SentinelOne Singularity Complete Reviews

Our company serves as resellers and solution engineers for our enterprise customers. We deploy and support the solution in customer environments. 

The XDR capability is quite good and offers advantages such as its real-time detection that is superior to CrowdStrike. I hear that face detection capabilities have also been added. 

The dashboard should include troubleshooting because it can have problems. 

Sometimes, the XDR does not configure its policies for data security on time. 

The XDR should include ECI compliance, multiple data securities, and the load balancer for network firewalls under one umbrella. It would be beneficial to buy a salient solution that does everything. 

The cloud side could be improved to include security, advanced integrations with other products, storage accounts, monitoring, and support. 

The solution should include USB blocking for specific machines. 

I have been using the solution for one year. 

The solution is stable with no issues. 

The solution is scalable. 

The technical support is half and half. They offer good support but response time is slow. Sometimes, you have to contact multiple engineers to get good information and that is a challenge. 

Neutral

We deploy the solution for customers. 

The solution's XDR is superior to CrowdStrike. 

I am satisfied with the solution and rate it an eight out of ten. 

We outsourced the operation to a partner, a supplier, and they have managed those services. If the product does identify some abnormal behavior, our supplier is informed, and our main IT division or group IT division is informed. They correct the machine, and they do whatever they need to do.

Nowadays, there is a lot of malware and various other malicious threats. Our system is an internal system. There might be a firewall there, however, malware can still get through an email. However, this solution is very good at detecting abnormal behavior. They act very fast and quarantine machines well. 

We find that having an endpoint protection solution allows us to adapt and react faster. 

I can put something on my pen drive and get the solution to scan it and see if there are any issues. They can identify and block without affecting any core sections. 

The solution is easy to set up.

It's stable.

The solution works quite well and I don't have many notes for improvement. 

The solution can use up a lot of resources when scanning. It would be ideal if it was lighter. 

We find the initial setup does take some time, as you have to do a lot of whitelisting. We'd like the process to be faster. 

I've used the solution for a while. It's been more than two years. 

The solution is pretty stable. I'd rate it seven out of ten. It's pretty reliable. 

You can scale the solution. However, you do have to pay more to expand as you need to purchase more licenses. At this point, we get additional blocks of licenses when we need them. We do not upgrade one license at a time. 

We have about 5,000 clients on the solution currently.

I do not have much experience with technical support.

We also have Microsoft Defender. They are two different products. We use Defender on our machines and workstations, however, not for endpoint security reasons. 

IT installed the solution on my machine. 

That said, my understanding is the initial setup is not overly complex. At first, however, we had to do some whitelisting. You need to perform a few operations, and we had to reinstall the OS, install a backup, and handle whitelisting. While it takes time, it's not hard. 

I'm not sure of the exact pricing of the solution. That's handled by a different team.

We have an IT department that may look at other options, depending on the use case. They've looked at, for example, Sophos, however, they found SentinelOne to be more suitable for us. 

I'm an end-user and not very technical.

While the solution is cloud-based, there's an on-prem server, and that is for the administration of our nodes. Mainly, the subscription is controlled by the cloud.

I'd rate the solution seven out of ten. Depending on the use case and if it makes sense for the company, I'd recommend the product.

SentinelOne has completely replaced the antivirus solution that we used before. It's also an EDR solution. In the case of any suspicious malware, we can control the system with this agent.

Previously, we had some processes related to incident response which required more steps.  We needed to upload to VirusTotal, Sandbox, et cetera. Now, this process is shortened because all of the information we need is already in SentinelOne. We can briefly analyze and even respond from one management console. If someone has SOC, using the API, they can control everything. It's very cool. I think this is the future.

Behavioral AI does recognize novel and fileless attacks but we hope not to experience an attack like this. These days, there is no life without the internet. I don't think it is really a plausible scenario because we all use Microsoft services, 365, etc. If you don't have an internet connection, then you don't have anything. The guys from SentinelOne showed me an example where they can actually work without an internet connection and it worked just fine, like a common antivirus solution. But it wasn't important to us that it can do this because we know that in the real world, there are not many scenarios that wouldn't involve the internet.

We do use the storyline feature because it's SentinelOne's main feature that they are proud of. We don't see a lot of viruses in our environment and from what we have seen, it doesn't really help because a user will download a virus, the antivirus blocks it, and that's the end of the story. So there isn't much of a storyline behind it. But the SentinelOne guys showed us how it works and in the case of a difficult attack, it should work fine. 

We work with the storyline feature when we are suspicious of something and we need to check. But we didn't have an exact case where something highly critical was in our systems.

I find all of the features to be valuable. It's a cool and very informative tool. The management console analyzes, stops, and prevents the spread of malware. You only need to work with the console. There is nothing to do on the agent side. The user does not need to be involved in this process. 

The level of information it provides is enormous. You have all you need in case something happens. If we need to have an incident response with third-party external companies, we can give them the data that they can analyze further. The information about what's happened on the computer is absolutely amazing.

It's very comprehensive. It offers a lot of data but you can see only what you need or you can go further. If you need to investigate a little further, you can do that in any process. It's a SOC-analyst style.

If you are not an analyst, you can still do a lot with it. It's very convenient. We have workers who are not in the office, who are working from home. This is a good solution for them because it's Cloud-based. I can control everything from one console and even for users who are not in the office. We work with lots of vendors and not many of them have this solution. Traditional antivirus software doesn't have these features.

In terms of its impact on the endpoint, when you have a house computer working on antivirus, it doesn't make a huge impact on the system resources and even more, it can be installed parallel to antivirus. We have had scenarios where we have traditional antivirus and SentinelOne installed in parallel. It's two antiviruses on the computer and users won't know about it. They know about it when they start to download bad stuff and the antivirus starts yelling. 

According to what I see in the console, I do think that SentinelOne covers a wide variety of operating systems. It's even more than it needs to. In the traditional way, it's like antivirus but it does even more because it's also like an EDR solution. It covers all processes, what it does, where it goes, et cetera. There's a lot of stuff under the hood. I'm surprised it doesn't use a lot of resources because I thought it would be more aggressive for CPU memory.

In terms of improvement, they should work on agents' updates because that is not a strong part. It's not their strong point. It's not straightforward to upgrade agents. I send them questions about it. They already worked on this and they promised that in the next release that they will show me their solution for it. But this year I have had complaints about agents' updates, that they aren't clear.

They have a lot of updates on their management console. They have a lot of features. There is not enough time to read about it all. It's really a lot. The features that they apply are great and I would love to use them, but it's lots of things to know. And if you're not only working with antivirus on SentinelOne like me, there isn't much time to learn about it. 

I have been using SentinelOne for almost a year. 

I'm very excited to work with SentinelOne but they have a problem with agent updates. We lose connectivity when we update agents. When users are working from home it's not good to lose connection because you don't have options to connect or have meetings. 

I think they started working very closely on this problem. This solution will be better but so far, that's been my experience. 

We use the Cloud. It's completely scalable. They use a management console for lots of companies. It's tremendously scalable, it can be used with hundreds of thousands of computers.

Right now, we protect only 100 endpoints, it's for highly critical systems. Before the COVID crisis, we had plans to increase usage. We need to renew at the end of the year. We will for sure renew for 100 endpoints. I'm not sure about expanding though.

We don't need to do anything related to updating service backend sites. For agents, we only need to click "select all" and "run update," that's it. It only requires one person for maintenance, to see events and analyst information, technology, etc. It has access for three people who are security engineers and our CSO.

They have excellent support. There are security vendors who take up to 48 hours to just answer back a "Hello," without an explanation to my problem. The SentinelOne guys answer within the hour with a solution to any concerns expressed in an email. Support is very awesome. They also connect me with engineers who can help me. I can share a screen with them to show them the exact problem. This is important because a lot of vendors don't do this.

The initial setup is very easy and straightforward. We don't use the on-premise solution, we are Cloud-based. It's important because we have a lot of resources on our side who work fast. We can deploy in minutes. The initial deployment took one hour. 

We did the deployment ourselves. It's really easy. We have a Wiki page where end-users can see what they can install themselves. They just need to click on it, type, tell us where they want us to put a computer, and that's it. The users can do it themselves.

We installed it for a pilot group of 10 users and then deployed for others.

Our analysts spend less time doing his job because he has everything he needs in one management console. He can programmatically do everything and only react to real incidents. It reduced the costs of analysts' work. Their work costs a lot of time and money and having SentinelOne enables us to save on these costs. 

There are actually three versions of this product: the user version, professional, and professional plus. If analysts need to see something, like what the users are doing, what processes are running, we can go to the console and see. The traditional version only shows when incidents happen. I think the next time we renew, we'd go with the lesser version because it shows enough information. 

There aren't additional costs to the standard licensing.

We have the option to choose different vendors. We briefly looked at other vendors. We looked at Carbon Black, Kaspersky, and ESET EDR.

We evaluated them one year ago. These vendors are comparable to traditional antivirus while SentinelOne is and all in one solution. It has everything you need. SOC analysts is straightforward and they gave us a straightforward proposal. 

It takes the same amount of time for SentinelOne to catch malware as it does other solutions. There's not much of a difference. In our case, we don't see a lot of viruses because we have a lot of levels of security that prevent them. 

We can see the difference between traditional antivirus and what we can do with SentinelOne. Even if the price is a little bit more, we can see what we can do with it. We can use EDR, stop network activity, do whatever we need on the endpoint, from the security engineer side. We can see that it's at a completely different level. We have a traditional antivirus but we're going to rid of them at the end of the licensing period.

My advice would be to go with the Cloud version, not on-prem. 

I would rate SentinelOne a ten out of ten. It's a ten out of ten in terms of the EDR. It's also a 10 of 10 for the product and company. The solution does a lot. 

It runs continuously and uses AI to look for any suspicious activity. If it does determine that there is a virus or something going on that shouldn't be happening, it not only stops the process but also completely logs the whole function. It tells you in a map version how the attack happened and how it was stopped. It is brilliant. In the past, for example, if I had the same problem in Webroot, I would've had to submit the case to Webroot for viewing so that they could, as a human, literally determine what the cause was, but by that time, it is way too late, whereas, this is the real-time protection.

It protects your machine, and it does an excellent job using AI to determine an attack and stop the attack. Its most powerful feature is prevention, and it can unwind ransomware activity as well. So, it is a really useful product in that sense.

There is the ability to SSH into a machine even if the machine has been disconnected from the network. When a real hazard happens, SentinelOne disconnects it from the internet so that no more transactions can occur, but I still have access to the machine. One of the bigger benefits is that no harm could be done because there is no communication with the internet, but I still have the ability to go in, restart a machine, do some investigations, and make some things happen.

One of the things they could do is extend the product range to include Android and iPhone so that you could have the app on your phone as well. There is probably something going on there with that, but that's something that they're lacking at the moment. For instance, if I was to have to recommend a client to protect their phone, I'd have to recommend Norton or something else. I don't have an answer within the SentinelOne solution.

I have been using this solution for close to three years.

It is perfect. I've seen very few problems related to the app. It is not using too much of the PC's power. It does not make PCs slower. So, I find it the best of both worlds. You reduce the impact of the product on the user, but at the same time, thoroughly protect the user, no matter what he does.

You can certainly have thousands of SentinelOne users. We have 250 users. In terms of our plans to increase its usage, I provide IT as a service. So, as I add clients, I always add licenses for those clients.

Their support is very good. I would rate them a five out of five.

Positive

It was straightforward. It probably took me a week to get 250 machines converted.

It can be done in-house very easily. You probably need one staff member that knows how to implement it, and after that, it pretty much runs itself. It requires very little maintenance.

It is not sold as a consumer product. It is only sold based on the number of licenses. So, as an MSP, you're probably going to pay about three and a half dollars per license, per month to have SentinelOne.

I would advise others to go for it. It is great. As an MSP, the peace of mind it gives me is really significant. While the cost of SentinelOne is higher than Webroot, the reality is that the peace of mind and the knowledge that you are probably not going to get a complete attack, simply because SentinelOne stepped in and stopped it, is worth every penny.

I would rate it a ten out of ten. It is absolutely fantastic.

We use SentinelOne to secure our entire environment, including all user endpoints and servers. We are also currently testing the Deep Visibility addon. We were using a definition-based AV prior to SentinelOne, and we were getting daily/weekly infections of a variety of malware. We are a mix of PC, Mac, and Linux. We have on-premises machines and servers, as well as cloud VMs that we were wanting to protect. We wanted to purchase a Next Generation AV client that would be algorithm-based instead of definition file-based.

SentinelOne has provided amazing security. We were getting new cryptolocker variant infections several times per month and the month following our SentinelOne rollout, the numbers dropped to zero. We have not had a single infection since.

The new console is not only visually appealing and simple to use, but it allows you to customize and apply labels to different areas. I don't have a good gauge on how much money SentinelOne has saved us, but we only get a handful of security alerts in our console each day. It has freed up our security staff to perform other tasks. 

We love the API. We use it to generate robust reporting, and we also developed tools to perform agent actions remotely without needing to provide all IT staff with console access. 

The agent will now also report the location in AD. This allows you to create dynamic collections of machines in the cloud console based on their location in local AD. You can replicate your AD OU structure into the console and run deployments and reporting based on OU. It's a very powerful feature and something that was missing in our last product. 

The agent update schedule is a little sporadic, and the updates are frequent. You are definitely going to want to have a good management solution in place, such as SCCM, Intune, or Jamf in order to maintain the environment properly.

There is agent data, such as last known IP address, that is not stored historically. It would be nice if the console stored data daily, so that you could look at a timeline of events on a machine over a period of time, and currently this is not possible. You can see a snapshot of the data at the moment, but once it changes whatever was there previously is not stored. 

I have been using SentinelOne for four years.

The agent is very stable, especially the later versions of the product. Agent never crashes and consumes minimal system resources. New agent versions are constantly released (which can be slightly difficult to manage if you don't have a good endpoint third party management solution like SCCM\JAMF). Release over release both stability and features have improved and been more fleshed out. 

It is very scalable and easy to deploy over any of the standard management solutions.

Customer service and our TAM are both very good. They are responsive and have never been unable to answer a question we asked. 

We switched because or old solution flat out was not picking up infections. It was really almost rather useless. 

The initial setup is straightforward. We do not have any on-premises infrastructure. Rather, we are using sentinel one in full-cloud mode. It was really just a matter of deploying the agent to the endpoints.

Our in-house team handled the deployment.

ROI is kind of hard to quantify but we definitely do feel like we get our money worth.

The costs are really rather minimal for what you receive with the product. No real advisement here. The larger count you have, the deeper discount you will receive in your contract.

We looked at Carbon Black. SentinelOne was more economical, and the feature set was comparable so we ultimately went with it.

Be ready to dedicate a good amount of time to learn the API. To really get the most from the product you need to tap the REST API.

The primary use case is as an endpoint detection and response software. Basically, it is an enhanced antivirus, anti-malware, and anti-ransomware solution. It protects from ransomware attacks and other types of cyber attacks. It protects the endpoint from malicious actions.

Protection from cyber attacks is the feature we find the most valuable.

It's a stable product.

We find the solution to be scalable.

Technical support is good. 

The pricing is not too high.

It has a pretty simple user interface and is user-friendly.

They need to improve how we install the software. For the agent of SentinelOne in the endpoint, it's not an automated process. We have to download it and then upload it on the endpoint. That is something that can be made simple. The uploading of the software in the endpoint, if that can be done publicly, would be great. The setup should be available publicly. The agent installation should all be done in the cloud.

I've been using the solution for more than a year.

The solution is stable and reliable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. 

The solution scales well. You can expand it as needed. 

We are a small organization and have around 200 to 250 people on the solution. 

The management is outsourced, and I find they are doing a very good job. We are satisfied with how we are able to get help if we need it. 

This is the first EDR solution we used. We did not have another solution in place beforehand. We only used basic antivirus software previously.

The initial setup is annoying since you have to download the agent and then upload it to the endpoint. 

For maintenance, basically, I'm the admin for SentinelOne. Also, there is a different organization altogether to whom we have outsourced the management of SentinelOne. They have their own employees. Their particular team would be working for our organization. They are an SoC organization, and they work 24/7 for various clients. We are one of their clients.

The pricing is reasonable. 

I'm not sure of the exact costs, as those are managed by a different team.

I'm a client and end-user. 

The solution is pretty easy to implement and administrate. We have not tried to integrate it with other solutions. While the pricing is reasonable, it's a bit more than typical antivirus software. That said, it has advanced functionalities that make the price worthwhile. Therefore, I would rate it nine out of ten. 

The use case varies based on the customers' requirements and specific needs.

The solution's Ranger functionality offers network visibility and a defined set of capabilities, particularly in terms of discovering and understanding network structures. 

The fact that Ranger doesn't necessitate new agents, hardware, or network modifications is a crucial aspect for us. It stands out as one of the primary selling points, especially considering the intermittent nature of changes like those affecting CPO. 

With the increasing prevalence of remote processes and a shift towards cloud architectures like SASE or SSE, moving towards a single vendor for security purposes could simplify the overall process. It aided in minimizing alerts, primarily due to the behavioral analytics component, which reduces a significant amount of noise. 

It contributed to time savings for our team, particularly for the projects and tasks I predominantly handled on my own.

The solution contributed to a decrease in our organization's time to detect incidents and respond to incidents. It aided the organization in cost savings and it contributed to a reduction in our organizational risk.

One of the most valuable features resides on the endpoint, with the rollback functionality standing out as particularly noteworthy. It seamlessly integrates with other solutions, providing a high level of compatibility and effectiveness. 

The capability to ingest and correlate data across our security solutions stands out as one of the strongest features. It excels in connecting incidents to create a coherent storyline.

Improvement seems necessary, especially with the focus on enhanced support. This is particularly crucial in the analytics domain, where the existing agent falls short in comprehensive performance. Additionally, there's room for enhancement in the mobile element. Although it's in their pipeline, the current state is not optimal, especially when considering the need to install it on people's phones.

I have been using it for a year.

The stability is straightforward and solid. It's notably uncomplicated and easily manageable.

The scalability is excellent, with a high degree of flexibility and ease.

Mostly, we handled the support aspect for our clients. However, among the vendors, it's notable for being quite strong in terms of support. I would rate it eight out of ten.

Positive

The initial setup was straightforward.

When it comes to deploying the agent across machines within the environment, it's a relatively straightforward process, akin to pushing it through the system's processor. The implementation strategy is contingent on the specific cluster, taking into account factors like the proof of concept and the desired objectives. In our case, we managed the implementation independently, involving only a few people. The deployment model is highly variable and depends on the customer's preferences. They typically communicate their preferences to us, and we adapt accordingly. Some opt for in-house hosting, while others prefer a cloud-based approach. It doesn't require maintenance. 

The pricing is on the higher end, making it less suitable for small or medium-sized businesses and perhaps not the ideal fit for the public sector where budget constraints may be more pronounced. I would recommend it more as an enterprise-level product.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete was selected from a range of different providers, evaluated against other companies, and then analyzed to be the chosen product for our managed service. The capacity for innovation, ease of deployment, and streamlined management set it apart from other solutions. Additionally, its leading capability to correlate incidents into a cohesive storyline is a noteworthy aspect.

As a partner, I find them to be highly effective, especially since they are increasingly focusing on the enterprise market. Overall, I would rate it nine out of ten.

Our primary use case for the solution was covering all the endpoints, including servers. We also added the Kubernetes nodes with the CI/CD platform, which covered end-to-end features that we need to fill the required security controls.

The solution has benefited us by monitoring most of the activities to endpoints that we control over the USB and the browser monitoring. Activity monitoring was also done through the XDR platform. We had a couple of incidents where there was zero-day malware planted inside the Lenovo firmware upgrade, which we were able to capture through the auto-detection feature. 

The autonomous platform is valuable because we can separate false positives and negatives and update the database during certain types of automation.

The solution can be improved by ensuring threats are being mitigated on the platform autonomously and by considering introducing an on-premises solution with affordable pricing for government institutions.

There is not much focus on the on-premise solution as the license cap is so huge for small and medium-sized institutions.

We have been using the solution for approximately one year.

The solution is stable.

The solution is scalable and can use the facility to do the same license, which could be used for Kubernetes. So it is the same license but different scales which we have utilized. Approximately 1,000 users are using the solution.

Our team has had a good experience with customer service and support.

Neutral

The initial setup was straightforward. Our team has also done an equally simple upgrade. It took approximately 24-48 hours.

I would say that there could be better ROI if we tend to use more than 500 licenses under a multi-cloud solution. But it would not be the same for an on-premise solution. 

The license for the solution is quite expensive, but it is cheaper than CrowdStrike. However, if you consider specific organization requirements, it has covered them all, so we might move to CrowdStrike after evaluating three years. Then, we assess the kind of tool in line with our requirements and implement the latest and the best tool in the quadrant, and currently, in Cambodia, CrowdStrike and TrendMicro are more popular.

I rate the solution a seven out of ten. The solution is good but can be improved by ensuring threats are being mitigated on the platform and considering reducing the license cap for an on-premises solution.