What is our primary use case?
My usual use cases for SentinelOne Singularity Complete revolve around EDR and XDR, focusing on protecting end machines, including servers, particularly for users with critical applications running on endpoints. It is crucial for them to know how to protect those systems. If at any point phishing or an attack happens, I can provide data protection and restoration to my customers. Those are the primary use cases.
The feature I find most valuable in this solution is its rollback feature.
What is most valuable?
The rollback feature is incredibly valuable because if my organization gets hacked, I can restore complete data from up to half an hour back by clicking a one-click rollback option available in SentinelOne Singularity Complete.
SentinelOne Singularity Complete's ability to ingest and correlate across my security solutions is significant. It correlates with all other services, for instance with Netskope or Forcepoint. It also correlates with Proofpoint and many other endpoint machines like CyberArk, which is PIM/PAM, along with Netskope, Forcepoint, and Proofpoint, which involve DLP.
SentinelOne Singularity Complete helps me consolidate my security solutions overall, though the consolidation only happens at the endpoint level, not at all levels.
My impression of the Ranger functionality in SentinelOne is that it is a good product that is helpful for my AD environment. It effectively protects my AD machines in that environment.
In my experience, SentinelOne Singularity Complete helps reduce alerts significantly. If any machine comes up, I will receive a notification. So in a day, I might get a thousand emails or alerts. What Singularity does is filter those alerts and provide me with the top 10 or top 15 threats to understand and mitigate the risk. That is a lot of help from Singularity. The reduction in alerts has been around 60 to 70%.
What needs improvement?
SentinelOne is definitely improving, with a lot of new versions coming out and patches happening on a regular basis. They are acquiring a lot of AI companies and conducting R&D backend work, which is ongoing. By the end of this year, I believe a fully-fledged product will be available. One area needing enhancement is on the commercial front, especially considering the major competition with CrowdStrike. Hence, we must address some challenges, at least for the Indian market.
For how long have I used the solution?
My experience with SentinelOne Singularity Complete spans four years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I can rate how stable and reliable SentinelOne Singularity Complete is as a 9.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I can rate the scalability of SentinelOne Singularity Complete as a 10. Whether it is 50, 5,000, or 5 lakh endpoints, it remains scalable.
How are customer service and support?
I do not often communicate directly with the technical support of SentinelOne, but my technical team does.
I would rate SentinelOne's technical support as an 8. Sometimes I get a response from them, but at times they may not have answers and defer to the engineering team, which can prolong the resolution time beyond expectations for customer satisfaction. Overall, it takes a couple of days longer than desired, but the rest of the service is good.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Before my experience with SentinelOne Singularity Complete, we worked with different technologies such as Trellix and Trend Micro.
How was the initial setup?
I usually participate in the initial setup and deployment of SentinelOne Singularity Complete.
I can describe the initial setup process, but I am not deeply involved in the technical details because my technical team takes care of that. I am mainly focused on the business side.
From my perspective, the initial setup is straightforward. During a demo POC, they showcase the complete process, and the presentation along with the dashboard walkthrough helps the customer partner understand everything. It is not that complex.
What was our ROI?
SentinelOne Singularity Complete has positively impacted my company by being hassle-free. It provides good ROI, which stands for return on investment. It gives the best security, ensuring that if anything happens, I can utilize the rollback feature. Moreover, it offers a lot of integration scope with other solutions. The agent is so lightweight that it does not cause any system slowness when in use, making everything good.
The ROI I have experienced is straightforward. If I want to buy it for one year or three years, safeguarding it for three or five years down the line means my investment reduces. That is nothing but the ROI. Additionally, if I engage five engineers for this project and implement SentinelOne, then only one resource is needed to manage the dashboard and criticality alerts. This is how ROI materializes in my organization.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
The decision to switch from the previous solutions was primarily driven by customer base comfort, customer adoption, and market responsiveness. Since SentinelOne is relatively new in India, having been around for five years, the customer adoption rate and ease of use made it easier for many customers to agree to replace Trellix, Trend Micro, and others. This led to a significant switch on their part.
What other advice do I have?
SentinelOne Singularity Complete has definitely helped free up employees for other projects and tasks, both for me and for my customers.
SentinelOne Singularity Complete has greatly aided in reducing my mean time to detect. It is actually very fast because the agent works as an AI agent. It detects any kind of malicious activity or threat in a pretty fast way. It is very fast, and as it is an AI agent, it runs automatically, ensuring rapid detection.
Regarding the mean time to respond, my time is getting reduced by 80, 85, or even 90 percent, which is good.
When considering stability and reliability, if CrowdStrike can replace Trend Micro, then similarly, if SentinelOne can replace Trend Micro and Trellix, the same way CrowdStrike could potentially replace SentinelOne, indicating that the market remains highly flexible.
Based on everything I have described, I rate SentinelOne Singularity Complete as a 10 because I have to promote it, so I present it as my best product.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Other
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. partner