SentinelOne Singularity Complete Reviews

We are a managed services provider. We are not just using it for ourselves, but we are also supporting it and deploying it for a number of our customers.

The primary use case is that it's endpoint protection software and we use it to protect our end customers' endpoints, whether they are Apple or computers, laptops or servers.

SentinelOne is software as a service, but it has an agent that has to be installed on a computer or a server onsite.

Its Behavioral AI recognizes novel and fileless attacks and responds in real-time. What that means is that we have better confidence. For example, a number of users use USB drives which they bring from home. While we have a lot of customers where we have actually restricted the use of external USB drives, there are certain customers where we cannot restrict that use because of the way they run their businesses. The result, for them, is that there is a constant fear that at any given point in time, an infected USB from someone's home computer can actually infect the whole lot of computers within the corporate environment. But having SentinelOne means we have a certain level of peace of mind, so that even if something completely new tries to enter the network or the system via a USB drive, for example, it doesn't matter. The system will detect it and kill it. There is a level of protection which we never felt before using SentinelOne.

As a managed service provider, the most important thing is that the more secure a customer's network is, the less time our team will spend trying to fix issues. One of our customers is a prestigious hotel in London, and they were struggling, literally battling, with a virus that had infected their network of about 90 computers. Whatever we could have done, and all their previous IT company could have done, could not have eliminated that virus. Even if you completely formatted a computer, it kept coming back. The only way we were able to clean that whole network up and stabilize the environment was when we brought in SentinelOne. Before that it was Symantec, and Symantec couldn't do anything to control that infection. But SentinelOne brought in such stability, that since we introduced it into that network about one-and-a-half years back, not a single report has come in of any infection there.

Also, when we have to report on attacks to a customer, the customer always asks us for the root cause analysis. It is very important for us to understand the behavior and to find out where that infection came from and what it initially did so that we can look at that behavior and try to prevent it from happening again elsewhere. SentinelOne helps us in doing the root cause analysis and reporting back to our customers. It gives us insight into where a problem started and how it propagated into the system. Tracking the history of the virus' actions gives that insight, which is very important. Otherwise, there is no way to create a root cause analysis report for a security breach.

The automatic remediation and rollback in Protect mode, without human intervention, is already enabled on almost all of our computers. That helps us minimize the number of technicians we need to work on things. Automatic remediation is a policy which we enable when we deploy the system, which means that a lot of things happen automatically. And from our side, we only keep an eye on the dashboard. That means that we need fewer technicians to support the system. It provides support itself through that functionality.

Overall, SentinelOne has reduced our incident response time, absolutely. In our case, it's particularly true because we have remote teams working from remote offices. With SentinelOne, we don't need to send someone onsite because we can see a lot of things from a single pane of glass on the dashboard. And if there is a problem, we can do all the troubleshooting, and working on that incident, remotely. So it has definitely improved the way we have provided cybersecurity to our customers.

And it has reduced our mean time to repair by more than 60 percent. Previously, when we were using other solutions, we had to do a lot more work.

The solution's automation has also increased analyst productivity. The effect is significant in the sense that the amount of time our analysts used to spend on security has been reduced. These days, they only have a look at the dashboard which is open on one of the screens in our office. They just keep an eye on that and as long as it shows everything is green, they don't even bother drilling down and looking at other stuff. It's only when they see an alarm coming up that they jump in and look at it. That was never the case before. Before, they were remotely accessing computers and working on them and trying to fix issues. That has become a thing of the past since we started using SentinelOne.

It's artificial intelligence-based software. The best part is the fact that it doesn't necessarily rely on definitions, like other software. For example, Symantec, AVG, Avast, and Kaspersky, traditional antivirus software, rely on virus definitions. So every now and then, if there is a virus infection, they will compile a new set of virus definitions and push it to the local agent so it will know that this virus exists and that it should keep an eye out for it. 

These traditional software solutions have small levels of functionality that may help them to identify if there are any dodgy activities within the computer. They would then try to mitigate those, but only to a very limited extent. With SentinelOne, that's not the case because it basically has its own intelligence to identify any dodgy behavior within the system. As soon as SentinelOne detects anything which is not right, it will start tracing the changes being made. And because it's centrally controlled, it will give the controller team an early indication that there is something wrong and that we need to fix it. Not only that, but it will block it and keep track of it for mitigation.

We also use the solution’s ActiveEDR technology. Because it's an agent-based system, it is monitoring internally. It's not that the central system is doing it. It's keeping an eye on the functioning of the endpoint itself. If the endpoint is functioning properly, it will sit behind the scenes and not do anything at all. As soon as it sees any malicious activity within the system, that's where it's triggered. The artificial intelligence part of the agent is able to differentiate what activity can be considered malicious and what activity can be considered normal. And that's big. It's something that cannot happen without that kind of intelligence in place.

It has a one-click button that we can use to reverse all those dodgy changes made by a virus program and bring the system quickly back to what it was. That's one of the most important features.

Another valuable feature is that if a machine is infected, one that may infect other computers within the network, we have the capability of segregating that machine so that it remains connected to the internet but is cut off from the other machines in the network. That helps prevent spreading of the infection. That's a very unique feature, one I have not seen in the last 10 to 15 years from any other antivirus program. That's amazing.

We have used it on Mac and we have used it on Windows. We have seen a good level of protection, because since installing it for those of our customers who have taken it, not a single report of a breach has come out. I feel very strongly that the system is quite capable.

One of the areas which would benefit from being improved is the policies. There are still software programs where we need to manually program in the policies to tell the system, "This program is legitimate." Some level of AI-based automation in creating those policies would go a long way in improving the amount of time it takes to deploy the system. 

There is also a bit of room for improvement in the way SentinelOne is deployed. Right now we push it, but a lot of the time the pushing doesn't work. So we have to log in to each computer and do a manual install. That area would help in making the product stronger.

We have been using SentinelOne for about two-and-a-half years.

It's very stable. I have not seen it crash, nor have I seen any other problems.

I have not used their technical support. My engineers have used it, and their feedback about the support has been good so far. I don't think they have had complaints.

The initial setup is straightforward. But when deploying it to 100 or 200 or 300 machines, pushing it is easier than logging on to each machine and doing it manually. But sometimes, pushing doesn't work and doing it manually takes a little bit more time. But that's a one-off exercise.

We don't have much of an implementation strategy for the solution. As an MSP, there are a lot more things going on, day-to-day, than just dealing with SentinelOne. But for deployment, I get my boys to log on to a customer's systems, do the push, and then whatever does not work through push deployment, they install manually.

For maintenance of SentinelOne, we only have two engineers who look at it on a day-to-day basis. We don't need any more than that. In terms of deployment, it depends on the size of the deployment. If it's a 100-user deployment, we would have a team of three or four who would do it over a few days' time.

The return for us is that it has reduced the manpower we require.

Pricing is a bit of a pain point. That's where we have not been able to convince all of our customers to use SentinelOne. The pricing is still on the higher side. It's almost double the price, if not more, of a normal antivirus, such as NOD32, Kaspersky, or Symantec.

I understand that these are not similar products, but for a customer who has a certain amount of money to pay for an antivirus, they can only spend so much. That's where it becomes hard to convince them to pay double the price for endpoint security.

That is the only feature of this product which causes us to step back and not be able to deploy it for absolutely every customer we have. We would love to, but obviously if the customer doesn't have the budget to pay for it, there is not much we can do.

If they can somehow bring the prices down, that would massively help in bringing this to a lot more customers.

We looked into other solutions, but not as deeply as we went into SentinelOne. Because we liked SentinelOne so much, we just stopped there. And we already had experience with the likes of Malwarebytes, Symantec, and AVG. This was a far superior product.

I haven't had a chance to take a deeper dive into Carbon Black, but that is something I have been told is comparable to SentinelOne.

One of the things which attracted me to SentinelOne was the fact that it is the only product which is tied to the SonicWall platform, and we use the SonicWall platform a lot. A lot of our customers have SonicWall firewalls. Having a combination of SonicWall and SentinelOne provides an end-to-end security arrangement with products that are integrated with each other.

Go for it. It's an absolutely brilliant product. But understand what it is before starting to deploy. Unless you understand the product, you will not know how to use it to the best of its best capabilities.

The solution's Behavioral AI works with and without a network connection, providing the internal protection. But having that network connection is important because it will then be able to report it to the central dashboard. While it will do what it has to do locally, it's helpful when the agent reports back to the central dashboard so that the IT Admin can take action. It is important that the systems remain connected to the internet.

But overall, the Behavioral AI is amazing. It's something very new in the market. The way SentinelOne works and the way it is set up, I haven't been more impressed by any other product. It is a step forward in security.

We have 400 to 500 endpoints using SentinelOne at the moment, and all those customers are happy. We are happy that they're using it, because it helps us secure their network better than what they had before. We have it on laptops which have been given to home users, on computers in offices, on servers in computer rooms. They all have SentinelOne and we are happy with the level of protection that it offers.

Moving forward, with every customer whose antivirus is coming up for renewal in our portfolio, we are recommending getting rid of Symantec and other products and taking on SentinelOne.

It's very effective and it's improving by the day. In the last two-and-a half years I have seen that the way it detects and the way it mitigates threats are constantly improving. It's a very effective solution.

We use SentinelOne Singularity Complete as our endpoint security solution to detect malicious activity and unusual behavior. It is a great tool for analytics and forensic investigations, and it has a good feature for catching threats. I was particularly impressed with this feature.

We implemented SentinelOne Singularity Complete to secure our endpoints.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete has helped us consolidate our security solutions. We can create use cases and workflows in SentinelOne, and analyze alerts and logs. We can also create custom policies based on our needs. For example, we can create workflows for post situations, or detect specific types of attacks, such as persistence or defense evasion techniques. We can use these techniques to create our own custom use cases, which can then be deployed in production to detect these types of threats.

After deploying SentinelOne Singularity Complete, we were confident we would not face any endpoint security threats. SentinelOne was able to block the type of events that were a true positive. Sometimes, we have also received false positives, but SentinelOne should detect this activity. So, that was the expectation, and SentinelOne has met it. This is very helpful.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete met our business needs and requirements. It was easy to deploy and manage as an administrator, and we can manage the console without having to constantly connect to the user or machine. We can do many things from the console alone, such as taking remote sessions, uninstalling any other solutions or products, and performing cleanup activities. This has been very helpful. We saw these benefits within one month of deploying Singularity Complete.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete helped reduce the number of false positive alerts we were receiving with our previous solution.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete has helped us save three hours per day of our staff's time. The single console makes it easy to manage compliance, including health check reports and the applications we are managing. We were able to identify and remediate malicious files through the console, without having to resolve the issue directly with users or other teams. This is a significant improvement.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete has helped reduce our MTTD and our MTTR.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete has helped reduce our organizational costs by eliminating the need for other endpoint security solutions. It is a cost-effective solution that provides comprehensive protection.

It has reduced our organizational risk by 90 percent.

The threat detection and prevention capabilities are valuable, providing development programming support that enables us to perform fair investigations. SentinelOne also provides security for installed devices for all operating systems, including Mac, Windows, and Linux, for users who cannot install SentinelOne themselves and need to connect with the administrator.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete needs to support more common development languages, such as PowerShell and Python so that we can better use the solution.

In the release, I would like to have application management features and pre-defined command features that allow us to take control of the system. 

SentinelOne needs to provide more documentation for administrators and analytics.

I have been using SentinelOne Singularity Complete for six months.

I would rate the stability of Singularity Complete eight out of ten.

I would rate the scalability of Singularity Complete eight out of ten.

We have 24/7 support, but it is just moderate.

Neutral

SentinelOne is more secure and offers better scope for threat hunting on Linux than other security solutions, such as CrowdStrike and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. SentinelOne Singularity Complete allows us to consolidate solutions and is easy to administer from a single console.

The initial setup is straightforward. After completing the proof of concept, we deploy the Singularity Complete solution for our clients. We install the agent and create group policies for detection and prevention. We use a configuration management solution to deploy Singularity Complete within five to ten minutes.

One person can complete the deployment.

We implemented the solution in-house.

I would rate SentinelOne Singularity Complete seven out of ten.

I would rate SentinelOne Singularity Complete's ability to be innovative eight out of ten.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete has a mature GUI.

We deployed SentinelOne Singularity Complete in one of our client environments with 13,000 machines and 1,000 servers.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete maintenance consists of daily monitoring for updates and prioritizing policies and requires around five administrators.

SentinelOne is a good strategic partner.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete makes it easy to perform operations and investigations.

We use SentinelOne Singularity Complete as an endpoint detection and response solution to detect advanced threats in memory and protect our environment from ransomware attacks.

We are ingesting data from Singularity Complete into our team. The integration between Singularity Complete and Splunk works well, pushing all alerts from Singularity Complete to our soft tool. We have also looked at other SentinelOne products, but we only use a few of them.

We use Ranger to detect rogue sensors by scanning networks for endpoints that do not have SentinelOne installed. We do not use Ranger Pro.

Ranger is used to identify endpoints that do not have SentinelOne installed, ensuring 100 percent coverage. However, we also use a network access control tool to verify that endpoints have the necessary security telemetry and toolsets installed. The NAC tool can either orchestrate the installation of missing components, quarantine endpoints or simply notify us that components are missing.

The biggest benefit for us, other than mitigating the risks, is that Singularity Complete has raised the bar for red teaming, compared to the previous tool we were using. Some of the agent coverage in the previous toolset was becoming a limitation, but Singularity Complete gives us better coverage and visibility, both for red teaming and in general.

Over time, Singularity Complete has helped to reduce alerts. At the beginning of the implementation, we had to spend some time training the system, accepting events, and so on. However, over time, the number of alerts has been reduced.

Singularity Complete has helped our MTTD by providing broader visibility into our environment.

We collect a lot of telemetry from Singularity Complete. We then use this telemetry to search for malicious processes, which we would not have been able to see before. In other words, in addition to the standard setup that we expect, we are extracting additional telemetry from Singularity Complet to identify malicious processes and other types of threats running on endpoints.

Singularity Complete can be improved by allowing for better nesting of policies. Currently, when we create a policy and want to apply two different policies to an endpoint, we cannot do so. Instead, we must create two separate policies and place the endpoint in each policy, even if the only difference between the policies is slight. This makes the policy nesting process cumbersome and inefficient. Therefore, allowing for nested policies would be a valuable improvement to Singularity Complete.

The Endpoint Health telemetry could be improved. This is likely true of all tools, but I think it would be particularly useful for us to be able to see the sensor when it is running on an endpoint and starts to consume more memory, or if there is a memory leak. This would allow us to collect better telemetry on this topic.

I have been using SentinelOne Singularity Complete for one and a half years.

Singularity Complete is stable, but there are occasional instances where the sensor monitors a specific process that starts to malfunction, which is naturally possible. In these cases, we need to investigate and add an exception to prevent the sensor from monitoring the process so heavily, if it is a valid process so that it can return to normal operation. Therefore, there is a significant amount of tuning required. If the tuning is correct, Singularity Complete operates quite well and is certainly stable.

Singularity Complete is scalable. We have 2,500 endpoints. I know other organizations that have over 70,000 endpoints.

We have technical support that we can access, but I think it could be stronger. Currently, we deal with some local support, but their knowledge is limited. I would like to establish a closer relationship with SentinelOne International support, especially for the upgrade we are planning next year. I was in Tel Aviv in June and July and visited the SentinelOne offices to speak to them about this.

Neutral

Our previous solution, Cybereason was not very good at detecting things happening in memory, so we were looking to replace it with SentinelOne, CrowdStrike, or Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks. The replacement had to be able to see things happening in memory and deal with ransomware attacks. SentinelOne Singularity Complete was able to meet our requirements.

The initial deployment was slightly more complex than our previous tool because we needed to understand and implement the exceptions. These exceptions included both standard exceptions and our own custom exceptions related to how applications behave. However, the complexity is justified by the better coverage and protection that the new tool provides.

Three people from our company were involved in the deployment, which took about six months. This included removing the previous solution and replacing it with Singularity Complete.

The cost of Singularity Complete is similar to our previous solution but it comes with additional options such as Kubernetes integration. We make sure to benchmark the prices against other EDR solutions before renewal to ensure we are not overpaying.

I would rate SentinelOne Singularity Complete eight out of ten.

We started looking at the reception technology, but it was too much for us and required too many permissions. As a result, we did not proceed with it.

Ranger provides network and asset visibility, but we use other telemetry to build a data lake, which we then use to give us more holistic visibility.

Singularity Complete is definitely innovative. It offers better coverage of endpoints and sensors than our previous solution, as well as better coverage from red teams and other threats. It also provides us with much better telemetry from endpoints than our previous solution. This includes features that our previous EDR tool promised but did not deliver.

SentinelOne is a fairly mature product. I think we first looked at it about six or seven years ago when it first came out. It has definitely matured a lot since then. When we first saw SentinelOne, it had a lot of problems with automatically killing things without alerting us. However, we have definitely seen improvements in the solution from a product perspective. Additionally, there are now more modules and integrations available. We have looked at the reception part of it, as well as quite a few other pieces, including Rogue Sensor Pro. We have looked at a lot of little bits, so it has quite broad coverage in terms of what it actually will cover.

We have deployed Singularity Complete across the company and all lines of business, including our branches in South Africa and other parts of Africa. This includes approximately two and a half thousand endpoints.

Four people are managing Singularity Complete. Every six months we have to update the sensors. 

We have definitely told others about and shown them Singularity Complete, and we have told them that we are happy with it. When implementing Singularity Complete, we need to know what our expectations are and, obviously, test the solution thoroughly to prevent any negative outcomes.

I review the data logs from each SentinelOne agent using Skylight to develop queries. We have been using Star Alerts to create custom alerts based on those rules. We also partner with their Vigilance team for 24/7 monitoring.

We implemented SentinelOne Singularity Complete to gain widespread visibility into global markets and to facilitate easy agent deployment for EDR and XDR solutions.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete's interoperability with other SentinelOne and third-party applications is excellent. We recently used a proof of value to integrate some of our other email products, such as Proofpoint, with SentinelOne Singularity Complete. The ease of use has been amazing. Singularity Complete has been a great data ingestion platform, and we have already gained a wealth of data that we never had access to before.

Singularity Complete's ability to ingest and correlate data across our security solutions has been effective. We can see a significant number of events from our DNS logs, firewall logs, and email tenancy. Overall, it has performed very well thus far.

We ended up getting rid of QRadar and relied heavily on Singularity Complete. Singularity Complete allowed us to deploy the SentinelOne agent on a significant number of domain controllers and collect much more information than we could with QRadar alone. We needed to purchase additional licenses to quantify the data more effectively. However, Singularity Complete provided the same if not even more enrichment because it allowed us to see a lot of things about the transitioning of IP ranges, the ingressing of traffic from different IP ranges if they are open to the internet, and who is contacting those ranges via different endpoints. Overall, Singularity Complete has provided a significant improvement in data ingestion over our previous solution of QRadar.

Overall, we have seen a quicker response time with Singularity Complete. We are able to drill down into events in a much more granular way. This allows us to respond better, correlate the information that Singularity has gathered, and come up with a definitive answer to certain questions. Because of Singularity's enrichment of the data that we currently have, we are able to answer these questions more accurately, carefully, and with more specific timestamps. Since we have some of these deployed globally, it is very important for us to get the centralized time zones correct so that we know exactly when an event occurred.

Singularity Complete has helped us reduce the number of false positives. It provides us with a wealth of data enrichment, which allows us to distinguish between normal and abnormal events in our environment. This is important because we have billions of events happening every ten minutes across our many deployed endpoints. In the past, we would waste analyst time investigating alerts that turned out to be false positives. However, with Singularity Complete, we can now quickly identify which alerts are most likely to be legitimate and prioritize those for investigation. For example, if Singularity Complete tells us that a particular event has been seen a thousand times on one endpoint but only twenty times on another endpoint, we know that the twenty occurrences on the second endpoint are more likely to be abnormal and worth investigating.

Singularity Complete has helped free up our staff's time for other projects. With all the data enrichment that Singularity Complete has provided us, we are no longer chasing false positives. We are able to set our custom Star rules so that we receive the alerts that are most relevant to our organization, rather than broad alerts that may or may not be relevant. This allows us to focus our attention on what matters most and to investigate more accurate alerts. As a result, we are able to dedicate time to other projects. Before Singularity Complete, our analysts spend two to four weeks. With Singularity Complete in place, we've seen a reduction of two to three weeks, depending on the vendor. On average, analysts now spend three to ten days analyzing logs.

Singularity Complete substantially reduced our MTTD.

Our MTTR has been substantially reduced by Singularity Complete. We are now able to respond within the hour of receiving the alert.

Singularity Complete has helped our organization save costs by eliminating the need to replace equipment infested with malware. We can now detect, remediate, and roll back malware attacks as needed, thanks to the visibility that Singularity Complete provides. We can drill down into actual alerts, not just false positives, and eradicate any malware that may be infecting our systems.

Singularity Complete has reduced our organizational risk by providing us with much broader visibility into various endpoints deployed globally. This allows us to see what is normal in our environment, rather than reacting to what may not be normal.

The most valuable aspects of SentinelOne Singularity Complete are the ease of deployment with the Sentinel Agent and the enhanced visibility with Skylight, which provides correlation of logs and all endpoint data in a centralized location.

The ingestion and correlation of data would be improved by integrating with email security solutions such as Proofpoint or our email security solution. We do not yet have a marketplace integration, so we had to build it from scratch. As a result, it has been somewhat difficult for this particular use case, but the data is available and we are able to correlate it with users, not necessarily with endpoints, but we are making progress.

We often experience interruptions to our investigations in SentinelOne Singularity Complete. It would be helpful if we could resume our search query from where we left off, even if we lose internet connectivity or the platform is caching results. This would reduce our MTTR by eliminating the need to wait for the platform to load results again. We expect some load times due to the amount of data in our environment, but the current load times are too long and sometimes produce no results. We would like to see the overall response time of the platform improved.

One area for improvement would be per-user dashboarding. This may be a permissions issue, but we currently only have organization-wide dashboards. I think per-user dashboards would be beneficial because they would allow users to focus on their specific investigations. For example, when a user opens Singularity Complete, they can see a dashboard that is tailored to their current investigation.

I have been using SentinelOne Singularity Complete for three years.

I would rate the stability of SentinelOne Singularity Complete as a seven out of ten. We have sometimes encountered problems where queries do not load or take an abnormally long time to load, especially when we are narrowing down the search range to a fourteen-day period, which is standard for us. We have also seen queries that run for twenty minutes or so and then log us out. Additionally, the time narrowing feature, or at least the custom time slots, where we can specify a date, such as September 18, may not work depending on how we write the query. We have had to get used to the custom syntax for the time stamps. Finally, we have sometimes seen data that does not update as often as it should.

We have not experienced any problems with scalability. We are able to onboard new machines, and within a day or two, we see more data populate for those machines. So far, scaling has been very helpful for us. This is one of the reasons why we wanted to onboard with Singularity Complete, to get that visibility and to get it right away.

Most of the technical support team members I have spoken to at the level two and level three levels of support have been very helpful and willing to share resources and documents from the help portal and knowledge base articles.

Positive

We previously used IBM Security QRadar but it did not provide the level of data ingestion we required so we switched to SentinelOne Singularity Complete.

We have seen a return on investment from SentinelOne Singularity Complete, based on our reduced time to detect and respond to threats, as well as the overall risk reduction to the organization.

Our organization is very satisfied with SentinelOne Singularity Complete, especially compared to other options available. It is very affordable and easy to license, and it allows us to onboard new analysts quickly, with a turnaround time of one day at most.

We evaluated CrowdStrike, but the way their deployment platform worked would not work for our organization.

I would rate SentinelOne Singularity Complete eight out of ten.

We just started using Ranger this week. So far, we've done small test use cases to see what our endpoints can communicate with. Ranger has identified a significant number of machines, including printers, other endpoints, and personal machines, which gives us a better understanding of our network security.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete has come a long way. I believe it used to be called Power Query or even Data Set at one time. We're currently using the Skylight portion of Singularity Complete, which is a newer addition. Compared to where it was, Singularity Complete is now leaps and bounds ahead. It's the product we use when we need a lot of raw data and the ability to customize what we're looking for in our environment. The wealth of information that we get from every endpoint with the Singularity Complete agent installed allows us to create a large number of custom rules and alerts. This saves us a lot of time, especially for our analysts, who no longer have to respond to as many false positive alerts. 

We have a maintenance process in place for our custom rules and alerting. We have a dedicated team of members who are responsible for maintaining these aspects, but overall, we have not encountered any major issues that have impacted our team. A lot of this maintenance does occur outside of office hours.

With SentinelOne Singularity Complete, experiment and use it to its fullest potential, even if a mistake is made. It is a robust platform, so causing any serious damage is unlikely. Some specific features to play around with include custom roles, alerting, fields, power queries, search queries, data retention, and customized displays for the analysts. Tailoring the platform to specific needs will help get the most out of it. Singularity Complete collects a lot of data, so make sure to parse and categorize it in the most efficient way for the organization.

We have deployed SentinelOne Singularity on each end-user machine, as well as on the majority of our servers, utilizing it as an antivirus solution. Additionally, we employ SentinelOne Vigilance for our Security Operations Center. Moreover, we extensively utilize this solution across all our machines for tasks such as inventory control, asset tracking, and software monitoring. Furthermore, we have incorporated Ranger AD to enhance security within our active directory setup.

We use Ranger and Ranger AD. We incorporate the data from our SentinelOne Singularity into our SIEM. Moreover, in terms of Ranger, they are both accessible through the same console. When I click, the information is readily available. It's quite straightforward. Furthermore, concerning the transmission of logs to our SIEM, I don't believe we've ever encountered any problems with the initial setup or ongoing functionality.

Ranger offers visibility into our network and assets, which is quite significant. While other tools are available, having this functionality integrated is advantageous since we have it incorporated into a couple of our tools. This covers everything from our switches onward; although there are different options available, Ranger stands out because we are already using Singularity for other purposes. Hence, having it included is beneficial. While it may not be a decisive feature, it's something we always keep enabled.

It is important that Ranger does not necessitate new agents, hardware, or network changes. The fact that it's present, and functions seamlessly, alleviates any need for concern on my part. Furthermore, it effectively identifies new elements.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete has helped improve our response time. In areas where we don't have twenty-four-seven support, VigilanceOne will take over. We use VigilanceOne through SentinelOne, and it ensures constant monitoring. This makes me feel more at ease, knowing that there's continuous surveillance. With the addition of Ranger, Ranger AD, and VigilanceOne, I believe we have gained better insight into our entire network. This combination offers us an added layer of comfort.

It has helped reduce our MTTD and MTTR.

It has helped reduce our risk overall.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete is exceptionally proficient at alerting and identifying any anomalies or unusual behaviors on the machines. While we do encounter false positives, it has successfully detected several instances of malicious activities on the machines. Having the capability to gain insights across our network, observe all our machines, and have a centralized view of what's protected and where things are is incredibly advantageous.

The process of uninstalling and reinstalling older agent updates needs improvement. I am aware that the newer versions of SentinelOne that they have been working on are more effective. One of our major frustrations arises when we attempt to remove SentinelOne Singularity Complete from a machine and it only partially uninstalls.

The initial tier of support, when we call or engage with them in conversation, assigns a representative to assist us. However, we have occasionally encountered difficulties with the initial person, either due to their lack of knowledge or failure to follow through. In such cases, we have had to seek assistance from others or navigate through basic support on our own. Despite this, it appears that everything is progressing in the right direction. This is why we chose to renew our contract with them and even expand our range of products with their company.

I have been using SentinelOne Singularity Complete for three years.

I would rate the stability a nine out of ten.

I would rate the scalability a ten out of ten.

My feelings are moderate towards the technical support.

Neutral

We had Sophos Intercept X Advanced Cloud Security initially. We had acquired all these tools through a different program. Despite having these tools, a virus managed to get through and bypass all our defenses. This is why we opted for SentinelOne Singularity Complete – we wanted to test the effectiveness of the AI-based approach compared to the traditional signature-based method.

The initial setup was quite straightforward. During the initial phases of deployment, we had a couple of helpful individuals assisting us with the solution deployment, which resulted in a relatively smooth process.

The deployment was carried out by two administrators collaborating with one or two individuals from SentinelOne. Subsequently, we needed to initiate the installation and verify the installs. Consequently, I assembled a team of technicians for this task as well. To be specific, there were around two administrators and possibly four to six technicians dedicated to checking and ensuring the proper functionality of the setup. This was necessary due to the replacement of the old solution across twelve hundred machines within a limited timeframe.

The implementation was completed in-house.

I believe that the current pricing and licensing structure is fair. While it may not be a budget-friendly solution, I think it's reasonable considering what we are receiving.

We evaluated other solutions through online research, but we were recommended SentinelOne Singularity Complete by a company with which we were collaborating. Since the solution performed effectively during our cleanup process, we decided to continue using it.

I would rate SentinelOne Singularity Complete a nine out of ten.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete has matured over the last two years and is a more complete product.

Moderate maintenance is required to keep up with the end users.

I do consider SentinelOne a partner. I do believe that their program is developing, but I wouldn't use them for all purposes everywhere. This is due to my mindset. Nonetheless, I do perceive that SentinelOne is increasingly becoming more of a partner.

We use the solution for endpoint protection. Our clients are fintech companies, banks, and other organizations. The tool helps to pick up malicious files in the endpoint and protects the endpoint.

The Ranger feature is valuable. It helps us manage variable assets in our environment. The endpoints and nodes have SentinelOne engines on them.

The product must provide the ability to update applications from the SentinelOne Management Console. Using SentinelOne Management Console to patch applications will be quite useful.

I have been using the solution for 3 years.

I rate the solution's stability 7 out of 10. I've only had issues with the agents once. I reported it through the management console.

We use the solution in endpoints in different departments across the organization. The tool does not require maintenance. We can auto-update it from SentinelOne Management Console. We can push the auto-update agent from the console. I rate the solution's scalability 9 out of 10.

The support personnel always want to share links instead of joining sessions. Getting them on sessions that would probably help resolve the situation is quite hard. They don't always want to do it. That's the only issue I have with them. When we raise a support case, they get back to us and point us to a link to a community guide or solution. They don't respond quickly if the problem requires us to join a virtual session.

Neutral

The initial setup is not complex. The deployment takes about 30 minutes. It is quite fast.

Our customers have seen an ROI on the product. It takes them 4 months to see ROI.

The tool's price is reasonable.

We are partners and resellers. Singularity Complete’s interoperability with other SentinelOne solutions is fine. I've been able to push logs into our SIEM solution. We used our API. It was quite easy to do. The API token expires, so we have to regenerate and integrate it.

The solution’s ability to ingest and correlate across security solutions is quite fast. I don't have any issues with it. The Ranger functionality provides network and asset visibility. It's quite important. We can identify when endpoints that are not permitted or allowed on the network are active. It helps us isolate or deploy an agent on the endpoints. It's quite useful.

Ranger requires no new agents, hardware, or network changes. It is used for existing agents or endpoints. We can also identify neighboring endpoints that do not have agents. It's easy because we do not have to do any additional configurations. It leverages the current agents that we have deployed across endpoints. It's a good feature. We need not deploy another agent to work for Ranger.

A computer that doesn't have an agent is vulnerable to exploits. When Ranger helps to find the computer and network, it helps to prevent vulnerable devices from becoming compromised. We can identify and isolate the computer and deploy the agent on it. Singularity Complete does not reduce alerts.

The solution saves deployment time. We can push agents from the management console to the endpoint. It will save us time from physically going to the endpoint and installing the agent ourselves. The product reduces MTTD by 20%. The product reduces MTTR by 20%.

If an endpoint gets compromised, we will have to spend money. The tool generally helps us stay safe and protects computers. Thus, the solution reduces costs in the long run. Unprotected endpoints are risky endpoints. Singularity Complete has helped reduce our organizational risk.

Singularity Complete is quite a good tool. I'm quite confident in its ability to detect threats. It is good to have SentinelOne as a strategic security partner. People planning to use the tool must go for it. It's a good solution. It does what it claims.

Overall, I rate the product 8 out of 10.

We use SentinelOne Singularity Complete to detect and respond to "unknown unknowns," which are threats that haven't been previously identified. Our process involves monitoring for any unusual activity or deviations from typical program behavior. This includes analyzing parent and child processes to ensure they're loading correctly and not communicating with unauthorized external servers for remote execution.

For example, I encountered a phishing email that triggered an investigation. Fortunately, Singularity Complete offers an event log feature that allows me to analyze the incident. The tool's built-in Advanced Detection Analytics functionality helped me identify the downloaded file, and its access time, and track its interactions with applications, including attempted installations. Furthermore, Singularity Complete boasts a rollback capability, enabling me to revert to a safe state before the malicious activity occurred. I've utilized this feature successfully for several clients.

In addition to Singularity Complete's event log and rollback functions, it excels in antivirus detection. It effectively identified even sophisticated threats like the MimiKatz attack, which attempts to escalate user privileges in Linux and Windows systems. The tool's signature-based detection proved valuable in this instance.

Automating threat resolution has significantly improved our security operations. On average, I scan around forty million files, and the detection rate has been quite good.

The integration capabilities significantly enhance my existing security environment. It is a night and day difference compared to CylanceOPTICS by BlackBerry, which I used previously. While CylanceOPTICS was good, it relied on an algorithmic approach that flagged millions of potential threats, resulting in some false positives that needed manual analysis and training. SentinelOne, on the other hand, leverages eleven different engines simultaneously, including AI, machine learning, heuristics, and dynamic and static scans. This comprehensive approach offers robust protection, and if something falls through the cracks, it can consult a cloud database for the latest threat intelligence. Beyond its detection capabilities, SentinelOne offers exceptional visibility and control. I can easily investigate events at any time, like tracking who accessed Yahoo Finance within my organization across specific timeframes. The global tenancy feature empowers me to apply scans and threat signatures across different segments or even my entire network, ensuring consistent protection. The more I explore SentinelOne's features, the more impressed I am. It's incredibly powerful and versatile, offering a level of security and control that far surpasses my previous solution.

The interface is user-friendly, but there's a learning curve due to its extensive capabilities. Navigating for someone unfamiliar with threat hunting can be challenging as they may need to explore every option. However, some features have tooltips explaining their function when hovered over.

Accessing the knowledge base often requires a partnership with the company. While I lack this access, my distributor provided the comprehensive admin guide.

Ranger is an excellent feature for threat scanning. While alternative pen testing tools like Digital Defense exist, Ranger offers a unique advantage. It utilizes SentinelOne agents as probes within the network, allowing scans for irregular connections and identifying devices without the agent. This provides a comprehensive view of potential vulnerabilities. Imagine we decide to deny access to certain devices. In that case, every agent with those policies implemented, throughout our network, would individually isolate their traffic. This isolation prevents communication with the rogue devices. Consequently, even if one of those devices harbors a threat, it's unable to move laterally within the network. All other devices, recognizing it as unauthorized, will refuse to communicate with it.

Ranger requires no additional agents, hardware, or network modifications. It's essentially a built-in feature of the existing agent. Therefore, if we have the module, we already possess the capability. Activation can be done remotely through the cloud. So, when we decide to upgrade to Singularity Complete, they'll offer us the option of adding Ranger Plus. If we agree, a small additional fee, typically around a few dollars, will be applied per client. While it might seem a bit pricey, considering the value it provides, I believe it's worth the investment. It translates to roughly five dollars per client. For instance, with 50 machines, the monthly cost would be $250. In my experience, it hasn't significantly increased my expenses. There might be a slight increase, but I haven't noticed any substantial impact.

SentinelOne Ranger effectively prevents vulnerable devices from being compromised by isolating their network traffic. This feature is just one of many within the SentinelOne platform, which includes a built-in router and firewall integrated directly into the agent. This integration allows for seamless compatibility with Windows firewalls and offers granular control over network traffic. For example, Ranger enables modification of the firewall's IP stack, granting the ability to isolate specific traffic based on defined rules. This can be particularly useful for segregating vulnerable devices and preventing their communication. While not recommended for general use, advanced users can leverage SentinelOne's Singularly Complete feature on, for example, a VMware server to further isolate vulnerable devices. By running the client software on a separate network from the server, administrators can block unauthorized traffic based on Ranger's or the agent's identification. This effectively isolates the vulnerable device, even if it's compromised since it lacks any incoming network traffic. The server acts as a default gateway, filtering and controlling all incoming traffic.

Singularity Complete can help reduce alerts when a threat is identified and a solution is implemented. However, if a threat is known but no solution is available, using Singularity Complete might increase alerts. This is because suppressing alerts for a known threat without addressing it can create a false sense of security. While Singularity Complete allows manual blacklisting of threats, it cannot import large lists of threats from spreadsheets in one go, a feature available in CylanceOPTICS. This can be time-consuming for dealing with many threats. Overall, Singularity Complete has improved in its alert management, but it remains average compared to competitors. While detection is excellent, the alerting system still requires some refinement.

As a threat detector, I perform threat analysis to quickly identify threats. This has significantly reduced the time I spend on analysis, allowing Singularity Complete to free up about 30 percent of my time for other tasks.

Singularity Complete has achieved a 15 percent reduction in our mean time to detection. This efficiency gain is powered by eleven different detection engines running concurrently, ensuring comprehensive identification of potential threats.

Singularity Complete can reduce our mean time to respond by providing a clear path to the root cause of an attack. However, it doesn't always do this, and sometimes further investigation is necessary. Nevertheless, the tool significantly speeds up the process of identifying the root cause. For example, imagine the timeline indicates a suspicious file was executed. We can use Singularity Complete to find out when it last ran in our environment, even if it wasn't detected on the same day. If the threat appeared recently but the file ran a month ago, it suggests a potential Trojan was planted. This prompts further investigation into how the file arrived on the system. It could have been introduced through a USB drive, email attachment, copied file, or existing on a network share. While Singularity Complete won't explicitly state the location like "Share five," it will provide a hash that can often lead us to the network path.

Singularity Complete helps manage costs by eliminating the need for additional products with overlapping functionality. This saves us thousands of dollars per month on full scans, as our existing agent already possesses that capability. By deploying it across all organizational agents and enabling Ranger, we can conduct daily scans that provide comprehensive insights into our network activity.

Singularity Complete has helped reduce our organizational risk. However, it's important to remember that no system is foolproof. While I haven't experienced a security breach since installing it, I deliberately expose some machines to potential threats to test and observe new attack techniques. To strengthen our security posture, I've implemented additional measures. Some machines have less aggressive scan and detection settings to simulate vulnerabilities and observe attacker behavior. Additionally, our network is layered, with weaker points that serve as honeypots, while critical systems are protected by stricter security protocols. Beyond Singularity Complete, we utilize Palo Alto Networks and FortiGate firewalls for further protection. Ultimately, the decision to invest in additional scanning capabilities depends on the cost and our overall security strategy.

The most valuable feature is the ability to drill down into individual sequences of processes. This allows for building a highly detailed timeline of events, which is incredibly helpful. Additionally, the quality of the intelligence provided is excellent, making it difficult to choose between the two. The solution effectively reveals the attacker's tactics, including the mechanism or injection method used, how they exploit vulnerabilities and their use of decoys or misdirection tactics like dequay attacks. They may target one area initially, then shift focus to another, potentially planting seeds for future attacks. Overall, the timeline, intelligence, and overall capabilities of SentinelOne Singularity Complete are highly impressive.

Everything operates in real-time, allowing us to conduct in-depth analysis to uncover previously unknown threats. This capability stems from the use of dynamic libraries, which enable flexible code execution. The key concept here is the ability to pivot within an application. We can dissect and analyze this pivoting behavior, which is a rare feature among software solutions. Additionally, the system allows us to create our custom signatures. By identifying a threat and performing a global search, we can locate other instances of the same threat across our network and establish correlation points. Subsequently, we can create a signature based on a unique identifier (story ID) and integrate it into the initial login scan. This enables us to proactively detect and respond to any attacks that utilize that specific signature, making it a powerful tool for threat prevention.

The uninstallation process for the SentinelOne agent could be improved. While it is currently possible to uninstall through the console, it can be more complex if registry modifications are required. Streamlining this process, especially for users with console access, would be a valuable improvement.

I encountered issues running Singularity Complete alongside other machine-learning tools. The program uses hooks, which we configure through a whitelist to specify allowed functionalities for each app. However, I've observed compatibility problems with certain applications. This seems to stem from my limited access to information from those companies, hindering the creation of effective hooks.

For example, an external scanner's EXE file might not provide hooks for features like memory protection or script locking, potentially conflicting with SentinelOne's capabilities. In my experience, Singularity Complete doesn't always play well with others. While it coexists with Kaspersky's detection without issue, enterprise AI solutions employing algorithmic scans or pre/post-execution analysis can pose problems. We might need to modify the whitelist due to unavailable information about the application's memory range. Sharing this information could create vulnerabilities, so companies understandably keep it confidential. While I believe CylanceOPTICS could likely work with Singularity Complete, I haven't achieved it because I prioritize optimal protection. Disabling all CylanceOPTICS features and putting it in uninstall mode allows it to function but without intervention. In such cases, CylanceOPTICS detects threats first, possibly due to its higher application number in Windows. Similar behavior has been observed with other products.

Deep Instinct is another excellent detection software I use for remote devices. Expanding Singularity Complete's coverage to include IoT devices, Linux, servers, Docker, and mobile platforms (currently limited to Deep Instinct on my devices) would be highly beneficial. While Deep Instinct allows uploading and installation via email code, Singularity Complete currently lacks this functionality.

I have been using SentinelOne Singularity Complete for over five years.

I've only had one interaction with their tech support, but it was excellent. In situations where we're struggling with an investigation, I believe they have a guardian contract that could allow them to analyze our findings. Alternatively, if we're having difficulty detecting something, they can guide us through the process. However, my access to their tech department was limited to a single instance when I needed it. The impressive part is that they were willing to help me even though I was from a partner company. Such helpfulness is rare in many organizations, which often require expensive fees before offering similar assistance.

Positive

Previously, we used CylanceOPTICS by BlackBerry but transitioned to SentinelOne Singularity Complete due to its enhanced user-friendliness. The latter platform boasts comprehensive investigation capabilities, allowing us to delve deeper into the specifics of security incidents. We can examine parent-child relationships, delve into registry entries, and analyze memory ranges with ease. The feature set is truly extensive.

While CylanceOPTICS offered some of these functionalities, it could not identify pivoting areas within an attack. If I needed to investigate the pivot itself, CylanceOPTICS wouldn't suffice. SentinelOne proves invaluable in such situations. By examining registry entries or monitoring running processes, it helps us pinpoint the root cause, be it a Run DLL or a Windows EXE file disguised as innocuous activity. While CylanceOPTICS might catch the attack, it wouldn't reveal the underlying malicious intent. SentinelOne grants us this crucial level of insight, empowering us to respond effectively.

I rate SentinelOne Singularity Complete a nine out of ten. While the product itself is impressive, the price point is on the higher side. The only drawback is the limited support access. If they offered more affordable support options or provided unrestricted access to their knowledge base, I would easily give it a ten. Unfortunately, they haven't implemented this yet, as it would unlock more resources and expertise for users. Ultimately, it is what it is, but hopefully, they'll consider these improvements in the future. 

In my environment, I support a law firm and a music company while pursuing my research. Additionally, I use Intel hardware for testing purposes. My security strategy prioritizes avoiding complete system reimaging whenever possible. While I have encountered compatibility issues with specific SentinelOne versions and certain software, these were primarily during testing when I intentionally introduced malicious files. In general, the software has proven effective in preventing and mitigating threats.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete has been excellent in its ability to be innovative.

While SentinelOne Singularity Complete is well-established software, the developers continuously strive to improve it. After all, no software ever truly reaches complete maturity. To remain effective, we must constantly adapt, improve, and refine ourselves in response to evolving threats and technologies.

I'd love to partner with SentinelOne right now, but as a small business, cost is a major concern. That's why I'm working with a distributor. They purchase larger license blocks, like five thousand or ten thousand, and because I was one of their early customers, they granted me access. While I have a partnership with them, it's not a formal one. To my knowledge, they require organizations to have at least one hundred or two hundred seats to be considered for a true partnership. I'm unsure if a program exists for smaller businesses, but based on what I've seen, access to their knowledge base, support team, etc., seems to be restricted to contracts with a minimum seat capacity of one hundred or two hundred.

We use it for protection and endpoint detection across our entire customer base because we are a managed service provider. It is also for endpoint protection of our internal machines. 

We have Linux, Mac, and Windows. It has essentially replaced our antivirus solutions. It is our full endpoint detection. We then work in and partner with our outside XDR and our SOC. We interface SentinelOne identifications and alerts into the SOC so that they can manage those for us.

It is very strong in terms of the ability to ingest and correlate across our security solutions. They have added cloud capabilities. Some of that is through acquisitions, but a lot of it is native. It allows us to bring in data from everywhere, analyze what we need to analyze, and make sure that we are as secure as we can possibly be. When we have SentinelOne running in an environment, it always makes us feel more comfortable. We require it for every one of our customers. They may have a license elsewhere, but regardless of that, we essentially say that if they are coming on and going to be a customer of ours, we are going to remove whatever they have, and they are going to SentinelOne just because it is a far superior product that we have tested and evaluated.

With SentinelOne, we have not consolidated security solutions, but we have reduced our TCO because we do not have to support customers utilizing other endpoint protection solutions. We simply would not work with other solutions. We enforce SentinelOne to be the only endpoint protection solution that is monitored or managed by us. That obviously has helped our TCO in terms of the knowledge base and being able to support and protect our clients, but we have not reduced any applications or vendors that we work with because we stuck with SentinelOne from day one.

We have used the Ranger functionality a little bit. It provides network and asset visibility. It lets us see everything else that may be on the network that we may not already have an idea of. Just by having an agent in the environment, it lets us see additional switches that may have vulnerabilities or new machines that may pop up on the network that we are unaware of. There is a large benefit to that, for sure.

The fact that Ranger requires no new agents, hardware, or network changes is crucial to it being effective because a lot of different solutions out there require you to have something else running on the network to be able to perform the functions of Ranger. However, the way they designed SentinelOne, we can essentially have the regular SentinelOne singularity agent installed on a machine out there and enable the Ranger functionality on the agent. It will then do the work for us. Rather than having an additional appliance or an additional software service running in the environment to capture the information that we are looking for, we get it from Ranger. Ranger can help to prevent vulnerable devices from becoming compromised, but we have not used it this way.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete without a doubt has helped reduce alerts. With the policies that we enable across the board for our customers through SentinelOne Singularity Complete, we can onboard new clients, and as we onboard them, we are able to quickly and easily protect their environment without filtering through a ton of random alerts that are typically false positives when you are onboarding a new customer. That, to me, has been a huge benefit to having SentinelOne and reducing our overhead to manage the new customers that we are bringing on.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete has helped free up our staff for other projects and tasks by reducing the false positives that we get for our existing customers and when we onboard new ones. It obviously allows us some engineering time to be focused elsewhere. We have been able to do more automation and tie in other protection solutions into SentinelOne, such as our XDR with our SOC.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete has reduced our mean time to detect (MTTD) without a doubt. We get alerts regularly from the console that get notified to our SOC and also internally. We are able to respond to those very quickly. In fact, on average, about 90% to 95% of the time, SentinelOne Singularity Complete automatically remediates the solution based on how it is set up with our policies. Therefore, we do not have to do anything other than verify that it was a legitimate threat that was blocked.

Our mean time to respond (MTTR) is a lot faster than what we experienced with other solutions in the near past. It is almost immediate. It sees the process kick off. It remediates it 90% to 95% of the time, and even when it does not remediate it, it alerts us immediately. We are not waiting for a weekly scan or a daily scan that the other solutions typically use because it is all in real-time with the Singularity agent.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete has helped reduce our organizational risk. It is one of those solutions that lets us sleep easier at night when we have it on a machine. Security, in general, is not set-it-and-forget-it. It is not a single layer. You have to have multiple layers. We have other solutions that we partner with SentinelOne to try and make the environment as secure as possible, but SentinelOne is definitely the starting point. It gets us protected, and it makes our lives easier with the device. We feel more confident that the device is secure from everyday end users who do not necessarily know the difference between a fake or a phishing email that has a fake Adobe or Word Document attached to it that they are going to download and try to run. It definitely makes our life easier, and in my role, it helps me sleep a little better at night knowing that all of our machines are protected by that, both internally and across the board of our customers.

The ability to quickly and easily identify threats on our machines is valuable. The fact that it protects the environment as a whole is also valuable. They have the ability to identify network nodes, and they have Ranger as a component of the solution that allows us to see the whole picture. We can see on what we have SentinelOne and on what we do not. There is always that concern that you protect what you know, but items can be brought into the network that you are unaware of because you are not sitting at every customer location every day or every office every day, so the ability to quickly identify anything new on the network has been a huge benefit to the application. It is something that they have added over time. It has been huge for us.

Interoperability with other SentinelOne solutions and other third-party tools is an area where you can run into some issues. Because of the way the agent works, there are sometimes things that are blocked or prevented from happening that are not identified as a threat, and therefore, not alerted in the console. Sometimes, we do have to dig through the logs, run tests, and adjust the whitelisting or exclusions to make sure that other applications will run properly. It is very effective, and it protects our environment like no other solution that we have ever worked with or tested. It is very strong, but you have to get in and look at the visibility reports and the information in the system, in the console, and on the dashboard to really identify if something is being blocked and causing a performance issue for a customer or on a machine. They have the flexibility there, but it can be a little frustrating at times to find the needle in the haystack until you get used to the console and understand how it works. So, there are times when it can impede the ability of an application. The way I typically look at that is that the application developer or whoever developed the app is probably using some functionality that is not standard, and that is why SentinelOne is effectively not allowing it. The only issue there is that we do not always know that SentinelOne is not allowing it. It could be impeding the traffic for an application or a database connection, but we do not know that initially. It does not flag that as a threat or block anything, so there is no alert.

They have device and network control that they have added over time. It allows you to take over control of the firewall through the network control, and you can block and manage CD-ROMs and USB devices. One thing that I always thought would be beneficial for device control is the ability to enforce encryption on USB and external hard drives. You do not have to have a separate agent to handle any of that even if it is just tying into BitLocker on Windows devices or BitLocker To Go capabilities. To me, that would be a huge benefit to the product so that there is no other application, and you do not have to privately manage BitLocker settings for USB devices or external hard drives.

Between my current organization and prior organization, I have been using SentinelOne for close to nine or ten years.

We have not had any incidents where we have had to contact them for an emergency. There were no ransomware outbreaks and no major attacks or threats running through our environment, so I have not had to deal with that level of support. Typically, we reached out to their support when we had a question on interoperability or we were seeing some weird effects or an agent upgrade not wanting to push from the dashboard properly. For the most part, their support is pretty strong. The turnaround time is usually pretty good. We had only one ticket that had to be escalated above the initial tier 1 support. They get prioritized based on criticality, and even that ticket was closed within eight calendar days. To me, it was not a critical issue. I did not think it was an issue, but it took eight days. That was well within the expected time frames. I would rate their support a nine out of ten.

Positive

In the past, I have used Trend Micro. This was prior to endpoint detection times. It was more than nine years ago. I used Trend Micro, Kaspersky, Norton, and McAfee. I have also used ESET and Malwarebytes. Typically, we were using those in layered approaches. We put ESET and Malwarebytes on the same machine because they served different purposes, but I have not used those in nine or ten years.

By implementing SentinelOne Singularity Complete, we were not necessarily trying to solve a problem. We wanted to try and find a best-of-breed solution that was more effective than legacy AV because legacy AV is based on somebody getting hit by the virus, and then it allows the fingerprint to be used to block hashes, etc. Somebody has to get hit, and then everybody else can benefit from that. That was the old model, and we wanted to go next-gen. We wanted to make sure that we were using something that could be as protective as possible on zero-day outbreaks. After reviewing many of the solutions out there, we felt like SentinelOne was the best of the breed. That is justified year over year, and that is why we have continued to stay with them both in my last organization and this one. When you review different reports that are out there every year, SentinelOne is the leader year after year.

It has helped us save a lot of soft dollar costs. I do not know if they offer it to everybody, but we have the ransomware insurance policy from SentinelOne that provides us a certain amount of reimbursements per endpoint should there actually be a ransomware outbreak. In all our time, we never had to use it because there simply has not been a ransomware outbreak on a single one of the machines that has SentinelOne properly installed on it.

We buy the licensing in bulk. From a pricing standpoint, because we buy in bulk, we get very good pricing. Based on its functionality and capabilities, it is well worth the price. I do not think it is at all expensive based on what you get in the solution. We use the complete up to the core. Our pricing is probably a little bit more than somebody who is on the core. In general, it is well worth what you get for the price you pay.

Overall, I would rate SentinelOne Singularity Complete a nine out of ten.