Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and SentinelOne Singularity Identity are major competitors in the cybersecurity category. While Defender is a cost-effective alternative for enterprises integrated with Windows, SentinelOne offers advanced AI-driven threat detection making it a preferred choice for proactive threat detection.
Features: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is integrated with Windows, ensuring seamless functionality with the operating system. It includes a comprehensive suite with real-time alerts, automation, and a large user base leveraging Microsoft's ecosystem. SentinelOne Singularity Identity focuses on AI-driven threat detection and behavior-based analytics, providing robust protection capabilities and advanced response mechanisms.
Room for Improvement: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint users often face challenges with slow customer support, complex configurations, and the demand for enhanced ransomware defenses and reporting functionalities. SentinelOne Singularity Identity users experience a clunky user interface and performance impact on servers and frequently require technical support for resolving issues. Its alerting system also requires refinement.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint benefits from its Windows integration, offering seamless deployment for existing users, albeit with mixed feedback on technical support responsiveness. SentinelOne Singularity Identity provides extensive support, though users note complexity in initial setup and deployment, indicating a need for streamlined support processes.
Pricing and ROI: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint offers an attractive pricing model often included with Windows, benefiting organizations already using Microsoft solutions, although additional licenses may be required for advanced features. It provides positive ROI via integration and extensive protection capabilities. SentinelOne Singularity Identity, while priced competitively, receives feedback on pricing transparency and annual increments. However, it delivers strong ROI through its comprehensive security features.
The return on investment is primarily in time savings and better observability of what's happening.
I rate Microsoft support 10 out of 10.
The level-one support seems disconnected from subject matter experts.
Due to our size, we don't have access to direct technical support, but the knowledge base, Microsoft Learn, and the articles available are really good.
They have been responsive to our needs as integrators and those of the client.
We managed to scale it out in a short amount of time, with two months of planning and three months of implementation on 10,000 computers.
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is scalable enough to handle various devices across environments, whether they are laptops, Android devices, or operating in hybrid environments.
It's pretty easy to scale with Microsoft, as they make it easy if you look into the documentation.
Defender for Endpoint is extremely stable.
I rate Defender 10 out of 10 for stability.
After setting appropriate exclusions, everything seemed to work fine.
Repeated interactions are necessary due to Level One's lack of tools and knowledge, hindering efficient problem-solving and negatively impacting our experience with Microsoft support.
We have multiple endpoints, and we want to look for signals across tenants.
Providing more detailed information on how Microsoft Defender for Endpoint detects vulnerabilities.
There is a clear roadmap for improvements, including enhancing capabilities with AI and seamless functionality in an MSP model for deeper visibility across multiple agencies.
Given our extensive Microsoft licensing, transitioning to Defender for Endpoint did not affect licensing costs.
It costs $15 per VM for the P2 plan, which is seen as affordable for customers.
The pricing, setup, and licensing were very easy and simple.
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint provides a unified management interface allowing customers to manage their on-premises and hybrid infrastructures from a single pane.
Defender for Endpoint's coverage across different platforms in our environment is pretty good. We have devices running Linux, Mac OS, Windows, iOS, and Android. It covers all of them.
Attack surface reduction and limiting attack surface vectors are valuable features.
With visibility into endpoint telemetry, SentinelOne does provide useful information to find threat actors and empowers those who are in the business of threat hunting.
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is a comprehensive security solution that provides advanced threat protection for organizations. It offers real-time protection against various types of cyber threats, including malware, viruses, ransomware, and phishing attacks.
With its powerful machine-learning capabilities, it can detect and block sophisticated attacks before they can cause any harm. The solution also includes endpoint detection and response (EDR) capabilities, allowing organizations to quickly investigate and respond to security incidents. It provides detailed insights into the attack timeline, enabling security teams to understand the scope and impact of an incident.
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint also offers proactive threat hunting, allowing organizations to proactively search for and identify potential threats within their network. It integrates seamlessly with other Microsoft security solutions, such as Microsoft Defender XDR, to provide a unified and holistic security approach. With its centralized management console, organizations can easily deploy, configure, and monitor the security solution across their entire network.
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is a robust and scalable security solution that helps organizations protect their endpoints and data from evolving cyber threats.
Singularity Identity, a component of the Singularity platform, provides threat detection & response (ITDR) capabilities to defend Active Directory and domain-joined endpoints in real-time from adversaries aiming to gain persistent, elevated privilege and move covertly. Singularity Identity provides actionable, high-fidelity insight as attacks emerge from managed and unmanaged devices. It detects identity misuse and reconnaissance activity happening within endpoint processes targeting critical domain servers, service accounts, local credentials, local data, network data, and cloud data. On-agent cloaking and deception techniques slow the adversary down while providing situational awareness and halting adversarial attempts at lateral movement. Singularity Identity helps you detect and respond to identity-based attacks, providing early warning while misdirecting them away from production assets.
Singularity Identity’s primary use case is to protect credential data and disrupt identity-based attacks. The most valuable function of Singularity Identity is its ability to misdirect attackers by providing deceptive data to identity-based recon attacks. Additionally, it can hide and deny access to locally stored credentials or identity data on Active Directory domain controllers.
Singularity Identity also provides rapid detection and respond to identity attacks, capturing attack activity and feeding it directly to the Singularity platform’s Security DataLake for enterprise-wide analysis and response.
By implementing Singularity Identity, organizations benefit from enhanced security, reduced credential-related risks, and improved user productivity. It detects and responds to identity-based attacks, ensuring only authorized individuals can access critical identity data. With its cloaking capabilities to hide identity stored locally on endpoints or in the identity infrastructure and it’s ability to provide decoy results to identity-based attacks, organizations can effectively secure their sensitive or privileged identities, resulting in improved overall identity security.
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