What is our primary use case?
The primary use cases for SentinelOne Singularity Complete include endpoint security to detect, prevent, and respond to cyber threats in real-time using AI-based behavior analysis.
The second use case is that the SOC team will investigate incidents, automate response actions, and protect systems from malware and ransomware.
How has it helped my organization?
SentinelOne Singularity Complete has helped me consolidate my security solutions, and there is some improvement overall. SentinelOne Singularity Complete is a good feature that requires skilled analysts and a proper plan for implementation. SentinelOne Singularity Complete is good for S1 analysts and is helpful for analysts with a simple GUI base.
SentinelOne Singularity Complete has helped reduce alerts for my organization. In my organization, we are an MSSP and right now we manage 6,000 plus endpoints and provide services to 10 plus customers because we are a partner with SentinelOne, and our customers are buying from us while we are providing endpoint services. All customers from us are very happy because the biggest difference is that SentinelOne Singularity Complete gives us the support team and the TAC team. There is human intervention between us and the TAC team because SentinelOne Singularity Complete is a SaaS product. If we get a false positive alert or if we get stuck anywhere, the TAC team will resolve that. The biggest advantage is the support from the TAC team to us, which is very helpful. If there was no TAC team, I would not advise using SentinelOne Singularity Complete.
SentinelOne Singularity Complete has helped free up my staff for other projects and tasks. I will tell you how SentinelOne Singularity Complete helps our SOC team. First of all, we have implemented SOAR technology, the Shuffle technology, which is open-source. Whenever an alert comes on SentinelOne Singularity Complete, we have integrated the Shuffle SOAR technology. Automatically the alert will be killed and quarantined, and mitigating action will be taken from SentinelOne Singularity Complete. Before that, we had to raise the alert manually, but we integrated SOAR technology, and automatically the alert raises to the customer within one or two minutes. This reduces the false positive alerts. We give criteria for Sentinel Shuffle: if the alert is triggered and the hash value for that file is bigger than five seconds, a secondary vendor will mark it suspicious or malicious, and we will raise the alert. Before implementing this, we had to manually check and explore and manually check deep visibility to determine where the alert came from or what scheduled task was generated. After implementing SentinelOne Singularity Complete with SOC as Shuffle SOAR, it is reducing the time significantly.
What is most valuable?
The best features from my perspective are that SentinelOne Singularity Complete includes EDR, XDR, and next-generation SIEM, and additionally, they have also added Purple AI. SentinelOne Singularity Complete is an automated tool with minimal interactions required. Everything works if we install the endpoint SentinelOne Singularity Complete agent on the endpoint. We don't require anything else because all the work will be done from the SentinelOne Singularity Complete agent that conducts real-time monitoring. If malware is detected, the agent will take care of its kill and quarantine and automatically send the alert to the dashboard.
If the agent is online or the desktop is online, it will connect to the dashboards, and we will get the alerts. That is the best feature. The second feature is the rollback feature for Windows, such as VSS rollback feature. If the endpoint is malware infected, we can restore our files and important data. These are the two best features I appreciate about SentinelOne Singularity Complete.
My impressions of SentinelOne Singularity Complete's ability to ingest and correlate across security solutions are that they can ingest logs from all over the device. For example, we have integrated the Shuffle open-source SOAR tool that ingests the logs from that Shuffle tool. Second, we have also integrated different firewalls and additionally, we have integrated the AWS cloud. Ingestion is seamless and awesome from SentinelOne Singularity Complete.
Regarding the role Purple AI plays in amplifying team knowledge, I use Purple AI for advisory and IOC purposes in my organization. I explore it for research purposes and find it very good and fast for sending advisories every week regarding vulnerabilities found. I don't use Purple AI much for other uses because I have limited exposure to it.
What needs improvement?
Regarding mean time to respond, the improvements I see with SentinelOne Singularity Complete are that genuine files also get alerts. We are getting false positives, but we are also getting genuine true positive alerts. The improvement will be deep visibility because as I am using Splunk as a SIEM, I compare deep visibility with Splunk, but deep visibility has limited access with only a 14-day policy to retain logs. The improvement will be in overall policy management. The third point will be the complexity of policies. If we want some endpoints to use only USB or if we need to block USB on some points, the policy management is very complex. The fourth point will be that Mac OS and Linux don't have the rollback policy; that policy is only for Windows. These four points are improvements if SentinelOne Singularity Complete can address them.
Data privacy and security when utilizing Purple AI is crucial for SentinelOne Singularity Complete, and SentinelOne Singularity Complete lacks in data security. Data security is very important in this world. In my organization, if we deploy SentinelOne Singularity Complete and we have integrated all the firewalls, all devices, and AWS devices to SentinelOne Singularity Complete, logs will be forwarded to SentinelOne Singularity Complete through SentinelOne Singularity Complete. However, SentinelOne Singularity Complete doesn't have data security solutions such as Forcepoint DLP or 48 layer; SentinelOne Singularity Complete doesn't have that DLP solution. From the data security point of view, SentinelOne Singularity Complete is not good.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with SentinelOne Singularity Complete for 2.3 years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
In terms of stability and scalability, I heard the news that 25,000 plus endpoints can be installed in one go, so scalability is very good. Regarding stability, I haven't heard of any issues with SentinelOne Singularity Complete. Before two years ago, we heard about a blue screen issue with CrowdStrike, but I haven't heard of such issues with SentinelOne Singularity Complete. Stability is important because even if the agent disconnects from our console, it will still protect the desktop or laptop. There aren't many stability issues; the agent handles everything including upgrades.
How are customer service and support?
Regarding the technical support and customer service teams, I rate them 10 out of 10 on a scale of 1 to 10. The TAC team, which is available 24/7, is the reason for this rating. We are now in India, but if we get stuck at midnight, any other TAC team will be in GMT or Europe or America, and they will assign our support engineer and suddenly schedule a call for us and resolve the issue. The TAC team plays a major role and is very important for us.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Regarding cost-effectiveness and ROI, I will say it is cost-effective. In India, before the installation of SentinelOne Singularity Complete, all our organizations used CrowdStrike, which is a competitor to SentinelOne Singularity Complete. After SentinelOne Singularity Complete came into the picture, the cost is more competitive, and the cost of SentinelOne Singularity Complete will be cheaper than CrowdStrike. I also have some exposure to CrowdStrike, so from a price perspective, I would prefer SentinelOne Singularity Complete if my organization has a limited budget for EDR or XDR solutions.
How was the initial setup?
Regarding the initial setup, I can say it is very easy to set up. We just need to create one tenant from my customer name and send and install the packets for Mac OS, Windows, and Linux servers. We take remote access, and within 5 to 10 minutes, one endpoint will be installed, although it takes some time to connect to the dashboard. The setup is very straightforward, and we have installed over 500 agents in one day. That is a very fast process we have accomplished.
What about the implementation team?
For the deployment model, my organization has a tie-up with Amazon Web Services, AWS. We are using the cloud because of that tie-up with AWS.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Pricing-wise, it is very price-sensitive. My customers, enterprises, are buying from us. For small and medium enterprises, it is very costly. The pricing is approximately $7 to $10 per agent per month. My organization selling depends on the size of the endpoint we are dealing with, but the price is around $7 to $10 per agent per month. In terms of functionality compared to other EDR tools, it is the best price.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Regarding the key differences, both pros and cons of SentinelOne Singularity Complete compared to other technologies such as CrowdStrike or other EDR and NMI products, I have several pros and cons to discuss. The first pro is the fast response. The EDR will immediately get the malicious file, kill or quarantine it, and send the alert to our dashboard. The second is the rollback capability, which is a beautiful feature SentinelOne Singularity Complete gives us for Windows desktops and laptops. The third pro is the automation; 90% of actions will go through the agent. The agent will take all actions—kill, quarantine, alert—and everything is automated; we don't require anything else from our side.
However, cons would include the high false positive alerts; we get alerts for genuine files, and that creates noise, though we can whitelist it. Additionally, there is resource consumption; SentinelOne Singularity Complete uses more disk resources, which reduces the functionality of the desktop. The third con is that when we install the SentinelOne Singularity Complete agent, it takes time to reconnect to the dashboard due to network issues, and it can take 5 to 10 minutes for the endpoint to reflect.
What other advice do I have?
Regarding SentinelOne Singularity Complete's Ranger functionality, I am an L1 analyst and I don't have much hands-on experience with Ranger, but I know that the Ranger is used for detecting rogue endpoints in our network. The Ranger functionality includes network discovery and control features. These two features are very important in Ranger because it ingests logs from network sources and captures the threat matrix including IOC. The most important functionality will be the Ranger's ability to detect rogue device detection. I cannot confirm that we can use Ranger to completely reduce the alerts because I don't have that heavy work as I am only an L1 analyst doing some basic admin tasks.
Additionally, right now we are implementing the next-generation SIEM of SentinelOne Singularity Complete, but this is in the initial phase. Regarding mean time to detect, SentinelOne Singularity Complete is immediately detecting the alerts and giving them to us on the dashboard. The problem is that when we install the agent on the desktop, it takes some time to show on the console. Otherwise, the agent is seamlessly running in the background; while the user is doing their job on desktops, the agent is doing its job greatly in the background.
For threat investigations, I don't have exposure because I am L1, and right now, I have L2. One of my seniors, a senior forensic analyst, uses Purple AI for threat investigation. I don't use Purple AI for threat investigation; I just use it for searching IOC.
For advice or recommendations for organizations considering SentinelOne Singularity Complete, I suggest that before implementation, first, train your SOC on how to handle alerts and investigate. When I started with SentinelOne Singularity Complete, my manager told me to sit with the MBA team and learn about it, which was confusing at first. Start with the pilot deployment instead of deploying thousands of endpoints at once; install a few endpoints to check the performance. Third, integrate SentinelOne Singularity Complete with all your SIEM tools or SOAR tools. We as customers integrate SentinelOne Singularity Complete with Shuffle SOAR and get benefits such as triggering alerts quickly, so implementation is crucial for SentinelOne Singularity Complete to be a powerful tool. Training SOC, proper configuration with skilled analysts, and a well-defined strategy are the key recommendations.
I rate this review 9 out of 10.