Cisco Secure Workload vs SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security comparison

Cisco and SentinelOne are both solutions in the Cloud and Data Center Security category. Cisco is ranked #8 with an average rating of 9.5, while SentinelOne is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.7. Cisco holds a 13.6% mindshare in CDCS, compared to SentinelOne’s 2.1% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Cisco users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 99% of SentinelOne users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

Cisco Secure Workload and SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security compete within the comprehensive security solutions category. SentinelOne appears to have the upper hand in user satisfaction with its features, while Cisco is preferred for customer support and cost-effectiveness.

Features: Cisco Secure Workload offers robust traffic visibility, workload protection, and superior customer service. SentinelOne Singularity provides advanced threat detection, automated response capabilities, and cutting-edge security technology.

Room for Improvement: Cisco users face integration challenges, seek a more seamless experience, and desire enhanced automation. SentinelOne users encounter occasional system performance issues, wish for more intuitive interfaces, and look forward to faster updates.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Cisco's deployment is straightforward with detailed guides and reliable support. SentinelOne's setup is slightly more complex, but its responsive support team efficiently assists with deployment hurdles.

Pricing and ROI: Cisco Secure Workload is cost-effective and delivers solid ROI without major financial strain. SentinelOne offers superior threat intelligence, justifying its higher cost by providing consistent ROI through advanced security features. Exact pricing details were not found.

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Categories and Ranking

Cisco Secure Workload

Ranking in Cloud and Data Center Security

8th

Ranking in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP)

13th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Microsegmentation Software (4th), Cisco Security Portfolio (9th)

SentinelOne Singularity Clo...

Ranking in Cloud and Data Center Security

2nd

Ranking in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP)

4th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.9

Number of Reviews

114

Ranking in other categories

Vulnerability Management (5th), Container Security (3rd), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (3rd), Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) (3rd), Compliance Management (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Cloud and Data Center Security category, the mindshare of Cisco Secure Workload is 13.6%, up from 12.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is 2.1%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

Raj Metkar

Director, Head of Networks at MUFG, EMEA

Discover internal application dependencies and create a dependency map

We actively seek improvements in integrating the Infoblox DDI platform with Cisco Secure Workload. This integration allows Cisco Secure Workload to learn about our networks and network tags, providing valuable insights into vulnerabilities related to the operating system and various applications installed on our servers. Recently, Cisco announced a new product called HyperShield, an AI-based autonomous micro-segmentation solution. While Cisco has not stated that HyperShield will replace Cisco Secure Workload, it represents a natural evolution for the company. HyperShield features dynamic policy discovery and enforcement; however, once policies are enforced, they do not change until a discovery occurs, requiring a re-enforcement process. This new platform operates autonomously, minimizing the need for user or security engineer intervention. I would have expected Cisco to incorporate more automatic discovery and enforcement features within the existing Cisco Secure Workload product. Instead of enhancing the current product, they have introduced a new solution. Cisco plans to honor existing Tetration licenses, allowing users to transition to HyperShield without additional costs, reflecting the investment enterprises have already made. From Cisco’s perspective, this represents a natural progression in their product line. While the product name changes, it seems more of a rebranding effort. The enhancements are greater autonomy, improved discovery, and automatic enforcement, which are now being introduced in HyperShield. Cisco Secure Workload offers automatic policy enforcement but cannot adjust policies dynamically as the application needs to change. Having used the platform for the past five years, the recent announcement has been reassuring. Cisco has confirmed that our investment in the platform will not go to waste. They will honor our existing licenses, providing a natural migration path to the new solution without any disruption

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Andrew W

VP - Information Technology at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

Tells us about vulnerabilities as well as their impact and helps to focus on real issues

Looking at all the different pieces, it has got everything we need. Some of the pieces we do not even use. For example, we do not have Kubernetes Security. We are not running any K8 clusters, so it is good for us. Overall, we find the solution to be fantastic. There can be additional education components. This may not be truly fair to them because of what the product is going for, but it would be great to see additional education for compliance. It is not a criticism of the tool per se, but anything to help non-development resources understand some of the complexities of the cloud is always appreciated. Any additional educational resources are always helpful for security teams, especially those without a development background.

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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 of the solution is that we don't have to do packet captures on the network."

"Generally speaking, Cisco support is considered one of the best in the networking products and stack."

"A complete and powerful micro-segmentation solution."

"The product provides multiple-device integration."

"Scalability is its most valuable feature."

"By using Tetration insight, we are able to get the latency on our level accounts and we can determine whatever the issue is with the application latency itself."

"The solution offers 100% telemetry coverage. The telemetry you collect is not sampled, it's not intermittent. It's complete. You see everything in it, including full visibility of all activities on your endpoints and in your network."

"The most valuable feature is micro-segmentation, which is the most important with respect to visibility."

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"Singularity Cloud Security's most valuable features are its ease of scalability and comprehensive security measures."

"The most valuable feature is the easy-to-understand user interface, which allows even non-technical users to comprehend and resolve issues."

"The visibility is the best part of the solution."

"For Singularity, the task capability is easy to use and it has a very intuitive dashboard, which streamlines the processes."

"With SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security, I appreciate the monitoring features and the report with the compliance score."

"Singularity Cloud's ability to create custom correlation searches and reduce noise is highly valuable."

"The management console is highly intuitive to comprehend and operate."

"I rate SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security ten out of ten."

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Cons

"They should scale down the hardware a bit. The initial hardware investment is two million dollars so it's a price point problem. The issue with the price comes from the fact that you have to have it with enormous storage and enormous computes."

"The multi-tenancy, redundancy, backup and restore functionalities, as well as the monitoring aspects of the solution, need improvement. The solution offers virtually no enterprise-grade possibility for monitoring."

"There was a controversy when Cisco reduced the amount of data they kept, and the solution became quite cost-intensive, which made its adoption challenging….Although they have modified it now, I preferred the previous version, and I wish all the functionality were back under the same product."

"The integration could be better, especially with different types of solutions."

"The interface is really helpful for technical people, but it is not user-friendly."

"Secure Workload is a little complicated to use, and the dashboard isn't intuitive, so it takes a while to learn how to use it."

"It has an uninviting interface."

"The product must be integrated with the cloud."

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"The main area for improvement I want to see is for the platform to become less resource-intensive. Right now, it can slow down processes on the machine, and it would be a massive improvement if it were more lightweight than it currently is."

"Customized queries should be made easier to improve SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security."

"We recently adopted a new ticket management solution, so we've asked them to include a connector to integrate that tool with Cloud Native Security directly. We'd also like to see Cloud Native Security add a scan for personally identifying information. We're looking at other tools for this capability, but having that functionality built into Cloud Native Security would be nice. Monitoring PII data is critical to us as an organization."

"Singularity Cloud Security currently lacks a break-glass account function, which is a critical component for implementing Single Sign-On as it allows for regaining access in emergencies."

"To enhance the notification system's efficiency, resolved issues should be promptly removed from the portal."

"Crafting customized policies can be tricky."

"I believe the UI/UX updates for SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security have room for improvement."

"The area of improvement is the cost, which is high compared to other traditional endpoint protections."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is a bit higher than we anticipated."

"It is not cheap and pricing may limit scalability."

"The price is based on how many computers you're going to install it on."

"Regarding price, Cisco Secure Workload can be expensive if you don't have a budget. If you're not doing micro-segmentation, every extra security measure or enforcement you're putting on top of your existing environment will be an extra cost. It's not a cheap solution at all. But from my point of view, if you need to do micro-segmentation, this is one of the best tools I've seen for it. I can't compare that to Microsoft's solution because I haven't looked into it. I've looked into VMware and Cisco. Those are the only two that I know of. I didn't know that Microsoft could do micro-segmentation at all. Maybe they can, but I haven't heard anything about it."

"Pricing depends on the scope of the application and the features. Larger installations save more."

"The price is outrageous. If you have money to throw at the product, then do it."

"The cost for the hardware is around 300k."

"We have an enterprise license. It is affordable. I'm not sure, but I think we pay 150,000 rupees per month."

"It was reasonable pricing for me."

"Their pricing appears to be based simply on the number of accounts we have, which is common for cloud-based products."

"For pricing, it currently seems to be in line with market rates."

"While I'm slightly out of touch with pricing, I know SentinelOne is much cheaper than other products."

"It's not expensive. The product is in its initial growth stages and appears more competitive compared to others. It comes in different variants, and I believe the enterprise version costs around $55 per user per year. I would rate it a five, somewhere fairly moderate."

"It is not that expensive. There are some tools that are double the cost of PingSafe. It is good on the pricing side."

"It is cheap."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

23%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

Government

Computer Software Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Cisco Secure Workload?

The product provides multiple-device integration.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cisco Secure Workload?

CloudStrike offers antivirus capabilities and firewall features for servers and VDI but lacks automatic policy discovery. This raises questions about the resources required to discover and write po...

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What needs improvement with Cisco Secure Workload?

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What do you like most about PingSafe?

The dashboard gives me an overview of all the things happening in the product, making it one of the tool's best features.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PingSafe?

I don't handle the price part, but it isn't more expensive than Palo Alto Prisma Cloud. It's not cheap, but it is worth the price.

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What needs improvement with PingSafe?

There is scope for more application security posture management features. Additionally, the runtime protection needs attention.

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Also Known As

Cisco Tetration

PingSafe

Overview

Cisco Secure Workload is a cloud and data security solution that offers a zero-trust policy of keeping an organization’s application workloads safe and secure throughout the entire on-premise and cloud data center ecosystems.

Cisco Secure Workload will consistently provide protection by discovering workload process anomalies, stopping threats immediately, minimizing the risk threat surface, and aborting any lateral movement.

Today’s ecosystems are very elastic, and in the application-focused dynamic of today’s aggressive marketplace, Cisco Secure Workload delivers a robust security solution that works effectively with today’s most popular applications. The solution uniquely surrounds each and every workload to ensure organizations are able to keep their data, network, and applications safe and secure at all times. Cisco Secure Workload ensures that enterprise organizations can maintain secure applications by consistently building firewalls around every workload level throughout the entire ecosystem. The solution can manage applications that are deployed on containers, virtual machines, or bare-metal servers.

Cisco Secure workload is able to meet an organization's busy needs and offers flexible options such as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and on-premises options. Using the Secure Workload SaaS options, users receive all the benefits of Cisco Secure Workload protection without the hassle of having to deploy and maintain the platform on premises. Users are responsible for acquiring the necessary software licensing and deploying software agents. Using SaaS, Secure Workload runs in the cloud and is operated and maintained by Cisco. This option offers the ability to scale easily and is a popular choice for SaaS-first and SaaS-only clients. Many organizations find they get the best TCO and achieve the best productivity and profitability using the SaaS options.

When choosing on-premises options, organizations choose between hardware-based appliance models (large or small form factors). Platform selection is dependent on scalability goals, the desired fidelity level of flow telemetry, and the actual number of workloads. When a user chooses to configure Cisco Secure Workload for a conversation-only flow telemetry for all workloads, each platform has the capability to scale up vertically twice the default platform scale. Additionally, with Secure Workload, it is possible for the platform to be scaled horizontally in order to satisfy the demands of extra large widely distributed enterprise environments using federation capabilities.

Cisco Secure Workload also provides a robust disaster recovery (DR) tool, which helps to make it a complete, comprehensive solution. The DR allows for continuous restore and backup capabilities that enable users to quickly remediate operations and data to a standby cluster in the event of a drastic failure or disaster.

Reviews from Real Users

“The solution offers 100% telemetry coverage. The telemetry you collect is not sampled, it's not intermittent. It's complete. You see everything in it, including full visibility of all activities on your endpoints and in your network. Other valuable features include vast support for annotations, flexible user applications, machine learning, automatic classification, and hierarchical policies.” - CTO at a tech vendor

Cisco

SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security offers a streamlined approach to cloud security with intuitive operation and strong integration capabilities for heightened threat detection and remediation efficiency.

Singularity Cloud Security stands out for its real-time detection and response, effectively minimizing detection and remediation timelines. Its automated remediation integrates smoothly with third-party tools enhancing operational efficiency. The comprehensive console ensures visibility and support for forensic investigations. Seamless platform integration and robust support for innovation are notable advantages. Areas for development include improved search functionality, affordability, better firewall capabilities for remote users, stable agents, comprehensive reporting, and efficient third-party integrations. Clarity in the interface, responsive support, and real-time alerting need enhancement, with a call for more automation and customization. Better scalability and cost-effective integration without compromising capabilities are desired.

What are SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security's standout features?

Ease of Use: Intuitive operation simplifies navigation across platforms.
Real-Time Detection: Quick identification and response to threats.
Automated Remediation: Streamlines recovery processes with integration capabilities.
Forensic Visibility: Aids in thorough threat analysis and prevention strategies.
Comprehensive Console: Offers full visibility and historical data tracking.
Platform Integration: Supports seamless operation across cloud and hybrid environments.

What benefits should users expect from SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security?

Enhanced Efficiency: Automation and third-party integration improve threat response.
Improved Detection: Reduces mean time to detect and respond to threats.
Operational Support: Comprehensive visibility and forensic tools aid operational decisions.
Cost Efficiency: Affordable integration with scaling capabilities without high overhead.

SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is deployed in industries needing robust cloud security posture management, endpoint protection, and threat hunting. Utilized frequently across AWS and Azure, it assists in monitoring, threat detection, and maintaining compliance in diverse environments while providing real-time alerts and recommendations for proactive threat management.

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Sample Customers

ADP, University of North Carolina Charlotte (UNCC)

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