MadhawaLiyanage - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Solutions and Cybersecurity at NGXESS
Real User
Top 10
Easy to setup, extremely stable, and scalable
Pros and Cons
  • "The SentinelOne Active EDR is the most valuable feature."
  • "The solution's memory forensics capabilities and hard disk capacities are quite basic."

What is our primary use case?

The solution is used as a ransomware prevention measure, allowing us to roll back to the initial stage without any issues. The solution is deployed as a SaaS.

What is most valuable?

The SentinelOne Active EDR is the most valuable feature.

What needs improvement?

The SentinelOne platform has potential for improvement. The solution's memory forensics capabilities and hard disk capacities are quite basic.

For how long have I used the solution?

I am currently using the solution.

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What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I give the stability a nine out of ten.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I give the scalability a nine out of ten. The solution is for all sizes of businesses.

How are customer service and support?

The technical support is good.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

How was the initial setup?

I give the initial setup a nine out of ten. The setup is straightforward, as it is software-based and does not require any deployment; only the software needs to be installed. However, if there are a thousand endpoints, the installation process could take a few days.

What about the implementation team?

The implementation is completed in-house.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

SentinelOne Vigilance is more affordable than other next-generation solutions, but more costly than legacy solutions. I give the cost a three out of ten.

What other advice do I have?

I give the solution a nine out of ten.

We provide MSSP services.

SentinelOne Vigilance is better than other solutions on the market and I recommend it.

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?

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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Senior Security Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Protects and manages endpoints, and has behavioral analytics and machine learning features, but deployment is a challenge
Pros and Cons
  • "Stable solution for protecting, deploying, and managing endpoints, and comes with valuable features such as behavioral analytics and machine learning."
  • "There's no problem with how this product works, but the toughest challenge that customers find is with its deployment and tuning. Getting it tuned properly takes some time. You can deploy it with just about anything, but it's always a challenge."

What is our primary use case?

SentinelOne Vigilance is being used mostly for endpoint protection, endpoint deployment, and some endpoint management.

How has it helped my organization?

Most of our customers are moving away from traditional signature-based antivirus because it's not enough. They're moving to solutions, e.g. SentinelOne Vigilance, that have machine learning included, so that machine learning function adds a tremendous amount of value to our customers, simply because it adds that extra layer of security by providing machine learning and behavior analytics.

What is most valuable?

Most of the next-generation anti-virus products, including SentinelOne Vigilance, have behavior analytics included, and this is the feature I find most valuable in the solution. Behavior analytics is the direction most of the NGAVs are heading, e.g. if they don't have it, that's where they're going: UBA (user behavior analytics) and UEBA (user and entity behavior analytics).

I also find the machine learning function of this solution valuable, as it provides an extra layer of security for our customers.

What needs improvement?

Every product has room for improvement. I can't single out anything within SentinelOne Vigilance that would need to be updated or improved, only because I haven't used it in a while.

For the most part, there's no problem with how SentinelOne Vigilance works, but the toughest challenge that customers find is with the deployment and tuning of the product. Getting it tuned properly takes some time, so that's a challenge. You can deploy the product with just about anything, but deployment is always a challenge.

An additional feature I'd like to see across the board, in the next release of SentinelOne Vigilance, is more integration with artificial intelligence. I'd like to see more integration with SIEM and/or SOAR solutions. I'd also like to see better event formatting, so if they can format their events using CEF (common event formatting), that would be fantastic. These are the top three or four additional features I'd like to see.

I'd also like to see predictive analytics. The market isn't there yet, with the exception of Carbon Black, but predictive analytics would be phenomenal. We'll get there in the next five to 10 years, e.g. that market is going to explode here in the next few years.

As we build more artificial intelligence into all these products, including endpoint protection, we're going to be able to predict the type of attack. It's not just malware. It's this type of attack, and they're going to know what it is, but that'll come in time.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've worked with SentinelOne Vigilance for five years now.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

SentinelOne Vigilance and some of the top tier NGAVs are really stable. Now they've all reached the point where most of the customers that we work with trust and like them, and they work out of the box. SentinelOne Vigilance is a stable solution.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We work with everything from the small mom-and-pop stores, all the way up to the enterprise. I don't work with enough of the enterprise customers to understand what they have deployed on the endpoint, e.g. it may be SentinelOne Vigilance, or it may be something else, but scalability feels high if you had to deploy it.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Most of the people have moved away from Kaspersky just because of who they are, and potentially Symantec after the Broadcom acquisition. These people may have moved to SentinelOne Vigilance, or to other AVs. We do see a lot of movement in the endpoint AV customer side, simply because there's a lot to choose from in the market, e.g. this product or other similar products.

Another reason for people switching is that newer technologies are coming out in endpoint protection solutions, e.g. machine learning, artificial intelligence, UEBA, etc. Some customers, especially the smaller shops that are nimble and can move quickly, they might look at a new, sensational technology on endpoint security, and move away from whatever it is they currently have. The larger enterprises are a lot slower to move, so they usually take a lot longer to decide which direction to go, and when they do, they usually sign a three-year contract or more, and they'll stick with it.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup for SentinelOne Vigilance was straightforward. They made it easy on the front end.

What other advice do I have?

Most of the next-generation antivirus (NGAV) solutions, I have a lot of experience with.

We're using an older version of SentinelOne Vigilance, e.g. we're not using it internally, so we don't have the latest version, but some of our customers who I work with are using it. I'm not sure what version they're using, but it's been a while so they could be using old versions of it.

We're using Microsoft Azure as the cloud provider for this solution.

The deployment of SentinelOne Vigilance was challenging. How long the deployment would take depends on the environment. A small SMB on-premises environment doesn't take long to deploy: You can wrap it up in a GPO package and deploy it. The process is usually straightforward and simple, and it doesn't take long, but when you get into the larger enterprise and you have a hybrid solution and multiple locations, that's when it can become a little sticky.

SentinelOne Vigilance is deployed on the endpoint, so everybody in the organization, no matter which role, is using it. The product is also deployed on IT worker endpoints.

Deployment and maintenance of this solution depends on the size of the organization. There are the smaller SMB customers that we have, e.g. if they're not doing it themselves, they've got a MSP that's deploying it directly, and I'm not sure about the work effort there, but you wrap it up in a package, send it out through a GPO, then it's easy to deploy. You can also use a third-party, e.g. ManageEngine and Quest make great products, so you can deploy SentinelOne Vigilance in any way, but it's going to depend on the size of the organization.

I don't know where this product sits in the market. I know it's in the top 10. I haven't looked recently, but I say this because we have so many vendors. We have 1,600 vendors that we work with here, but I know SentinelOne Vigilance is a top tier AV (antivirus). So as far as our usage goes, when our customers come to us, they're usually looking for something specific with regards to any endpoint security or endpoint protection. If they're not, I don't know how often this product gets recommended because I'm not on the pre-sales or front-end side of that. I'm on the engineering side, so I don't know which products they recommend. I don't know if SentinelOne Vigilance is one of the products where they'll go "Hey, try this one. It's great."

I have no idea about the technical support for this product, as I haven't tried contacting them.

I don't have information about the licensing cost or pricing for this solution, because I'm not on the sales side. I see a lot of people now moving toward Microsoft Defender because they've really done a great job in just the past couple of years, and that's rolled into their E3, E4, or E5 licensing. Sometimes there's cost savings when you bundle Microsoft Defender with other Microsoft products. As for standalone AV on the endpoint, I don't know where SentinelOne Vigilance fits price-wise. People are migrating away from Symantec, SAP, Kaspersky, and some other legacy AVs and moving towards newer AVs, but I don't know if that's because of the costs or not.

The advice I would give to others looking into potentially implementing this product is to always bring it in-house and do a pilot. That's the biggest advice I can give, e.g. you need to test drive a car before you buy it.

I haven't done anything on the ROI side, and that's hard to nail down, but there might be some market data out there on ROI. People don't usually make a change unless they believe there's going to be some improvement.

I don't know where SentinelOne Vigilance is on the market, but I know it's top 10 or top tier, so I'm giving this solution a seven out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Hybrid Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Microsoft Azure
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Senior Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Real User
Top 10
An easy-to-deploy product with good support services
Pros and Cons
  • "The product is stable."
  • "The process to replicate exclusions is not user-friendly."

What needs improvement?

The antivirus products embedded with EDR have one weakness: they are very resource-intensive and challenging to replicate exclusions. Let me elaborate on it with an example of a list of exclusions from an accounting firm. Let’s say Company A is a finance company that uses Microsoft and some accounting applications. Company B is also a finance company that uses the same products, but they have their back-end database capturing the data. As an IT engineer managing different clients, I will try to see if there's a way to export the rules I created for Company A to save time when setting up Company B. Presently, this process is not user-friendly. A forward-thinking approach will reduce the time spent onboarding new clients and increase revenue by reducing engineering time.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using SentinelOne Vigilance for about seven months since February. We’re using the cloud version.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The product is stable. It works well, and we have not encountered any issues. Whenever we found any problems, it created snapshots. We researched these instances and obtained the results.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The product is scalable. We have a variety of clients, including large enterprise companies and small businesses, working with our services.

How are customer service and support?

The product’s support team is excellent, especially the back-end support.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

How was the initial setup?

The product is easy to deploy and requires an understanding of how it works. A project manager who comes from a mid-technical background with sufficient knowledge of installing packages can execute the process efficiently. The website's documentation and how-to guides are excellent. I do recommend it. We have 180 clients, and deployment takes about four to six months. 

What other advice do I have?

It is a good product to use. I rate it an eight out of ten.

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Executive Director, Information Security & Compliance at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
A managed detection service for threat monitoring with a visualization feature
Pros and Cons
  • "SentinelOne Vigilance is an endpoint security tool with quarantining, dashboards showing us information, and many capabilities like manual and automatic quarantine of environmental issues."
  • "The tool needs improvement in clear communication and detection."

What is our primary use case?

We use the solution for the managed SOC team that we leverage.

What is most valuable?

SentinelOne Vigilance is an endpoint security tool with quarantining, dashboards showing us information, and many capabilities like manual and automatic quarantine of environmental issues.

What needs improvement?

The tool needs improvement in clear communication and detection.

For how long have I used the solution?

We deployed SentinelOne Vigilance three months ago.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The product is stable.

I rate the solution’s stability an eight out of ten.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution is scalable.

How are customer service and support?

The SentinelOne Vigilance has excellent customer service.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is straightforward. There is an agent on our end. A team is monitoring our environment, but for the SentinelOne tool, we have to deploy agents, and their back end is in the cloud.

What about the implementation team?

We had a few team members who have been assisting during deployment.

What was our ROI?

We achieved ROI because it notified us of threats coming into our environment. After a month, we started getting alerts on different things.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The solution’s pricing is very reasonable.

What other advice do I have?

The solution requires a little maintenance and fine-tuning.

I suggest asking for sample reports and stamp processes to get a good understanding of how they work.

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

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Assistant Manager - Security Architect at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Top 20
Has rollback feature for ransomware on Windows
Pros and Cons
  • "SentinelOne has a rollback feature that has helped them gain popularity in the market. No other competitors of the solution including Cisco, Fortinet, or Cortex XDR have this feature. SentinelOne is a kernel-independent solution. We don’t need to check the kernel dependency on the Linux platform. They also commit to a 100 percent recovery from ransomware attacks. The solution has rollback features for ransomware on Windows."
  • "I have found issues with the solution’s stability and implementation. The solution has performance issues. I would like the solution to launch the rollback plan for ransomware on Linux and Mac. It should be something similar to the support that Windows gets."

What is most valuable?

SentinelOne has a rollback feature that has helped them gain popularity in the market. No other competitors of the solution including Cisco, Fortinet, or Cortex XDR have this feature.

SentinelOne is a kernel-independent solution. We don’t need to check the kernel dependency on the Linux platform. They also commit to a 100 percent recovery from ransomware attacks. The solution has rollback features for ransomware on Windows.

What needs improvement?

I have found issues with the solution’s stability and implementation. The solution has performance issues. I would like the solution to launch the rollback plan for ransomware on Linux and Mac. It should be something similar to the support that Windows gets.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the solution for four to five months.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I would rate the solution’s stability around six to seven out of ten.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I would rate the solution’s scalability a nine out of ten.

What was our ROI?

The solution helps companies prevent critical attacks from ransomware.

What other advice do I have?

I would rate the solution an eight out of ten. One person is sufficient for the solution’s maintenance.

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Senior Network Engineer at Netcotech
MSP
Top 5Leaderboard
The solution doesn't have a direct connection with MSPs, though its stability is very good
Pros and Cons
  • "SentinelOne Vigilance is a very stable solution."
  • "SentinelOne Vigilance doesn't have a direct connection with MSPs."

What is our primary use case?

We use SentinelOne Vigilance as MDR (Managed detection and response).

What is most valuable?

SentinelOne Vigilance is a very stable solution.

What needs improvement?

SentinelOne Vigilance is an MDR meant to manage cybersecurity, but it doesn't do a good job.

SentinelOne Vigilance doesn't have a direct connection with MSPs. They go only through a big reseller or RMM vendor instead of directly going to the MSP. You always feel that you are behind, and you have to call someone to call someone to get to them.

People pay $ 5,000 to $ 6,000 monthly for the solution, and they don't have a QBR for their customers to review the security and recommendations.

For how long have I used the solution?


What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I rate SentinelOne Vigilance ten out of ten for stability.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

You can scale as much as you want with SentinelOne Vigilance.

What about the implementation team?

We implemented SentinelOne Vigilance through an in-house team. Two network engineers were involved in the solution's deployment.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten.

What other advice do I have?

Overall, I rate SentinelOne Vigilance a five out of ten.

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CTO at N4B
Reseller
Good technical support, scalable with reasonable pricing
Pros and Cons
  • "The initial setup process was straightforward."
  • "It is not easy to remove the customer without the dashboard."

What is our primary use case?

We sell this solution to our customers and deploy it on private cloud and on-premises.

What needs improvement?

The solution could be improved by including a tool for removing the product when changing a device because now it is not easy to remove the customer without the dashboard.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using this solution for two years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The solution is stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution is scalable.

How are customer service and support?

We have had a good experience with customer service and support, but our support team is from N-able company and not from SentinelOne.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup process was straightforward, and deployment can take approximately half a day, depending on the company's size.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The pricing is reasonable.

What other advice do I have?

I rate this solution a nine out of ten. The solution is good but can be improved by including a tool that easily allows updates to be made to the customer dashboard.

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Senioor Engineer of System and Security at Connex Information Technologies
Real User
Top 5
The monthly reports provide a useful and efficient way to get information about IOCs
Pros and Cons
  • "I would rate SentinelOne's customer service and support a five out of five."
  • "SentinelOne Vigilance could improve if it provided us with more control over the dashboard."

What is our primary use case?

The primary use case of this product is to use the reports we receive from Vigilance, regarding IOCs, and consume them for our own security solutions. 

What is most valuable?

The monthly reports we receive from SentinelOne Vigilance have proven to be a very useful and efficient way to get information about IOCs.

What needs improvement?

SentinelOne Vigilance could improve if it provided us with more control over the dashboard.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using SentinelOne Vigilance for two years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

This solution is stable. Our organization only requires one engineer to maintain it. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

SentinelOne Vigilance is scalable.

How are customer service and support?

I would rate SentinelOne's customer service and support a five out of five. 

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup of SentinelOne Vigilance was straightforward and can be installed within a couple of minutes.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

Prior to using SentinelOne Vigilance, we evaluated CrowdStrike's Falcon Insight, which has the same kind of solution service. 

What other advice do I have?

I would recommend this solution to anyone who has other solutions like firewalls, and SIEM solutions, where they can use attack indicators. SentinelOne provides this information. 

Overall, I would rate this product a nine out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
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