SentinelOne Singularity Complete Reviews

SentinelOne Singularity Complete serves as our everyday Endpoint Defense solution. We oversee daily detections and manage Sentinels, workstations, and servers. We strive to safeguard our assets and environment, while also defending against malicious processes and files.

We utilize Visions and its services. Visions and SentinelOne Singularity Complete are closely linked because we are now monitoring not only our products, endpoints, and environment, but we have also engaged Visions as a form of Managed Security Services Provider. Another aspect I find particularly valuable is their API. As a result, we've seamlessly integrated this solution with our SIEM system, which is functioning effectively. This is undoubtedly a tool that we employ, both in conjunction with Visions and our SIEM products.

It's capability to ingest and correlate data across our security solutions is impressive. I utilize tools such as Visions and Sentinel whenever I need to access or retrieve any telemetry. These tools, along with the enhanced visibility they provide, enable me to proactively conduct threat intelligence, explore my environment, and query assets generating alerts.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete has assisted us in streamlining our security solutions. We now possess the capability to identify malicious threats, and the system will automatically safeguard the relevant information, quarantine the threats, and revert any alterations made by the threat. 

It has effectively defended our environment against numerous malicious actors. With a membership of over ten thousand, the solutions help safeguard their data effectively.

Singularity Complete has helped us reduce the number of alerts we receive by approximately 30 percent. The false positive issue has been addressed by working with Visions. We remediate these issues and then classify them as false positives, rather than repeatedly receiving alerts as in other solutions. As a result, we now experience fewer alerts than initially expected from day one. 

It has assisted in releasing our staff to focus on other projects and tasks. Visions reviews all alerts, forwarding only the true positives to my team for investigation and response.

The agents are live, so our Mean Time To Detect is in real-time.

Our mean time to respond is in real-time. If an issue is escalated by Visions, we receive it instantly. Once it's recorded on the disk, it promptly gets escalated to them. They detect it, review the matter, and subsequently escalate it to us. Then, we review it together, all in real time. There is no downtime during which we have to wait.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete certainly reduces costs for our organization, as we need fewer personnel and don't have to involve numerous analysts due to the presence of Visions. It has also decreased our organization's risk by approximately 30 percent.

I appreciate the network control as well as the device control. These two features are truly excellent. I occasionally utilize the custom rules as well.

I would love to see improvement in the integration of SentinelOne Singularity Complete and Visions to better utilize the information we receive.

The browser extension for SentinelOne Hunter is a product designed for monitoring and detecting at a browser level. This library is widely recognized. It should not only detect incidents but also proactively block them within the browser environment. Therefore, I would appreciate seeing the browser extension react more effectively to events, going beyond mere detection.

I have been using SentinelOne Singularity Complete for one year.

I rate the stability of Singularity Complete nine out of ten.

I rate the scalability of Singularity Complete nine out of ten.

We have used technical support a few times, and they were excellent and very competent.

Positive

We have seen a return on investment.

The organization assessed Carbon Black but found greater value in SentinelOne Singularity Complete.

I rate SentinelOne Singularity Complete nine out of ten.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete is a mature solution that offers a multitude of features and the potential to enhance security within an organization. This presents significant value for security professionals.

We have deployed SentinelOne Singularity Complete across multiple divisions, various business units, and numerous locations spanning Europe, the US, and Japan. As a global organization, Singularity Complete seamlessly integrates with any internet-enabled entity, providing robust agent support upon connection.

Two individuals are responsible for the maintenance tasks, which include updating agents, upgrading policies, and deploying packages.

Having SentinelOne as a strategic security partner is a positive development.

Before assessing Singularity Complete, we need to dedicate a substantial six-month period to thoroughly engage with the product. This entails working with it on a daily basis, comprehending its intricacies, and obtaining full administrative rights to explore and interact with all its features and functionalities.

Everyone who is a client of ours gets SentinelOne by default. It provides ransomware protection, malware protection, and increased security. Those are our top-three selling points for SentinelOne when we talk to clients.

Prior to deploying Sentinel One, we had a team of staff members dedicated to ransomware prevention and malware alerts. Since deploying Sentinel One, we have been able to allow that team to focus on other proactive security measures for our clients.

The dashboard alerting is great and it has helped us out a ton.

SentinelOne has also greatly reduced incident response time, based on the toolsets and the ability to deploy it to new companies through a script. That has been very helpful. It has decreased the amount of time spent on incident response by 40 to 60 hours a month.

And when it comes to mean time to repair, while we haven't had a situation where we've had to reload an operating system or repair to that extent, we've used the 1-Click Rollback feature which saves several hours over a reload of a PC. 

The detection and response feature is really good for us. 

Also, there is a feature called Applications, and it shows all the critical applications that are on devices that may need to be reviewed.

The solution’s Static AI and Behavioral AI technologies are great when it comes to protecting against file-based, fileless, and Zero-day attacks. I would rate that aspect at eight out of 10. They have been great at detection.

The solution’s 1-Click Rollback for reversing unauthorized changes is also huge for us. That is one of the top reasons we have SentinelOne in place. For example, we had a site that had downloaded malware on a share for their sales office. It was trying to move laterally throughout the network but SentinelOne detected it. We then used the 1-Click option to remove it from the 10 or so PCs it had infected. Then we blocked it based on the information SentinelOne provided to us. That way if it happened again, it would already be blocked and wouldn't be allowed to launch.

One area of SentinelOne that definitely has room for improvement is the reporting. The canned reports are clunky and we haven't been able to pull a lot of good information directly from them.

Also, integration is almost non-existent. We would really like to see integration with ConnectWise. Within ConnectWise Automate, you're only allowed to deploy at the top-level group. Our company is dealership-focused, but if we have a parent dealership that has 10 sub-dealerships with SentinelOne, we have to treat them as one large group instead of one parent and 10 sub-groups. That's been a pain point for us. We've done some workarounds, but since there is no integration, it's tough.

I have been using SentinelOne for about two years.

We haven't had any issues, outages, or upgrades. I would rate the stability at 10 out of 10.

One of the features that we love about SentinelOne is that we don't have to buy licenses ahead of time. It just scales up as we grow. We're bringing on a client now that has 500 endpoints and I don't have to worry about contacting sales at SentinelOne and getting a PO for 500 licenses. It just scales up and we're charged based on what we use, which is awesome.

The solution is on 100 percent of our clients that we manage, and that's going to be the goal moving forward. Our sales team does not put in a contract without SentinelOne.

SentinelOne technical support has always been very quick and responsive. We haven't used them a lot. We're a technology company as well and we're able to fix the minor stuff ourselves or by looking at a knowledge base.

One of our concerns or complaints at the beginning was the lack of training, which they fixed. They allowed us to schedule our staff to do the eight hours of free training, which was great. That would have been my only complaint, but that was resolved a few months ago.

Positive

We didn't have any EDR solution in place like SentinelOne. We had Bitdefender for antivirus, but that has been removed. Our existing antivirus was failing in several ways. It wasn't detecting everything that was coming through. That was the big catalyst for the switch.

Originally, we had SentinelOne through SolarWinds, which was our previous RMM tool. And when we migrated to ConnectWise, we moved our existing licenses over.

The initial setup was straightforward. It was through our RMM. We bought licenses and we had a one-click deployment to deploy that software. And when we migrated, the gentleman who helped us was awesome. We migrated 9,000 endpoints from that RMM directly into SentinelOne, and he did a lot of the heavy lifting. We just had to check and confirm things were getting moved over.

The migration of the 9,000 agents took 10 to 14 days.

Our implementation strategy included a deployment where we would do a test phase. We picked certain endpoints at different clients and we would deploy and set it in a "listen-only" mode and see what it caught. If everything was good, we would then turn it on to regular mode. That process helped a lot in the implementation.

We have about 75 people in our company using SentinelOne. The main roles among them are about 60 percent help desk, which is view-only; 20 percent client-side, which is reporting and view-only; and the rest are our engineering level where they have the ability to do rollbacks and fix certain issues that are coming in. There is very little maintenance involved with the solution, maybe a handful of hours a month. We have it set up to auto-update. Prior to that, we had to set up our script to download the most recent version, but that's all been replaced now with automation. Maintenance on the actual system is very minimal.

In the past, we had to purchase licenses in advance, so if we hit our license limit, we could not expand until we got a signed agreement in place with the sales rep after the back-and-forth. That meant if a client had ransomware and they had 200 agents, we couldn't deploy right away if we were up against our limit. So we always had that balancing act of figuring out if we were close to our limit and whether we needed to buy more licenses? We ended up paying for licenses we didn't need because we had to buy them in packages of 100.

We now pay based on usage. They do an audit once a quarter and calculate any overages. We pay a set amount quarterly, based on our licenses in use, and then they true-up the figure. Right now we have 12,800 agents with SentinelOne on them. We charge our clients monthly, so it would be really difficult for us to write a check to SentinelOne, in advance, for a full year's worth, at that level. It's been great for us to have the quarterly payments.

We looked at CylancePROTECT in addition to SentinelOne. We liked the pricing better and the contract options better with SentinelOne. The deployment also seemed to be easier. In addition, SentinelOne detected things that others missed. We did a few quick trials of other solutions, but SentinelOne seemed to be the best in terms of detection. For example, we did a test with Mimikatz and SentinelOne detected it immediately, whereas some of the others bypassed or didn't see it at all.

And when we talked to the ConnectWise sales rep—because ConnectWise was integrated with Cylance at that point, and SentinelOne was not—the rep told us that they were actually dropping Cylance and moving to SentinelOne over the next year for integration, which was a big factor for us.

My advice would be to implement SentinelOne immediately. It is one of the top things that we've implemented and it has saved us countless hours. It's really hard to quantify the savings, but if a client were to get ransomware, it could involve weeks of several team members working around the clock to get them back up and running. Since we've implemented this, we haven't had to do that in an environment where we had experienced having to do so previously.

The biggest thing I've learned from using SentinelOne is that there are a lot more attacks out there than a typical antivirus will display. Regular antivirus, rather than an EDR-type platform, gives people a false sense of security because there are a lot of processes running in the background that the typical antivirus solution is not equipped to catch. It was eye-opening when we started deploying this at clients, locations where we felt we had very good peace of mind in terms of what was happening. SentinelOne started detecting things left and right that were completely unable to be seen prior.

We use the tool for malware protection and the XDR portion to track intrusions and possible exploitations.

I find the product very easy to maintain and troubleshoot. Their engineers are very helpful if you need additional assistance. It's one of the best products I've used. It's easy to use from my standpoint, both for troubleshooting and with the support we get from their team if necessary.

I find its interoperability with other solutions very good. When there are issues, because everything eventually has issues, the team is very good about running logs and finding out what portion is having issues. We can either exclude a portion of it or make it work. They find a solution.

We haven't had any issues with how we ingest or correlate data across security solutions. We use APIs and things like that to ingest data. For us, we haven't had any issues with the tools we use, but I can't speak for other organizations.

We now have threat hunting, visibility, and malware protection in one console. There are other portions we don't leverage because we choose to keep them separate, like our firewall, but we could if we wanted to.

The solution has helped us reduce false positives. We still get alerts, but I think they're more dynamic now. We have fewer issues with systems. It doesn't take as many resources, so we don't have outages caused by hijacking resources. We've probably reduced our issues with that by 90 percent from the previous program we were using.

The tool has helped free up our team's time. Especially when it comes to upgrades, I went from taking several months with the previous software to getting it done in a week or two for 15,000 to 17,000 assets. It's freed up months.

While I don't track mean time to detect specifically, I know it's very quick because of the way it detects intrusions. It's anomaly-based, not signature-based. It will flag something, review it, determine whether it's a false positive or actually malicious, and then quarantine it. It's pretty instantaneous. We've averted several ransomware attempts before they could infect anything.

Our mean time to respond has decreased significantly. The response is much quicker now, especially since very little gets reverted to us for handling. The Vigilance AI portion usually takes care of most of it, determining the severity of something and whether it needs human attention.

It has helped us save costs, particularly regarding fewer infections throughout the network. While I don't have exact numbers, we've had a reduction in costs associated with reimaging machines due to malware.

It would be nice to be able to adjust the canned reports manually and choose the specific data we want to report on instead of being limited to their pre-set reports.

I have been using the product for three years. 

In terms of stability, we have no downtime from SentinelOne Singularity Complete. We may have some complications with interoperability when we deploy something new that didn't get tested, but that's usually not SentinelOne's fault. It's usually because a third party changed something that had already been whitelisted.

We haven't had any issues with scalability. It scales very well from small to large. We're at 16,000 endpoints, and it's very easy to deploy and manage.

I've contacted technical support myself. Their response time depends on the severity with which you submit the case. For low priority, it takes about a day or two. For high priority, it's within an hour or two, according to their SLA. They're very prompt.

Positive

We switched from Symantec to SentinelOne Singularity Complete mainly because of cost and technology changes. Symantec wasn't changing quickly enough as technology moved toward the cloud, and things were going faster. Broadcom was still using heavy, clunky on-premises agents that used a lot of resources. SentinelOne Singularity Complete was new, next-gen, smoother, and quicker with less downtime. They manage their end in the cloud, so we don't have to maintain our console.

We saw the benefits immediately after deployment. The deployment was seamless, easy to learn, and easy to use—very intuitive. The initial deployment was pretty seamless and easy. It took us about six months to fully deploy, but that was because we did it in segments. We're a global organization with many different entities, so we had to do it segmented. It probably would have taken us a quarter if we had just set it out all at once.

The only maintenance we require is keeping our agents up to date. We do this manually because we go through a change approval process to ensure we don't introduce anything that will harm the system. We then test and deploy.

We used SentinelOne's guidance, but we did the deployment ourselves in-house.

My impression of SentinelOne Singularity Complete as a strategic security partner is that it's state-of-the-art, easy, and uncomplicated. As an engineer, I find the product easy to deploy, maintain, and efficiently. I rate the overall solution a ten out of ten. 

I advise new users to read the manual before they start using it. Understand all the different modules to utilize them as intended and get the best out of them. Also, use their support if you have questions before you deploy. Get a game plan and follow their recommendations.

Our primary use cases involve Endpoint Detection and Response and Extended Detection and Response.

My positive experience with SentinelOne lies in its comprehensive version, allowing for rollback and replay of events, which is especially useful for EDR. The strength of behavior-based solutions like SentinelOne, CrowdStrike, CyberArk, and others lies in their ability to reveal the consequences of opening a file. Witnessing the impact of a virus gaining control over a computer or understanding the ramifications of opening a file adds a layer of insight.

It stands out for its seamless interoperability with other SentinelOne products and tools, facilitated by REST interfaces. This integration is particularly potent when connecting SentinelOne as an endpoint solution to firewalls like Fortinet, allowing the firewall to receive insights from SentinelOne clients. In today's landscape, where file transfers often occur through encrypted channels, traditional firewalls face challenges in inspecting these streams effectively. SentinelOne's endpoint security addresses this by analyzing downloaded files in their decrypted form, providing a crucial layer of protection. The bidirectional information flow between the firewall and endpoint security, enabled by SentinelOne's REST API, empowers proactive threat prevention and detection, contributing to a robust cybersecurity posture.

Utilizing SentinelOne has significantly reduced the number of alerts for us. We might have experienced more false positives and missed potential attacks without it. Its alert system is efficient, with a low rate of false positives compared to other solutions I've heard about. Managing alerts is straightforward, and the platform allows for creating white lists to handle false positives, such as those related to old printer drivers. The administration is user-friendly, offering features like multi-factor authentication for secure connections to the console and automatic updates within the SentinelOne interface.

It has proven to be a time-saver for our staff, significantly reducing the likelihood of falling victim to various cyber threats. By addressing the spectrum of attacks, from initial malware infiltration to potential worst-case scenarios like Active Directory compromise, SentinelOne has played a pivotal role. It effectively diminishes the probability of becoming a target for attacks that exploit stolen passwords, infiltrate the company's IT infrastructure, and escalate privileges, ultimately leading to severe consequences such as a randomized Active Directory.

The platform is user-friendly, easy to administer, and aligns well with GDPR requirements, which is crucial for us. What makes SentinelOne stand out is its speed and efficiency, consuming minimal computing resources. It operates by checking data only when it's accessed, synchronizing with the process that opens the data which is well-designed and effective.

I don't actively use SentinelOne's Ranger functionality because we haven't implemented it university-wide. While we've employed it in specific cases, my experience with it is limited. However, it provides valuable insights into past events, allowing you to trace the history of a virus download or malware activity. For instance, you might discover that a virus was downloaded two weeks ago using the Safari web browser, saved to the computer, and later opened with Excel, triggering certain actions before SentinelOne intervened. The ability to roll back such ransom actions is a valuable capability provided by SentinelOne.

It primarily operates on local machines, monitoring processes, and not always providing detailed insights, relying on external information to determine the nature of a file. This limitation becomes apparent in more complex scenarios, such as analyzing or assessing the content of files at the byte level, especially in cases involving files like Excel, where there may be some difficulty in discerning potential issues. They should consider incorporating a cloud-based service where users can upload suspicious links, documents like Excel sheets, or ambiguous files to observe their behavior in a sandbox environment. Currently, with SentinelOne, the process involves setting up a separate network and machine for this purpose, requiring users to upload the file and monitor its behavior on the dedicated machine. Offering a free and accessible service like this would be a noteworthy enhancement to their product, providing users with a convenient and efficient way to analyze potentially harmful content.

I have been working with it for four years.

I would rate its stability capabilities ten out of ten.

I would rate its scalability abilities nine out of ten.

I am highly satisfied with their technical support; it is truly excellent. I would rate it ten out of ten.

Positive

Comparatively, SentinelOne has certain drawbacks, particularly when measured against CrowdStrike. CrowdStrike offers a free sandbox at hybrid-analysis.com, allowing the examination of links and downloaded files on a virtual machine. This proves especially valuable in assessing potential phishing emails. Uploading the file or link to hybrid-analysis.com provides a detailed analysis, complete with screenshots of what transpires on the virtual machine. This includes actions like the opening of links, prompting CEO impersonation attempts, and other background information. While SentinelOne may lack these specific features, its advantage lies in being an all-encompassing solution, whereas CrowdStrike functions primarily as a managed service, which may not align with specific preferences.

The initial setup was straightforward.

The deployment of Singularity Complete involved some consultation, as we collaborated with a partner who facilitated the onboarding process with SentinelOne. While the partner occasionally provides support, larger issues are infrequent, and overall, the deployment has been relatively smooth. We have implemented it across various locations. There is some maintenance involved in managing Singularity Complete.

It's challenging to quantify precisely, but the implementation of Singularity Complete has significantly reduced organizational risks. Currently, we employ it on critical systems, constituting approximately fifty percent of our infrastructure.

Creating separate groups for various types of computers, like Windows servers and clients, enables efficient management and customization of security configurations tailored to specific needs. Overall, I would rate it ten out of ten.

One of our use cases is that we wanted some type of visibility into our vulnerabilities and insight into our endpoints.

Ranger really helps us because, even though we're a smaller team of security professionals, it gives us a good eyes-on-glass approach. And if there is a known vulnerability, we can automatically see that without having to spend more time looking at it. In the past, we would do all of this manually. We would have to go into our systems and see which IP address is coming from the outside world and see the IP address, workstation, current version, hostname, MAC address, et cetera. Now, we can easily see that in the report that we get every day.

We used Rapid7, but Singularity has certainly helped reduce alerts. We have a threshold set in Singularity so that if one of our critical devices is vulnerable, we get automated email alerts. The alerts tell us what we need to look at in terms of logs and the like, and they help us automate some of our internal processes.

Personally, it has saved me a lot of time, about one-third of my day. And our mean time to detect has been reduced by anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour. But our mean time to respond has been pretty much about the same. I'm logging into SentinelOne every day and I see what's going on. If there is anything that needs to be talked about with our sysadmin team to get patches rolled out, we have a meeting about it every week. SentinelOne, overall, has brought our organizational risk down by at least 35 to 40 percent.

It helps us with our compliance efforts too, especially for auditing. If someone asks, "Do you have a list of all your endpoints?" we can definitely say "yes." And if they ask, "How is it categorized, by IP address, workstation, or OS?" we can see it's on this particular network and it's made by that manufacturer.

With Ranger, we can see the device inventory, the networks, how many workstations we have that it's scanning, how many printers, how many mobile and IoT devices, and servers.

It identifies what applications are vulnerable. If I go to the applications, such as Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Reader, I can see our current list of vulnerabilities: How many are vulnerable and how many need to be updated with patching. One of the most valuable aspects is the ease of finding specific vulnerabilities.

About every month, when I go into SentinelOne, if there is a vulnerability that we know about, I search for that vulnerability—for example, Adobe. There are different versions of Adobe, but I'm not able to compile them into one report. I have to create separate reports for those versions. Some of the reporting could be improved a little bit. I wish all Adobe products could be included together, or that you could mix and match Adobe with some other software or video player.

We have used SentinelOne for the last year and a half, and we're pretty happy with it.

I haven't had any issues with the platform. There hasn't been any crashing or lagging. Everything seems to be current. Overall, it's pretty seamless and I get really good results with it. I include it in my routine every morning and afternoon. I review the SentinelOne reports to see what vulnerabilities have been detected.

It is definitely scalable. You can really expand it and, for us, that is huge. As our organization grows, we will likely look at acquisitions, and, with those acquisitions, we will definitely get the other company's devices deployed through SentinelOne. It will allow us to grow and have their devices in the SentinelOne console as well, and have visibility.

I have contacted their support for a vulnerability issue, and they were able to help out with that. They told me how to get it remediated and what scan to perform.

It has helped us consolidate our security solutions. At one point, we had Rapid7 and SentinelOne. However, we realized we could take what Rapid7 has and consolidate it into one platform. At a high level, they're almost the same tool, but SentinelOne has a few more features and functionalities.

Also, we could see how many operating systems we have in our current environment through the standard image system we had. But now, we can see that through SentinelOne. That has been a key takeaway because we can see how many Windows, Linux, Apple, and Android devices we have.

In addition to Rapid7, we were looking at CrowdStrike for our endpoint detection, and at Sophos as well. Clearly, SentinelOne was the best for us.

SentinelOne is definitely a leader in the marketplace because it has a lot of features to offer. There are some pretty good integrations with it as well, and there are things you can change in the settings and how it's deployed.

The quality of the solution is great. I don't have any complaints other than that small reporting issue I mentioned. In terms of maturity, Singularity is one of the top-notch eyes-on-glass solutions that you can have, especially as it relates to your endpoints and vulnerabilities. It gives you that technical deep dive into what the vulnerability is, what workstation it's on, and whether there are any other endpoints affected.

There are some integrations that we could possibly use, but we haven't used any. There is one with KnowBe4 that we are looking to use.

As for maintenance, I don't have to do any in my role, but it does require some, such as upgrading versions.

If you're looking for a solution like SentinelOne, and you're looking to get an eyes-on-glass approach for your endpoint devices and your vulnerability management program, this could be one of your top solutions. Overall, I'm happy with it and my team is very happy with it. Our scans are fully automated and that is never an issue for us. It offers a lot of capabilities, expansion, and growth. If your company is looking to grow, it's definitely all there for you. You get a really good report on your devices and your networks.

It is an all-in-one agent on multiple operating systems that can detect malicious and suspicious activities. You can also use it to respond to different threat signals that you get from the platform.

There are multiple engines that run different types of detection, such as behavioral-type activities, that it can detect. It can also detect malicious activity based on a hash. It's a pretty great tool.

Overall, the level of detection and visibility we get have vastly improved, and that means the protection for our company has improved likewise.

Singularity has helped reduce the number of alerts we get. We were using FireEye at one point, and it was producing a ton of false positives. We have seen a major reduction in false positives, and that has saved our team's time. We have time to do other projects now.

In my previous company, we were using a Cisco product, and there was a ton of time wasted. Out of a 40-hour week, about eight to 10 hours were wasted, and with Singularity, we were able to get back about nine of those hours. Obviously, there are alerts coming in, and you have to investigate them, but the number was greatly reduced. In my current company, about 15 hours a week were wasted with false positives and wild goose chases and alerts. Now, we may put an hour into investigations. The great thing about SentinelOne is that you can get right down to what's going on with the events and deep visibility. It has saved us around 12 to 14 hours a week.

It's pretty quick when it comes to time to detect because you're right on the endpoint. Some agents have a delay in terms of when they report back to a console or a reporting server, but with SentinelOne, it seems that the agent is talking to the console right away. There isn't a huge delay.

Our mean time to respond is also very quick once we see the threat come in. It depends on the policy that is in place and the type of threat. If it is something suspicious, which we don't always have a set response for with the platform, we are able to easily look at what's going on a couple of minutes before the threat and what comes after. We can see the artifact on the endpoint, what is executed and what the user was probably doing. That means we're able to respond really quickly with all that visibility.

When it comes to cost savings, in the first company where I used SentinelOne, man-hours were saved, and it was cheaper to use SentinelOne than the Cisco product.

One use case where we've reduced risk has been due to users using something risky. They were trying to use an application that's like a keylogger. We've blocked it, and we've also created a rule using a star to detect when people are trying to use it. We have also set up rules to detect downloads of risky software, and that's protecting us too. It's protecting us from risk, but there's not a lot of reduction other than some protections and blacklists.

The deep visibility is a valuable feature. I can use it during threats or alert signals that we get. I can also use it when we have alert signals from other security tools that we have. I can use the SentinelOne platform to dive into those, even though there's no alert from SentinelOne, and zero in with a timestamp using its deep visibility to look at an endpoint and see if there's anything going on that might be correlated to a threat.

And Singularity's interoperability with other solutions has been a major bonus. You can put exclusions in place for other security platforms. For example, if you're using Symantec, you could easily put in an exclusion for that. The way that you can put them in, with the scope and the different groups, is really great. Singularity also provides pre-baked exclusions for interoperability with other pieces of equipment. For instance, for Microsoft SQL Servers, it already has pre-baked exclusions that you can put in for interoperability. It's far beyond the other platforms that I was using before.

In terms of ingestion, it's definitely taking in a lot of information at the endpoint level. You still need a human to do some of the correlation of the activities. The SentinelOne platform is looking at the endpoint, but you still need a human on the other end to analyze what the human at the other end of the endpoint was doing. But overall the solution does pretty well at correlating activities. I have seen some serious threats come in, and it definitely detects them right away with a pretty good correlation to the threat.

During my use of it over the years, they've been continuously improving it.

My biggest complaint is that when you're logged into the console there is the Help section where you can review all the documentation. But when you log in to the support portal, there is documentation there as well. They need to sync those two into one place so that I don't have to search in two different locations for an answer.

And I'm on the fence about whether to keep the agents a little bit longer than they do, before they go end-of-support. That might be an improvement, but I'm not positive about that.

I have been using SentinelOne Singularity Complete for about four years.

Uptime is all the time. 

I've only had one experience where there was a disconnect between the agents and the console. It was pretty brief, but that is when I opened a case with support. I had never seen that before, so the uptime is awesome. It's up 99.9 percent of the time.

It's very scalable. We are working on a special project, in which we want to set up a lab for a special event. I talked with our support, and they said we could set up another site. It's really scalable.

As I mentioned, I recently had a case because there were a lot of agents offline for a moment. Their support responded within one minute. That was an outlier. Every other case that I've opened up with them has not been a priority-one issue, but they usually respond within about five to 10 minutes, and they have been really great. I have not had an issue yet with support.

Everyone I've worked with in support is awesome. They always have the answers. Even if it's a complex issue, we usually get right down to it. I'm really happy with support.

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I have used it in two different workplaces. Both workplaces were replacing platforms that just did not perform well and did not give you good visibility into what was going on on the endpoints. Both had a higher rate of false positives, and neither had the various detection engines that SentinelOne provides.

I was involved in the initial deployment of the solution in my previous place of employment and it was straightforward. It was only made complex by our own IT department.

There is a little maintenance. I check on a daily basis because you can build out multiple groups. When a new agent is deployed, I have it start off in a specific group to get the agent installed, and then it does a full disk scan. There is a little maintenance—and maybe no one else does this—but I log in and check for new systems. Once they have their full disk scan completed, I'll move them over to the production policy. You could do that on a weekly basis but I do it daily. The morning maintenance is less than five minutes for me, and you could definitely do that weekly as well.

I did it mostly by myself. I had another engineer working with me but that was it. It's really easy, a no-brainer. And that was for about 1,200 endpoints

I'm not a manager, but the return on investment may be in saving man hours.

When we were checking out different platforms we did get a price from Microsoft and it was unreasonable. SentinelOne was definitely reasonable and worth the money.

I've used several different platforms. We had a demo of the Carbon Black EDR, and I've used the FireEye EDR, Symantec, and Cisco.

We did a comparison between CrowdStrike, Carbon Black, and looked at Microsoft's EDR products.

As far as consolidation of security solutions goes, I have some suggestions for my leadership. I think we can definitely consolidate. For instance, we have a certain network segmentation where we have multiple security tools, including the SentinelOne agent and other agents on the devices. These devices are lower-end systems that don't have super-high specs like you might have on a power user's PC. In that area, we could eliminate one of the security agents and leave the SentinelOne agent. We would be covered in several different areas, such as FIM. I could create a custom rule to watch a certain configuration file, and if it changed, we would receive an alert. You can definitely use it to consolidate. Although we haven't done that yet, we're going to start because it's possible with the SentinelOne.

I believe we could save money by reducing the number of agents on those endpoints. If you walk that back to the yearly cost when we buy licenses, we should be able to save money on licensing for the other agent that we're using.

SentinelOne is very mature as an EDR platform. I would definitely put it in my top two. Across the breadth of everything I've dealt with using SentinelOne, even support, it's definitely top-two and you should check it out. I don't have a bad thing to say about it.

You definitely have to check out SentinelOne. They are firing on all cylinders for multiple areas that you want to consider when buying a tool like this. They're at 100 percent. When it comes to visibility, they present the information so that it's easy to read and understand. Responding is really easy to do. Support, which is a big factor nowadays, has faltered at some companies over the past four years, but support from SentinelOne has been awesome. Put SentinelOne in your PoCs. If you're looking at a couple of companies, you have to look at SentinelOne.

SentinelOne as a provider is a major player in hardening the protection of our environment.

We use Singularity Complete as our EDR software. It's replacing our old antivirus solution. It covers about 80 endpoints. 

SentinelOne has improved the overall security posture of the firm without creating a lot of hassle for our end-users. Everything is a bit more secure. We think Singularity Complete has helped us reduce our organizational risks. 

SentinelOne detects threats automatically and performs the remediation itself, so we don't need to constantly look at the logs. It reduces the meantime to respond because it automatically responds to the detected threats.

We started using SentinelOne Singularity at the start of this year, so it has been nearly seven months.

I have had no stability issues so far. 

We only started using it at the beginning of this year, so the number of users has stayed the same. I have no experience scaling it up, but it's easy to add more devices to the platform. I don't foresee having any problems with scalability.

We receive technical support from our partner, so I have no experience with SentinelOne support. 

We previously used Bitdefender as our antivirus solution. We switched to SentinelOne because we wanted to improve the overall security of our endpoints. SentinelOne offers more advanced and comprehensive protection than a traditional antivirus solution.  

We contracted with a partner to deploy SentinelOne, so I wasn't involved in the deployment. Our partner also handles the maintenance.

SentinelOne is more expensive than our previous tool, but we're hoping to see a return by saving money on recovering from some kind of incident.

I rate Singularity Complete a seven out of ten for affordability. It's more expensive than our previous solution, but it does its job well. At the same time, there is some room for improvement. Cheaper is always better.

Though Microsoft's solution was suggested, we only seriously considered SentinelOne. That was the one that stood out during research. Also, I heard from my peers that it was the best one, so I didn't look at other options.

I rate SentinelOne Singularity Complete a nine out of ten. I recommend it. SentinelOne works as advertised. It's an innovative solution, but it's hard for me to compare it to other products because I don't have much security expertise. It's a mature solution that has no bugs that I've experienced. I have confidence in it.

Our use cases are for client and server visibility in our enterprise and operational technology environments, as EPP and EDR solutions.

Traditionally, we have had an open policy on endpoints in terms of what has actually been installed. We don't really centrally manage the application. So, we have had a sort of dirty environment. Now that we have SentinelOne with its advanced capabilities, this has enabled us to detect and categorize unwanted applications. It has given us a good foothold into the area of inventory management on endpoints when it comes to our applications as well.

One of the main selling points of SentinelOne is its one-click, automatic remediation and rollback for restoring an endpoint. It is extremely effective. Everything is reduced, like cost and manpower, by having these capabilities available to us.

The Deep Visibility feature is the most useful part of the EDR platform. It gives us good insights into what is actually happening on the endpoints, e.g., when we have malicious or suspicious activity. We came from a legacy type AV previously, so we didn't have that level of visibility or understanding. For simplifying threat-hunting, it is extremely useful, where traditional techniques in threat hunting are quite laborious. We can put in indicators of compromise and it will sweep the environment for them, then they would give us a breakdown of what assets have been seen and where they have been seen, which is more of a forensics overview.

From a forensics point of view, we can see exactly what is going on with the endpoint when we have threats in progress. It also gives us the ability to react in real-time, if it has not been handled by the AI. We have set the policy to protect against unknown threats, but only alert on suspicious ones. 

The Behavioral AI feature is excellent. It is one of the reasons why we selected SentinelOne. We needed a solution that was quite autonomous in its approach to dealing with threats when presented, which it has handled very well. It has allowed us to put resources into other areas, so we don't need to have someone sitting in front of a bunch of screens looking at this information.

The Behavioral AI recognizes novel and fileless attacks, responding in real-time. We have been able to detect several attacks of this nature where our previous solution was completely blind to them. This has allowed us to close gaps in other areas of our environment that we weren't previously aware had some deficiencies.

The Storyline technology is part of our response matrix, where you can see when the threat was initially detected and what processes were touched, tempered, or modified during the course of the threat. The Storyline technology's ability to auto-correlate attack events and map them to MITRE ATT&CK tactics and technique is very effective. By getting that visibility on how the attack is progressing, we can get a good idea of the objective. When we have the reference back to the framework, that is good additional threat intelligence for us.

Storyline automatically assembles a PID tree for us. It gives us a good framing of the information from a visibility standpoint, so it is not all text-based. We can get a visualization of how the threat or suspicious activity manifested itself.

The abilities of Storyline have enabled our incident response to be a lot more agile. We are able to react with a lot greater speed because we have all the information front and center.

The solution’s distributed intelligence at the endpoint is extremely effective. We have a lot of guys who are road warriors. Having that intelligence on the network to make decisions autonomously is highly valuable for us.

The role-based access is in dire need of improvement. We actually discussed this on a roadmap call and were informed that it was coming, but then it was delayed. It limits the roles that you can have in the platform, and we require several custom roles. We work with a lot of third-parties whom we rely on for some of our IT services. Part of those are an external SOC function where they are over-provisioned in the solution because there isn't anything relevant for the level of work that they do.

We have used it for around 10 to 11 months.

In the 11 months that we have had it, we have only had one problem. That was related back to a bug on the endpoint agent. So. it is very stable when I compare it to other platforms that I have used, like McAfee, Symantec, and Cylance.

Being a SaaS service, they take care of all the maintenance on the back-end. The only thing that we have to do is lifecycle the agents when there is a new version or fixes. So, it is very minimal.

It is highly scalable. It is just a case of purchasing more licensing and deploying agents.

We have three global admins, myself included, with about 10 other administrators. Primarily, the way that we are structured is we have a client team and a server team. So, we have resources from each geographical region who have access to the solution to police their own environment on a geographical basis. So, we have three global admins, then everybody else just has a sort of SoC-based level functionality, which goes back to the custom role issue because this is too much access. 

The technical support is very good. My only criticism is they are not very transparent when they are giving you a resolution to a problem. We have had several cases where we have had a problem that we have been given the fix for it. However, when we asked for background information on the actual problem, just to get some more clarity, it is very difficult to get that. I don't know if it's relative to protecting the information regarding the platform or a liability thing where they don't want to give out too much information. But, in my experience, most vendors when you have a problem, they are quite open in explaining what the cause of the issue was. I find SentinelOne is a bit more standoffish. We have gotten the information in the end, but it is not an easy process. 

When responding to fixing a problem, they are excellent. It is any of the background information that we are after (around a particular problem) that we find it difficult to get the right information.

We were previously using Trend Micro Deep Security. The primary reason why we switched was that it is rubbish. It is a legacy-based AV. We had a lot of problems functionality-wise. It was missing a lot of things, e.g., no EDR, no NextGen capabilities, and it had interoperability problems with our Windows platform deployments. So, there was just this big, long list of historical problems.

We specifically selected SentinelOne for its rollback feature for ransomware. When we started looking into securing a new endpoint solution about 24 months ago, there was a big uptick in ransomware attacks in the territory where I am based. This was one of the leading criteria for selecting it.

The initial setup is extremely straightforward. The nature of the platform has been very simplistic when it comes to configuring the structure for our assets and policies. Several other platforms that I have worked with are quite complex in their nature, taking a lot of time. We were up and running within a day on the initial part of our rollout. For the whole organization, it took us about 30 days to roll out completely in five different countries across roughly 20,000 endpoints. 

Behavioral AI works both with or without a network connection. We tested it several times during procurement. It can work autonomously from the network. One of our selection criteria was that we needed it to be autonomous because we have air gapped environments. Therefore, we can connect, install, or disconnect, knowing that we have an adequate level of protection. This mitigates certain risks from our organization. It also gives us good assurance that we have protection.

We had a loose implementation strategy. It was based on geography and the size of the business premises in each country. We started with our administration office, but most of our environment is operational technology, e.g., factories and manufacturing plants.

We did the deployment ourselves, but we had representation from the vendor in the form of their security engineer (SE). We did the work, but he gave us input and advisories during the course of the deployment.

Three of us from the business and one person from Sentinel (their SE) were involved in the deployment of SentinelOne.

We saw a return of investment within the first month.

On several occasions, we found some persistent threats that we wouldn't have known were there by using the Deep Visibility feature.

The solution has reduced incident response time by easily 70 percent.

The solution has reduced mean time to repair by probably 40 to 50 percent. This has been a game changer for us.

Analyst productivity has increased by about 50 percent.

We are on a subscription model by choice. Therefore, we are paying a premium for the flexibility. We would have huge cost savings if we committed to a three-year buy-in. So, it's more expensive than the other solutions that we were looking at, but we have the flexibility of a subscription model. I think the pricing is fair. For example, if we had a three-year tie-in SentinelOne versus Cylance or one of the others, there is not that much difference in pricing. There might be a few euro or dollars here and there, but it's negligible.

We evaluated:

• Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
• Cisco AMP for Endpoints
• CylancePROTECT
  
• Apex One, which is Trend Micro's NextGen platform.

The main differentiator between SentinelOne has been ease of use, configuration, and performance. It outperformed every single one of the other solutions by a large margin in our testing. We had a standardized approach in tests, which was uniform across the platforms. Also, there is a lot of functionality built into SentinelOne, where other vendors offered the additional functionality as paid add-ons from their basic platforms.

During our evaluation process, SentinelOne detected quite a lot of things that other solutions missed, e.g., generic malware detection. We had a test bed of 15,000 samples, and about 150 were left for SentinelOne. What was left was actually mobile device malware, so Android and iOS specific, fileless attacks, and MITRE ATT&CKs. SentinelOne performed a lot stronger than others. Cylance came second to SentinelOne, even though they were 20 percent more effective in speed and detection. The gulf was so huge compared to other solutions.

SentinelOne's EDR is a lot more comprehensive than what is offered by Cylance. They are just two different beasts. SentinelOne is a lot more user-friendly with a lot less impactful on resources. While I saw a lot of statistics from Cylance about how light it is, in reality, I don't think it is as good as the marketing. What I saw from SentinelOne is the claims that they put on paper were backed up by the product. The overall package from SentinelOne was a lot more attractive in terms of manageability, usability, and feature set; it was just a more well-rounded package.

Give SentinelOne a chance. Traditionally, a lot of companies look at the big brand vendors and SentinelOne is making quite a good name for itself. I have actually recommended them to several other companies where I have contacts. Several of those have picked up the solution to have a look at it.

You need to know your environment and make sure it is clean and controlled. If it's clean and you have control, then you will have no problems with this product. If your environment isn't hygienic, then you will run into issues. We have had some issues, but that's nothing to do with the product. We have never been really good at securing what is installed on the endpoint, so we get a lot of false positives. Give it a chance, as it's a good platform.

I would give the platform and company, with the support, a strong eight or nine out of 10.