SentinelOne Singularity Complete Reviews

We need to provide a form of antivirus for our cybersecurity insurance. The new term now is EDR or endpoint detection response. I tested out several vendors including CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, and Cisco. SentinelOne definitely stood out. My use case is pretty for much protecting all of my end-user devices and all of my servers on-premise and in our virtual environment.

We were trying to solve for visibility and license management. We used to use other products, and licensing became an issue. We would have issues where clients would not really be connected all the time. They would just randomly lose connection. And that was with McAfee. 

ESET was another one that we used in the past, and we just kept running the issues with the physical server. So having a cloud-managed EDR solution, the agent-based, cloud-managed solution, has worked very well for a few years now at multiple companies. It's the first thing I bought when I came to my new company.

I really like Ranger. I like the deep dive of Ranger in an incident section. Diving into each incident and being able to see complete visibility of when the action was taken against something that it deemed a threat is valuable. Using those incidents in Ranger is definitely up there on my list of favorite features. I have multiple locations all across the globe. Being able to separate my devices, per location, is super helpful.

It's good at ingesting data and correlating. It has zero issues with ingesting data with the agents installed. I've had no issues with that. Being able to go through and create exclusions for specific types of data, like SQL has been really tough in our environment. Being able to just go through and customize those exclusions and working with the support team is great. We also have Vigilance, which is another SOC that they offer. That's a fantastic service.

Everywhere I have an agent, it sees everything, and it does so when I deep dive into a threat or a proposed threat. It does pick out host names, and IP addresses, and it just gives you a really clear picture where you can read it.

I like that Ranger requires no new agents or hardware. Anytime you can keep it lightweight enough. If you add a function and you only pay for your yearly fee for an extra function without making changes in your environment, that's huge. 

I love the reporting. The reporting definitely helps me see the entire network and find what open ports are out there. I can work with my network team to get those things closed, which is fantastic. I like the ease of looking at the graphs and the reports.

The solution has helped reduce our alerts. Instead of waiting on a monthly basis and then executing a plan, I'm able to keep up with it all throughout and day to day. That granular control has left me very impressed.

It gives me peace of mind. My staff isn't really using it. I know I have 24/7 eyes on it. 

It has helped me reduce my mean time to detect. I would be lost without the tool. It definitely helps me figure things out really quickly. I can figure out the whole story very quickly. 

It helps with my mean time to respond. It definitely helps with that. I get an alert in my email immediately, which lets me just know that something happened to my environment. That's something that I previously did not have in my old tool set.

I do want to see Vigilance reach out with that Identity. I don't have Identity, however, it's a very good tool. There is another tool that I use called Purple Knight that does very similar things. I'd like to see adding Vigilance to the visibility of Identity. 

One thing I don't like is the exportable report. They're not as useful as I'd hoped they would be. I always feel like I have to finagle them a little bit before I can present them to the executive board. The reporting needs to be beefed up a bit more. Everything feels a little lacking. They're trying to keep it simple, yet it is a little oversimplified. 

I really wish it could be an app on my phone. If I could open up an app on my phone and get all the alerts or look at my environment and see the health real quick, that would be ideal. It doesn't have to be a full feature.

I'd like the ability to have text alerts, for example, if something gets quarantined. 

The website, if you are trying to figure out what all the products are, it's kind of busy. I don't know what all the products are. The marketing is a little tough to follow. 

I've been using the solution for three years.

I haven't experienced any stability issues. 

The solution is extremely scalable. It's super easy to push out to thousands of clients if you really need to. I haven't had any issues. It scales very well.

Usually, technical support is very good. They are very knowledgeable. It's usually 24 hours for a response. I've had a couple of phone conversations with them. Right now, we're going basically through email. They give me a ton of information. They're open to working with my third-party MSP. Right now, the MSP brought up a concern about a very specific function that needs a little bit more tending to in the exclusion arena. 

Positive

We had Defender at this company before.

I was involved in the initial setup.

The deployment is very straightforward. It's super easy to just download your agent, and you get your site token, you install, and you push it out. We use the PDQ at my last company. Here, we use SCCM. We push it out with the MSI, with the site token pre-installed. I see it on my dashboard. It's easy.

My last deployment was handled by myself.

The solution does not require any maintenance anymore. It used to be kind of a headache to go through and have to update the agent. And just to remember to do it. Now I get the email. It tells me there's a new agent out there. I go read up on what the changes are, which is great. Then I go in there and set up the auto-install on the agents, and it just hits them on the schedule. You only have to really pay attention to it once in a blue moon when a new agent is installed or there's a general release.

I installed the solution myself.

I can pay, for my environment, between $30,000 and $40,000 a year, and that's a pretty good deal.

I'm a customer and end-user.

I haven't really done any third-party tools. I've looked into their Identity tool which is one of the newer offerings that they have. It's a very nice offering. It is rather expensive. That said, it is very nice to be able to see Active Directory all in one pane of glass. Honestly, the hardest thing about my job as a security professional is having all these different tools so the more I can see everything in one area, the better it is.

The quality and maturity are important. The company is relatively new in the space, however, they are pretty mature in the market and pretty well-respected. 

SentinelOne is a great strategic partner. I can't see myself doing security without them at this point. They are one of the backbones of my security platform. They were the first pieces even before I bought Cisco Duo or Meraki. 

I'm excited to see where this will be in the next ten years. I can just see this platform just going crazy. I would love to see maybe a little bit more focus. We have to deal with a lot of sensitive equipment that run specific jobs and I love how SentinelOne, and specifically Ranger, is very passive in its ability. It complements our OT. I would love to see some way of getting away from the super expensive platforms of Tenable and bringing in some of these functions that Tenable offers from a scanning platform fully into SentinelOne in the future.

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.

This is a best-in-breed solution. If you're looking at anything in comparison, do your due diligence, do proof of concept between whatever companies you're looking into. However, SentinelOne is the best-in-breed.

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.

I use SentinelOne Singularity Complete for endpoint protection and remediation. It protects all computers in my company and sends real-time alerts about malware, viruses, etc., that may have found a way through all of my company's defenses.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete has benefited my organization through its rapid ability to find new and existing malware that I must act on. As the solution uses AI technology, it's able to find both known and unknown threats.

My organization realized the benefits from SentinelOne Singularity Complete quickly from the time of deployment.

What I found most valuable in SentinelOne Singularity Complete is the ability to connect to the terminal remotely. The solution is pretty handy because it allows my company to do investigations and whatnot, wherever the person may be. After all, I belong to a hybrid organization, which means you never know if someone will be in the office.

It is another tool in the tool belt for looking at some of the files, which means that even if the file is not a virus, you can go in and do some investigation.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete has excellent interoperability with other SentinelOne solutions, including third-party tools. I was pleasantly surprised with how in-depth the APIs go because it's almost integrated with my company's SOAR solution, consolidating all alerts in one place and triangulating more per case. In my company, SentinelOne Singularity Complete is integrated with a third-party tool.

My impression of the ability of SentinelOne Singularity Complete to ingest and correlate data across security solutions is good so far, though right now, my company only set up SentinelOne Singularity Complete. Still, it's good that the integration option exists because, in the future, who knows? My company might do some integration depending on what the timing allows.

My company has not consolidated solutions yet because SentinelOne Singularity Complete is just one of the many tools used within my company. It's a helpful tool, but it's not the only player.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete helped free up staff for other projects and tasks and is time-saving, though I don't have specific data on that.

The tool has also helped reduce my organization's mean time to detect. However, I can't give an approximation just because SentinelOne Singularity Complete is the only solution my organization uses. The tool has also helped reduce my organization's mean time to respond because, together with the SOAR solution, SentinelOne Singularity Complete allows my company to go in and correlate everything to find out where the threat came from, so my company can go in and take the appropriate measures to shut down threats more reliably.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete has helped reduce organizational risk because it's one of the modern architecture tools, which gives more confidence in the detections my company sees. The tool also reduces the number of false positives and false negatives, so my company knows that if the tool shows a hit, then that truly warrants further investigation.

I'd give SentinelOne Singularity Complete an eight out of ten in terms of its ability to innovate because it's very much on par with a few other options out there, though I can't recall the names right now.

SentinelOne is an excellent strategic security partner that quickly incorporates my organization's feedback. My organization hasn't had any problems. If my team is looking for a feature, for example, SentinelOne either edits a roadmap or makes the change pretty quickly if there's bandwidth.

They say there is an investigation function in the interface of SentinelOne Singularity Complete, but it's not absolutely available for use. It's a function I've been looking for, but my company can't use it yet for some reason, so this is an area for improvement.

Another area for improvement in the tool is the larger learning curve that stems from it being full-featured, so there's a more significant learning curve in figuring out the environment versus using a more traditional antivirus. It's a lot more than just installing it on the machines.

The other disadvantage of SentinelOne Singularity Complete is that the agent doesn't auto-update, and my company found it more complicated than usual to get the agent updated and keep it updated.

I've been working with SentinelOne Singularity Complete for six months as an end user.

We didn't have any problems with the stability of SentinelOne Singularity Complete.

For the most part, SentinelOne Singularity Complete is scalable, but with my company's problem with auto-updates, it just means needing to rely on other tools to get new agents pushed out to the endpoints. It would have been better and more scalable if there was a way to update on the directory.

We found the technical support for SentinelOne Singularity Complete one of the best we've ever had to deal with, surprisingly, so we'd rate it as ten out of ten. If we open a ticket, we'll typically get some answers quickly, but for more complex issues, we have standing meetings with them that are set once a week so that they can go more in-depth.

Positive

My current organization only uses SentinelOne Singularity Complete, but in my previous organizations, more traditional antivirus was used, like BitDefender, and it was fine.

With SentinelOne Singularity Complete, I'm more confident that it can detect threats better and will miss fewer incidents coming in because of the more modern ways it detects malware.

I was not involved in the entire setup process for SentinelOne Singularity Complete, but it was mostly straightforward. However, getting the agents onto the machines was more complicated than the team would have liked.

The team started with a test machine and then expanded after issues arose, including figuring out how to fix the issues.

We implemented SentinelOne Singularity Complete in-house, with the support of the SentinelOne team, whenever we had questions.

I have seen ROI from SentinelOne Singularity Complete.

I have no information on the pricing or licensing cost for SentinelOne Singularity Complete.

I wasn't involved in evaluating solutions, so I'm unsure if the company evaluated other solutions before choosing SentinelOne Singularity Complete.

The organization I'm working for doesn't use the Ranger function of SentinelOne Singularity Complete. It uses a homegrown solution for network visibility.

I don't believe SentinelOne Singularity Complete has helped reduce alerts within the company, and it's not because it can't but because the SOAR solution handles the alerts and sends the alerts. Still, there is potential to improve the process.

I've not observed cost reduction or money saved from SentinelOne Singularity Complete just because it's such a small aspect in the grand scheme of things. It's tough to put a number on that.

Many people were involved in deploying SentinelOne Singularity Complete for the organization.

I'm the one maintaining the solution, and for my organization, in terms of scale, one person is sufficient to maintain SentinelOne Singularity Complete.

The solution is deployed on three thousand endpoints worldwide on both MacOS and Windows machines, along with an agent on the servers.

I advise others looking into implementing SentinelOne Singularity Complete to be prepared to work with the SentinelOne support team. Implementation is not hard to do, but the support team is there to help with much of the work and is happy to help. My standard advice is to ensure you're also checking out other providers. Just because the solution works for my organization, it doesn't mean it will work for yours. You have to find a solution that checks all the boxes for your organization.

I would rate SentinelOne Singularity Complete as eight out of ten.

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 use the solution for antivirus protection. We do know it does more, however, we're trying to just get the antivirus program up and working and functioning at this point.

It's allowed us to really cover all of our endpoints, including servers, Macs, and services. We're hoping to do a kiosk mode in some of these services for our labs and facilities, and we're hoping that SentinelOne can actually do that. We're going to work with them to make sure we can get that rolled out.

The fact that they have a lot of search features is very helpful. We can go into their filters and we can filter out by specific computer name, for example. We can specify if we want Macs or we want Windows computers, or if we want just laptops, or desktops. There's just a lot of versatility as to how we can look up the devices and really drill down.

The interoperability with other SentinelOne solutions and other third-party tools is good. For other third-party tools, I've used other antivirus software that doesn't have this type of interface. This gives you a lot more latitude to control the computer to basically push out updates and monitor what's going on with the endpoints immediately. It really helps with everything that you need to be on top of quickly, and it really helps that we can monitor everything in real-time.

It integrates smoothly with other solutions. We were able to push out the software and the agent to all the endpoints rather easily. There were only a few stragglers who just weren't physically on and weren't getting the endpoint, however, the rollout went pretty smoothly. The few endpoints not covered were ones that weren't turned on or not in use.

My impressions of the solution's ability to ingest and correlate across our security solutions are positive. It works really well. 

We like the fact that we actually have a dedicated person at SentinelOne that we can talk with and work with.

It's helped to reduce alerts. The alerts have really gone down. We've actually had a lot of good coverage. There really haven't been that many alerts or issues. They've actually caught a lot of issues and threats before it's even been a problem. It's really helped cut down on the amount of work that we have to do on our end for troubleshooting and the prevention of viruses or phishing attempts.

This solution helped us to free up the time for other projects and tasks for your team members. We just rolled out a new software program, and it allowed us to focus on that more rather than having to deal with virus alerts that come through from our previous virus program. They've really managed it for us and really helped us find more time to work on the projects that we really need to focus on to advance our business rather than worry about threats that are coming through. It's been quite a time saver. 

It helped to reduce our organization's mean time to detect. It's got a much nicer interface to work with, and it's really helped to have them as a working partner rather than our previous vendor which was just a little harder to get a hold of and not as easy to work with.

The mean time to respond is much quicker than what we did have. 

It has helped to reduce our organizational risks. We save a lot of hours by not having to deal with all the alerts and managing them. It has saved us many hours of work and really helped us focus on what we really are there to do rather than working on the threats that come our way.

The solution does allow us to be innovative. The product has a nice interface and is quite robust in comparison. We like the options and availability and how it allowed us to manage our endpoints.

Using the filters takes a little bit of time to get used to. There are so many. You have to scroll from side to side in the filter section to find them. It's not very user-friendly. 

Some of the options they have up top are a bit much. It is a bit daunting. It minimizes, and then you have to click on select filters for it to completely open, and then you've got a scroll to the right or scroll to the left. Even if you maximize your screen from left to right, there are still more filters to scroll through. They're not well laid out.

I haven't used the reporting feature much, however, having a little bit more options in reporting would be helpful.

I started using the solution about six months ago. 

The solution is very stable. 

We have about 400 endpoints. They are all deployed in one location.

It is a scalable product. If we need to add more endpoints, we can. That said, we have yet to scale. 

Technical support has been really good. 

Positive

We had a current vendor called Carbon Black who did our antivirus software, however, it wasn't it wasn't working as well as we would have liked. So we went with SentinelOne to give us a more complete solution.

There is just a lot of functionality on the end of SentinelOne that we just didn't have with Carbon Black, and it just made a lot more sense to go with this. Even though it was priced a little bit more.

I was involved in the deployment of the solution. The process was very simple. SentinelOne took care of most of it for us. 

SentinelOne pushed out the agent for us. 

We did not need a lot of resources in terms of staff members. We were involved in the planning yet not too much of the implementation. We're still working on covering the last few machines. 

There is some maintenance, however, they are mostly updates and those are pushed out by SentinelOne. 

We had a representative from the vendor who helped with the deployment. 

I can't speak to the exact numbers in terms of ROI. However, other programs do not have as much support and in that sense, support, along with savings, has provided some form of ROI. 

My understanding is the pricing is reasonable. 

We evaluated other options as well. We looked at Norton, McAfee, and Avast, which were built-in. We went with this product based on the support we would get and the fact that they were personable and easy to work with. We have a dedicated customer service rep that we can talk with about any issues.

We do not use the Ranger feature at this time. We would need to upgrade if we wanted to use that, apparently. So we just decided not to go with that.

The quality is good. I like the way it works and the amount of options it has. However, it has so many options and functionalities you need to really figure out how it works. It takes care of a lot of things for you. You can just set it and forget it. 

They are great as a strategic security partner. They worked closely with us and were good at explaining the layout and how the solution would work. They are very helpful.

I'd recommend the solution for users looking for antivirus or endpoint management. It's got great features for both small and large companies. I'd talk with SentinelOne about a company's individual needs. They are quite flexible.  

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. 

This is our main endpoint and detection response platform. 

It's our antivirus for all of our endpoints, including workstation servers, Linux Windows, Macs, et cetera. We're also deploying it to some of our mobile endpoints as well. We also do incident threat hunting here so that if we see an incident in our environment, we can use it to hunt down that incident and try to get a better analysis of it. We're using it to scan our active directory environment. 

We just wanted a better antivirus. It fixed a lot of problems that we were facing.

We get a lot of benefits from them, including its ease of use. We don't have to really go digging or spend hours a day trying to configure something. 

They have a really good knowledge base. That eliminates a lot of the time having to do manual research. The time it cuts down is great. It removes a lot of time from doing some of these manual and tedious tasks.

Their basic endpoint and detection platform is pretty much their bread and butter. The features that it comes with get a lot of love. You can add custom solutions, rules, et cetera. 

The mobile device management platform is also really good.

They have a lot of integrations with a lot of common platforms that we use. We integrate them with three or four other platforms including data analysis platforms. We haven't really come across too many instances where we had to create custom APIs for them. 

Our impressions of the solution's ability to ingest correlated data across our security solutions are good. They do it really well. They tend to take a lot of the data that they ingest and do a really good job showing you exactly what you need to do or utilizing that data the better way than just receiving it and then manually parsing it. 

We can consolidate our security solutions. It's nice. We have a lot of our security solutions right in the platform itself. They don't offer everything that we need as a security team, yet they do offer a lot. We've been acquiring more of their products as the years go on.

We use the Ranger functionality. That was something we acquired a little over a year ago, and we had quite a lot of endpoints in there, and we actually reduced that number down to under 20 recently. So we're working our way through it, and it's made a lot of progress in our environment.

It provides network and asset visibility for us. Ranger scans our network. It does a really good job of identifying that. In correlation with some of our other network tools, it does a really good job of evaluating what's out there and also being able to provide a proper review and analysis of those endpoints.

We like that Ranger requires no new agents, hardware, or network changes. It's actually really nice. Every time we want to do something that involves the installation of an agent, we have to put in a change request, and we have to wait for the proper easy to improve it. The nice thing about it was we just alerted a couple of teams. We were going to do some scans, and that was it. We've never had any issues. Agentless is definitely the way we've been trying to go moving forward.

We have more insight into our environment. While it doesn't cut down on alerts, we gain more visibility.

The solution, on average, saves us a couple of days' worth of time in total.

It's helped reduce our company's mean time to detect. In correlation with the SOC, we've seen quick alert times. We get an alert almost immediately after an incident.

It also improved the mean time to respond. It does depend on the situation.

From the standpoint of having to suffer through an attack, the solution has saved money in saving us a potential loss. We're paying for the product. The savings are all hypothetical numbers, however, we are definitely saving money. It's helped us reduce organizational risk. We were in bad shape before. We're looking a lot better now. 

The grouping feature needs improvement. There are many times I've wanted to do blacklisting or exclusions for specific people in a group, however, I don't want to remove them from the group itself. 

I'd like to see an auto-update feature. 

I've been using the solution for about over three years. I've been dedicated to it only for a year or two.

They are pretty stable. The company is expanding at a good rate and they are releasing new features to maintain the stability effectively.

We have almost 3,000 endpoints. We have a spike of 500 to 600 endpoints in the summer to December season. We are primarily Windows and also have about 200 Linux endpoints. They are all deployed across the same organization. 

Scaling is flexible. They do a really good job.

Technical support is helpful. Sometimes Level One support may not be the greatest, however, you can push to someone higher. Issues are always resolved. 

Positive

I don't have any personal experience working with other solutions. 

We are at about 98% deployment. There are endpoints that pop up that don't have the agent to get it, however, we're past the deployment phase or past the initial configuration phase. It's all just maintaining and tweaking, and as new features come out, we adjust.

I wasn't here for the initial deployment process. I've done a lot of configurations for new features that they've implemented.

Our team does general maintenance. They do a really good job of giving you the information you need to troubleshoot. Their knowledge base is really good. 

We've definitely seen an ROI. I'm not sure where we would be without it right now. 

The pricing is fair. It's not cheap, nor is it expensive.

The solution seems to be quite innovative. They are coming out with network products. Every month we have a webinar on new features coming out.

The quality and maturity of the solution are both great. The stuff they give us is really detailed.

There are instances of the solution on the cloud, however, all the endpoints are on-premises. 

I'm pretty satisfied with the product as a security partner. I'm happy with where we are with them. 

This is a great product. If a company is unhappy with its current EDR, SentinelOne is a good choice. They are acquiring a lot of companies and solutions to add to their roster in order to provide a more centralized platform.

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten. It's going to be a good one-stop-shop and I enjoy working with them.

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.

One of our use cases is that we wanted some type of visibility into our vulnerabilities and insight into our endpoints.

Ranger really helps us because, even though we're a smaller team of security professionals, it gives us a good eyes-on-glass approach. And if there is a known vulnerability, we can automatically see that without having to spend more time looking at it. In the past, we would do all of this manually. We would have to go into our systems and see which IP address is coming from the outside world and see the IP address, workstation, current version, hostname, MAC address, et cetera. Now, we can easily see that in the report that we get every day.

We used Rapid7, but Singularity has certainly helped reduce alerts. We have a threshold set in Singularity so that if one of our critical devices is vulnerable, we get automated email alerts. The alerts tell us what we need to look at in terms of logs and the like, and they help us automate some of our internal processes.

Personally, it has saved me a lot of time, about one-third of my day. And our mean time to detect has been reduced by anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour. But our mean time to respond has been pretty much about the same. I'm logging into SentinelOne every day and I see what's going on. If there is anything that needs to be talked about with our sysadmin team to get patches rolled out, we have a meeting about it every week. SentinelOne, overall, has brought our organizational risk down by at least 35 to 40 percent.

It helps us with our compliance efforts too, especially for auditing. If someone asks, "Do you have a list of all your endpoints?" we can definitely say "yes." And if they ask, "How is it categorized, by IP address, workstation, or OS?" we can see it's on this particular network and it's made by that manufacturer.

With Ranger, we can see the device inventory, the networks, how many workstations we have that it's scanning, how many printers, how many mobile and IoT devices, and servers.

It identifies what applications are vulnerable. If I go to the applications, such as Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Reader, I can see our current list of vulnerabilities: How many are vulnerable and how many need to be updated with patching. One of the most valuable aspects is the ease of finding specific vulnerabilities.

About every month, when I go into SentinelOne, if there is a vulnerability that we know about, I search for that vulnerability—for example, Adobe. There are different versions of Adobe, but I'm not able to compile them into one report. I have to create separate reports for those versions. Some of the reporting could be improved a little bit. I wish all Adobe products could be included together, or that you could mix and match Adobe with some other software or video player.

We have used SentinelOne for the last year and a half, and we're pretty happy with it.

I haven't had any issues with the platform. There hasn't been any crashing or lagging. Everything seems to be current. Overall, it's pretty seamless and I get really good results with it. I include it in my routine every morning and afternoon. I review the SentinelOne reports to see what vulnerabilities have been detected.

It is definitely scalable. You can really expand it and, for us, that is huge. As our organization grows, we will likely look at acquisitions, and, with those acquisitions, we will definitely get the other company's devices deployed through SentinelOne. It will allow us to grow and have their devices in the SentinelOne console as well, and have visibility.

I have contacted their support for a vulnerability issue, and they were able to help out with that. They told me how to get it remediated and what scan to perform.

It has helped us consolidate our security solutions. At one point, we had Rapid7 and SentinelOne. However, we realized we could take what Rapid7 has and consolidate it into one platform. At a high level, they're almost the same tool, but SentinelOne has a few more features and functionalities.

Also, we could see how many operating systems we have in our current environment through the standard image system we had. But now, we can see that through SentinelOne. That has been a key takeaway because we can see how many Windows, Linux, Apple, and Android devices we have.

In addition to Rapid7, we were looking at CrowdStrike for our endpoint detection, and at Sophos as well. Clearly, SentinelOne was the best for us.

SentinelOne is definitely a leader in the marketplace because it has a lot of features to offer. There are some pretty good integrations with it as well, and there are things you can change in the settings and how it's deployed.

The quality of the solution is great. I don't have any complaints other than that small reporting issue I mentioned. In terms of maturity, Singularity is one of the top-notch eyes-on-glass solutions that you can have, especially as it relates to your endpoints and vulnerabilities. It gives you that technical deep dive into what the vulnerability is, what workstation it's on, and whether there are any other endpoints affected.

There are some integrations that we could possibly use, but we haven't used any. There is one with KnowBe4 that we are looking to use.

As for maintenance, I don't have to do any in my role, but it does require some, such as upgrading versions.

If you're looking for a solution like SentinelOne, and you're looking to get an eyes-on-glass approach for your endpoint devices and your vulnerability management program, this could be one of your top solutions. Overall, I'm happy with it and my team is very happy with it. Our scans are fully automated and that is never an issue for us. It offers a lot of capabilities, expansion, and growth. If your company is looking to grow, it's definitely all there for you. You get a really good report on your devices and your networks.