What needs improvement with SentinelOne Singularity?

Sometimes, support can be lacking. We would like to have more interactive sessions, which are not currently available. A chat service for technical support would also be beneficial. With other vendors, we are able to resolve small issues through the chat, whereas with SentinelOne, we have to open a ticket. Without a ticket, we cannot do anything. It takes more time. They should host a data center in Saudi Arabia, making it easy for customers to go for a SaaS model.

One area for improvement is automated deployment. I use it through a group policy. I put in the PC name, and when the user logs in, if the PC is in that group, it attempts an MSI install through Active Directory via GPO. That seems to play a little havoc and can conflict with manual installs, causing issues where it wants to delete and reinstall the client. To resolve this, I remove the computer from the security group, and it then stops complaining. The automated installation could improve in this regard.

The solution could improve its notifications and communications. For example, I don't receive much information about what threats have been blocked. A weekly report logging blocked threats would be helpful. Additionally, there should be a balance between too many notifications and no notifications at all, as neither product I'm familiar with strikes a comfortable medium. An agent of ours clicked a link in an email that initiated what appeared to be a ransomware attack. The only thing that prevented the attack from succeeding was a free version of Malwarebytes that was running on the session, which effectively protected against it. The MSP confirmed that SentinelOne failed to detect the threat, but the free Malwarebytes version ultimately prevented it from impacting or compromising our systems. Singularity Complete's interoperability with other SentinelOne solutions works well, but it doesn't work well with other third-party tools. Initially, it conflicted with the ESET we use on our workstations and the staff computers, and then they had to set up a white list for that.

I would suggest improving the RBAC for user access. It's challenging to prevent a user from manipulating their privileges or someone else's of others, and it's difficult to control what users can access at the organizational level. Additionally, the exclusions seem overly broad or very specific, making it hard to tune the SentinelOne agent. The solution is noisy out of the box, so you must tune it to weed out the noise and find what's useful. It's a complex process.

The primary issue is the console's random automatic logouts, requiring users to repeatedly re-enter their username and password. This problem needs to be addressed.

Improvement is needed in terms of product support. The compatibility with new legacy systems should be enhanced as other EDR products support these systems, which Singularity does not.

SentinelOne can continue to make the presentation of relevant and timely data to the analysts as succinct and clear as possible. It will allow analysts to execute remediation or resolution with the least amount of clicks.

Like any vendor, SentinelOne had its challenges, but throughout our history as a partner and as a customer, they followed through with every commitment they made. That is huge. I do not look for a vendor, I look for a partner—a long-term partner. CISOs need partners to be successful. We have to lean on each other. There are things that they can do to improve the console or improve the product, and they are making strides in it. One value that I can bring to them is the fact that I am on the advisory board. As a customer, we bring problems or challenges or even opportunities to them that they take back to their product teams and marketing teams to come up with a solution. Being able to ride side by side with some of the developments they are making now, in the near future, or in the far future is pivotal to the success of a security organization.

The false alerts can be annoying, especially during administrative tasks. We have had a number of occasions where the software impacted a third-party application, so the application would either not run or exhibit other technical issues. We were also not getting any alerts in the console to indicate that SentinelOne was having a negative interaction with the product. Finally, after hours of troubleshooting, we turned off the endpoint security for the product, and the application just started working fine. We have probably had a good half dozen of those. It is quite annoying.

It would be nice to be able to adjust the canned reports manually and choose the specific data we want to report on instead of being limited to their pre-set reports.

SentinelOne could work on a more centralized dashboard. Also, it didn't have much incident management built in.

When SentinelOne Singularity Complete is used as the central hub for viewing alerts from all integrated security solutions, it is challenging to identify the specific solution that triggered each alert.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete offers competitive pricing, but there's always potential for even better value.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete needs more connectors for integration with more solutions. It seems there are currently two separate installers for the same device, one in MSI format likely for Windows and another in a potentially custom EXP format. Ideally, these could be combined into a single installer. If that's not feasible, the EXP format could be used as a self-extracting archive that automatically installs the software using the MSI installer. This would eliminate the need for two separate agents and provide a more streamlined installation experience. SentinelOne endpoint protection enters a reduced functionality mode during certain resource-intensive events. This mode temporarily limits some features and may require a machine restart. In some cases, the agent might even get disabled. To restore full functionality, we need to re-enable the agent and reboot the machine, which can be inconvenient. Ideally, SentinelOne should improve its handling of resource usage to avoid these disruptions. The technical support response time has room for improvement.

While our current remote access to SentinelOne Singularity Complete is achieved through publishing, having a direct GUI interface would be a significant advantage for our user and administrator team. This console access would provide a more intuitive and efficient way to manage the platform.

I'd like to see us be able to take action on one platform for items such as security variation, security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR).

I think they should consider enhancing complete visibility. I haven't explored the network-related aspects, but if lacking, it is an area for improvement. Providing a single pane of visibility for the end user would be beneficial. This means not just seeing endpoints, but also the network and other connected devices through the Singularity portal. This would enhance decision-making and improve security posture.

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 would like SentinelOne to add a threat-hunting report and more UEBA features. They could add more SIEM functionality. It would be nice to have the ability to easily drag all the logs from the agents, so there's no need for multiple agents installed on the endpoint.

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.

Singularity Complete needs to improve its ability to granularly select and extract the executable files that I want to run.

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.

They could add more visibility on the network side. That is currently done via a plugin. Also, it would help if they could get all the relevant threat information, the related events, in one place. Currently, we need to go to a number of places and do research. If they could have it all in one place, that would help investigations.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete should focus on analytical data. Backend aggregation can make things faster in the front end.

I don't like switching the way you switch from legacy to XDR.

I have raised a couple of comments regarding the speed of investigating incidents and performing analysis by the MDR service team. We are a telecom company. We are sensitive to the information of the users. The speed of investigation of the MDR service team must be improved.

Given that SentinelOne is primarily a host-based intrusion prevention system, I would appreciate it if they would consider providing a comprehensive vulnerability assessment report that goes beyond just application vulnerabilities. Currently, the scope of the vulnerability assessment seems limited, and I don't believe it adequately covers the full spectrum of vulnerabilities that may exist on endpoints. This is a capability that I feel SentinelOne is still lacking, and it's the reason why users still need to rely on other tools for certain isolated cases. If SentinelOne could provide this functionality, it would eliminate the need to look beyond their solution for vulnerability assessment. Apart from the vApp component of Singularity Complete, I believe SentinelOne is already excelling in other areas. However, this is one area where I believe they could introduce additional features to make SentinelOne a truly comprehensive security solution. I would like to generate a vulnerability assessment report that leverages the national vulnerability database or, if possible, calculates the CDSS score by conducting an endpoint assessment using the SentinelOne agent that is already deployed and resides on endpoints 24/7. I prefer not to deploy additional applications solely for information gathering, as the SentinelOne agent provides ample data for this purpose.

The support has room for improvement. They take a lot of time to respond. The documentation provided for implementation is not adequate and has caused us challenges. The pricing is also high and can be improved.

I would like to have a remote desktop feature added so we can remotely access our endpoints.

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.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete needs to support more common development languages, such as PowerShell and Python so that we can better use the solution. In the release, I would like to have application management features and pre-defined command features that allow us to take control of the system. SentinelOne needs to provide more documentation for administrators and analytics.

SentinelOne is making a lot of moves to acquire various companies, but the roadmap isn't clear, and it is still uncertain how the new acquisitions will integrate. For example, SentinelOne recently acquired a mobile security solution, but there is no real integration between the platforms. We also have a SOAR platform that helps us reduce the number of incidents that our analysts must handle manually. It would be nice if Singularity Complete had native security automation and integrated mechanisms to reduce the number of false positives.

Singularity Complete's process stream has room for improvement. I find CrowdStrike's vertical layout to be better than SentinelOne Singularity Complete's horizontal layout.

The agent update is not the most intuitive process, but I understand why they do it. We have a pretty vertical 64-bit environment for Windows. That is pretty much all we have, but we get alerts for things like the new Linux endpoint or things that do not apply to us. That is probably the only thing that I do not like. There may be some way to turn that off so that I do not get endpoint update alerts from platforms that are not applicable to our system, enterprise, or network.

We have had cases where Singularity Complete has caused applications to malfunction. The existing interoperability rules have not necessarily been sufficient to resolve those conflicts. SentinelOne needs to work on interoperability with other systems and on the interoperability rule set.

The way Singularity Complete handles blocking external mass storage is annoying because it is so difficult to unblock single endpoints. We can only add a general rule to block everything, and we cannot add any exceptions. Additionally, Singularity Complete uses different names for endpoints other than the actual actions that will happen or be taken, such as quarantining a device. This is also confusing, as the wording used by Singularity Complete is slightly different from other endpoint security solutions and can be difficult at the start.

The only integration that we are having a challenge with is our Rapid7 SIM solution. We have created exclusions for it, but sometimes there are still some false positives that the team works through. The false positive rate has room for improvement. We can build exclusions in a few ways, but one challenge is that many third-party applications spawn files with random names. This can make it difficult to write rules to account for these files. If there are better ways to deal with this, it would help to reduce conflicts between our Rapid7 solution and some of our other solutions that generate PowerShell scripts. When agent updates require a reboot, this can be challenging for our large customer environments.

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.

When comparing SentinelOne to CrowdStrike, I find that CrowdStrike has more comprehensive vulnerability assessment tools. It offers a variety of Falcon tools, including deep inspection, while Singularity Complete does not have all of these features. It still sticks to EDR or EDP. Therefore, I need improvements to match the features that CrowdStrike offers, such as a higher level of vulnerability assessment and a better understanding of the IOCs in our system so that we can apply fixes. SentinelOne Singularity Complete needs improvement on Linux machines. We identified a few issues with most of our Linux customers' machines. Specifically, the application is not working properly after installation. A major area of Singularity Complete that needs improvement is the restart option. We do not need a restart after installing a CrowdStrike agent. So for organizations that are running 24/7 and can't restart their machines, we do not recommend SentinelOne Singularity Complete.

Off the top of my head, I can't think of much that’s wrong with the product. It's a pretty solid tool from top to bottom. I've had some issues with the specific agents, however, we are moving off of that particular OS that we were having issues with. Other than that, it's been a pretty solid tool. We had a problem on the Singularity side. So for that particular issue, I’m not sure why it didn’t work with the OS, a Windows Server. It was an issue with some of the clients connecting to the console. We’ve been working with them and haven't been able to find out a single cause of failure.

In the beginning, we had some issues with their product on some of the Windows 32-bit operating systems. However, that was only on a special group of computers as we have our own special software. Other than that, for other computers and servers, we had no issue at all. The web portal needs improvement. Sometimes when I go on their web portal and put in the username and password, and then all of a sudden, it says that the web interface has been refreshed. You have to put in the username and password again. It's very minor. Other than that, there isn't anything else I can see.

The learning curve was a little steep. The solution gives training we can go through, but we have to pay for that. We ended up paying for it so we could get everybody ramped up. The product must enable easier onboarding for less familiar or less formally trained people. It would've helped us adopt it quickly.

I feel like SentinelOne is very locked away from being able to be sold to smaller businesses to self-manage. We did have to jump through a lot of hoops to purchase SentinelOne and have control over it because, most of the time, you're forced to go through a reseller. In our experience, the reseller also wanted to manage it for us. Unless it's a managed detection and response, that's not adding as much value as adding access outside of our organization that we may not necessarily want. The ability to have more direct purchasing for smaller groups and smaller businesses would be great. However, I understand if that's not part of what SentinelOne wants and is not lucrative for their bottom line.

I've not been using SentinelOne Singularity Complete for a long time to have a lot of feedback on its areas for improvement, as my team is still learning the tool, but what comes to mind is the need for it to give more straightforward directions or communication about detection or what has been detected.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete takes up a lot of memory in Google Chrome, which sometimes causes it to lag, so this is an area for improvement. The solution could be improved by increasing its efficiency within the web browser. Another area for improvement in SentinelOne Singularity Complete is technical support, particularly the response time when dealing with non-critical issues.

The mobile agents need improvement, especially in their integration with the dashboard of the normal Windows Image-based agents. The goal was to achieve full integration support, but this has not yet happened. The integration is incomplete.

It's difficult to pinpoint areas for improvement in SentinelOne Singularity Complete because I always like to see certain aspects. Still, if I look into the EDR solution itself, I don't have many negative thoughts about it, as it is very good. If something could be improved in the solution, I'd say better pricing, as I'd always take better pricing. I would appreciate lower pricing. The lower the pricing, the easier it is for me to sell it. A solution with lower pricing tends to sell itself at some point. Building a more advanced "if this, then that" logic in SentinelOne Singularity Complete, in terms of when to cold shutdown, particularly when it detects a threat, would isolate it from the network, could be an improvement. There could be a better way of saying "yes" or "no" to doing an action or specific actions unless it's one of the exceptions on your list. Having an additional logic layer could improve the solution, mainly because I run multiple systems with different layers. For example, if I'm running a very important server with this agent, and that server gets infected, I may not necessarily be sure that I want to shut it down right away. Maybe I want to isolate some of the connectivity but not do the entire security remediation automatedly or curtail network access type of activity. If I could have a more advanced control layer where I could say, "Hey, I want to do that on almost every system, but these systems are so important, and they have to keep running, so maybe if there is a problem, you can do these things instead," then that would make SentinelOne Singularity Complete better.

One way to improve and get additional benefits would be for SentinelOne to host the updated installer files for us, rather than us having to download and host them ourselves. This could be done in cloud storage or through our mobile device management platform. When they release a new package, whether it's an early release or a general release, I believe they could provide more value by hosting those packages directly. Currently, when they release a new package, I get notified, which is great. However, I then have to go to the portal, download the package, and replace the package that we have posted on our own cloud storage. This is time-consuming. If they could simply provide me with a link to the latest general release installer, that would be fantastic. Even if the link changes, I would only need to change the URL in our cloud storage. This would save me a lot of time.

There are some obstacles you have to overcome when it comes to whitelisting and the like, but that's true of every XDR platform. Their documentation could afford to be a little bit better communicated. A lot of times we have to look at things in the knowledge base, and much of that could be communicated better, but that would probably be the only thing that needs to be improved.

During my use of it over the years, they've been continuously improving it. My biggest complaint is that when you're logged into the console there is the Help section where you can review all the documentation. But when you log in to the support portal, there is documentation there as well. They need to sync those two into one place so that I don't have to search in two different locations for an answer. And I'm on the fence about whether to keep the agents a little bit longer than they do, before they go end-of-support. That might be an improvement, but I'm not positive about that.

We did use the Ranger functionality. However, there was some scanning going on and it caused a lot of noise, so we had to disable it. The remote console is currently an add-on. Having the remote console without having to pay a huge fee would be ideal. They could reduce the cost a lot. There was an issue a few months ago where the agent kept getting shut off, however, now there's a newer agent and that's not happening anymore.

The grouping feature needs improvement. There are many times I've wanted to do blacklisting or exclusions for specific people in a group, however, I don't want to remove them from the group itself. I'd like to see an auto-update feature.

The reporting dashboards require improvement. Currently, they lack customization options, preventing me from generating a summarized executive report for management. SentinelOne's customer support is sluggish and frequently fails to deliver sufficient assistance. The quality of after-sales support is also subpar and requires enhancement. The support is not meeting the expected standards, and as a result, I am feeling dissatisfied.

Since SentinelOne Hologram was an Attivo Networks product acquired by Microsoft, I have to install a different agent on endpoints for that product. It would be better if the same SentinelOne agent could be used for both the EDR and deception technology. I don't want to have to install an additional agent on all 5,000 of our endpoints. If the SentinelOne EDR agent could be used for both Hologram and SentinelOne, that would be ideal.

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.

The performance could be better. Singularity lags a bit, and it's a resource-hungry application, so it takes a while to load.

I would hope that they would increase their prebuilt migrations. As an example, they have one Active Directory in Azure Cloud, which is really good. If they can expand that to other pretty well-known software, some platforms, that'd be great. What they have now is good for some of the key players like Azure, Google, and Splunk. I would just like to see that being expanded. We'd like to have a network map or scan to cover network security. That would be good to have.

The previous vendor had a lot more features and capabilities under the license. For example, I lost DLP as Sentinel One does not have DLP. By choosing this solution, I created a security gap. It has not helped us reduce our alerts. In my last solution, I did not get alert fatigue. We are fresh into the implementation and are getting a lot of false positives.

I would have liked the dashboard to be more user-friendly. I often have to navigate through several menus to locate exactly what I'm searching for. I had difficulty finding the site token required for device installation or agent installation on devices. It actually took me quite a while to locate these menus. Instead of having them at the top after selecting from the left-hand side, they list the sub-menus at the top. This forces me to scroll through my screen to access all the different sub-menus. If they were placed underneath the main menu or bookmarked on the left-hand side, it would make navigation significantly easier. I would appreciate having more comprehensive reporting. While I believe the current reporting is accurate, I find it slightly simplistic in my view. However, I want to note that I've been using the product for only about a month, so it might take more time to fully process the information and generate detailed reports.

I'm able to have my analyst view everything from one console, and we have multiple boxes with them, and we have to log into separate consoles to access each of those one boxes. We really need a more centralized view of all of our environments. The MDM functionality and maturity still need improvement.

I would love to see improvement in the integration of SentinelOne Singularity Complete and Visions to better utilize the information we receive. The browser extension for SentinelOne Hunter is a product designed for monitoring and detecting at a browser level. This library is widely recognized. It should not only detect incidents but also proactively block them within the browser environment. Therefore, I would appreciate seeing the browser extension react more effectively to events, going beyond mere detection.

The ease of use can be better in Deep Visibility. It is not always the easiest. If I have not been in there in the Deep Visibility module for a long time, I do not always find it that easy to use. I tend to go and have to consult the help quite often if I have not been in there a long time. I am not a primary user of the application, so I do not always find it second nature to go in there and gather information. It could be a little easier.

Managing the alerts is a challenge. Singularity generates a lot of alerts and false positives. While it speeds up our detection time, it takes us longer to respond because we have to do a follow-up analysis to weed out the false positives. A lot of time goes into determining whether it's a genuine threat.

In terms of improvement, the documentation could be better. I would also like to see SingularityOne compatibility with Huntress, and the tighter integration between them would bring more to the table.

The solution can be improved by ensuring threats are being mitigated on the platform autonomously and by considering introducing an on-premises solution with affordable pricing for government institutions. There is not much focus on the on-premise solution as the license cap is so huge for small and medium-sized institutions.

They need to improve how we install the software. For the agent of SentinelOne in the endpoint, it's not an automated process. We have to download it and then upload it on the endpoint. That is something that can be made simple. The uploading of the software in the endpoint, if that can be done publicly, would be great. The setup should be available publicly. The agent installation should all be done in the cloud.

The training for SentinelOne Singularity should be free. The solution has a lot of features but we do not know how to use them all. The moment someone purchases the solution they should contact them and provide them with a feature session on how to use the features. When we connect the solution to our patch management system they should explain to us how to do it. Additionally, it should be notifying me what patch is missing in my system.

I would like to see category-based web filtering.