What is our primary use case?
I have worked with Singularity Platform, and I'm well-versed with Cloud Security, but I have not worked with the AI CM. Singularity Platform comprises three things: Identity Security, Endpoint Security, and Cloud Security. The platform has multiple products including Singularity Identity, Singularity Complete, and the AI-powered Singularity XDR. I have experience with Singularity Identity, Singularity Endpoint, and Singularity Complete products, and we will continue to work because we have more opportunities on this.
Purple AI provides features and functionalities that have been asked for by customers, and we have given those functionalities to them using Singularity Platform.
When we manage Identity Security and Endpoint Security, it's from a single console. We get data and visibility on everything happening in our environment and how it is related. We can integrate many other solutions such as Fortinet firewalls and Palo Alto firewalls. Singularity Platform provides a marketplace with many kinds of integrations with mail security solutions and firewall solutions that are very helpful for customers from the XDR point of view. We haven't used the SIM as of now, and we have not given the AI SIM to customers, but we have evaluated the product. To my knowledge, I think it's good, but when it comes to use cases, we will be able to tell how it exactly addresses the client's requirements, how it gives alerts, and how it stores data on correlation time. We need to implement it in the client's environment in order to get proper feedback.
These were the features and functionalities which have been asked for by customers, and we have provided those functionalities to them using Singularity Platform.
How has it helped my organization?
For the past three years, after Corona, we have started using Singularity Platform.
During the time of attacks, if there is any data loss, we were able to easily roll back those attacks and retrieve that data for the client with a single click. That's how Singularity Platform works for endpoint security. When it comes to Identity Detection and Response, it also gives much more visibility on what identities are weak. It scans all usernames and passwords in the Active Directory or Azure Directory. If you have Azure Directory, integrating with the Identity Security or Posture Management solution allows us to find out what users are in a vulnerable state and all the users to which they might have received five to ten attempts. If those kinds of attempts are received, that particular user account will be locked. We were able to write these kinds of rules from Singularity Identity itself. When it comes to threat intelligence, Singularity Platform holds its own threat intelligence data lake, and they have introduced Purple AI, which is very useful for us when dealing with attacks.
For many of our customers who got attacked after installing SentinelOne, they were not impacted on a larger scale. The impact of a ransomware attack typically encrypts all critical data and stops production. If one day of production is stopped, it sums up to, for an enterprise customer, a minimal margin of two to three crores. With this rollback functionality, we were able to address that and revert that particular endpoint to the previous good configuration state.
What is most valuable?
Singularity Platform does help with risk management. It refers to the MITRE ATT&CK framework and analyzes what the vulnerable points are in an endpoint. When it comes to cloud security through Singularity Platform's cloud capabilities, workload security or native security can scan accounts and find misconfigurations in the cloud. If there are containers, workloads, or instances, it scans everything and pinpoints any IAM roles that need to be configured, letting us know which things have not been configured for those workloads. This makes it easy for us to spot loopholes before they are exploited.
What needs improvement?
Singularity Platform has an easy-to-use console. When it comes to customization, it has some options, but I wouldn't say it is very customizable. If you are asking if this is fully customizable, I would say it is partially customizable, not fully customizable. In some places, I can understand from a security background that they have kept those features considering security. However, it lacks customization and could enable much more than that.
Even though Singularity Platform has multiple integrations with multiple solutions, it still needs more because competitive vendors such as CrowdStrike and Trend Micro provide more integrations than SentinelOne.
The first thing I would say about the negative side of Singularity Platform is that it lacks some customization and integrations compared to competitors. We can integrate Fortinet and Palo Alto, which are big players, but there are many other small companies. Even Zoho is a significant player in our market, but there are no integrations for Zoho.
For how long have I used the solution?
For the past three years, after Corona, we have started using Singularity Platform.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
In SentinelOne, we have not received reports regarding outages. Until now, we have not experienced any issues regarding stability. The product is pretty stable, and even if the agent is offline, it will handle the threats. This is pretty solid and stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Singularity Platform has flexible licenses, and it is also easily scalable.
How are customer service and support?
The technical support from SentinelOne is very good.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
One of our customers had an attack and they were using CrowdStrike. We proposed the SentinelOne alternative solution, and we were able to manage to get some details about the attack and present it to the customer.
How was the initial setup?
This is a straightforward approach. Singularity Platform provides pretty much everything that is easy to configure, even by a fresher. If a fresher has basic experience in configuring endpoint security, they would be able to handle SentinelOne. The console and the configuration part are that easy, but for an endpoint security specialist, an understanding of how threat vectors evolve and how they are attacked is necessary. The console view and everything, even writing queries in the XDR, are pretty simple.
What about the implementation team?
Singularity Platform is hybrid and has both on-prem deployment as well as SaaS deployment. However, when it comes to the implementation or deployment part, they recommend cloud. We have done only cloud because even from the SentinelOne team, they tell us that they do not recommend on-prem. I will say that the cloud version is better since we haven't done any on-prem deployments, and I don't believe they recommend that for customers.
What was our ROI?
For many of our customers who got attacked after installing SentinelOne, they were not impacted on a larger scale. The impact of a ransomware attack typically encrypts all critical data and stops production. If one day of production is stopped, it sums up to, for an enterprise customer, a minimal margin of two to three crores. With this rollback functionality, we were able to address that and revert that particular endpoint to the previous good configuration state.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
It's average. It's not cheap, but not expensive—average cost and quite affordable.
What other advice do I have?
Singularity Platform does help with risk management. It refers to the MITRE ATT&CK framework and analyzes what the vulnerable points are in an endpoint. When it comes to cloud security through Singularity Platform's cloud capabilities, workload security or native security can scan accounts and find misconfigurations in the cloud. If there are containers, workloads, or instances, it scans everything and pinpoints any IAM roles that need to be configured, letting us know which things have not been configured for those workloads. This makes it easy for us to spot loopholes before they are exploited.
My remarks are purely based on feedback from my clients.
The key unique selling points for SentinelOne are its patented rollback option and offline protection. Even when an agent is offline, we are still able to protect it. There are some protection events happening even when the agent is offline, which is not available with most vendors that expect the agents to be online. That's a good thing about SentinelOne. Additionally, we have not received any complaints regarding performance issues. I rate this solution an 8 out of 10.
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