SentinelOne Singularity Identity vs Varonis Platform comparison

SentinelOne and Varonis are both solutions in the Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) category. SentinelOne is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.9, while Varonis is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.0. SentinelOne holds a 3.3% mindshare in ITDR, compared to Varonis’s 5.6% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of SentinelOne users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of Varonis users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 12, 2025

SentinelOne Singularity Identity and Varonis Platform compete in the identity protection and data security market. SentinelOne seems to have the upper hand due to its advanced AI-based detection and user-friendly interface.

Features: SentinelOne Singularity Identity offers advanced AI-based detection, real-time protection, and ease of management. Its dynamic detection based on behavior rather than static signatures, together with deep visibility and effective identity protection, make it highly valuable. Varonis Platform focuses on data security and compliance with features like sensitive data identification, monitoring unusual behaviors, and unified reporting.

Room for Improvement: SentinelOne Singularity Identity could enhance its policies and web filtering capabilities, along with improving automated agent updates. Complex report generation and performance issues on server endpoints also need attention. Varonis Platform requires improvements in filter and report setup, DLP capability integration, and speeding up the calculation engine for large datasets. Its interface could be modernized for better operations.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: SentinelOne Singularity Identity mostly supports public cloud deployment, ensuring responsive customer service, though initial support can be more robust. Varonis Platform accommodates on-premises and hybrid cloud environments with technically knowledgeable support but faces challenges with third-party integrations.

Pricing and ROI: SentinelOne Singularity Identity is competitively priced, known for cost-effectiveness and solid ROI through reduced security incident management costs. Varonis Platform, though considered expensive with varied pricing for different modules, offers ROI by enhancing data protection yet remains less accessible for smaller companies.

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Categories and Ranking

SentinelOne Singularity Ide...

Ranking in Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR)

4th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Vulnerability Management (13th), Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) (8th), Threat Deception Platforms (3rd)

Varonis Platform

Ranking in Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR)

6th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Loss Prevention (DLP) (12th), Data Governance (7th), SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) (5th), Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) (8th), Compliance Management (8th), Ransomware Protection (8th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) category, the mindshare of SentinelOne Singularity Identity is 3.3%, up from 2.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Varonis Platform is 5.6%, up from 5.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR)

Featured Reviews

Roftiel Constantine

Global Chief Information Security Officer at Barry-Wehmiller

Provides proactive threat remediation, reduces alert volume, and enhances incident response capabilities

During our pre-purchase evaluation of SentinelOne's EDR capabilities three years ago, we were consistently impressed by the positive relationships customers reported having with SentinelOne's engineers, sales teams, and customer success managers. These strong relationships, evident in the customers' unsolicited feedback, highlighted the "soft skills" and intangible qualities that SentinelOne possessed. This positive customer experience has been mirrored in our own interactions with them. Their responsiveness to our needs, particularly when addressing a couple of challenges we faced, has been excellent. They proactively scheduled weekly meetings to demonstrate their commitment to resolving our issues, a customer-centric approach I admire. SentinelOne's dedication to customer service, including their rapid technology updates and responsiveness to our suggestions, has been crucial to our success in protecting our organization. Their ability to quickly incorporate our needs into new releases is truly impressive and sets them apart. Overall, I highly recommend SentinelOne based on our positive interactions across all levels of their organization.

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Frederic Delos

Senior Cloud Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Offers the ability to identify sensitive areas, allowing you to drill down into the sensitive data

The most effective feature for me is its ability to identify sensitive areas, allowing you to drill down into the sensitive data, provided you have access, to determine whether it's a false positive or a true positive. That's the best thing for me, out of all of it. It's got everything, like other ones, but I like to be able to look at something if I'm doing forensics on the alert and say, "Okay, do I really need to do something with this?" For example, we don't want sensitive data in our OneDrive. So it identifies the sensitive data that's possibly in the OneDrive. And what I can do is look at it and identify whether it's actually sensitive data in Datalert or whether it looks like sensitive data, but I know it's a false positive. If it is a false positive, I can basically say ignore this pattern based on X, Y, and Z, you know, whether it's Redjax or keyword proximity. So I like that. With other tools, I gotta go through a whole process because it's a little bit more complex. Here, I can tag it and bag it in one shot. And the next good time I scan, it slips over it. So it helps in that.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"SentinelOne stands out due to its AI capabilities, which lead to excellent prevention."

"All the features within the XDR are valuable as a whole for our organization."

"SentinelOne Singularity Identity is very lightweight as an agent or software."

"The AI-based detection, scanning, prevention and mitigation features are the most valuable features."

"SentinelOne enhances our customers' risk management."

"They have different levels of support. We have the highest level where they are constantly checking all the endpoints. If at any certain point, they identify that a computer has been triggered by a virus, a link, or something else, they would automatically tell us that within 15 seconds. If they notice something, they automatically send us an email saying that they noticed something in the computer, and they are going to block it."

"The product's initial setup phase is straightforward."

"One of the top things we're interested in is cloud protection."

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"It can easily identify unusual behavior or access patterns that may pose a potential threat, while operating as a unified reporting system."

"I also appreciate the reporting feature, which allows for the extraction of various reports based on specific needs. These reports can be used for audit purposes, such as tracking changes in file locations or deletions."

"The solution's classification engine is highly configurable and efficient."

"The solution ensures that users have not accidentally shared sensitive information with the wrong people or too many people."

"Varonis Platform is transparent and captures everything in the environment without impacting the performance. The tool helps us unify data feeds into a single reporting system."

"The most important feature is remediation. In remediation support, there is no group permission. We'll go ahead and remediate the access from the Dell folder to the parent folder."

"Technical support from Varonis is rated as nine out of ten."

"Varonis offers robust data access governance, allowing us to understand which sensitive data exists and who has access to it."

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Cons

"The policies could be more precise, and Singularity should use more templates like alternative solutions have. Endpoint management is poor. We cannot manage individual endpoints and must rely on policies, exclusions, or block lists to apply settings to a group instead of the individual agent. If I have to make settings for one computer, I need to create a group, apply the configuration, and move the agent there. It's challenging to manage endpoints that way."

"One area for improvement would be the self-healing nature of the agent."

"Support could be faster. They need a faster response time."

"To improve SentinelOne, I would suggest adding a network detection and response capability."

"The first-level support has room for improvement."

"To enhance our already strong partnership with SentinelOne, we should focus on improving collaboration."

"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. Further development is anticipated to continue enhancing the solution."

"We've brought three critical items to their attention regarding vulnerability management."

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"I would like it to have cloud integration."

"Varonis requires more access permissions for its core functions compared to competitors, which can be a concern for companies about data safety."

"It is significantly complex."

"One area for improvement is the calculation engine. When applying rules in Varonis, especially for large datasets (terabytes of data), the calculations can be slow and require time to process. Speeding up this process would be beneficial."

"The product is very complicated."

"The solution's interface is a little complicated with regard to setting up filters and reports."

"I'd like to see automatic updates for this solution. Currently, it's a manual process to update all the keywords"

"Varonis requires more access permissions for its core functions compared to competitors, which can be a concern for companies about data safety."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of SentinelOne Singularity Identity is relatively high, but it offers numerous features and capabilities that make it well worth the investment."

"Their pricing has been fair, especially in the current market, and they haven't excessively increased prices at renewal times like many vendors do."

"Ideally, I would like SentinelOne to lower their prices a little bit."

"Compared to competitors, it's well-priced for the quality offered, and I don't see anyone surpassing them in that regard."

"As a SentinelOne partner, we offer competitive pricing on comprehensive packages that include the SentinelOne license, our management services, and a proof-of-concept to ensure the technology meets your needs."

"Its price is a little bit high. It is a nice product, but it comes at a cost. Compared to other products, it is not cheap, but you sometimes have to pay for the value you get. It is not cheap, but it is worth it."

"There is a need to make yearly payments towards the licensing charges associated with the product...I think the prices associated with the product are okay and it is not too expensive."

"The cost of SentinelOne Singularity Identity is better than CrowdStrike."

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"I would rate the pricing an eight out of ten, with ten being the most expensive."

"You could do a subscription, where you pay yearly, or you could purchase it outright. The licensing cost is based on the number of users on the system that you are monitoring."

"The platform is expensive. I rate the pricing a nine out of ten."

"The pricing is good. It neither expensive nor cheap. It is average."

"Varonis Platform wasn't certainly the cheapest solution."

"Licensing is on an annual basis. Maintenance and renewal fees are separate. Varonis Datalert is quite expensive."

"It's expensive, kind of, really expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Insurance Company

Company Size

By reviewers

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

Does SentinelOne have a Virtual Patching functionality?

Yes -- SentinelOne has a Virtual Patching functionality called Virtual Patching and Exploit Shield. This preventive security solution uses behavioral AI to identify and block zero-day attacks and v...

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What do you like most about SentinelOne Singularity Identity?

The XDR capabilities are very good.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SentinelOne Singularity Identity?

I have no visibility into pricing, setup costs, or licensing as the government handles these aspects directly with SentinelOne. We do the integrating, and they process the payments.

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What do you like most about Varonis Platform?

The solution has significantly improved data security and compliance posture by allowing us to track and monitor activities. We can see who accesses data and when files are created and understand w...

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What needs improvement with Varonis Platform?

Varonis started as an on-premises solution and is transitioning to cloud. It hasn't fully moved yet, which is an area for improvement. Varonis requires more access permissions for its core function...

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What is your primary use case for Varonis Platform?

The primary use case for Varonis Platform is data discovery, specifically for discovering sensitive data in our organization to protect it. We are looking for a solution that can scan our repositor...

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Overview

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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Varonis Platform specializes in network security and data monitoring with modules for alerting, data classification, and access management, benefiting environments like Microsoft 365.

Varonis is designed to secure data by auditing and tracking data movement. It leverages data alert and classification modules to identify and manage sensitive information. The platform enhances network security by alerting users to unexpected data modifications and deletions, crucial for effective data loss prevention. It supports unstructured data management, ensuring proper data access and permission controls. Known for its 24/7 support, Varonis offers comprehensive analytics and unified reporting, helping prevent data overexposure and facilitating compliance efforts.

What are the key features of Varonis Platform?

24/7 Support: Provides round-the-clock assistance.
Data Monitoring: Tracks data activities efficiently.
Unified Reporting: Consolidates data access reports.
Data Classification: Identifies sensitive data effectively.
Permission Management: Simplifies managing access rights.
Behavior Analytics: Detects abnormal behavior patterns.

What benefits should be highlighted in user reviews?

Enhanced Security: Improves data protection measures.
Compliance Support: Assists in meeting compliance standards.
Data Transparency: Offers clarity in data access activities.
Access Control: Ensures proper access to data.
Centralized Remediation: Eases remediation procedures.

Varonis Platform is widely utilized in industries needing stringent data confidentiality and management, such as finance and healthcare, for tracking data modifications and unauthorized access. Enterprises deploy it to manage permissions within large datasets, benefiting Microsoft 365 environments. While Varonis requires enhancements in cloud integration, the current deployment is often based on-premises, with attention to addressing the security needs and effective data handling for critical infrastructure.

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