Huntress vs SentinelOne Vigilance comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 27, 2023

We compared Huntress and SentinelOne Vigilance based on our users reviews .
Our conclusion is that Huntress and SentinelOne Vigilance have different deployment options, with Huntress being cloud-managed and SentinelOne Vigilance offering on-premises or cloud deployment. Huntress is praised for its threat-hunting expertise and 24/7 SOC, while SentinelOne Vigilance is commended for its strong detection capabilities and behavior analytics. Huntress could improve its reporting and integration with other solutions, while SentinelOne Vigilance needs better compatibility and more integration options. Huntress is reasonably priced with good customer support, while SentinelOne Vigilance is seen as high-priced but provides good value for money.

We primarily focused on the topics below:

Features: Huntress is known for its expertise in threat-hunting, round-the-clock SOC, automated remediation, and user-friendly interface. Meanwhile, SentinelOne Vigilance is praised for its powerful detection abilities, behavior analytics, machine learning, and extensive endpoint security features.

ROI: Huntress offers a training system that is both cost-effective and efficient, ensuring that potential issues are avoided and leading to a positive return on investment. On the other hand, SentinelOne Vigilance effectively stops critical attacks, alerts users about threats, and is recognized for its lack of breaches.
Room for Improvement: The reviews suggest that Huntress could enhance its reporting by providing more detailed device information and improving integration with other antivirus solutions. Users also desire more intuitive dashboards and an included antivirus solution. The UI of Huntress requires improvement. On the other hand, SentinelOne Vigilance needs better compatibility with Windows service upgrades, improved deployment and tuning processes, and more integration with AI, SIEM, and SOAR solutions. It also requires enhancements in event formatting, predictive analytics, device change removal, dashboard control, mobile and Linux device support, memory forensics, ransomware rollback plan, update process, pricing, resource-intensiveness, exclusion replication, and email monitoring. Clearer communication and detection are also needed.

Ease of Deployment, Service and Support: The setup process for Huntress was considered simple and direct, requiring approximately four hours with one person for deployment. In contrast, SentinelOne Vigilance was commended for its ease and rapid deployment, usually taking minutes or half a day, although larger organizations might require a few days. Huntress' technical team has been commended for their prompt and efficient assistance. SentinelOne Vigilance users have highly praised the customer service and support, with quick responses and a helpful support team. Some users noted that the support team is from N-able company, but still had a positive experience. The product's support team, particularly the back-end support, is described as excellent. Both products have received positive ratings for their customer service and support.

The summary above is based on 18 interviews we conducted with Huntress and SentinelOne Vigilance users. To access the interviews' full transcripts, download our report.

To learn more, read our detailed Huntress vs. SentinelOne Vigilance Report (Updated: May 2024).

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Huntress vs. SentinelOne Vigilance

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Mindshare comparison

As of June 2024, in the Managed Detection and Response (MDR) category, the mindshare of Binary Defense MDR is 0.3%, down from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Huntress is 11.5%, up from 7.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SentinelOne Vigilance is 7.3%, down from 7.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

reviewer2185968

Head of Cybersecurity at a sports company with 501-1,000 employees

May 16, 2023

Our security alerts have been reduced significantly due to the higher level of analysis we now receive

The biggest aspect for us is that they are able to conform to our environment and utilize our tools. That way, we still maintain ownership of all the data and access to the applications, and we never lose control of the ability to run the solution ourselves if we need to. They're also very flexible in terms of what they're willing to bring to the table as well as having their own solutions that they provide if you don't have anything that you're using yourself. In terms of threat intelligence, as we make recommendations and suggestions to them for modifications to the reports so that they work better in our environment, they're working on putting them into place. And they're giving us feedback on what they can and can't do, meaning they're being very transparent. Binary Defense has also been great, so far, with integrating all the different things that we're trying to put together. They're also even helping guide us regarding some other tools that we're looking to implement. And those tools will have additional integrations into our main SIEM platform that we're using. They definitely have the knowledge and the insight to accomplish an open XDR strategy for securing infrastructure. With some of their own agents and tools that they are able to deploy into the environment, they're able to determine what's happening and put into effect the kill chain at the earliest possible point to help protect the overall network.

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reviewer496639

COO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Feb 9, 2024

Reduced triage time, great support, and good price for MSPs

Threat protection on the endpoints and great customer support are some of the benefits. There is a great vendor relationship. We could see its benefits pretty immediately. They work well with you. They are very attentive, and they make sure that their partners get whatever support they need. It has reduced the triage time. When they do find an alert or an issue, many times, they post an accurate resolution, so my technicians do not have to investigate to determine a resolution. It is already outlined for them. Huntress has the ability to automatically remediate low-severity threats. We use this feature in some cases and not in all cases. It works well when we have used it. It has impacted our workload and security. The faster you can fix the security issue, the better off you are. Using Huntress has helped reduce the need for expensive security tools or to hire expensive security analysts. It is important. It is hard to maintain a security staff. We are much more secure today than before starting to use Huntress.

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Giulio Valeri

Owner at SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS SRL

Apr 12, 2023

Comprehensive solution for both SOAP and AWS

We rely on SentinelOne to provide protection to our workers, and it is our primary means of protection besides testing. We have been using SentinelOne for some time and decided to use it exclusively with the SOC account advice. We believe SentinelOne is a comprehensive solution for protecting…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The most valuable feature is reviewing tickets and the notes added by technicians."

"Binary Defense has a human service department that provides live monitoring for our systems."

"One of the main benefits of Binary Defense MDR is the ability to easily meet with their support team to discuss any issues we encounter."

"The most valuable features are the SIEM and the ticketing function; the latter is very smooth and easy to read and understand. We don't have any issues looking at the ticketing information when we're trying to identify what's going on."

"With Binary Defense, we don't just get an alert, but also a detailed rundown of why they're alerting us on it. They tell us what was executed, or the username, script, or IP. That way, we're not wasting time investigating."

"Among the valuable features are the agent, continuous reporting, and dashboard. It has all the features we need and we haven't had to customize it, other than turning on certain features that we wanted."

"Binary Defense's most valuable feature is the 24/7 monitoring and threat hunting. Their team checks the latest breaches and how they're done."

"The customization has been the most valuable aspect and was really the reason we ended up selecting Binary Defense. They worked with us to provide exactly the level of support, features, response, and collaboration we needed."

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"I have found it valuable that this solution is always there and always armed."

"We don’t have the required staff to watch the issues that are happening. It is good to have a team from Huntress who can watch the logs 24/7. The tool’s automatic remediation is also fantastic. The solution’s interface is also nice and easy to use. The Huntress team saves us time by going through the issues."

"The EDR product is simple to install. It is low maintenance. All the alerts go to Huntress first, and their analyst team reviews them and sends actionable things our way."

"It is incredibly efficient for our engineering team because Huntress provides all the information needed to fix issues, not just flag them."

"Huntress helps by highlighting potential issues, allowing us to take proactive measures."

"It catches things that no one else catches. We occasionally have things slip through antivirus and other things, but Huntress catches them. It is awesome as an additional layer of defense on top of other things."

"Foothold detection is a valuable feature, acting as a valuable second set of eyes for both us and our clients."

"While threat hunting is undoubtedly the most valuable feature, the combination of IP scanning, foothold identification, and canary monitoring has also proven to be incredibly beneficial."

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"The most valuable feature is that it works and isn't compromised. Other solutions I have used have all been compromised and SentinelOne is the only one that hasn't been compromised as far as I understand."

"The SentinelOne Active EDR is the most valuable feature."

"SentinelOne Vigilance is a very stable solution."

"The product is stable."

"The endpoint security software is great."

"SentinelOne Vigilance is an endpoint security tool with quarantining, dashboards showing us information, and many capabilities like manual and automatic quarantine of environmental issues."

"The best feature of this solution is the third-party management aspect. An external company oversees the tool's management and monitors the data it generates. If the EDR detects suspicious activity, it will react accordingly and take necessary actions, such as blocking a device."

"The rollback feature offered by the product is good."

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Cons

"The only area I see for improvement with Binary Defense is their service portal. It could benefit from some enhancements."

"Binary Defense MDR could be even better with additional features, like automatic scans and file quarantine."

"If I were shopping for an MDR solution today, I would not only look for a company that has the ability to alert, detect, and remediate, but also the ability to integrate vulnerability management. That's a big thing that they're lacking today."

"It's sometimes difficult to know when to engage Binary Defense or TrustedSec, their sister company. TrustedSec is more focused on offensive security, as opposed to the defensive security that the MDR solution provides. It would be awesome if there were a better bridge between that relationship for when we need to get more proactive services or when we need to do a penetration test."

"I would like to get more reports from Binary Defense about what they're blocking."

"The most significant area for improvement is in support for non-English speakers; we're a global organization, so many of our users are not English speakers, which can make interacting with them a challenge. There's no Chinese language support, so we must rely on what we can do with the internet. We don't expect Binary Defense to build a language staff, but details can get lost in translation when we assume the whole world speaks English."

"It's hard to think of anything that they need to improve on, but just to point out something, I would like to see them provide advanced XDR."

"We found a couple of bugs in the user interface."

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"I would like the API to be a little better. They are getting there."

"We need an API to automatically retrieve metrics and data about backend activity so we can generate client reports."

"I'd like Huntress to implement a component that can analyze network traffic for specific sites."

"In the next release, I'd like to see more intuitive dashboards."

"Their EDR can have increased coverage for Macintosh. They do not fully secure Macintosh computers."

"Some of Huntress' reporting could be improved."

"Huntress' Process Insights feature could benefit from more robust search and filtering capabilities."

"The solution's UI is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement."

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"SentinelOne Vigilance's integration capabilities with other products can be considered as an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."

"I have found issues with the solution’s stability and implementation. The solution has performance issues. I would like the solution to launch the rollback plan for ransomware on Linux and Mac. It should be something similar to the support that Windows gets."

"SentinelOne Vigilance doesn't actively monitor incoming emails or offer an email plugin for Outlook."

"There's no problem with how this product works, but the toughest challenge that customers find is with its deployment and tuning. Getting it tuned properly takes some time. You can deploy it with just about anything, but it's always a challenge."

"My only complaint is that the knowledge base is not accessible to the customer."

"My customers who use the tool mostly want a summary of the monitoring activities of the product in a report form...t can be useful for our customers to identify the threats and incidents encountered by the product."

"SentinelOne Vigilance doesn't have a direct connection with MSPs."

"The only thing I'm not sure about is I haven't deployed it on any mobile devices."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution's price is spot on; if anything, it's slightly below the norm for most services. Compared to building the same team internally, it would cost more to create the same amount of capability than what we get from an external team. Price-wise, Binary Defense is in a great spot."

"The pricing isn't that bad, it's very competitive. I don't feel that it's over-priced and I don't feel that it's under-priced."

"Binary Defense MDR is priced competitively and may be slightly lower than CrowdStrike."

"Binary Defense has changed its pricing model from being primarily based on the volume of data to one based on escalations and incidents they handle."

"It's valued at the right price. Even with the number of endpoints we have, we don't feel that it's a lot more than any competitor. In fact, it might be less expensive when you look at the fact that you're getting a full flex SOC out of it along with the tools."

"After we acquired this platform, we met with a number of different vendors. Binary Defense came in with a proposal that was surprisingly affordable. In fact, we were able to recoup the cost of their services within a short period of time. This is because Binary Defense is able to provide the same level of security as a team of two or three in-house analysts but at a fraction of the cost. As a result, Binary Defense is saving us an estimated $250,000 to $300,000 per year."

"The pricing is on target. Working with their sales team on pricing negotiations was a pleasant process. They were very respectful of the constraints we had and I feel that we're paying a fair price."

"From the initial cost that Binary Defense came in with, we pared it down quite a bit over the course of 30 or 60 days. My leadership would say that their cost was high, but realistically, they were in line with the market."

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"It is simple. It is reasonable. They raised my prices this year. We never like price increases, but they continue to add value, so we just keep adding agents as we grow and as our clients grow."

"It works well for an MSP."

"It is fair. They provide good value for the product that they deliver. I have had one price increase in the entire time I have used them. They added a bunch of features and then said that they have to increase our price a little bit. That is a fair way to handle it."

"The pricing is competitive, in line with Huntress's offerings, and aligns well with our business model."

"The tool’s price is very good. You just need to pay for the standard license. However, you need to pay the additional cost for Microsoft Defender."

"The pricing model for Huntress is similar to competitors and is charged per endpoint."

"I rate the product's price a five or six on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive since it is a fairly priced product."

"While other options have emerged since Huntress' arrival, I believe it still offers the best value for the features and services it provides."

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"I give the cost a three out of ten."

"I rate the solution's pricing a five out of ten since it is a very highly-priced solution."

"The tool's pricing is slightly cheaper than other alternatives. It's not just about licensing costs; because we already have it implemented, we can save money on deployment and initial setup. Additionally, SentinelOne Vigilance is slightly cheaper in licensing, maybe around 10-15 percent cheaper."

"The solution’s pricing is very reasonable."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten."

"The licensing cost depends on the number of connected devices and whether you purchase additional services."

"SentinelOne Vigilance is priced in a normal range."

"I rate the product's pricing an eight out of ten since it is really expensive, but it is well worth what my company gets."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

18%

Healthcare Company

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Computer Software Company

19%

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Educational Organization

37%

Computer Software Company

12%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Binary Defense MDR?

The most valuable feature is reviewing tickets and the notes added by technicians.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Binary Defense MDR?

Binary Defense is fairly priced. I would say that Binary Defense is flexible in negotiating and tailoring a solution ...

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What needs improvement with Binary Defense MDR?

The only area I see for improvement with Binary Defense is their service portal. It could benefit from some enhanceme...

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What do you like most about Huntress?

It is very easy to use. It is a great solution. They are one of the better vendors that I have ever worked with since...

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What needs improvement with Huntress?

Their EDR can have increased coverage for Macintosh. They do not fully secure Macintosh computers.

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What is your primary use case for Huntress?

We use their EDR platform and their MDR platform. By implementing Huntress, we wanted to add another layer of securit...

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What do you like most about SentinelOne Vigilance?

The best feature of this solution is the third-party management aspect. An external company oversees the tool's manag...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SentinelOne Vigilance?

The tool's pricing is slightly cheaper than other alternatives. It's not just about licensing costs; because we alrea...

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What needs improvement with SentinelOne Vigilance?

SentinelOne Vigilance's integration capabilities with other products can be considered as an area with certain shortc...

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Overview

Binary Defense provides a Managed Detection and Response service using an Open XDR strategy that detects and isolates threats early in the attack lifecycle. Expert security analysts in the Binary Defense Security Operations Center leverage an attacker’s mindset, monitoring your environments for security events 24x7x365 and acting as an extension of your security teams. When a security event occurs, Binary Defense analysts triage, disposition, and prioritize the event. Analysts conduct full kill chain analysis and supply tactical and strategic mitigation recommendations to your security team with the goal of increasing your organization’s security posture against the latest adversary threats.

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Securitas USA, Black Hills Energy, Lincoln Electric,The J.M. Smuckers Company, New York Community Bank, State of Connecticut, NCR

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