product within six months. There were some problems or issues reported, and that is why we discontinued using this product. We stopped using it nine to ten months ago. We have now migrated completely to CrowdStrike.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I discarded this product within six months. I would rate its stability a five out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Its scalability is fine. I would rate it a nine out of ten for scalability.
We used it in a heterogeneous environment. We had about 8,000 endpoint licenses.
How are customer service and support?
I would rate their support a six out of ten because the issues that I had reported were not resolved.
As a strategic partner, SentinelOne is pretty good. They are very proactive.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Prior to SentinelOne Singularity Complete, we had multiple pieces. We did not have one single product for everything. For endpoint security, we had McAfee as an antivirus and anti-malware. For identity, there was a different application altogether. For SIEM, there was a completely different solution, and for log correlation, we had a different log management server. Dashboarding solutions were completely different. EPO was the tool that we had to orchestrate some of the endpoint and antivirus-related policies.
We were having some challenges with SentinelOne Singularity Complete, so we migrated to CrowdStrike. We are now also exploring CrowdStrike's SIEM solution.
From a maturity standpoint, both SentinelOne Singularity Complete and CrowdStrike are mature products.
How was the initial setup?
We deployed it on-prem and on the cloud. Its deployment was straightforward. It was orchestrated via my backend tool.
It does not require much maintenance. The maintenance required is similar to an endpoint. One or two people are sufficient for 8,000 to 9,000 licenses because they need to just monitor the status. In case they find a rogue device, then only they have to take action. Otherwise, once they have a complete deployment done, they just need to automate reports and tasks. Those kinds of things certainly help.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
It is expensive. There is no doubt about it. If one of the functions does not work, it becomes very difficult for any CIO to justify the cost.
I would not be able to share the exact price, but we had almost 8,000 endpoint licenses, and it was a huge cost.
CrowdStrike is not cheaper than SentinelOne. Both products go neck to neck. Both are costly products.
What other advice do I have?
I would advise going for this solution only if you have a clear use case.
I have only one recommendation. If anybody wants to use such a solution to its potential, they need to be very clear about their use case. They need to know whether they want to go for the complete solution or they are just focusing on the endpoint solution. If you have a complete use case that requires EDR, identity, cloud, and log analytics, then SentinelOne or CrowdStrike makes sense. If you only have an endpoint use case, then these solutions do not make sense. It would not be a cost-effective deal.
After the complete endpoint deployment, you have complete asset visibility. We never used the life cycle management piece. We were just using the EDR feature.
SentinelOne Singularity Complete did not help free up the time of our staff for other projects and tasks. It has a lot of potential to do that, but we used it for a very short duration. Because of the issue we had, we did not continue using this solution. However, it has a lot of potential.
I would rate SentinelOne Singularity Complete a six out of ten. After they improve the product and their support, I may increase the rating. At this time, I cannot rate it more than six.
EDR with a quick and efficient response, easy to operate and manageable
What do you like best about the product?
The average response time it has against infected files is 5 seconds, which reduces the risk of infection on workstations. Additionally, its management console is quite intuitive, which facilitates use and support for the user or client through its manuals section.
What do you dislike about the product?
While it is an easy solution to integrate into devices manually, when performing mass integration, additional configurations are needed that must be carried out by trained personnel.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is currently installed on the client's main devices, which need greater protection against attacks, and it has had quite optimal results detecting malicious files in 2 seconds, in addition to automatically containing and mitigating the file to prevent its spread.
Offers threat hunting, visibility, and malware protection in one console
What is our primary use case?
We use the tool for malware protection and the XDR portion to track intrusions and possible exploitations.
What is most valuable?
I find the product very easy to maintain and troubleshoot. Their engineers are very helpful if you need additional assistance. It's one of the best products I've used. It's easy to use from my standpoint, both for troubleshooting and with the support we get from their team if necessary.
I find its interoperability with other solutions very good. When there are issues, because everything eventually has issues, the team is very good about running logs and finding out what portion is having issues. We can either exclude a portion of it or make it work. They find a solution.
We haven't had any issues with how we ingest or correlate data across security solutions. We use APIs and things like that to ingest data. For us, we haven't had any issues with the tools we use, but I can't speak for other organizations.
We now have threat hunting, visibility, and malware protection in one console. There are other portions we don't leverage because we choose to keep them separate, like our firewall, but we could if we wanted to.
The solution has helped us reduce false positives. We still get alerts, but I think they're more dynamic now. We have fewer issues with systems. It doesn't take as many resources, so we don't have outages caused by hijacking resources. We've probably reduced our issues with that by 90 percent from the previous program we were using.
The tool has helped free up our team's time. Especially when it comes to upgrades, I went from taking several months with the previous software to getting it done in a week or two for 15,000 to 17,000 assets. It's freed up months.
While I don't track mean time to detect specifically, I know it's very quick because of the way it detects intrusions. It's anomaly-based, not signature-based. It will flag something, review it, determine whether it's a false positive or actually malicious, and then quarantine it. It's pretty instantaneous. We've averted several ransomware attempts before they could infect anything.
Our mean time to respond has decreased significantly. The response is much quicker now, especially since very little gets reverted to us for handling. The Vigilance AI portion usually takes care of most of it, determining the severity of something and whether it needs human attention.
It has helped us save costs, particularly regarding fewer infections throughout the network. While I don't have exact numbers, we've had a reduction in costs associated with reimaging machines due to malware.
What needs improvement?
It would be nice to be able to adjust the canned reports manually and choose the specific data we want to report on instead of being limited to their pre-set reports.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the product for three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
In terms of stability, we have no downtime from SentinelOne Singularity Complete. We may have some complications with interoperability when we deploy something new that didn't get tested, but that's usually not SentinelOne's fault. It's usually because a third party changed something that had already been whitelisted.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We haven't had any issues with scalability. It scales very well from small to large. We're at 16,000 endpoints, and it's very easy to deploy and manage.
How are customer service and support?
I've contacted technical support myself. Their response time depends on the severity with which you submit the case. For low priority, it takes about a day or two. For high priority, it's within an hour or two, according to their SLA. They're very prompt.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We switched from Symantec to SentinelOne Singularity Complete mainly because of cost and technology changes. Symantec wasn't changing quickly enough as technology moved toward the cloud, and things were going faster. Broadcom was still using heavy, clunky on-premises agents that used a lot of resources. SentinelOne Singularity Complete was new, next-gen, smoother, and quicker with less downtime. They manage their end in the cloud, so we don't have to maintain our console.
How was the initial setup?
We saw the benefits immediately after deployment. The deployment was seamless, easy to learn, and easy to use—very intuitive. The initial deployment was pretty seamless and easy. It took us about six months to fully deploy, but that was because we did it in segments. We're a global organization with many different entities, so we had to do it segmented. It probably would have taken us a quarter if we had just set it out all at once.
The only maintenance we require is keeping our agents up to date. We do this manually because we go through a change approval process to ensure we don't introduce anything that will harm the system. We then test and deploy.
What about the implementation team?
We used SentinelOne's guidance, but we did the deployment ourselves in-house.
What other advice do I have?
My impression of SentinelOne Singularity Complete as a strategic security partner is that it's state-of-the-art, easy, and uncomplicated. As an engineer, I find the product easy to deploy, maintain, and efficiently. I rate the overall solution a ten out of ten.
I advise new users to read the manual before they start using it. Understand all the different modules to utilize them as intended and get the best out of them. Also, use their support if you have questions before you deploy. Get a game plan and follow their recommendations.
Easy to manage, zero-trust option and supports both Linux and macOS
What is our primary use case?
It's endpoint protection that also takes care of the server.
Mainly, we [my company] have a lot of systems on Linux. So when we were looking for an EDR solution, we evaluated all three top options: SentinelOne, CrowdStrike, and Carbon Black. We found CrowdStrike to be slightly better than SentinelOne in terms of features. But the only reason we chose SentinelOne was that its Linux agent was far superior.
We review our EDR solution every year. So far, it's been SentinelOne. Earlier, it was Trend Micro, I think. So we evaluate and change our protection software almost every year.
How has it helped my organization?
It is quite easy to manage our environment with the Singularity console.
We have policies in place to isolate any suspicious behavior from the network immediately. There's even a zero-trust option that we utilize.
Moreover, visibility into the attack surface and risk is good. It's protecting quite well. We do have incidents regularly, but no major ones at all.
When it comes to threat detection and prevention, it's quite sensitive and quite good.
We do the evaluation every year, so we always see something new that comes in. We evaluate across products and then choose the best one.
What is most valuable?
SentinelOne supports both Linux and macOS. All SentinelOne features were equally supported across Windows, Linux, and Mac, whereas CrowdStrike was more heavy on the Windows side. They did not support all features on Linux.
The Singularity console provides a unified view. But we already had similar dashboards available to the ones we had engineered ourselves. So it's not a deal-breaker. For us, it was about supporting multiple operating systems. That was more important. So, these dashboards we have are third-party tools integrated with SentinelOne.
What needs improvement?
SentinelOne could work on a more centralized dashboard.
Also, it didn't have much incident management built in.
For how long have I used the solution?
We've been using it all across for the last three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
So far, I didn't face any major issue with stability. They communicate in advance about any maintenance downtime or updates. But so far, we haven't faced any outages.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Scalability is quite seamless. We have people who work from home also. There are no issues. It scales across geographies, and we haven't had any problems.
How are customer service and support?
The customer service and support are good. Their responses are quick. We normally interact with them only over emails or their forums.
We never had to talk to them or call anybody. It's always been emails or forums, and it's been efficient.
The forums are really good, actually. As long as you follow their forums, that's more than enough, at least for us. I don't know about others, but for us, we found that asynchronous communication is more than sufficient.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
CrowdStrike was a bit better in terms of features. They had a much more centralized dashboard for tracking, In case of investigating incidents, the evaluating mitigation plans from the community were also good. They were much more mature in those incident management scenarios.
SentinelOne was just detection and isolation; it didn't have much incident management built in. But we have our own incident management function, so that wasn't a deal-breaker.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was quite easy and very straightforward.
What about the implementation team?
My team is familiar with most of these products, so for them, it was a breeze. There were no issues.
We normally take an evaluation period of 45 days. That's the trial period they give, during which we test everything and then give them the results.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Overall, the price is very competitive. It's just relatively low compared to other products. The team told me it's something like 12% cheaper than CrowdStrike.
SentinelOne is much more cost-effective compared to other software because they offer a lot of flexibility in terms of licenses, which you can scale every month.
But others might have a more user-friendly, centralized console. If that's a need, then you have to pay a premium for that.
What other advice do I have?
Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten. Considering what happened with CrowdStrike recently, it is all over the news.
The main point is that if you want feature parity across Mac and Linux, they should go with SentinelOne, not CrowdStrike. CrowdStrike may be very good for Windows, but that's also in question right now. We feel SentinelOne is a little better for Windows.
It integrates well with other platforms, is user-friendly, and is stable
What is our primary use case?
As a company with 30,000 employees and 26,000 endpoints worldwide, we have diverse operational needs that SentinelOne Singularity Complete effectively addresses.
SentinelOne Singularity Complete effectively addresses numerous challenges. As a cloud-based SaaS solution, it seamlessly protects office and remote workers, safeguarding laptops and other devices. Its comprehensive coverage extends to cloud infrastructure across multiple operating systems like iOS, Linux, and Windows, including Kubernetes environments. This versatility, coupled with its ability to fulfill various use cases, has made SentinelOne Singularity Complete our trusted security solution for the past four years.
How has it helped my organization?
SentinelOne Singularity Complete integrates with our other security solutions, correlating data from NDR, ADR, SIEM, and XDR tools. All this information is consolidated within SentinelOne, providing a centralized access point.
SentinelOne Singularity Complete has helped us streamline our security operations by consolidating multiple solutions into a single platform. We are currently in the process of acquiring a threat intelligence platform to complete our security stack.
We use Ranger to monitor our network and track connected devices. This is crucial because it helps us quickly identify unauthorized machines connected to our infrastructure, including personal devices. We have additional security measures in place, but Ranger provides an extra layer of protection. It also alerts us if the SentinelOne Singularity Complete agent is missing from any new or existing machines, allowing us to take appropriate action.
SentinelOne Ranger's agentless and hardware-independent nature is crucial for our environment with 26,000 endpoints, as manual management of such a large number would be extremely challenging.
Ranger uses a multi-layered approach to prevent vulnerable devices from being compromised. We employ scanners, network configurations, and a risk scanner to assess devices, endpoints, servers, and cloud infrastructures. Vulnerability reports and timelines for remediation are shared with device owners or custodians. This proactive strategy enables us to address vulnerabilities efficiently and secure our infrastructure.
SentinelOne Singularity Complete has significantly enhanced our security posture. While no system is impenetrable, this solution has brought us closer to achieving a high level of protection, ensuring we maintain at least a 90 percent security level.
Our team is dedicated to refining alerts and eliminating false positives from our solutions. Additionally, a team is responsible for identifying and excluding alerts from the solution. We can manually expedite this process by reviewing these elements and utilizing our security tools. We have been able to reduce the alert volume by 20 percent.
Our 30-member Security Operations Center team has been able to redirect their focus to other tasks due to the time saved after implementing SentinelOne Singularity Complete.
SentinelOne Singularity Complete has helped us improve our mean time to detect threats, which we accomplish using the Vigilance service for detection and response.
SentinelOne Singularity Complete has helped us decrease our organizational risk. We utilize the Security Scorecard to manage our security posture, which has remained steady at 90 percent.
What is most valuable?
Unlike other endpoint solutions like Kaspersky or Trend Micro, SentinelOne's agents are exceptionally lightweight, updating seamlessly without consuming significant network or system resources. This ensures smooth operation and user-friendly control. Moreover, SentinelOne's support team is highly competent, providing timely assistance and going the extra mile to resolve any issues.
What needs improvement?
When SentinelOne Singularity Complete is used as the central hub for viewing alerts from all integrated security solutions, it is challenging to identify the specific solution that triggered each alert.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using SentinelOne Singularity Complete for almost four years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
SentinelOne Singularity Complete is stable.
How are customer service and support?
The technical support team is quick to respond to and resolve our issues.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Our hybrid environment has raised security concerns for management, leading them to seek an all-in-one solution. After conducting multiple proof-of-concept tests for endpoint security, they determined that Kaspersky was insufficient for their needs due to inadequate functionality and management complexity. As a result, they transitioned to SentinelOne Singularity Complete.
SentinelOne is actively developing new innovations and introducing additional integration platforms.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate SentinelOne Singularity Complete nine out of ten.
SentinelOne Singularity Complete offers comprehensive endpoint security by automatically updating without impacting bandwidth. Unlike traditional signature-based solutions, it employs a behavior-based approach to detect and immediately address malicious or suspicious files and processes.
We are 100 percent confident with SentinelOne as a strategic security partner.
Maintenance has been seamless, and while SentinelOne does notify us in advance of any required downtime, I haven't experienced any interruptions in the past year and a half.
With 30,000 employees and 26,000 endpoints worldwide, our organization has implemented SentinelOne Singularity Complete across all endpoints.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud