We performed a comparison between Forescout Platform and SentinelOne Singularity Complete based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Forescout Platform stands out for its agentless visibility and advanced features like device fingerprinting. SentinelOne Singularity Complete is praised for its dependable threat prevention and ability to reverse ransomware file encryption. Forescout users say the product could be better at resolving connectivity and license issues. Users also want more compatibility with different devices and operating systems, along with better logging and troubleshooting capabilities. SentinelOne could improve its automation, machine learning, and AI capabilities while improving reporting and integration.
Service and Support: Some users reported positive experiences with Forescout support, but others requested better responsiveness and training. Customers have been pleased with SentinelOne’s customer service. Reviews highlighted the support team’s responsiveness and efficiency.
Ease of Deployment: Some users found Forescout’s setup to be simple and adaptable, while others perceived it as more complex and time-intensive. Users find the initial setup for SentinelOne Singularity Complete to be quick and painless, with helpful support from the vendor team.
Pricing: The total cost of Forescout Platform can be high depending on the level of customization and integration required. Some reviewers thought SentinelOne Singularity Complete is reasonably priced and competitive, while others say it’s costlier than many alternatives.
ROI: Forescout Platform yields a solid ROI by improving network access control and overall security. SentinelOne Singularity Complete yields an ROI by saving money and protecting against ransomware attacks. Other users noted its valuable dashboard data and low CapEx requirements.
Comparison Results: Users prefer Forescout Platform over SentinelOne Singularity Complete. Forescout Platform offers agentless visibility, comprehensive device fingerprinting, and granular configuration. It also provides excellent customer service, affordability, and integration with multiple vendors. SentinelOne Singularity Complete has room for improvement in automation, reporting functionality, and user-friendliness.
"It's a very scalable tool that can be used in a very small environment or in a very large environment. Everything can be managed from a simple dashboard and can be scaled up or down depending on the customer's environment."
"The product integrates security into one tool instead of having third-party security tools."
"My clients like Defender's file integrity monitoring. They're monitoring Windows and Linux system files."
"There is also one dashboard that shows us the status of many controls at once and the details I can get... It gives a great overview of many areas, such as files, emails, chats, and links. Even with the apps, it gives you a great overview. In one place you can see where you should look into things more deeply..."
"In Microsoft 365 vendor products, monitoring and connectivity across all Microsoft and third-party connectors enable viewing of all activity within those environments."
"The common and advanced security policies for threat hunting and blocking attacks are valuable."
"Microsoft 365 Defender is a good solution and easy to use."
"The advantage of Microsoft Defender XDR has over other XDRs in the market is that it's easy to use. You can quickly differentiate between alerts, incidents, devices, software, etc. It's easier to investigate an incident, and you have so many options. You can automate investigations and use playbooks. There's also the live response session, which is something you can't find in any other XDR."
"The most valuable features of ForeScout is the fact that it can do network access control either with 802.1x or without 802.1x."
"You can quickly filter your view of devices and zero in on the ones you want using a variety of tools, such as what subnet it is on or what it has been classified as."
"Ease of deployment There's a great support team that becomes actively engaged whenever we encounter issues. Their technical support is amazing. Good documentation is available. The product is stable. The solution is highly scalable. I recommend using the solution because it gives verified control over the environment. It has a great visibility feature."
"Forescout Platform has made it possible to block people working near our construction sites who should not have access to our network."
"Forescout Platform's best feature is plug-in integration."
"The initial setup is quite simple. It's not too complex or difficult to set up."
"We really like that we get full visibility of devices in the local network."
"I have noticed that in the last year the license model has changed from licensing the whole appliance to licensing the number of devices. It's more simple for a large installation, or a user to have CounterACT as their peripheral site in the company. It's a good choice to have changed the license policy."
"The most valuable aspect of SentinelOne Singularity Complete is the protection it provides."
"The best thing SentinelOne has done for us is that it gives us insight into the endpoints. We never had insight into lateral movement threats before. Once a threat known as Qbot gets on the network, it actually spreads throughout sub-networks quickly. SentinelOne has detected that and saved our bacon. We were able to get in there and stop the threat, lock it down, and prevent it from actually spreading through. It would have been 50 or 60 computers. It had spread through in a few minutes. We have a lot of HIPAA data and FERPA data that we need to keep protected."
"The most valuable feature is that it does what it says it will do. It fulfills its claims. It’s not really common for products to do that today."
"We opted for SentinelOne because it gives you visibility and control over all the devices on which you have the agent deployed. That is very valuable because, in the end, all the attacks enter only through one gateway, which is usually a user's computer."
"The tool deletes the problem-causing process and prevents issues."
"The overview is valuable. There are a lot of instances out there, but Singularity Complete cuts the noise down by giving us graphics and color-coding information instead of massive tech dumps. It helps us concentrate on what is actually needed versus just the noise."
"Malware detection is valuable."
"The solution is powerful because we just have to update the agent by using the console, which is simple to do. I just select the endpoints and click "Update" on the console. That is it, because it is very easy to use."
"The solution could improve by having better machine learning and AI. Additionally, the interface, documentation, and integration could be better."
"Microsoft tends to provide too many features, which makes the solution prone to bugs."
"We should be able to use the product on devices like Apple, Linux, etc."
"The design of the user interface could use some work. Sometimes it's hard to find the exact information you need."
"Stability could be improved by avoiding frequent changes to the interface."
"In the beginning, it's difficult to navigate the system because it is quite large. Just trying to find your way and understand how the system works can be hard. After spending quite a lot of time searching it's a lot easier, but I wish it were a bit more user-friendly when you're trying to find things."
"A simple dashboard without having to use MS Sentinel would be a welcome improvement."
"The cost can be high if you want to build custom license packages. Another area for improvement is the policies. In Azure, we need to implement policies in JSON format, but in 365 Defender 365, it would be helpful to use a different format so we can customize the platform."
"Multitenancy should be included in the next version so it could be used as a managed service provider."
"As a user, if I am using a laptop that is Wi-Fi connected, Forescout identifies my port connectivity as one user license, and if I take that same laptop with the same username to a wired network, which is also the same network that is used for the Wi-Fi connection, Forescout detects it as a separate license."
"I believe that the overall user experience has not always been preferable."
"The cost is too high."
"The reporting feature needs improvement."
"In the next release of the solution, it could benefit from being more flexible to allow for more freedom."
"Forescout Platform's technical support is slow to respond and could be more knowledgeable."
"Search - needs boolean functionality (or pseudo operand now working)."
"If they can extend their product further on the DLP side of it so that I don't have to have another agent run exclusively for DLP production, that would be ideal."
"SentinelOne is causing a problem with the data service that causes one of our applications to crash randomly. We're still looking for a permanent fix, but we have implemented a temporary workaround that excludes that application from the scan."
"SentinelOne could improve by reducing the price."
"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."
"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."
"It is difficult to manage users in SentinelOne."
"The mobile agents need improvement, especially in their integration with the dashboard of the normal Windows Image-based agents."
"Something we are looking forward to is the ability of the SentinelOne backend to ingest data from other sources. Now that they are moving to the Singularity data lake, we are looking forward to being able to query data that is not just collected by SentinelOne endpoint agents. We are looking forward to being able to query against all data that we are ingesting into that backend."
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Forescout Platform is ranked 12th in Extended Detection and Response (XDR) with 69 reviews while SentinelOne Singularity Complete is ranked 2nd in Extended Detection and Response (XDR) with 177 reviews. Forescout Platform is rated 8.4, while SentinelOne Singularity Complete is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Forescout Platform writes "We can go granular on each endpoint, quarantine non-compliant machines, and target vulnerabilities through scripting". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SentinelOne Singularity Complete writes "Provides peace of mind and is good at ingesting data and correlating". Forescout Platform is most compared with Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Aruba ClearPass, Fortinet FortiNAC, Nozomi Networks and Genian NAC, whereas SentinelOne Singularity Complete is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, Darktrace, ThreatLocker Protect and Datto Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR). See our Forescout Platform vs. SentinelOne Singularity Complete report.
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