SentinelOne Singularity Complete Reviews

We are a solution provider and this is one of the products that we implement for our clients.

Sentinel One is being deployed as a replacement for any antivirus solution. In our case, we use it to primarily prevent ransomware and other malware from entering networks or computers, as they're deployed across the entire world now, in this new post-COVID environment.

We no longer have the luxury of the corporate firewall protecting everyone equally. This means that having SentinelOne on each box is providing a solution where we stop the badness before it can spread.

This is a cloud-based platform that we use in every capacity you can imagine. We use it on cloud components in both Azure and Amazon.

We have tested SentinelOne's static AI and behavioral AI technologies and it performs well. We actually put a laboratory together and we tested SentinelOne against CrowdStrike, Cylance, and Carbon Black side by side. We found that the only product that stopped every instance of ransomware we placed into the computers in the test lab, was SentinelOne. As part of the testing, we used a variety of actual ransomware applications that were occurring, live on people's systems at the time.

My analysts use SentinelOne's storyline feature, which observes all OS processes. They're able to utilize the storyline to determine exactly how the badness got into the network and touched the computer in the first place. That allows us to suggest improvements in network security for our clients as we protect them.

The storyline feature offers an incredible improvement in terms of response time. The deep visibility that is given to us through the storyline is incredibly helpful to get to the root cause of an infection and to create immediate countermeasures, in an IT solution manner, for the client. Instead of just telling them a security problem, we are able to use that data, analyze it, and give an IT solution to the problem.

SentinelOne has improved everybody's productivity because the design of the screens is such that it takes an analyst immediately to what they need next, to make the proper decision on the next steps needed for the client.

The most valuable feature varies from client to client but having absolute clarity of what happened and the autonomous actions of SentinelOne are what most people find the most assuring. The fact that it stops everything and lets you analyze it with great detail, including how it occurred, to improve your overall security infrastructure to prevent such an attack from occurring in the future, is really important to clients because it's almost like a security advisor or a security operation center in the tool itself.

When an event occurs, it gets stopped, and then they have a way to look into that data to find ways to improve the security of their network or what risk factors they need to tend to within the company through education or other means. For example, they may be constantly clicking on the wrong links or the wrong attachments in phishing emails.

Our people constantly use the Ranger functionality. The first thing we do is look for unprotected endpoints in the environment. This is critical because SentinelOne should be placed on everything in the environment for maximum protection. The second way we use it is if a printer or a camera or a thermostat is being used as a relay for an attack, through a weakness in that product, we are able to let them know exactly what product it is. The other advantage of Ranger is that it lets us put a block into the firewall of SentinelOne that's on every Windows computer, and we can stop the communications from the offending internet of things product to every system on the network with just a few clicks.

It's incredibly important to us that Ranger requires no new agents, hardware, or network changes. If you think about it, we're in the middle of an incident response every day. We have between 60 and 80 incident responses ongoing at any time, and having the ability to deploy just one agent to do everything we need to advise clients on how to improve their security and prevent a second attack, is incredibly important. It was a game-changer when Ranger came to fruition.

Various clients, depending on their business practices, are heavily in the IoT. Some are actually the creators of IoT and as they put new products on the air for testing, we're able to help protect them from external attacks.

As a cloud-based product, there is a minimum number of licenses that need to be purchased, which is unfortunate.

I have been using SentinelOne personally, on and off, for approximately three years.

SentinelOne is very stable and the agent rarely fails. The only time I've seen an agent fail is normally on a compromised system. The fact that it even works to protect a compromised system in the first place is amazing, but that's the only time that we actually see the failure of an agent. Specifically, it can happen when there's a compromise to the box prior to loading SentinelOne.

On a pristine new load of a workstation or server where it has no compromises and no malfeasance exists, the SentinelOne agent is incredibly stable and we rarely have any issues with the agent stopping in function. I will add that in this respect, the fact that the agent cannot be uninstalled without a specific code gives us higher stability than others because even a threat actor can't remove or disable the agent in order to conduct an attack against the network. It's a unique feature.

Right now, we have 54 analysts managing approximately 300,000 endpoints at any one time, globally. We operate 24/7 using SentinelOne.

The technical support team is probably the fastest in the industry at responding, and they do care when we have to call them or send them an email due to a new issue that we've discovered. Most of the time, the problem is the operating system that we're dealing with is not regular, but they're still very helpful to us when it comes to protecting that endpoint.

I would rate their customer server a nine out of ten. I could not give anybody a ten. They are a continuous process improvement company and I'm sure that they are constantly trying to improve every aspect of customer service. That is the attitude that I perceive from that company.

Primarily in the last year, the number one solution clients had, in cases where we replaced it, was probably Sophos. Next, it was CrowdStrike, and then Malwarebytes. The primary reason that these solutions are being replaced is ransomware protection.

Almost every client that I get involved with has been involved in a ransomware case. They've all been successfully hacked and we can place it onto their boxes, clean them up, along with all of the other malware that everyone else missed, no matter who it was. SentinelOne cleans up those systems, brings them to a healthy state, and protects them while we are helping them get over their ransomware event. This gives them the peace of mind that another ransomware event will not occur.

Personally, of the EDR tools, I have worked with Cylance, Carbon Black, and CrowdStrike. I've also worked with legacy antivirus solutions, such as McAfee and Symantec. However, this tool outshines all of them. It has ease of use, provides valuable information, and protects against attack. The autonomous nature of SentinelOne combined with artificial intelligence gives us the protection we cannot experience with any other EDR tool today.

The initial setup is very straightforward. SentinelOne has incredibly helpful information on their help pages. They are probably the fastest company that I know of in the entire EDR space for responding to a client's email or phone call when you need to do something new or complex.

We have covered everything from Citrix networks to more complicated systems that work by utilizing the Amazon and Azure cloud to spin up additional resources and spin down resources. We were able to protect every one of those assets with it. The agent is easy to load and configure and the library allows us to quickly pivot on a new client and get their exclusions in fast enough to not impede business as we're protecting them.

When we were at a point of 50 clients, which is an average of 10,000 endpoints, we needed four analysts using Cylance. When we switched to SentinelOne for that same protection, the 50 clients could be covered by two analysts. We dropped our need for analysts in half.

The average cost of a security incident involving ransomware is a minimum of $50,000 USD, and this is something that SentinelOne can prevent.

The product has a rollback feature, where you can take a machine that's been attacked and partially damaged, and you can roll it back to a previously healthy state. That saves endless hours of system administrators' time rebuilding systems. That alone can reduce the cost of an incident from $50,000 down to $20,000. There is a cost because you still have to determine exposure and other factors with an incident response to determine if the threat actor has taken any data, things like that, but on the damage to the equipment, with the rollback feature and the restoration features built in the SentinelOne, and the fact that it stops everything but the most sinister lateral movements today, just means that an incident never has to occur.

This means that there is a great return on investment for a lot of companies. Another important thing to mention is that they don't lose people. Approximately 60% of businesses that are hit with a ransom attack go out of business within six months. If SentinelOne is preventing those incidents from occurring, that return on investment is worth almost the value of the entire company in some cases.

It is difficult to put an exact number on something like that, but the lack of pain and suffering of the employees of the company, because they didn't have to go through an incident response, and the lack of expense for the company to hire lawyers and professional companies to come in and help them during an incident, as well as their increased insurance costs of having an incident is also another factor.

Overall, it's difficult to judge but it's a true factor in the return on investment of owning SentinelOne and utilizing it to protect your environment.

The pricing is very reasonable. Unfortunately, because it's a cloud-based product, it has a minimum count for licensing, but other than that, I've found their pricing to be incredibly reasonable and competitive with tools that are very similar.

Considering the invaluable nature of SentinelOne's autonomous behavior, I don't believe anyone else can measure up to that. That makes it an incredible bargain when compared to the cost of an incident for any company.

There are organizations such as MITRE and ESET Labs that have been doing testing that is similar to what we did three years ago. We just look at those results for the same truth that we discovered in the beginning, and the product continues to improve its performance.

I have been a proponent of SentinelOne for many years. When I learn about somebody who has been hacked and wants to have protection against problems such as ransomware occurring, this is the one solution that I recommend.

The SentinelOne team is open to suggestions. They listen to the analysts and managers that are using their product and they innovate constantly. The improvements to the SentinelOne agent have enhanced its ability to catch everything and anything that comes in, including the detection of lateral movement attacks, which are the worst-case scenario.

When an unprotected agent penetrates the firewall and attacks a network, that unprotected asset has no protection on it so that the hacker can do whatever they want from that box with no impedance. But, the detection of it attacking from a lateral basis has been improved immensely over the last three years.

The improvement in the exclusions library has been phenomenal to help us get the new systems on the air with the new software. It allows the end-user to almost seamlessly get SentinelOne loaded and operational without impacting their business, which is incredibly helpful.

SentinelOne is working on something right now in the Ranger space that is going to allow us to remotely load endpoints that need the SentinelOne protection through the Ranger portion of the application. This is going to significantly improve the security of all of our clients, whether they be in long-term care or short-term incident response, it will help us protect them better. It's a significant improvement to our ability to protect the client.

Of all the products on the market today, I can say that they are the ones that I trust the absolute most to protect my clients.

I would rate this solution a ten out of ten.

There are four use cases:

1. Endpoint visibility.
2. Endpoint protection, which includes detection, protection, and error response. We use this for protection endpoints as well.
3. Provides historical loss of any events or changes in files that may have happened in the last 90 days.
4. Threat hunting, which we use to troubleshoot applications.

There are different versions. The SaaS portal has a different version. The agents for each operating system have a different version. For the SaaS platform, we are on the current release. For the agents, we are one behind the current GA release.

We have another tool for network analysis. Last night, it detected some suspicious network activity for a machine that was making an outbound action to a spacious external entity. So, it raised an alert. Other than being a network tool, it couldn't provide any information as to why it suddenly started doing this. As far as response and running through our playbook, the first steps were for the SOC to go and reach out to our engineering teams to see if any users caused what happened. That took them almost until the end of the day. Finally, they came back, and said, "There is nothing that we can see." Then, I went into SentinelOne, spending about 15 minutes, and was able to determine exactly:

• What process caused the activity.
• The reason for it. 
• The user.
• The command line running that caused it.
• What addresses it tried to communicate out, since the network tool wasn't able to capture all the IP addresses. 

We were able to determine it was a process that one of our engineers had set up and forgot about. It took us almost an entire day for the SOC to get a response from a person on that. Whereas, we were able to get that information directly from SentinelOne in less than 15 minutes.

SentinelOne's automation has increased analyst productivity. It can automate actions on a threat, such as, kill/quarantine, remediate, and then roll back. All those automation processes have significantly helped us in making our SOC more effective.

All the features are valuable. Their core product, EDR, is pretty good. We utilize the entire functionality of the feature set that they have to offer with their core product. For EDR, we are using all their agents: the Static AI and Behavioral AI technologies as well as their container visibility engine.

We use SentinelOne’s Storyline feature to observe all OS processes quite routinely. When we want to know a bit more details about any threats or want to investigate any suspicious event types, that is when we use the Storyline quite a bit. Its ability to automatically connect the dots when it comes to incident detection is useful. It significantly simplifies the investigation and research related to threats.

Today, we automatically use Storyline’s distributed, autonomous intelligence for providing instantaneous protection against advanced attacks for threat detection. The AI components help tremendously. You can see how the exploits, if any, match to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, then what actions were taken by the AI engine during the detection process or even post detection actions. This is good information that helps us understand a little about the threat and its suspicious activities.

We use the solution’s one-click remediation for reversing unauthorized changes. In most of the groups, we have it automatically doing remediation. We seldom do manual remediation.

There is an area of improvement is agent health monitoring, which would give us the ability to cap and manage resources used by the SentinelOne agent. We had issues with this in our environment. We reached out to SentinelOne about it, and they were very prompt in adding it into their roadmap. A couple of months ago, they came back to us and got our feedback on what we thought about their plan of implementing the agent health monitoring system would look like, and it looks pretty good. So, they are planning to release that functionality sometime during the Summer. I have been amazed with their turnaround time for getting concepts turned into reality. 

We have been using SentinelOne since early 2020.

It has been very stable. There have been no issues so far.

One person is needed for maintenance (me).

It is scalable with the caveat that we have had some challenges within our infrastructure for 20 agents across Linux servers. Beyond that, scalability is not an issue.

8,000 to 9,000 people are using the solution across our entire organization.

We are using SentinelOne as our de facto endpoint protection software. As a result, it is a requirement for every machine in our infrastructure, except for the devices that do not support their agents. So, as our infrastructure continues to grow or shrink, the users of SentinelOne will either increase or decrease, depending on the state of our infrastructure at that specific point in time.

The technical support is good and very responsive. 99.99 percent of the time, they have been able to provide satisfactory responses. Whenever we have asked them to join a call that requires their assistance on a priority basis, they have been able to join the call and provide assistance. Whenever they felt that they do not have enough information, they were upfront about it, but they realistically cannot do anything about it because there is a limitation on either SentinelOne agent software or deeper logs would need to be captured in order to provide more information. There has been no situation where support provided an unsatisfactory response.

We were previously using Sophos. The primary reason that we switched was Sophos did not provide us the extended capabilities we needed to support our infrastructure, both on-prem and on the cloud. Sophos did not support any of the Kubernetes cluster environmental containers systems on the cloud. It did not have the advanced AI engines that SentinelOne does. Overall, Sophos was very bulky, needing a lot of resources and a number of processes. In contrast, SentinelOne was thinner, very lightweight, and more effective.

The deployment and rollout of SentinelOne are pretty simple. In our environment, we deployed the agents, then we had to remove them from some of the machines because the agent was impacting the performance of those machines. At that time, we found out it wasn't the SentinelOne agent rather an underlying issue on our own system or even the environment that it was in. We had to take SentinelOne out to troubleshoot the root cause, which delayed us a bit in rolling it out to our other infrastructure. That was completely fine. Looking at it from a global and world perspective, the rollout was very simple. 

About 6,000 to 7,000 endpoints took us six to seven months to deploy. Linux took a bit longer to deploy because the tools are not as good for deployment as what is available for Windows and Macs. Using a script, we were able to take care of that. However, we could only do that during maintenance windows, otherwise we couldn't deploy the agents without an approval change.

We did the implementation ourselves. We have several teams responsible for each area:

• Two to four people for workstations. 
• Two people for a retail environment
• Two people for the server infrastructure. 

This provided resource continuity. In case one resource would be unavailable for any reason, then the other resource would be able to continue. Essentially, the deployment needed three people, but we had six for continuity.

We saw a return of investment during the first year. We far exceeded our ROI expectations, meeting our ROI expectations within the first year.

The Storyline feature has significantly affected our incident response time. Originally, what would take us hours, now it takes us several minutes.

From an overall perspective, it has reduced our mean time to repair in some cases to less than seconds to a maximum of an hour. Before, it would take days.

The licensing is comparable to other solutions in the market. The pricing is competitive.

We subscribe to the Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service called Vigilance, which is like an extension of our SOC. Vigilance's services help us with mitigating and responding to any suspicious, malicious threats that SentinelOne detects. Vigilance takes care of those. 

We also pay for the support. The endpoint license and support are part of the base package, but we bought the extended package of Vigilance Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services.

Sophos was eliminated very early on in the PoC process. Then, we looked at: 

• SentinelOne
• FireEye
• CarbonBlack
• CrowdStrike. 

Out of these solutions, we selected SentinelOne. Their ability to respond quickly in terms of feature functionality was the biggest pro as well as their fee for agents in the cloud. The other solutions' interpretation of a cloud solution did not match with our expectations. From an overall perspective, we found SentinelOne's methodology, its effectiveness, its lightweight agents and their capabilities far exceeded other solutions that we evaluated.

SentinelOne had the highest detection rates and the ability to roll back certain ransomware, where other solutions were not even close to doing that.

It is a very good tool that is easy to deploy and manage. The administration over it is little to none. However, depending on the environment and whoever is trying to deploy the agents, they should test it with the vendor environment before they go and deploy it to production. The reason why is because SentinelOne has the ability to be tuned for optimization. So, it is better to understand what these optimizations would be before deploying them to production. That way, they will be more effective, and it will be easier to get buy-in from the DevOps team and the infrastructure team managing the servers, thus simplifying the process all around. Making the agents and configurations optimized for specific environments is key.

The Storyline feature has affected our SOC productivity. Though, we have yet to fully use the Storyline feature in a SOC. We are using it on a case-by-case basis. However, as we continue to deploy agents throughout our infrastructure and train our SOC to use the tool more effectively, that is when we will start using the Storyline feature a bit more. Currently, this is on our roadmap.

I am very familiar with the Ranger functionality, but we haven't implemented it yet for our environment. Ranger does not require any new agents nor hardware. That is a good feature and functionality, which is helpful. It can also create live, global asset inventories, which will be helpful for us. Unfortunately, we have not yet had an opportunity to roll that out and capture enough information from our infrastructure to be able to maximize the effectiveness of that functionality. We are still trying to get SentinelOne core services fully deployed in our environment.

Now that we have SentinelOne, we cannot go without it. 

Compared to other solutions in the market, I would rate it as 10 out of 10.

Everyone who is a client of ours gets SentinelOne by default. It provides ransomware protection, malware protection, and increased security. Those are our top-three selling points for SentinelOne when we talk to clients.

Prior to deploying Sentinel One, we had a team of staff members dedicated to ransomware prevention and malware alerts. Since deploying Sentinel One, we have been able to allow that team to focus on other proactive security measures for our clients.

The dashboard alerting is great and it has helped us out a ton.

SentinelOne has also greatly reduced incident response time, based on the toolsets and the ability to deploy it to new companies through a script. That has been very helpful. It has decreased the amount of time spent on incident response by 40 to 60 hours a month.

And when it comes to mean time to repair, while we haven't had a situation where we've had to reload an operating system or repair to that extent, we've used the 1-Click Rollback feature which saves several hours over a reload of a PC. 

The detection and response feature is really good for us. 

Also, there is a feature called Applications, and it shows all the critical applications that are on devices that may need to be reviewed.

The solution’s Static AI and Behavioral AI technologies are great when it comes to protecting against file-based, fileless, and Zero-day attacks. I would rate that aspect at eight out of 10. They have been great at detection.

The solution’s 1-Click Rollback for reversing unauthorized changes is also huge for us. That is one of the top reasons we have SentinelOne in place. For example, we had a site that had downloaded malware on a share for their sales office. It was trying to move laterally throughout the network but SentinelOne detected it. We then used the 1-Click option to remove it from the 10 or so PCs it had infected. Then we blocked it based on the information SentinelOne provided to us. That way if it happened again, it would already be blocked and wouldn't be allowed to launch.

One area of SentinelOne that definitely has room for improvement is the reporting. The canned reports are clunky and we haven't been able to pull a lot of good information directly from them.

Also, integration is almost non-existent. We would really like to see integration with ConnectWise. Within ConnectWise Automate, you're only allowed to deploy at the top-level group. Our company is dealership-focused, but if we have a parent dealership that has 10 sub-dealerships with SentinelOne, we have to treat them as one large group instead of one parent and 10 sub-groups. That's been a pain point for us. We've done some workarounds, but since there is no integration, it's tough.

I have been using SentinelOne for about two years.

We haven't had any issues, outages, or upgrades. I would rate the stability at 10 out of 10.

One of the features that we love about SentinelOne is that we don't have to buy licenses ahead of time. It just scales up as we grow. We're bringing on a client now that has 500 endpoints and I don't have to worry about contacting sales at SentinelOne and getting a PO for 500 licenses. It just scales up and we're charged based on what we use, which is awesome.

The solution is on 100 percent of our clients that we manage, and that's going to be the goal moving forward. Our sales team does not put in a contract without SentinelOne.

SentinelOne technical support has always been very quick and responsive. We haven't used them a lot. We're a technology company as well and we're able to fix the minor stuff ourselves or by looking at a knowledge base.

One of our concerns or complaints at the beginning was the lack of training, which they fixed. They allowed us to schedule our staff to do the eight hours of free training, which was great. That would have been my only complaint, but that was resolved a few months ago.

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We didn't have any EDR solution in place like SentinelOne. We had Bitdefender for antivirus, but that has been removed. Our existing antivirus was failing in several ways. It wasn't detecting everything that was coming through. That was the big catalyst for the switch.

Originally, we had SentinelOne through SolarWinds, which was our previous RMM tool. And when we migrated to ConnectWise, we moved our existing licenses over.

The initial setup was straightforward. It was through our RMM. We bought licenses and we had a one-click deployment to deploy that software. And when we migrated, the gentleman who helped us was awesome. We migrated 9,000 endpoints from that RMM directly into SentinelOne, and he did a lot of the heavy lifting. We just had to check and confirm things were getting moved over.

The migration of the 9,000 agents took 10 to 14 days.

Our implementation strategy included a deployment where we would do a test phase. We picked certain endpoints at different clients and we would deploy and set it in a "listen-only" mode and see what it caught. If everything was good, we would then turn it on to regular mode. That process helped a lot in the implementation.

We have about 75 people in our company using SentinelOne. The main roles among them are about 60 percent help desk, which is view-only; 20 percent client-side, which is reporting and view-only; and the rest are our engineering level where they have the ability to do rollbacks and fix certain issues that are coming in. There is very little maintenance involved with the solution, maybe a handful of hours a month. We have it set up to auto-update. Prior to that, we had to set up our script to download the most recent version, but that's all been replaced now with automation. Maintenance on the actual system is very minimal.

In the past, we had to purchase licenses in advance, so if we hit our license limit, we could not expand until we got a signed agreement in place with the sales rep after the back-and-forth. That meant if a client had ransomware and they had 200 agents, we couldn't deploy right away if we were up against our limit. So we always had that balancing act of figuring out if we were close to our limit and whether we needed to buy more licenses? We ended up paying for licenses we didn't need because we had to buy them in packages of 100.

We now pay based on usage. They do an audit once a quarter and calculate any overages. We pay a set amount quarterly, based on our licenses in use, and then they true-up the figure. Right now we have 12,800 agents with SentinelOne on them. We charge our clients monthly, so it would be really difficult for us to write a check to SentinelOne, in advance, for a full year's worth, at that level. It's been great for us to have the quarterly payments.

We looked at CylancePROTECT in addition to SentinelOne. We liked the pricing better and the contract options better with SentinelOne. The deployment also seemed to be easier. In addition, SentinelOne detected things that others missed. We did a few quick trials of other solutions, but SentinelOne seemed to be the best in terms of detection. For example, we did a test with Mimikatz and SentinelOne detected it immediately, whereas some of the others bypassed or didn't see it at all.

And when we talked to the ConnectWise sales rep—because ConnectWise was integrated with Cylance at that point, and SentinelOne was not—the rep told us that they were actually dropping Cylance and moving to SentinelOne over the next year for integration, which was a big factor for us.

My advice would be to implement SentinelOne immediately. It is one of the top things that we've implemented and it has saved us countless hours. It's really hard to quantify the savings, but if a client were to get ransomware, it could involve weeks of several team members working around the clock to get them back up and running. Since we've implemented this, we haven't had to do that in an environment where we had experienced having to do so previously.

The biggest thing I've learned from using SentinelOne is that there are a lot more attacks out there than a typical antivirus will display. Regular antivirus, rather than an EDR-type platform, gives people a false sense of security because there are a lot of processes running in the background that the typical antivirus solution is not equipped to catch. It was eye-opening when we started deploying this at clients, locations where we felt we had very good peace of mind in terms of what was happening. SentinelOne started detecting things left and right that were completely unable to be seen prior.

Using SentinelOne isn't part of my daily tasks. My team only uses it when there's a detection, so the tool is only kept as a screenshot or wallpaper and is only used when there's an alert. It doesn't give us many alerts anyway.

My company uses SentinelOne for EDR purposes for alerts, detections, and patch deployment. For example, some clients ask my team to patch multiple devices and apply policies to the devices, so my team updates policies, applies patches, and updates machines per Windows and Mac updates.

My company also uses SentinelOne for EDR detections and investigations, including forensic purposes.

The most valuable feature of SentinelOne is the good graph it provides. It has a specific page where it detects the recent attacks on other machines or the hackers, for example, group APT28 and all. It shows the active group or predators in the market, the tactics the group uses, and the recent attacks the group performed.

My company even asked a particular client to onboard devices on SentinelOne because it's easier to graph the alerts. The tool can provide you with a better graph that shows when the alert started, the process, the challenges, and the parameters of the processes.

SentinelOne also has a knowledge base embedded in it. You have to visit the page to get the details.

I also like that you can see the activities performed for the alerts received from your end. You have a bunch of people working on SentinelOne, and you don't have to worry about not knowing who received and resolved the alerts because you can get information on the activities on the tool. You can view the actions on the alerts and who has taken action. This is a valuable feature of SentinelOne that's not usually provided on the other EDRs because it's unrelated to the investigations. I can see who recently closed or resolved a particular alert on SentinelOne because the name of the person who took action will appear on the activity page.

Another feature I like a lot about SentinelOne that I can't find in other EDR solutions is the AI segregation and categorization of events. You'll be directed to the logon events category if you're looking into logon-related events. If you're looking into network-related events, you'll be directed to another category, the appropriate one. Based on your search, the SentinelOne AI will segregate the results into categories. You can click on the category and view the categories related to your events. The segregated results then make it easier to do the investigations.

An area for improvement in SentinelOne is the search feature. It could be easier. For example, you can select the number of results that will be shown to you, such as two thousand events, and you can even go up to twenty thousand events for the search you've made, but you can't go beyond twenty thousand. You can only receive up to twenty thousand if you find login-related, detection-related, or process creation-related events. That's the limitation in the search feature of SentinelOne, which ruins the task because it isn't enough when you're doing your investigation.

The retention period of the tool also has room for improvement. The retention period is a time when you can patch up the logs, even older ones. Still, on SentinelOne, the retention period is only one week or one week up to twenty-eight days, and that period is insufficient, especially for a security breach. If a security breach occurs within the company, it could be six months to a year, so if you want to view the logs, you cannot go beyond the limit set by SentinelOne.

The retention period of the tool is way less than what other EDR solutions provide. SentinelOne and CrowdStrike come with a shorter retention period, which means you cannot go beyond one month when investigating the logs.

One month is the timeframe of the retention period, and one week is real-time, as scheduled by the vendor. For forensics purposes, the retention period is critical, so what would make SentinelOne better is a more extended retention period that lets you investigate logs. If you want to patch logs, you can directly call or reach out to the vendor who can provide you with the logs. If the vendor has no logs, you won't get the initial alert when the incident starts.

What I want to see from SentinelOne in its next release is a faster search. I also wish that the twenty thousand event limitation be removed.

I've been using SentinelOne for nine to ten months now.

SentinelOne is a stable tool that never crashes. It's a good product.

Its stability is nine out of ten because, at times, the tool lacks robustness when searching. For example, if I want to search, it can take some time based on my ability to search. Searching on SentinelOne can be much faster because, search-wise, it could be a little laggy.

The scalability of SentinelOne is much better than other tools, so it's a ten for me, scalability-wise.

I haven't contacted the technical support for SentinelOne, but many of my colleagues had experience getting SentinelOne support. One case was about the retention period because a client had been compromised and needed more logs from SentinelOne, but the support team couldn't provide more logs as the retention period was too short.

My company chose SentinelOne over other solutions because it's powerful in the areas of detection, flagging for alerts, and logs. The alert creation is stronger in SentinelOne, so my company went with this tool.

The initial setup for SentinelOne was easy, and I manually performed it. It's easy to deploy a device onto SentinelOne. You have to run the agent, and the application, then the tool will be onboarded. It's that easy.

The deployment of SentinelOne hardly took me half an hour. Once you've learned how and executed the agent file on the machine, you'll start getting the logs. You'll test, configure, and collect the right resources and receive the logs.

I implemented SentinelOne, so it's in-house.

As a developer, I have no information on the pricing of SentinelOne.

I'm using SentinelOne, the EDR solution.

SentinelOne is deployed on the cloud, probably the public cloud, though I wonder if it's private or public. It's on the cloud because it has many more features and doesn't use up many resources even when there's a high workload, and as a tool, SentinelOne performs very well. It may be on AWS or Azure, though.

Within the company, twenty people personally use SentinelOne daily.

My company is a partner of SentinelOne, so my team recommends it to clients, especially if clients require more detection and easy onboarding.

I'd tell anyone looking into implementing the tool that it's fun to learn and use. You can use it without needing many clicks to isolate the machine or perform your required activities. One of the best features of SentinelOne is that it has minimal mouse actions. For example, when you click on a machine, you'll get the hyperlink that shows you the machine details, the uptime, when it was first and last seen, the memory, and all the machine details. You get the details in one location, such as the applications installed on the machine, the network-related configurations of the machine, and the machine processes. You won't get as many features from other EDR solutions. You can isolate the machine, repair and update the machine, update the knowledge base and software, and onboard a particular device on SentinelOne. The tool has many more features. It's a good tool.

My rating for SentinelOne is nine out of ten. Still, if the twenty-thousand event limitation is removed, then that's the time I'd give the tool a score of ten because if there's no limit set, then you can get all process details related to your investigation.

We're a construction company using SentinelOne for endpoint security with endpoint detection and response. SentinelOne covers all of our endpoints and servers. It protects everyone across the company, even those not actively using an AV.

SentinelOne's managed detection response service Vigilance Respond is convenient for companies like ours with small IT teams. If something happens on the weekend, SentinelOne steps in and resolves the issue. It's a false positive 97% of the time, but at least they're resolved instead of hanging around for us to find on Monday.

We have the Ranger feature for network scans, allowing us to pick up any new devices that show up on a network. That was especially useful for us when we shifted to working from home.

If two or more agents are in a remote network, they will scan the network and give you an inventory of the MAC addresses and device types they see. This is handy when you have a small office or someone working from home. We do not allow employees to bring their own devices, but people are plugging their company computers into their home network, exposing them to risks. The ability to report on connections in remote networks is handy.

SentinelOne's machine learning engine is purely behavioral. The engine will shut down anything that's bad, isolate the system from the network, and alert everyone. We had tremendous success with CylancePROTECT for over five years. Zero successful attacks. In 18 months in with SentinelOne, we've seen the same lack of drama. No endpoints have been compromised to the degree that it has negatively impacted our network.

Managing the false positives creates additional management overhead. The behavioral analysis engine might misinterpret real user behavior as malware. For example, a drafter was cleaning up a Revit folder and deleting 4,000 files. That looks like ransomware. The SentinelOne agent kicked his computer off the network.

We interrupted that process and then isolated his computer and the file server. It was somewhat disruptive in the middle of the day. At the same time, it was a perfect simulation of what ransomware would do, so it was reassuring that SentinelOne stepped up and said, "Nope!" 

It was not a malicious process running that was detected. It was simply behavior he shouldn't have done. Now, our drafters know to co my team when they're going to do some file cleanup. The false positives are just inherent in just the large amount of poorly written software that's out there. Any competent antivirus is going to have a behavioral, heuristic engine looking at what's actually being done.

It might be something bad done by the software you use. We used a machine learning engine for five years. The Wire Hauser Corporation builds subpar software because they're supposed to be building lumber products. It triggered a false positive, that's about the only negative for any modern AV is just false positives.

In the future, I would like to see SentinelOne implement integrated patch management. It would be great to manage endpoint patching through SentinelOne. We're on our third patch manager in three years because they are lackluster. It would be nice to have a new patch management tool.

I have been using Sentinel One for about a year and a half.

SentinelOne is stable and constantly improving. Today I did a demo of a new acquisition they made for Active Directory. Ranger is the product that scans networks. This is a new product from a company they bought.

They do automated scans of your Active Directory infrastructure to identify fixable problems and anyone trying to take advantage of the unfixable problems. They're improving their core product while adding new functionality and products that I'm interested in.

SentinelOne is highly scalable. I know folks with 10 times the number of endpoints we have, and they're pleased with it. One fellow I know has 4,000 endpoints under management.

I rate SentinelOne support nine out of 10. I wish our other vendors had tech support as good as SentinelOne. I can only think of one other vendor that possibly has better tech support, but the vast majority of software companies have sub-par tech support. Little goes wrong, but get a quick turnaround time when something comes up. 

Positive

We were using CylancePROTECT, one of the early innovators in machine learning next-gen AV. Then they added on an EDR component called  CylanceOPTICS. CylancePROTECT was an outstanding product for us. It was extremely low overhead and highly efficient. It crushed it in the proof of concept and did an excellent job for us.

Blackberry acquired the solution in 2019, the last year of our three-year agreement. It was awful. Development essentially stopped. All of the intelligent people started leaving. I found out that some went to SentinelOne. It was clear my worst fears were realized: that Blackberry was going to screw up yet another good thing.

I had prior experience with this kind of antivirus, so I thought setting up SentinelOne was very straightforward. We stood up three different products in the course of 60 days to do this test. I didn't think there was anything unusual or unexpected about setting it up. It's perfectly understandable if you know what you're doing.

We have automated tools for deploying software. The biggest problem was getting the old endpoint solution off and the new endpoint solution parked on top of it. We had a 30-day window to get it all done for 250 endpoints.

My IT group has four people, including me, but it's not hard to manage or deploy. It fits right within our normal imaging endpoints, so it's super-low overhead.

We did the deployment in-house. I'm paranoid. I wouldn't let anybody touch our security software.

We pay $30,000 a year for 275 endpoints. We're growing, so I plan to buy another 75 endpoints. There is still a year and a half left in my three-year subscription, so I'm going to increase my endpoint count by 30 percent.

I'm buying midterm. We're a little over our licensing right now—less than 10%—but we'll correct our device count and plan for future growth. We pay for additional managed detection and Ranger network scanning.

We started doing proofs of concept for a short list of candidates in October 2020 when things calmed down a little bit. In addition to SentinelOne, we were looking at Sophos Intercept X, and CrowdStrike Falcon, which I assumed would win the bake-off. I had every expectation that Falcon was going to be our new endpoint. SentinelOne was kind of a startup. CrowdStrike Falcon was number three. Our second choice would've been Sophos Intercept X.

We left behind traditional AVs like Symantec and Norton Antivirus in 2016. It's awful stuff. We would've been good with Intercept X or Falcon, but SentinelOne has just proven to be the right choice for what we're doing. I hope they don't get bought.

I rate SentinelOne 10. It's an excellent next-gen AV with none of the signature-update nonsense. It'll kill anything that does something bad, which sometimes is an Adobe product, etc. False positives are expected in that situation, but it's not a problem.

If you're considering SentinelOne, devote time, money, and staff to a thorough proof of concept. If you don't test your use cases, You will regret it. Just assume it's going to be an exit project to do an endpoint security selection. Ignore Gartner's and the press. Don't pay attention to the big analysts. Read the peer reviews and the community feedback. 

Do the heavy lifting with a proof of concept. If you think you're spending too much time on it, you're probably not spending enough. It's so important. Treat picking a product like you would any other big project.

We're a partner of SentinelOne, but we're also a partner of many other companies. We're not a vendor per se. We sell SOC as a service, and as a part of that service, we provide protection solutions. My area is around antivirus. So, we are not a reseller in that sense.

I am using its latest version. It can be deployed on-prem as well as on the cloud. I have customers with a requirement for both. SentinelOne provides their own cloud because that's where they do their artificial intelligence (AI).

SentinelOne is what they call extended detection and response (XDR). So, it is the next generation of endpoint detection. The main difference between Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) and XDR is that in XDR you have visibility on how something is executing. An EDR solution detects a suspicious or malicious package based on its signature or its behavior and sends an alert, but the problem is that you only see the file that it alerts on. For example, if it is an attachment to an email, you'll see the trigger on the attachment when you try to open it, but what you don't always know is from where that came. With an XDR solution like SentinelOne, you can see the whole process execution. You can say that it was executed from inside Word, Outlook, or something else. For example, when you opened an attachment in Outlook, it triggered Word and got opened in Word. This whole process execution is visible with XDR. It also offers the possibility to suspend or respond intelligently. So, you can use it not only to detect that the package is suspicious, but you could also suspend it so that when the person comes to investigate, the suspended process is still there.

The process visualization, automated response, and snapshotting are valuable. The integration and automation possibilities are also valuable.

The update process can be better. It is very easy to deploy, but over a long period, the updating process can be a little messy. In some EDR solutions, you end up with a very good mechanism to push new versions. It could do with a little work in that area. It is not particularly difficult, but it could do with a little work.

I have been using it for about a year and a half.

It gives good stability. It can have an impact on the performance of the workstation, but that is usually a question of tuning. From a stability point of view, I've never had a machine with a blue screen.

It scales very well.

They're excellent. I would rate them a five out of five.

Positive

We are technology agnostic in the sense that if a customer doesn't have a solution, we'll make a recommendation. If they don't have a solution, then our recommendation goes along the lines of SentinelOne, Palo Alto Cortex, Microsoft Defender ATP, or ESET. These are the ones that I typically would recommend, but Microsoft Defender ATP is problematic because you have to have the Azure and Office licenses to get it. For the other ones, you can buy the licenses separately. We also take over other solutions. I have some customers on Kaspersky and other solutions.

It is straightforward. If we deploy it from a URL where it downloads, it can be done in 10 minutes. If it is coming from an internal deployment server, it can be a few minutes. It is essentially headless. There are no prompts.

I have six people, but they normally work with the customers. As an MSSP, we normally work with the customer IT teams to deploy the agents in large companies. In small companies, it could be our people who do it. 

The number of people required depends on the number of endpoints, but generally, the number is low because it is a very simple installation. In fact, we even have end users running this.

It has the best ROI that I've seen. If I compare it to Microsoft Defender ATP or Defender for Endpoint, which a lot of people compare it against because it's included with the E3 or E5 Office licenses, Defender is three to five years behind SentinelOne. You're also tied to Microsoft's licensing scheme, whereas SentinelOne is independent of all of them. The ROI is very good. For me, its closest direct competitor is either Cybereason or Palo Alto's Cortex.

Its price is per endpoint per year. One of the features of its licensing is that it is a multi-tenanted solution. From an MSSP point of view, if I want to have several different virtual clouds of customers, it is supported natively, which is not the case with, for example, Microsoft Defender.

Another nice thing about it is that you can buy one license if you want to. Some vendors insist that you buy 50 or 100, whereas here, you can just buy one.

The Singularity product has three versions: Singularity Core, Singularity Control, and Singularity Complete. The Singularity Complete one is really what I consider an enterprise rate solution. The middle one, Control, is more than adequate. In terms of price, it works out very similar to what you would pay for Kaspersky or for any other solution. The licensing per endpoint, per year, and per version is progressively more expensive for the Core, Control, and Complete versions. 

The interesting thing is that it is possible to upgrade across the versions without a major change. If a customer buys the most basic installation and would like some of the features out of the middle, it is possible.

You have a choice between an on-premise console and the cloud. My advice would be to use the cloud, but it is a consideration of whether your endpoints can connect to the cloud or not. One of my customers is in the military defense area, and they have no connection to the internet. So, we had to deploy on-prem. What you don't get with the on-prem is all the AI. So, if you're deploying on-prem, you get the core features of SentinelOne, but you don't get all of the bells and whistles that you get from the cloud environment. The same is true for Cisco AMP and other solutions that are deployed on-prem. So, you need to consider how you're going to consume it if you have a disconnected network. If you're in the financial world, a lot of the production networks are not connected to the internet. So, solutions like Microsoft Defender are not an option because they're cloud-based, whereas SentinelOne is an option in those environments.

I would rate it an eight out of ten. It is a very good solution, but you have to compare it to understand it better.

SentinelOne is an antivirus and an EDR platform. We are using is simply for its antivirus and EDR features.

The solution is overall very good in terms of protecting endpoints and servers from malicious activities, malware, cyber attacks, viruses, worms, and so on. It offers really good security.

The initial setup is easy.

We have been happy with the stability.

It is possible to scale the product.

There is good documentation available, and support works to help users resolve issues.

It doesn't have application control capability. Other antivirus or EDR solutions have that. I would be happy if SentinelOne added that to their platform. This is the first point.

The second point is SentinelOne should provide support for legacy open-source operating systems. For example, old versions of Oracle are not supported by SentinelOne.

The third point is that SentinelOne does not support a few platforms, including IBM AIX and UNIX-based OS. These three platforms are almost all used in all enterprises, and SentinelOne does not support them. If SentinelOne provides agents for these missing platforms, it'll be very good.

It would be ideal if they offered video support for troubleshooting issues.

I've been dealing with the solution for just over one year.

The solution is stable and reliable. We have been happy with its performance. There are no bugs or glitches, and it doesn't crash or freeze. 

I'd give it a four out of five in terms of stability.

The scalability has been very good.

There are thousands of both users and servers. Everyone uses it.

I have raised a lot of tickets, and their support is very good. However, with other members, when we have raised tickets in the past, we were able to have technical sessions through Zoom, WebEx, or Teams very easily. That's true, for example, with Microsoft, Cisco, McAfee, and Kaspersky. With SentinelOne, they are providing very good support, excellent support, however, their engineers are not very interested in providing online sessions, which is more convenient.

When you face any issue, they always provide documentation and videos - and that's very good. However, sometimes it's required that they show us how something is done. Doing some sort of video call helps with the walk-through. SentinelOne engineers, most of them, are not so much interested in doing this.

We did previously use a different solution. However, I can't speak to which product that was.

Other solutions that I usually use in other organizations were on-premises.  This one is cloud-based. The point is, when you have your antivirus or EDR solution on-prem, that's your responsibility to troubleshoot the core server and do that maintenance patch and all of those kinds of tasks. When the solution is hosted in the cloud, all of these responsibilities belong to the provider, in this case, SentinelOne. When a new patch is getting released from the vendor, normally, if we were using legacy platforms, we would have to upgrade each endpoint one by one. By using cloud-based EDRs, it can be done automatically and reduces maintenance time.

The solution is very easy to set up. It's not overly complex or difficult. 

The implementation strategy was very simple: removing the old antivirus solution and replacing that with SentinelOne.

It took us three months to migrate and deploy.

We have ten to 14 people that can handle deployment and maintenance. Only one person, however, needs to handle typical maintenance tasks. 

We handled the initial setup ourselves. We did not need any outside assistance. 

Licensing is part of the procurement team. I can't speak to the exact cost of the product.

We are a customer of SentinelOne.

SentinelOne does not have a version. SentinelOne is a centralized platform that is hosted in the cloud. It's the agent that we install on servers and clients, it has versions we are using the latest version of agents. 

The product has two deployment options, cloud deployment, and on-prem deployment. Most people prefer to use cloud deployment in the way we do.

I recommend this solution often. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

My advice for other companies that do not use SentinelOne is this: that everyone, every company, likely has its own antivirus solution, whether it's McAfee, Symantec, Kaspersky, and so on. These platforms provide only an antivirus solution, however. If they replace their solutions with SentinelOne, they will have two features: EPP, endpoint protection from antiviruses, and EDR, endpoint protection and response features. They will not need to install two applications, one antivirus, and one EDR, on their clients' computers; only one agent can do anything.

SentinelOne provides an amazing amount of visibility over clients and servers. Anything done on a server, on a client, with a network connection, login, logout, changes in directories, et cetera, is recorded. Using query searches, you can find what happened very easily.

In comparison to CrowdStrike, they use a lot of ICANN fees in the UI. But this isn't a problem for me because I am already familiar with CrowdStrike's interface and navigation panel. I still don't use the hamburger mini version of CrowdStrike because I am used to the old panels.

The rollback issue isn't marketed by CrowdStrike. I'm certain of it. We can, however, do it indirectly. If you want to do rollback in craft with RTR over Windows shadow copies, there is a workaround. 

This is an argument I occasionally use against SentinelOne. If you use rollback, your system has already been infected. CrowdStrike claims, that they don't do this, they are not a backup solution, and they don't allow any ransomware to work in their systems. 

By the way, rollback is a plus in the eyes of customers.

If CrowdStrike can do it with a single click, it will be a great turn of events.

The ability to get queries by pressing the "tab" button is a plus for SentinelOne.

SentinelOne makes it more difficult to define users.

It is difficult to manage users in SentinelOne.

There are many defining roles. It is granular, but it is also complicated. It is more granular than CrowdStrike, but it is not preferred because you have to check hundreds of roles. It's a challenge.

This user assignment feature would be more efficient. It would be fantastic if they could design it.

In comparison to CrowdStrike, EDR is less detailed. CrowdStrike provides more information about an adversary than SentinelOne.

Having a good EDR is a huge plus. In my opinion, it earns two points. The number will be nine if they can expand it with a more detailed one. 

I could complain about SentinelOne's pricing right now, but I am sure CrowdStrike is using its own staff to provide its clients with a complete solution. Being expensive is a little more reasonable than you think. 

Most people want to know why CrowdStrike is more expensive than other options.

CrowdStrike can assist you with their technical personnel, and CrowdStrike is the only provider who can assist you with their own threat hunters. SentinelOne is not currently doing this.

I have been using SentinelOne for three weeks.

I deployed it on my computer. I am testing it and trying to evaluate what is missing between the two products. I would like to see both of their advantages and disadvantages, which are not written. I am trying to gain real-life experience with these products. I have a lab. 

On these virtual machines, I have at least ten vendors. Some are legacy antiviruses, while others are next-generation antiviruses. I have worked with a variety of brands. These labs are being used for comparison.

I use automatic updates. As a result, it's most likely the most recent version.

The thing is, I can't say a thing about it because I need to digest a lot of data and launch a lot of attacks on SentinelOne, which I haven't done much of. Two or three assaults.

It was successful in prevention and detection, but I need to try some other methods to see if I can bypass SentinelOne.

This solution is currently being used by only two people. Myself and one of my teammates.

Not right now because things will be different in the real world, but we are only two computers with SentinelOne. So we didn't have that kind of experience right now.

When compared to CrowdStrike, the initial setup is more complex.

It only took me 10 minutes to install it on two PCs.

At this time it is only a trial. After the trial period, I am going to purchase two licenses from SentinelOne. To make comparisons too and continue investigating both products.

We simply want to compare in real-life conditions CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Microsoft, and other legacy antiviruses such as McAfee, Micro, and so on.

If you are running an enterprise business, you should definitely go with CrowdStrike, but if you are on a tight budget, you could look into SentinelOne, but CrowdStrike is the better option. If you can stretch your budget.

If you need next-generation antivirus and EDR solutions or if your budget is limited, you can consider SentinelOne, but if you can increase your budget or convince your management to increase your budget, CrowdStrike would be ideal.

I am simply checking. I am not a customer. I am not a partner. I'm a CrowdStrike partner. I am only using it for my own needs. Because people frequently inquire about the differences between other brands and CrowdStrike. 

People come to me for CrowdStrike assistance. And I have to explain the key differences between the two products. And BattleKart does not accurately reflect the information. When compared to BattleKarts, the real-time experience is more valuable.

I would rate SentinelOne a seven out of ten.