SentinelOne Singularity Complete Reviews

We use SentinelOne Singularity Complete as an endpoint detection and response solution to detect advanced threats in memory and protect our environment from ransomware attacks.

We are ingesting data from Singularity Complete into our team. The integration between Singularity Complete and Splunk works well, pushing all alerts from Singularity Complete to our soft tool. We have also looked at other SentinelOne products, but we only use a few of them.

We use Ranger to detect rogue sensors by scanning networks for endpoints that do not have SentinelOne installed. We do not use Ranger Pro.

Ranger is used to identify endpoints that do not have SentinelOne installed, ensuring 100 percent coverage. However, we also use a network access control tool to verify that endpoints have the necessary security telemetry and toolsets installed. The NAC tool can either orchestrate the installation of missing components, quarantine endpoints or simply notify us that components are missing.

The biggest benefit for us, other than mitigating the risks, is that Singularity Complete has raised the bar for red teaming, compared to the previous tool we were using. Some of the agent coverage in the previous toolset was becoming a limitation, but Singularity Complete gives us better coverage and visibility, both for red teaming and in general.

Over time, Singularity Complete has helped to reduce alerts. At the beginning of the implementation, we had to spend some time training the system, accepting events, and so on. However, over time, the number of alerts has been reduced.

Singularity Complete has helped our MTTD by providing broader visibility into our environment.

We collect a lot of telemetry from Singularity Complete. We then use this telemetry to search for malicious processes, which we would not have been able to see before. In other words, in addition to the standard setup that we expect, we are extracting additional telemetry from Singularity Complet to identify malicious processes and other types of threats running on endpoints.

Singularity Complete can be improved by allowing for better nesting of policies. Currently, when we create a policy and want to apply two different policies to an endpoint, we cannot do so. Instead, we must create two separate policies and place the endpoint in each policy, even if the only difference between the policies is slight. This makes the policy nesting process cumbersome and inefficient. Therefore, allowing for nested policies would be a valuable improvement to Singularity Complete.

The Endpoint Health telemetry could be improved. This is likely true of all tools, but I think it would be particularly useful for us to be able to see the sensor when it is running on an endpoint and starts to consume more memory, or if there is a memory leak. This would allow us to collect better telemetry on this topic.

I have been using SentinelOne Singularity Complete for one and a half years.

Singularity Complete is stable, but there are occasional instances where the sensor monitors a specific process that starts to malfunction, which is naturally possible. In these cases, we need to investigate and add an exception to prevent the sensor from monitoring the process so heavily, if it is a valid process so that it can return to normal operation. Therefore, there is a significant amount of tuning required. If the tuning is correct, Singularity Complete operates quite well and is certainly stable.

Singularity Complete is scalable. We have 2,500 endpoints. I know other organizations that have over 70,000 endpoints.

We have technical support that we can access, but I think it could be stronger. Currently, we deal with some local support, but their knowledge is limited. I would like to establish a closer relationship with SentinelOne International support, especially for the upgrade we are planning next year. I was in Tel Aviv in June and July and visited the SentinelOne offices to speak to them about this.

Neutral

Our previous solution, Cybereason was not very good at detecting things happening in memory, so we were looking to replace it with SentinelOne, CrowdStrike, or Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks. The replacement had to be able to see things happening in memory and deal with ransomware attacks. SentinelOne Singularity Complete was able to meet our requirements.

The initial deployment was slightly more complex than our previous tool because we needed to understand and implement the exceptions. These exceptions included both standard exceptions and our own custom exceptions related to how applications behave. However, the complexity is justified by the better coverage and protection that the new tool provides.

Three people from our company were involved in the deployment, which took about six months. This included removing the previous solution and replacing it with Singularity Complete.

The cost of Singularity Complete is similar to our previous solution but it comes with additional options such as Kubernetes integration. We make sure to benchmark the prices against other EDR solutions before renewal to ensure we are not overpaying.

I would rate SentinelOne Singularity Complete eight out of ten.

We started looking at the reception technology, but it was too much for us and required too many permissions. As a result, we did not proceed with it.

Ranger provides network and asset visibility, but we use other telemetry to build a data lake, which we then use to give us more holistic visibility.

Singularity Complete is definitely innovative. It offers better coverage of endpoints and sensors than our previous solution, as well as better coverage from red teams and other threats. It also provides us with much better telemetry from endpoints than our previous solution. This includes features that our previous EDR tool promised but did not deliver.

SentinelOne is a fairly mature product. I think we first looked at it about six or seven years ago when it first came out. It has definitely matured a lot since then. When we first saw SentinelOne, it had a lot of problems with automatically killing things without alerting us. However, we have definitely seen improvements in the solution from a product perspective. Additionally, there are now more modules and integrations available. We have looked at the reception part of it, as well as quite a few other pieces, including Rogue Sensor Pro. We have looked at a lot of little bits, so it has quite broad coverage in terms of what it actually will cover.

We have deployed Singularity Complete across the company and all lines of business, including our branches in South Africa and other parts of Africa. This includes approximately two and a half thousand endpoints.

Four people are managing Singularity Complete. Every six months we have to update the sensors. 

We have definitely told others about and shown them Singularity Complete, and we have told them that we are happy with it. When implementing Singularity Complete, we need to know what our expectations are and, obviously, test the solution thoroughly to prevent any negative outcomes.

We use it for our endpoints. It is installed on all of our servers and desktops. It is a replacement for the AV platforms that we used to have. 

Overall, the product monitors what is happening on your machines. It monitors incoming mail and web addresses that your browsers are trying to access. It looks for suspicious activity that may occur on your desktop or on your server and generates alerts based on the type of activity. It might find a malicious file that you downloaded. Like a virus scanner, it would scan something. It might find something that it suspects to be malicious. It will look at that item and go to its own threat intelligence sources to see if it is a known threat. If it is a known threat, it will either block it or do something to it based on how you have pre-configured it. If it suspects something to be a threat but does not have any reference, meaning that it is an unknown threat, then depending on what it detects or how that thing may behave, it would either alert you or suppress or isolate it. It can do a number of things. It depends on the inner workings of the product itself, but our use cases are to protect our endpoints. It is a replacement for our AV, but it is a whole level above what AV used to be. It is the evolution of AV.

We had three different AV platforms in our organization. There was no central way to manage them. We had no complete visibility. From one part of our organization, we had no visibility into another part of our organization. By putting this platform in, we now have one view of the entire organization. We can look at threats as they span our organization. Threats could potentially be moving around. We can detect if they are spreading to other parts. We could not do any of that before.

Singularity Complete has a much better detection engine. It detects a lot more than an AV can. AV is pretty much finished. There would not be AV anymore.

In terms of interoperability, we do not have any other SentinelOne solution. This was our first one. There is not a lot of interoperability between endpoints and everything else. The only interoperability that is useful for us right now is the log data that it provides to our SIEM. It allows us to do correlative analysis between different areas. If we have a threat that could be going from endpoints to internet devices, such as switches, or places where the EDR system is not installed, it becomes valuable when we are sharing data from the EDR and our other systems, and we have a tool that analyzes all that data to look for threats that may span in our entire environment. I do not see the interoperability being a problem with our other tools, and I am sure it would not be an issue amongst SentinelOne's own tools as well, but I do not have any data points on that yet.

Singularity Complete has helped big time to reduce our alerts. In fact, that was my concern with it. I was concerned that we are not seeing too many alerts anymore. I had a meeting with them recently, and I mentioned to them that I feel that we should be getting more alerts. They are going to take a look at our platform to make sure it is working fine, but it seems to be doing a great job of dealing with the alerts in an automated fashion. I became a little bit suspicious that it might be doing too good of a job, so we are just having them double-check. It is just me making sure all my I's are dotted, and my T's are crossed. As a security person, I do not like to have questions out there, but otherwise, it is doing a great job.

It has freed up our time. It takes a lot less time to investigate things. It takes care of a lot of things for us. It has offloaded 30% to 50% of some of the work that we had to do in the past. It allowed us to work and focus more on higher-priority items.

It has absolutely reduced the mean time to detect. It has probably reduced the time to detect by 75% because we just did not have some of these capabilities before.

Singularity Complete has also reduced our mean time to respond but not as much as the mean time to detect. It does a lot of resolution of issues for us. It has probably improved that by 30% to 50% because it does a lot of that automatically, but it frees up our time. We can resolve the stuff that needs our personal assistance a lot quicker because we have more tools and capabilities at our disposal through SentinelOne than we had before.

Singularity Complete has saved us costs big time. We have eliminated three different vendors and the associated maintenance of those platforms. We needed more people and resources to manage three different things, but now, we do everything with just a couple of folks. Our time savings are about 50%.

It has helped reduce our organizational risk because we can detect more things that are hitting us. I cannot give a number on that, but it has definitely reduced our risk exposure. From a pure security standpoint, our risk frame point used to be flagged as red. We were missing a lot of things, and now, it is green.

The single pane of glass is probably the most valuable. That is a big one. We could see everything from one view. 

The automatic detection and response is great. It takes care of a lot of alerts that it generates before they even cross our desks, which is great. 

It has advanced detection capabilities. It has the ability to go and look for known threats that are in the environment. Its ability to detect even unknown threats and any suspicious activity is great. We are very happy with it.

It is not so much on the Singularity platform itself, but they have their own built-in SIEM that is included with it. That needs to evolve a little bit. It is relatively basic in its capabilities. They have potential there for a great product and a needed product too. Having some kind of SIEM capability with the endpoint solution will save me from buying a bigger SIEM or buying another one. I could just use the one that comes with my endpoint solution.

From the looks of it, it does pretty much what we need, but it could do more. It would be nice if it had some newer features that other players have. They would have a good market advantage if they were offering SIEM as a part of it. They kind of do that, but it is not something they are promoting. We just stumbled on it, so you can use it for doing other things as well, not just endpoint incident and event collection.

We installed it in January, and we were doing a gradual ramp-up over three months. It has been up and running for about four months now. It is completely up and running.

We have not had any issues. The performance seems good. 

It seems very scalable. We have not run into any issues. We pushed it over about 2,000 endpoints. It performs the exact same way it has been.

I have not personally contacted them, but my team has contacted them. Especially during deployment, they were very helpful. They helped us to get it done. The feedback I got was positive.

We had three different AV platforms. We eliminated McAfee, Defender, and ESET. Singularity Complete does everything better than these because it has got capabilities that these products did not even have. The biggest thing for us is the single pane of glass, so we can see right down to the machine. It is great at machine isolation, and it has better detection and mitigation capabilities than any of these products. It does a lot of it behind the scenes. A lot of it is automated and does not require us to do anything.

It is a cloud solution with local installs at the endpoints, so everything is cloud.

I manage security for the organization. I was not doing the deployment, but I was a part of the deployment team, the meetings, and the decisions when we were going to do different things. I was not pushing the software to anybody's desktop but my team was.

It was not a difficult installation. Based on the feedback that we got, it was pretty straightforward. It went over relatively smoothly.

It does not require any maintenance. It is cloud-based, so we do not have to do much to it. The endpoints will update themselves periodically, so there is not much for us from a maintenance standpoint. It does not have a lot for us to do.

We acquired our SentinelOne implementation through a reseller. We used the reseller's help, but we did almost 90% of it ourselves. They helped us manage the project piece and provided expertise and guidance. Between SentinelOne and the vendor itself, we got it done, but we did 90% of the heavy lifting.

There were probably four or five people between all of our locations, but most of it was done remotely. There was no need to touch individual desktops. We were able to push most of it out.

SentinelOne was half the price of CrowdStrike.

We looked at all the big ones, such as CrowdStrike. That is the first one that comes to mind. We even looked at Microsoft Defender and Sentinel. We looked at a few other solutions out there. We had an IBM demo there, but I do not remember what theirs was called. Bitdefender was another one that we looked at.

We went to Singularity Complete for the feature set. They did not have a robust feature set the way CrowdStrike does, but they had everything that we needed. CrowdStrike had even more advanced features, but SentinelOne's pricing was half of what CrowdStrike sells for. It was a pretty easy decision for us to go with SentinelOne. They were much better than the other players that we looked at. It came down to between SentinelOne and CrowdStrike, and the pricing made all the difference. They also seemed pretty easy to deal with, whereas with CrowdStrike, it felt like they were doing us a favor. When we talked to them, I just did not get a great sense of them, but price was one of the main things. CrowdStrike's price was double of SentinelOne's price.

I would advise a couple of things. If you are using a reseller to buy this and install it for you, have a good reseller that you can call upon for support and help manage the project. The other thing that I would probably suggest is to negotiate your education up front and not after the fact. It does not come with a lot of training. They even charge for the online university, so you should probably negotiate that as a part of the negotiation process before you sign a deal. Other than that, it is good.

I would rate Singularity Complete a nine out of ten. For my use case, it is definitely a nine.

It is our primary software platform for endpoint detection and response and vulnerabilities.

Our overall fleet posture and our security have increased a lot. It is much easier to get the agents out onto machines no matter what their operating system is, and it gives equitable reports back no matter what our platform is.

So far, it is one of the most interoperable applications and platforms that I have seen. There is the ease of bringing things in with the marketplace and the willingness of the company itself to work with you to help you address anything that they do not currently have.

Singularity Complete has helped free up our staff for other projects and tasks. Being new in the department for a year and a half, I am not the one to say how much time it has saved, but it has made my life easier by several hours a week. It gives me a straight line and a story for what I am looking for, so I can quickly identify whether something is to be expected and just a false positive or if it is actually a problem. Usually, when it is a problem, SentinelOne would have already mitigated it.

Singularity Complete has absolutely helped reduce alerts. It has drastically reduced alerts across the board. There is a 40% to 60% reduction. This reduction is because it is tunable. It is very tunable, and you can tweak it to meet your needs where you are not just stuck with what a manufacturer or a software developer said in terms of the alerting that you are going to get.

Singularity Complete has definitely helped reduce our organizational risk. Our risk score has gone down by 15% to 20%. We have better coverage and better insight into what is being covered.

Singularity Complete has probably saved us costs. I do not have enough insight into those budget numbers, but they keep adding things to it, so my guess is that it has saved us costs.

SentinelOne is one of our most important partners. The help that we get from their engineers, success team, and support really and truly has been unparalleled.

I am going to be a little biased because I am a Mac guy. I have been a Mac guy for twenty years, and the feature parity and the capabilities of a Macintosh agent are unparalleled in the industry. It is the first anti-malware and antivirus that does not make you feel that you bought the wrong processor. It is really good and lightweight. 

It seems like they are doing a lot with their automatic updates. They can maybe slow down the actual release cycle to make it easier to deploy the most recent and then do it using the live update. They can continue to work on that because trying to get agent changes through change management platforms and get approvals and testing can be quite difficult.

I have been using Singularity Complete for three years.

I am blown away by their support. Every time I reach out to my customer service manager, they are returning questions after hours. You do not see that from a lot of companies. I would rate their support a 10 out of 10.

Positive

We were not officially using a similar solution. We had other products that we were using, but we did not have a full solution like SentinelOne. We were using multiple things. One of them was McAfee. We switched because they got bought by Trellix, and nobody knew what was going to happen with them. That was our most recent one and what I am most experienced with.

I was involved in its initial deployment. I packaged the Jamf mobile device management installation package for our Macs. As far as security products go, it was the easiest one. The instructions were great. They were aligned with the vendor, which is something not common. Usually, it is like, "Here is what you have to do with your vendor." SentinelOne took that extra step, and it deployed right out of the box.

We have on-premises, public cloud, and private cloud deployment. Our cloud provider is primarily AWS, but we also have a little bit with Google and Mandiant, so we have a hybrid cloud. We are in the middle of a migration. The cloud is fairly new for us, and securing it has been a priority.

We have our deployment segregated on endpoint types, but our entire organization has it.

We did it directly on our own. We rolled it out very quickly. We had been dealing with McAfee before it, so this was like a breath of fresh air.

We had two or three people working on it, so it went out very smoothly.

I believe we have seen an ROI. If nothing else, the investment that they are making, as analysts, engineers, and architects, we feel that we can get more done in SentinelOne and have a better stance overall for our organization. 

They evaluated a lot, but that was before I was in the department, so I do not know exactly which ones they did.

I would advise listening to your sales engineers and letting them give you ideas because SentinelOne can do things that you have no idea about.

For next-generation platforms, it is at the top of what is a small stack right now, and that puts them ahead of a lot of other people.

I would rate it a 10 out of 10. It has been fantastic for us.

We use the solution for endpoint protection. Our clients are fintech companies, banks, and other organizations. The tool helps to pick up malicious files in the endpoint and protects the endpoint.

The Ranger feature is valuable. It helps us manage variable assets in our environment. The endpoints and nodes have SentinelOne engines on them.

The product must provide the ability to update applications from the SentinelOne Management Console. Using SentinelOne Management Console to patch applications will be quite useful.

I have been using the solution for 3 years.

I rate the solution's stability 7 out of 10. I've only had issues with the agents once. I reported it through the management console.

We use the solution in endpoints in different departments across the organization. The tool does not require maintenance. We can auto-update it from SentinelOne Management Console. We can push the auto-update agent from the console. I rate the solution's scalability 9 out of 10.

The support personnel always want to share links instead of joining sessions. Getting them on sessions that would probably help resolve the situation is quite hard. They don't always want to do it. That's the only issue I have with them. When we raise a support case, they get back to us and point us to a link to a community guide or solution. They don't respond quickly if the problem requires us to join a virtual session.

Neutral

The initial setup is not complex. The deployment takes about 30 minutes. It is quite fast.

Our customers have seen an ROI on the product. It takes them 4 months to see ROI.

The tool's price is reasonable.

We are partners and resellers. Singularity Complete’s interoperability with other SentinelOne solutions is fine. I've been able to push logs into our SIEM solution. We used our API. It was quite easy to do. The API token expires, so we have to regenerate and integrate it.

The solution’s ability to ingest and correlate across security solutions is quite fast. I don't have any issues with it. The Ranger functionality provides network and asset visibility. It's quite important. We can identify when endpoints that are not permitted or allowed on the network are active. It helps us isolate or deploy an agent on the endpoints. It's quite useful.

Ranger requires no new agents, hardware, or network changes. It is used for existing agents or endpoints. We can also identify neighboring endpoints that do not have agents. It's easy because we do not have to do any additional configurations. It leverages the current agents that we have deployed across endpoints. It's a good feature. We need not deploy another agent to work for Ranger.

A computer that doesn't have an agent is vulnerable to exploits. When Ranger helps to find the computer and network, it helps to prevent vulnerable devices from becoming compromised. We can identify and isolate the computer and deploy the agent on it. Singularity Complete does not reduce alerts.

The solution saves deployment time. We can push agents from the management console to the endpoint. It will save us time from physically going to the endpoint and installing the agent ourselves. The product reduces MTTD by 20%. The product reduces MTTR by 20%.

If an endpoint gets compromised, we will have to spend money. The tool generally helps us stay safe and protects computers. Thus, the solution reduces costs in the long run. Unprotected endpoints are risky endpoints. Singularity Complete has helped reduce our organizational risk.

Singularity Complete is quite a good tool. I'm quite confident in its ability to detect threats. It is good to have SentinelOne as a strategic security partner. People planning to use the tool must go for it. It's a good solution. It does what it claims.

Overall, I rate the product 8 out of 10.

We initially implemented SentinelOne Singularity Complete to streamline application installation and patching across our extensive network of over a thousand systems. Managing individual systems has become increasingly challenging. While the platform provided initial visibility during the first attack, its usefulness in further investigation proved limited.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete boasts good interoperability.

It has helped consolidate some of our security solutions.

While the number of security alerts we receive has been successfully reduced, it has occasionally missed some threats. To address this, we have implemented Microsoft Defender alongside SentinelOne for additional protection. This layered approach has identified several malware incidents that SentinelOne, due to its limitations at the kernel level, did not detect.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete has to an extent helped free up our staff time to focus on other tasks. In conjunction with Defender and Automox 60 to 70% of time has been saved.

Our mean time to detect has been successfully reduced by 70%.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete has reduced our mean time to respond to threats it detects by providing informative feedback from malware reviews.

Our costs have been reduced because we use it daily.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete has reduced our organization's risk by 80%.

The most valuable features are asset tracking, patching, endpoint tagging, and policy updates.

While SentinelOne Singularity Complete effectively visualizes security data across our solutions, requiring extensive manual effort for analysis limits its effectiveness. I would therefore rate it a seven out of ten.

The pricing has room for improvement.

I have been using SentinelOne Singularity Complete for two years.

I would rate the stability of Singularity Complete eight out of ten.

I would rate the scalability of Singularity Complete a seven out of ten because of the integrations they have with third-party groups.

The technical support is quick to respond.

Positive

We previously used Automox only for device management, not as a complete EDR.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete's price point is excessive compared to the functionality it provides.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete's longevity in the market may have created an inflated perception of its capabilities. While it was once considered a leading tool, comparisons with newer solutions like Automox, Cynet, and Fortinet reveal a lack of active use cases and functionalities offered by these competitors.

I would rate SentinelOne Singularity Complete eight out of ten.

I haven't observed significant innovation from SentinelOne Singularity Complete lately. Other than obtaining the database, I haven't noticed any new features or third-party integrations being introduced. This leads me to believe that there may not be a high level of ongoing innovation at the moment.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete is deployed across thousands of instances and endpoints in different countries across multiple offices in Europe.

The only maintenance required is for updates to the endpoints.

While SentinelOne offers valuable security protection, it may not be sufficient as a standalone solution. Relying solely on Singularity Complete for a week-long absence might leave our system vulnerable to threats that other Endpoint Detection and Response solutions could identify.

We use SentinelOne Singularity Complete to detect and respond to "unknown unknowns," which are threats that haven't been previously identified. Our process involves monitoring for any unusual activity or deviations from typical program behavior. This includes analyzing parent and child processes to ensure they're loading correctly and not communicating with unauthorized external servers for remote execution.

For example, I encountered a phishing email that triggered an investigation. Fortunately, Singularity Complete offers an event log feature that allows me to analyze the incident. The tool's built-in Advanced Detection Analytics functionality helped me identify the downloaded file, and its access time, and track its interactions with applications, including attempted installations. Furthermore, Singularity Complete boasts a rollback capability, enabling me to revert to a safe state before the malicious activity occurred. I've utilized this feature successfully for several clients.

In addition to Singularity Complete's event log and rollback functions, it excels in antivirus detection. It effectively identified even sophisticated threats like the MimiKatz attack, which attempts to escalate user privileges in Linux and Windows systems. The tool's signature-based detection proved valuable in this instance.

Automating threat resolution has significantly improved our security operations. On average, I scan around forty million files, and the detection rate has been quite good.

The integration capabilities significantly enhance my existing security environment. It is a night and day difference compared to CylanceOPTICS by BlackBerry, which I used previously. While CylanceOPTICS was good, it relied on an algorithmic approach that flagged millions of potential threats, resulting in some false positives that needed manual analysis and training. SentinelOne, on the other hand, leverages eleven different engines simultaneously, including AI, machine learning, heuristics, and dynamic and static scans. This comprehensive approach offers robust protection, and if something falls through the cracks, it can consult a cloud database for the latest threat intelligence. Beyond its detection capabilities, SentinelOne offers exceptional visibility and control. I can easily investigate events at any time, like tracking who accessed Yahoo Finance within my organization across specific timeframes. The global tenancy feature empowers me to apply scans and threat signatures across different segments or even my entire network, ensuring consistent protection. The more I explore SentinelOne's features, the more impressed I am. It's incredibly powerful and versatile, offering a level of security and control that far surpasses my previous solution.

The interface is user-friendly, but there's a learning curve due to its extensive capabilities. Navigating for someone unfamiliar with threat hunting can be challenging as they may need to explore every option. However, some features have tooltips explaining their function when hovered over.

Accessing the knowledge base often requires a partnership with the company. While I lack this access, my distributor provided the comprehensive admin guide.

Ranger is an excellent feature for threat scanning. While alternative pen testing tools like Digital Defense exist, Ranger offers a unique advantage. It utilizes SentinelOne agents as probes within the network, allowing scans for irregular connections and identifying devices without the agent. This provides a comprehensive view of potential vulnerabilities. Imagine we decide to deny access to certain devices. In that case, every agent with those policies implemented, throughout our network, would individually isolate their traffic. This isolation prevents communication with the rogue devices. Consequently, even if one of those devices harbors a threat, it's unable to move laterally within the network. All other devices, recognizing it as unauthorized, will refuse to communicate with it.

Ranger requires no additional agents, hardware, or network modifications. It's essentially a built-in feature of the existing agent. Therefore, if we have the module, we already possess the capability. Activation can be done remotely through the cloud. So, when we decide to upgrade to Singularity Complete, they'll offer us the option of adding Ranger Plus. If we agree, a small additional fee, typically around a few dollars, will be applied per client. While it might seem a bit pricey, considering the value it provides, I believe it's worth the investment. It translates to roughly five dollars per client. For instance, with 50 machines, the monthly cost would be $250. In my experience, it hasn't significantly increased my expenses. There might be a slight increase, but I haven't noticed any substantial impact.

SentinelOne Ranger effectively prevents vulnerable devices from being compromised by isolating their network traffic. This feature is just one of many within the SentinelOne platform, which includes a built-in router and firewall integrated directly into the agent. This integration allows for seamless compatibility with Windows firewalls and offers granular control over network traffic. For example, Ranger enables modification of the firewall's IP stack, granting the ability to isolate specific traffic based on defined rules. This can be particularly useful for segregating vulnerable devices and preventing their communication. While not recommended for general use, advanced users can leverage SentinelOne's Singularly Complete feature on, for example, a VMware server to further isolate vulnerable devices. By running the client software on a separate network from the server, administrators can block unauthorized traffic based on Ranger's or the agent's identification. This effectively isolates the vulnerable device, even if it's compromised since it lacks any incoming network traffic. The server acts as a default gateway, filtering and controlling all incoming traffic.

Singularity Complete can help reduce alerts when a threat is identified and a solution is implemented. However, if a threat is known but no solution is available, using Singularity Complete might increase alerts. This is because suppressing alerts for a known threat without addressing it can create a false sense of security. While Singularity Complete allows manual blacklisting of threats, it cannot import large lists of threats from spreadsheets in one go, a feature available in CylanceOPTICS. This can be time-consuming for dealing with many threats. Overall, Singularity Complete has improved in its alert management, but it remains average compared to competitors. While detection is excellent, the alerting system still requires some refinement.

As a threat detector, I perform threat analysis to quickly identify threats. This has significantly reduced the time I spend on analysis, allowing Singularity Complete to free up about 30 percent of my time for other tasks.

Singularity Complete has achieved a 15 percent reduction in our mean time to detection. This efficiency gain is powered by eleven different detection engines running concurrently, ensuring comprehensive identification of potential threats.

Singularity Complete can reduce our mean time to respond by providing a clear path to the root cause of an attack. However, it doesn't always do this, and sometimes further investigation is necessary. Nevertheless, the tool significantly speeds up the process of identifying the root cause. For example, imagine the timeline indicates a suspicious file was executed. We can use Singularity Complete to find out when it last ran in our environment, even if it wasn't detected on the same day. If the threat appeared recently but the file ran a month ago, it suggests a potential Trojan was planted. This prompts further investigation into how the file arrived on the system. It could have been introduced through a USB drive, email attachment, copied file, or existing on a network share. While Singularity Complete won't explicitly state the location like "Share five," it will provide a hash that can often lead us to the network path.

Singularity Complete helps manage costs by eliminating the need for additional products with overlapping functionality. This saves us thousands of dollars per month on full scans, as our existing agent already possesses that capability. By deploying it across all organizational agents and enabling Ranger, we can conduct daily scans that provide comprehensive insights into our network activity.

Singularity Complete has helped reduce our organizational risk. However, it's important to remember that no system is foolproof. While I haven't experienced a security breach since installing it, I deliberately expose some machines to potential threats to test and observe new attack techniques. To strengthen our security posture, I've implemented additional measures. Some machines have less aggressive scan and detection settings to simulate vulnerabilities and observe attacker behavior. Additionally, our network is layered, with weaker points that serve as honeypots, while critical systems are protected by stricter security protocols. Beyond Singularity Complete, we utilize Palo Alto Networks and FortiGate firewalls for further protection. Ultimately, the decision to invest in additional scanning capabilities depends on the cost and our overall security strategy.

The most valuable feature is the ability to drill down into individual sequences of processes. This allows for building a highly detailed timeline of events, which is incredibly helpful. Additionally, the quality of the intelligence provided is excellent, making it difficult to choose between the two. The solution effectively reveals the attacker's tactics, including the mechanism or injection method used, how they exploit vulnerabilities and their use of decoys or misdirection tactics like dequay attacks. They may target one area initially, then shift focus to another, potentially planting seeds for future attacks. Overall, the timeline, intelligence, and overall capabilities of SentinelOne Singularity Complete are highly impressive.

Everything operates in real-time, allowing us to conduct in-depth analysis to uncover previously unknown threats. This capability stems from the use of dynamic libraries, which enable flexible code execution. The key concept here is the ability to pivot within an application. We can dissect and analyze this pivoting behavior, which is a rare feature among software solutions. Additionally, the system allows us to create our custom signatures. By identifying a threat and performing a global search, we can locate other instances of the same threat across our network and establish correlation points. Subsequently, we can create a signature based on a unique identifier (story ID) and integrate it into the initial login scan. This enables us to proactively detect and respond to any attacks that utilize that specific signature, making it a powerful tool for threat prevention.

The uninstallation process for the SentinelOne agent could be improved. While it is currently possible to uninstall through the console, it can be more complex if registry modifications are required. Streamlining this process, especially for users with console access, would be a valuable improvement.

I encountered issues running Singularity Complete alongside other machine-learning tools. The program uses hooks, which we configure through a whitelist to specify allowed functionalities for each app. However, I've observed compatibility problems with certain applications. This seems to stem from my limited access to information from those companies, hindering the creation of effective hooks.

For example, an external scanner's EXE file might not provide hooks for features like memory protection or script locking, potentially conflicting with SentinelOne's capabilities. In my experience, Singularity Complete doesn't always play well with others. While it coexists with Kaspersky's detection without issue, enterprise AI solutions employing algorithmic scans or pre/post-execution analysis can pose problems. We might need to modify the whitelist due to unavailable information about the application's memory range. Sharing this information could create vulnerabilities, so companies understandably keep it confidential. While I believe CylanceOPTICS could likely work with Singularity Complete, I haven't achieved it because I prioritize optimal protection. Disabling all CylanceOPTICS features and putting it in uninstall mode allows it to function but without intervention. In such cases, CylanceOPTICS detects threats first, possibly due to its higher application number in Windows. Similar behavior has been observed with other products.

Deep Instinct is another excellent detection software I use for remote devices. Expanding Singularity Complete's coverage to include IoT devices, Linux, servers, Docker, and mobile platforms (currently limited to Deep Instinct on my devices) would be highly beneficial. While Deep Instinct allows uploading and installation via email code, Singularity Complete currently lacks this functionality.

I have been using SentinelOne Singularity Complete for over five years.

I've only had one interaction with their tech support, but it was excellent. In situations where we're struggling with an investigation, I believe they have a guardian contract that could allow them to analyze our findings. Alternatively, if we're having difficulty detecting something, they can guide us through the process. However, my access to their tech department was limited to a single instance when I needed it. The impressive part is that they were willing to help me even though I was from a partner company. Such helpfulness is rare in many organizations, which often require expensive fees before offering similar assistance.

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Previously, we used CylanceOPTICS by BlackBerry but transitioned to SentinelOne Singularity Complete due to its enhanced user-friendliness. The latter platform boasts comprehensive investigation capabilities, allowing us to delve deeper into the specifics of security incidents. We can examine parent-child relationships, delve into registry entries, and analyze memory ranges with ease. The feature set is truly extensive.

While CylanceOPTICS offered some of these functionalities, it could not identify pivoting areas within an attack. If I needed to investigate the pivot itself, CylanceOPTICS wouldn't suffice. SentinelOne proves invaluable in such situations. By examining registry entries or monitoring running processes, it helps us pinpoint the root cause, be it a Run DLL or a Windows EXE file disguised as innocuous activity. While CylanceOPTICS might catch the attack, it wouldn't reveal the underlying malicious intent. SentinelOne grants us this crucial level of insight, empowering us to respond effectively.

I rate SentinelOne Singularity Complete a nine out of ten. While the product itself is impressive, the price point is on the higher side. The only drawback is the limited support access. If they offered more affordable support options or provided unrestricted access to their knowledge base, I would easily give it a ten. Unfortunately, they haven't implemented this yet, as it would unlock more resources and expertise for users. Ultimately, it is what it is, but hopefully, they'll consider these improvements in the future. 

In my environment, I support a law firm and a music company while pursuing my research. Additionally, I use Intel hardware for testing purposes. My security strategy prioritizes avoiding complete system reimaging whenever possible. While I have encountered compatibility issues with specific SentinelOne versions and certain software, these were primarily during testing when I intentionally introduced malicious files. In general, the software has proven effective in preventing and mitigating threats.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete has been excellent in its ability to be innovative.

While SentinelOne Singularity Complete is well-established software, the developers continuously strive to improve it. After all, no software ever truly reaches complete maturity. To remain effective, we must constantly adapt, improve, and refine ourselves in response to evolving threats and technologies.

I'd love to partner with SentinelOne right now, but as a small business, cost is a major concern. That's why I'm working with a distributor. They purchase larger license blocks, like five thousand or ten thousand, and because I was one of their early customers, they granted me access. While I have a partnership with them, it's not a formal one. To my knowledge, they require organizations to have at least one hundred or two hundred seats to be considered for a true partnership. I'm unsure if a program exists for smaller businesses, but based on what I've seen, access to their knowledge base, support team, etc., seems to be restricted to contracts with a minimum seat capacity of one hundred or two hundred.

The solution provides endpoint protection for all our desktops, laptops, and servers. We also use it for some of the firewalls on the endpoints. We are also doing asset discovery for devices.

Tracking down which devices don't currently have SentinelOne on them is the most valuable feature of the product. So, we can push SentinelOne onto those devices.

Recently, the vendor took away my ability to create a ticket, mostly because we're in an MSSP environment. It has created a lot of extra hoops to jump through. I recently had a single sign-on issue on the console. I had to go through my MSSP. It took a month and a half to two months to get any resolution on it because my MSSP can't test our single sign-on. They don't have an account in that system. It has been very detrimental to effectively solving issues. I understand that the vendor does not want the clients of the clients submitting tickets. However, when I'm the one who's doing the majority of the work inside of SentinelOne, removing that from my ability has been very inconvenient.

The filtering features of the application management console could be improved. If I search for applications that shouldn't be installed on our endpoints, filtering is not the most straightforward process. Running through the search process takes a lot of time and effort. It would be hugely beneficial if the tool blacklists the applications that are not allowed to be installed. It would help with the management of unapproved applications or malicious applications that might be installed.

The automated agent upgrade system could use a little bit more fine-tuning. The maintenance windows must be a little bit more robust. I have to manually set what agent we're pushing each time we want to change instead of asking the tool to do N-1 for agent upgrades. It's automatic, but it's not quite automatic.

I have been using the solution for two years.

We've had fewer issues with stability recently, mostly because they made some changes to the actual agents. Shadow copies were filling up the drives and causing some crashes. However, the more recent agents have been much more stable, which has been wonderful.

The tool is very scalable. If we use all of our agents, it's very easy to ask the vendor to add more agents to our license. They get that taken care of, which is really nice. It's been very easy to change and modify groups as we need to.

Exclusions have been very straightforward. I would love to see the exclusions to look at the machines in a group and inform us when we have exclusions that are not found in the directories on the machines. It will help with the removal of redundant or unused exclusions. It will remove some of that risk.

I don't have access to create tickets. The vendor removed the ability. I need to talk with our MSSP for support. They sometimes send us support articles that we already have access to. It takes an extra three to four days to get things resolved. In the most recent case, it was a month and a half.

We used Symantec Endpoint Protection before. We switched to SentinelOne Singularity Complete because Symantec Endpoint Protection was very old and was not being updated by Broadcom anymore. It was not as effective in terms of reporting. It was very clunky. So we were looking for something new and a little bit easier to work with than what we had at the time.

The initial deployment was pretty straightforward from my perspective. We were able to take the package and deploy it, which made it really easy to get it on all of our endpoints. About ten people were involved in the deployment.

Our MSSP helped us do the deployment. We used the asset management tool Ivanti to push out the agents.

The pricing is packaged in with our MSSP. The cost of endpoint protection is fairly reasonable. Some of the other systems are a little expensive, but there's still value behind them. It's pretty close to what I would expect.

We haven't stepped into other integrations quite yet. We're looking to explore it next year. We're trying to rebuild our security stack. The endpoint protection was one big step. We're planning on expanding a little bit more. I love that it is pretty straightforward to connect between different systems. It makes my life a little easier.

The solution’s ability to ingest and correlate across our security solutions is nice. We haven't done much of that with our systems yet, but having one source of truth to look at all those different pieces is hugely beneficial because we have a very small team. Anything that allows us to connect all the dots and pieces makes our lives really easy.

We're rebuilding our security stack from scratch. We do not have to get many other solutions because much information is built into Singularity Complete. We did a POC of the Ranger functionality for a little bit of time. Ranger's network and asset visibility are about the same as in Rogues.

The automation would be great if I didn't have to create a couple of extra security holes by opening up ports on our devices. So we've gone back to using just Rogues rather than Ranger because there isn't a lot of added value for that extra piece. I can take the whole list, export it, and take it to one of our other solutions and have the agent pushed from there.

It is nice that Ranger requires no new agents, hardware, or network changes for most of the part. If we're going to automate the installation process from another Ranger agent, it will require opening up some extra security holes. I don't love that part. I love that it discovers assets that don't have SentinelOne but could potentially have SentinelOne. It has been beneficial to us.

We like Ranger because it helps find the missing pieces. We must ensure that we're not going over on our licenses, but it helps us discover the devices in our network and how we can better protect the environment. It also gives us an inventory of devices. If they are vendor devices, we can go to our vendors and ask them why the devices have old software versions.

The product has done a much better job of giving us high-fidelity information. The system that we had before was old and antiquated and did not work well. We are getting better-quality alerts. The solution has helped free up our staff for other projects and tasks. All the information is in one place, and a lot of the system has been automated for us. The tool resolves threats almost instantaneously for us. It's hugely beneficial for a very small team.

The product has helped reduce our mean time to detect. It is a lot better at discovering threats and mitigating them quickly than our previous solution. However, I wouldn't say that it's perfect. The solution has helped reduce our organization’s mean time to respond. We have a managed security service provider that's doing a lot of the research for us, but it's been very helpful for us to have the information.

The tool has helped us with a couple of audits that we've had. It has also helped us with some of our cyber insurance because we're able to give much better reporting compared to our previous solution. The reporting is available on the fly rather than us trying to go through multiple systems to try and get some information from it.

The product is easy to use. It is very easy to navigate around. The vendor has added features that we've wanted. It has made our lives quite a bit easier. People who want to buy the product must evaluate their exclusions ahead of time and understand what level of exclusion they need for each system. We spent the most time reevaluating exclusions for each server system.

It was not too big of a deal for our desktops and laptops. However, for some of those bigger systems, especially with us being a healthcare organization, ensuring we weren't impacting the end-user experience was central. For example, we have EMR, which is electronic medical records. If we impact that, it affects patient care, which in turn can be not great.

It was a very big jump for our process to go from monitor-only mode to full-protect mode. We allowed things to just sit there for a very long time and understand the changes in our environment.

Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

We use SentinelOne Singularity Complete as an antivirus product. We also use SentinelOne's product called Vigilance, which monitors and takes action on active threats in the environment. So, basically, if someone clicks a file, Vigilance recognizes it and takes action for us, providing recommendations and remediation steps. This is a huge value add, and it's in addition to Singularity Complete's ability to monitor threats on devices from the cloud and offer remediation steps.

Our previous antivirus solution was not providing adequate protection. Threats are evolving and mutating rapidly, making it difficult for older antivirus solutions to keep up.

We have not experienced any interoperability issues. Initially, SentinelOne flagged some older software that was trying to run, but we could allow an exception to continue using the software. SentinelOne would still scan the software's location, but it would not block the processes from running. This flexibility is very useful.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete gives us peace of mind when it comes to day-to-day threats, knowing that nothing will get past them and they are always vigilant in detecting and responding to active threats on the network. It helps us sleep better at night.

It does not produce many alerts, but it has reduced the number of threats we have. Alerts are good, but only if they are not too frequent. When there is an active threat, the alert is clear about what is happening, who is affected, and the name of the machine. The alerts are also concise.

It allows our staff to focus on other more important items.

SentinelOne has helped reduce our MTTD and our MTTR because we pay for Vigilance.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete reduces our risk of major attacks, lowering costs.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete has reduced our organizational risk.

The fact that SentinelOne is actively looking for threats and runs them against the hash on the Internet to determine if they are malicious or not, is what takes it to the next level compared to other antivirus products. SentinelOne is more than just an antivirus software, it provides insights into threats and shows the flow of attacks. It also allows us to set policies in the cloud so that any other system that is affected by the same bug or virus will be automatically killed, removed, and rolled back. Cloud automation is truly amazing.

I would like to see a privilege access management feature added to SentinelOne Singularity Complete. This would allow us to generate alerts when users try to run applications as administrators to approve or deny these requests and create policies within SentinelOne. I think this would be a great addition to the suite, as it would eliminate the need to purchase a PAM solution from another vendor. It would also give us greater visibility into user activity, as the SentinelOne portal is already very good.

SentinelOne needs to improve its endpoint deployment process. To illustrate, compared to ConnectWise, a remote management software that also has some security features. In ConnectWise, we can generate an installation package based on a group and deploy the software to all endpoints in that group without the need for a script.

I have been using SentinelOne Singularity Complete for three years.

I would rate the stability of Singularity Complete ten out of ten.

I would rate the scalability of Singularity Complete ten out of ten.

We pay for Vigilance, which is a 24/7 instant response team. However, if we did not pay for Vigilance and I had a question for technical support, they would usually respond within a few hours or the next business day, depending on the issue. I feel that they ask too many irrelevant questions when we are generating a ticket, but I understand why they do it.

Positive

We were using Carbon Black before, but SentinelOne Singularity Complete is much easier to use. The portal is more intuitive, the email alerts are more intuitive, and everything about it is easier on the eyes. It has a simpler view. Their cost was comparable to Carbon Black, but the solution was much better.

The initial deployment was moderate. It would be much better if SentinelOne had a better way to induct the site token into the installation process, rather than requiring users to create a script.

The deployment took a couple of weeks to complete and required two people. We captured 80 percent of the endpoints within the first day, and then it took a couple of weeks to catch the more subtle ones.

Nothing good is cheap, and SentinelOne is no exception. However, as a market leader with a great product, they don't have to be so timid with their pricing. I would like to see lower prices, but I understand why they charge what they do. It is what it is when it comes to SentinelOne Singularity Complete.

I would rate SentinelOne Singularity Complete nine out of ten.

I would focus more on how the product is delivered and maintained. Maintenance of any type of antivirus product is always an important question when it comes to how to maintain this product and how to use it without dedicating a lot of resources to it. SentinelOne has just introduced an automatic upgrade feature for their client agent that allows us to set a policy to always keep our agents on the general mobility version. This will automatically upgrade our agents for us, saving IT a lot of time. Before, we had to manually upgrade our agents from the cloud, but now this process is fully automated. This is a huge value-added feature, and the agent is not very disruptive.

We have SentinelOne Singularity Complete deployed on our Windows servers across the country. Around 15 people are using the solution.

We must constantly monitor the portal to review items that Singularity Complete has blocked. Occasionally, we must decide whether to allow or deny access. We must definitely stay engaged with the portal, as it is not a fully hands-off solution. This is appropriate, as some interaction is necessary. However, the level of interaction required does not bother me.

If I were to recommend SentinelOne Singularity Complete to anyone else, I would definitely help them understand these types of products. People who are looking at cloud antivirus are usually coming from on-prem antivirus, so they may be shocked by the price. I would help them understand that yes, cloud antivirus products cost more than normal antivirus, but they offer peace of mind. Once they understand this, they can start to appreciate the value of the product.