We performed a comparison between SentinelOne Singularity Complete and Microsoft 365 Defender based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: SentinelOne Singularity Complete is praised for its dependable threat prevention and ability to reverse ransomware file encryption. SentinelOne could improve its automation, machine learning, and AI capabilities while improving reporting and integration. Microsoft 365 Defender offers effortless integration with other Microsoft solutions. Users praised its flexibility and comprehensive protection against multiple threat types. Microsoft 365 Defender could upgrade its machine learning and AI capabilities. Some users suggested adopting zero-trust features.
Service and Support: Customers have been pleased with SentinelOne’s customer service. Reviews highlighted the support team’s responsiveness and efficiency. Some of our reviewers were satisfied with Microsoft's support, but others complained about slow responses and lackluster problem-solving capabilities.
Ease of Deployment: Users find the initial setup for SentinelOne Singularity Complete to be quick and painless, with helpful support from the vendor team. Setting up Microsoft 365 Defender is potentially complex and may involve integrating with existing policies. Some users reported longer deployment times.
Pricing: Some reviewers thought SentinelOne Singularity Complete is reasonably priced and competitive, while others say it’s costlier than many alternatives. Some users say that Microsoft 365 Defender is good value, but other users perceive it as more expensive than similar competing products.
ROI: SentinelOne Singularity Complete yields an ROI by saving money and protecting against ransom attacks. Other users noted its valuable dashboard data and low CapEx requirements. Microsoft 365 Defender offers savings, attack prevention, consolidation of security measures, and proactive threat detection.
Comparison Results: SentinelOne Singularity Complete is preferred over Microsoft 365 Defender. Users like its automatic threat mitigation and superb event data analysis. SentinelOne is highly regarded for its simple setup, reliability, and effectiveness in identifying and resolving threats. Our reviewers raised issues with Microsoft 365 Defender's pricing and support quality.
"This is stable and scalable."
"It notifies us if there's any suspicious file on any PC. If any execution or similar kind of thing is happening, it just alerts us. It doesn't only alert. It also blocks the execution until we allow it. We check whether the execution is legitimate or not, and then approve it or keep it blocked. This gives us a little bit of control over this mechanism. Fortinet FortiEDR is also very straightforward and easy to maintain."
"The product detects and blocks threats and is more proactive than firewalls."
"NGAV and EDR features are outstanding."
"he solution is an anti-malware product that integrates well with other vendor products such as firewalls, SIEM, etc. It captures threat intelligence and gives you better visibility. The product also has sandboxing features."
"Exceptions are easy to create and the interface is easy to follow with a nice appearance."
"The ease of deployment and configuration is valuable. It's very easy compared to other vendors like Sophos. Sophos' configuration is complex. Fortinet is a lot easier to understand. You don't need a lot of admin knowledge to do the configuration."
"We have FortiEDR installed on all our systems. This protects them from any threats."
"Scanning, vulnerability reporting, and the dashboard are the most valuable features."
"Setting up Microsoft 365 Defender is easy. It's a user-friendly solution that provides threat protection. It has good stability and scalability."
"The integration between all the Defender products is the most valuable feature."
"We can use Defender to block and monitor for security purposes without needing multiple other products to do different tasks."
"The most valuable feature is the network security."
"Its most significant advantage lies in its affordability."
"The timeline feature is excellent. I also like the phishing simulation. We have phishing campaigns to educate employees and warn them about these threats."
"I like that it's fully integrated with Windows, Microsoft 365 Exchange Online, and Outlook. It is better than other antivirus solutions because it's fully integrated with all Microsoft products. It's easy to integrate them and onboard all Windows devices from SCCM."
"The visibility component is the most valuable feature."
"I work in vulnerability management, and for me, at the moment, its automation is most valuable. For the SOC team, incident visibility would be most valuable, but for me, it is automation."
"All of the features are valuable. The way that it integrates into management with fault correction capabilities over is especially valuable. Any of the full gamut of the features that it provides are useful to us."
"We are able to write some custom rules on SentinelOne."
"The customer support for this solution is good."
"The most valuable features are forensic investigation and ransomware prevention."
"The tool has helped us streamline and centralize things with a single solution. We are a small organization with a handful of people managing multiple sites. It is a simple tool with an easy-to-use UI. The product has an intuitive and up-to-date GUI."
"Most of the features are valuable. As a system integrator, agent deployment is valuable. It also fits the requirements of most of the clients."
"We've had a lot of false positives; things incorrectly flagged that require manual configuration to allow. Even worse, after we allow a legitimate program, it sometimes gets flagged again after an update. This has caused a lot of extra work for my team."
"Everything with Fortinet having to do with their cloud services. They need to invest more in their internal infrastructure that they are running in the cloud. One of the things I find with their cloud environment compared to others' is that they go cheap on the equipment. So it causes some performance degradation."
"I haven't seen the use of AI in the solution."
"Cannot be used on mobile devices with a secure connection."
"We'd like to see more one-to-one product presentations for the distribution channels."
"Once, we had an event that was locked and blocked, but information about it came to us two or three days later."
"The solution's installation from a central installation server could be improved because the engineers had a little bit of trouble getting it installed from a central location."
"The solution should address emerging threats like SQL injection."
"There are other SIEM solutions that are easier to use, mainly based on the creation of rules, use cases, and groups."
"The user interface of Microsoft 365 Defender could improve. They could make it simpler."
"My client would like the solution to be more customizable without using code. You can only build on the default console, but we're not allowed to change it."
"Stability could be improved by avoiding frequent changes to the interface."
"For some scenarios, it provides good visibility into threats, and for some scenarios, it doesn't. For example, sometimes the URLs within the emails have destinations, and you do get a screenshot and all further details, but it's not always the case. It would be good if they did a better job of enabling that for all the emails that they identified as malicious. When you get an email threat, you can go into the email and see more details, but the URL destination feature doesn't always show you a screenshot of the URL in that email. It also doesn't always give you the characteristics relating to that URL. It would be quite good if the information is complete where it says that we identified this URL, and this is what it looks like. There should be some threat intel about it. It should give you more details."
"The support could be more knowledgable to improve their offering."
"Advanced attacks could use an improvement."
"Offboarding latency should be reduced. Even after a device has been successfully offboarded using a particular offboarding script, it still shows up as onboarded."
"The solution can use up a lot of resources when scanning. It would be ideal if it was lighter."
"The solution does not have an application security and control module."
"SentinelOne is making a lot of moves to acquire various companies, but the roadmap isn't clear, and it is still uncertain how the new acquisitions will integrate. For example, SentinelOne recently acquired a mobile security solution, but there is no real integration between the platforms."
"In the beginning, we had some issues with their product on some of the Windows 32-bit operating systems."
"Interoperability with other SentinelOne solutions and other third-party tools is an area where you can run into some issues. Because of the way the agent works, there are sometimes things that are blocked or prevented from happening that are not identified as a threat, and therefore, not alerted in the console. Sometimes, we do have to dig through the logs, run tests, and adjust the whitelisting or exclusions to make sure that other applications will run properly."
"The training for SentinelOne Singularity should be free. The solution has a lot of features but we do not know how to use them all. The moment someone purchases the solution they should contact them and provide them with a feature session on how to use the features."
"SentinelOne should include Ranger Pro out of the box with Singularity Complete."
"In terms of improvement, the documentation could be better. I would also like to see SingularityOne compatibility with Huntress, and the tighter integration between them would bring more to the table."
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Microsoft Defender XDR is ranked 6th in Extended Detection and Response (XDR) with 76 reviews while SentinelOne Singularity Complete is ranked 1st in Extended Detection and Response (XDR) with 176 reviews. Microsoft Defender XDR is rated 8.4, while SentinelOne Singularity Complete is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Microsoft Defender XDR writes "Includes four services and four products, which can help organizations a lot". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SentinelOne Singularity Complete writes "Provides peace of mind and is good at ingesting data and correlating". Microsoft Defender XDR is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager, Wazuh and Secureworks Taegis XDR, whereas SentinelOne Singularity Complete is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, Darktrace, ThreatLocker Protect and ESET Endpoint Protection Platform. See our Microsoft Defender XDR vs. SentinelOne Singularity Complete report.
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