2021-09-26T12:14:00Z

Which is better - SentinelOne or Darktrace?

Why?

NC
Content Manager at PeerSpot (formerly IT Central Station)
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Janet Staver - PeerSpot reviewer
Tech Blogger
Real User
Top 5
2021-10-28T12:09:04Z
Oct 28, 2021

Which solution is better depends on which is more suitable specifically for your company. Darktrace, for example, is meant for smaller to medium-sized businesses. It is also a good option for organizations who have limited security resources but still need deep insights into threats and network intrusions. Darktrace also has an invaluable feature that produces weekly reports.


A unique feature Darktrace has to its name is its use of artificial intelligence for cybersecurity and machine learning capabilities. Darktrace is able to successfully detect threats over networks before it's even possible for them to spread. In addition, it notifies you with all the threat details. Although Darktrace is geared toward smaller-sized organizations, it does come with a hefty cost. The cost increases as the number of products that need to be monitored increases.


SentinelOne is a great product and effective for mitigating threats. It allows you to have granular control over your environments and your endpoints. SentinelOne has a central management console. It also provides insight into lateral movement threats, by gathering data from anything that happens to be related to the security of an endpoint. Another SentinelOne feature that’s fantastic is their one-click automation remediation, along with rollback for restoring an endpoint, which can often be very helpful.


SentinelOne is also known for its ability to decrease incident response time and has deep visibility that comes in handy quite often. However, the dashboard design isn’t wonderful. In contrast to Darktrace though, SentinelOne is efficient because minimal administrative support is required, and it offers a lot for a solution that is cost-effective.


Conclusion


While both SentinelOne and Darktrace boast many beneficial features, one outweighs the other when it comes to price. If Darktrace is within your budget, I would recommend it. But if not, SentinelOne is a great solution that makes a lot of sense.

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WM
VP of Marketing at CyGlass
Vendor
2021-11-08T22:33:58Z
Nov 8, 2021

You should not compare SentinelOne to Darktrace - they solve completely different problems. These types of questions show the ongoing challenges in cybersecurity. As written below, SentinelOne is an Endpoint Detection and Response tool. It is to protect a laptop or workstation from an attack. EDR is a core requirement for cyber defense.


Darktrace is a network detection and response tool. NDR tools detect attacks occurring against the network. NDR is also a core requirement for cyber defense.


Regardless of the quality of either tool, you need to cover both your endpoint and your network. So if you decide one is better and choose it, you remain vulnerable to attack. 


Cover your endpoint only, and I am going to hit you with an attack on your network. Cover your network only, and I will get you via an endpoint.


EDR tools - SentinelOne, Cybereason, CrowdStrike, Carbon Black to name a few.


NDR tools - Darktrace, Vectra, ExtraHop, Cyglass to name a few.


Comparisons of these tools by category would be more valuable.

BH
IT Security Coordinator at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 5
2021-11-05T12:39:04Z
Nov 5, 2021

An easy answer for me - pretty much exactly what @Janet Staver described. 


DT was a good east-west network traffic tool that could tell you all about communications between systems (think NDR) but limited capacity, expensive boxes, that we outgrew. 


S1 is an endpoint tool with deep inspection, a central console, and is cost-effective.

2022-03-23T20:29:24Z
Mar 23, 2022

I have done a POC with Darktrace three different times at different orgs.  


They are actually a borderline scam company. On each POC, I set up tests that even a free install of Suricata could detect. DT failed to detect anything in each case.  


The other thing is that they call their alerts breaches. This is a BAD idea and they would not listen to reason on this. They will send out young, good-looking salespeople, but by the time you are done with your POC, they will be gone and replaced by someone else.  


Their sales engineers are too young to have any experience with a security issue you may be dealing with. And I suspect after a few POCs they see that this does not work, at all, and leave!  Stay away from Darktrace!

RB
Director, Product Marketing at SentinelOne
Real User
2022-01-11T17:31:07Z
Jan 11, 2022

Full disclosure:  obviously, I work at SentinelOne.  


I did want to clarify that the SentinelOne Singularity Platform does include both EDR and NDR - different modules, operated from the same management console.  


Singularity Ranger finds and fingerprints devices connected to your network, for real-time inventory.  Any unsecured endpoint is flagged, and can even be automatically secured via a p2p EDR agent deployment.  


Device comms are monitored, and suspicious devices can be isolated from your network with a click.  Ranger is one of our more popular solutions, and we have even more modules for the  Singularity Platform, such as hybrid cloud workload protection.  OK, that's all.  The marketing guy wants to be respectful here.

EG
IT Manager at a construction company with 201-500 employees
Real User
2021-12-06T14:23:01Z
Dec 6, 2021

You can't compare these two solutions - they are different. 


SentinelOne is an EDR similar to known EDRs (Sophos, Sandblast, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto XDR, etc.). 


You need an agent to install to the endpoint to manage. You can integrate via API if you want to integrate to existing networks like Clearpass and micro-segmentation software like Guardicore. 


Darktrace is an AI-based tool to analyze traffic for known cyber threats from the network level without any agent. Either mirror the port or redirect traffic from VLAN to the Darktrace sensor. The sensor notifies you if any devices are newly discovered to the network, or new users access the particular device. You can block that traffic or device to mobile devices or web UI. In addition, Darktrace also has a module to integrate to SaS like the Office365 email.

Nicholas Arraje - PeerSpot reviewer
Regional Sales Director at Bricata
Vendor
2021-11-08T13:54:05Z
Nov 8, 2021

Both @Janet Staver ​and @ITSecuri7cfd are spot on.  


As a security vendor, like ITSecuri7cfd points out, one tool is for the endpoint and one tool is for the network side.  


If you looking for an EDR tool, you should look to compare solutions from Carbon Black, Crowdstrike, etc.  


As for Darktrace, they are classified as an NDR tool. Within the NDR market, there are essentially 2 types of solutions; tools for smaller organizations that have limited resources and tools that are designed for organizations that have SOC teams that need better visibility and data. 


If you want to learn more about NDR solutions in general we have written an ebook called "What to look for in an NDR platform": https://bricata.com/wp-content...

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