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.