Michael Grissom - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Cyber Security at Tidewater Mortgage Services
Real User
Helps reduce alerts and organizational risks, and has helpful support
Pros and Cons
  • "The overall product quality is good."
  • "Initially, when we first deployed the solution, it caused some third-party connectivity issues."

What is our primary use case?

The whole purpose of having the product is to have endpoint security and visibility with those endpoints as well. After an evaluation period, we determined the product would be a fit for our organization.

How has it helped my organization?

The security and visibility we have on all endpoints helped our organization immensely.

What is most valuable?

There's not one particular item that stands out the most besides the availability of the product itself. We're a small organization. Having the visibility and the protection that it provides helped out greatly. Plus, it fits with our requirements.

The product does not have to go across a lot of different solutions. We don't have a cloud or anything like that where we have to push it in terms of visibility. The deployment is fairly simple. In the end, the overall visibility of it is very simple and the usability has been very simple for us as well.

So far, it helped to reduce our alerts. Based on the application that we would utilize prior to this product, the alert reduction is similar. It is not 100% the same, just similar. They gave us some visibility into what was going on, which provided a 30%, if not more, alert reduction.

It helped free up staff time. Using this solution, we don't have to keep our eyes on it 100% of the time.

It reduced our mean time to detect and respond. 

The product helped reduce organizational risk.

The overall product quality is good. I'd give it three and a half stars out of five. It checked all of our boxes. It met the requirements of the security we needed.

If for some reason, we were breached, it gave us the comfort of knowing that we could either automatically set the product to fix the issue or at least record it and let our team go in and resolve the issue. However, it also has the data to hunt the threat if need be. It's given us so much more than we would have expected from a product. Their dashboard is great. We log in and we get everything we need to know right out of the box on our dashboard. If we have anything that's infected it will tell us all of that information in real time. In our environment, it works without giving us any issues or slowing down our productivity in the process. The agent that runs on the system is not heavy. It's easily portable.

What needs improvement?

Initially, when we first deployed the solution, it caused some third-party connectivity issues. It would see it as an application that was not secure. However, we were able to put in a white listing, to help us operate well. We had to do that with around five applications that we ran. Once we applied those fixes, we haven't had any issues since.

I'd like them to make it easier to log in. 

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For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using the solution for two years. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I have not experienced any downtime with it. It has not crashed. 

It won't run on our accounting server and we're not sure why the agent caused the conflict with this particular server. Beyond that, it's fine.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We deployed the solution to about 200 endpoints. 

How are customer service and support?

We've only contacted technical support for the licensing portion of the process. They were very helpful and very straightforward. Everything was right on the money. Once we made the call over the ticket, we were contacted and it was resolved while we were on the phone.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We used Fortinet as well. We've used a few products and this solution does everything we've asked it to do. It was a good replacement for the free Fortinet solution and it protects against things Fortinet does not. 

In the past, for some reason, we found that somehow or another, the agent was disabled, and we have not determined as to why that is just yet. 

How was the initial setup?

I was involved in the solution's initial deployment.

The deployment was fairly easy. We had a product that allowed us to push the agents out there. It was time-consuming based on the fact that we didn't have full automation. The only other drawback was when it was going through and doing some form of machine learning, it would block certain applications that we had to whitelist with the system in order to get it to work. However, we deployed it in less than thirty days, and it's been running everything well since then.

Our team, comprised of four people, handled the implementation. 

There isn't really any maintenance needed. All the agents update well. It is fairly automated.

What about the implementation team?

The initial onboarding was done with SentinelOne. After that, we took it from there.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The pricing is good. It's a big factor for us. Their pricing comes in at much less than Fortinet or CrowdStrike.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We looked at similar products, such as CrowdStrike and other versions of Fortinet.

What other advice do I have?

I'd rate the solution an eight out of ten.

I'd advise new users to do a proof of concept. That way, you get some time with the system before you deploy it into the environment and you can iron out issues. If you have 1,000 endpoints and only 1% of the issues that we ran into, it would still be significant and you'd want to deal with them head-on to make the full deployment easier. 

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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Works on machine learning, reduces risk, and saves time
Pros and Cons
  • "The most valuable feature is the machine learning capability, as opposed to the traditional rule-based antivirus."
  • "We are not utilizing all the features available with SentinelOne Singularity Complete, including the built-in XDR and Ranger, due to the substantial associated costs."

What is our primary use case?

We utilize SentinelOne Singularity Complete as an EDR and MDR solution for both our clients and internal operations.

We wanted to offer our clients a next-generation, AI-based antivirus solution for their endpoints, which is why we opted for SentinelOne Singularity Complete.

How has it helped my organization?

We incorporate SentinelOne Singularity Complete as a component of our multifaceted cybersecurity approach. Therefore, its capability for integration, as well as its capacity for data ingestion into NXDR, holds great significance for us.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete functions effectively in ingesting and correlating data across all our security solutions. While we employ an additional SOAR for more extensive correlation, SentinelOne Singularity Complete performs exceptionally well at the endpoint.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete is utilized as a component of our Managed Detection and Response service, resulting in a reduction in the number of alerts forwarded to us.

It helps free up our staff to focus on other projects.

SentinelOne has helped reduce our MTTD. It has also helped reduce our MTTR.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete helps our organization save money through pass-through cost savings.

It helps reduce the risk for our organization.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature is the machine learning capability, as opposed to the traditional rule-based antivirus. This is essential for effectively stopping malware attacks.

What needs improvement?

We are not utilizing all the features available with SentinelOne Singularity Complete, including the built-in XDR and Ranger, due to the substantial associated costs. There is potential for improvement in the cost aspect.

The area in which I would recommend SentinelOne to continue progressing is focused on enhancing its product. This involves not only internal development but also strategic partnerships similar to the Wiz integration which brings a lot of value.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using SentinelOne Singularity Complete for three years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It is stable. The downtime has been minimal.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution has met all of our scaling requirements.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I previously used ESET and McAfee. We sometimes still use Microsoft Defender for some use cases and we have some clients that still prefer to use CrowdStrike.

What about the implementation team?

The implementation is carried out in collaboration with our partner, ConnectWise. While we handle the agent deployment, they manage all the configurations.

What was our ROI?

If we weren't using any protective measures, and we were consistently experiencing security breaches, this would result in an exponential level of risk when compared to an alternative solution. Expressing this concept can be quite challenging. How would we even identify if a breach has occurred? Typically, we'd notice something like data encryption taking place. 

So, I believe implementing robust cybersecurity measures is an essential aspect of operating in any technology-dependent field today. It's essentially become a fundamental requirement. That's how we perceive its significance in the present day. Therefore, we communicate this necessity to all our clients and that is where the return on investment can be perceived by using SentinelOne Singularity Complete.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The cost of utilizing all the features of SentinelOne Singularity Complete is high.

What other advice do I have?

I rate SentinelOne Singularity Complete nine out of ten.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete EDR and MDR endpoint agent is a fantastic product. We layer that with other solutions as opposed to only using SentinelOne Singularity Complete.

SentinelOne is undoubtedly a market leader, and I believe it offers a comprehensive and excellent solution. It is on par with other next-generation or AI-based antivirus solutions available in the marketplace.

Depending on the organization's current solution, if they are transitioning from a product like ESET, then the approach to antivirus will be completely different. If they are transitioning from CrowdStrike, I believe the change will be less significant. Testing needs to be conducted, but I anticipate that they can observe immediate value from SentinelOne Singularity Complete. Furthermore, I am confident that they can deploy it without significant concerns about increased risk. Personally, I have never been worried about introducing additional risk by using SentinelOne Singularity Complete.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Microsoft Azure
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Rashid Torrence - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Manager of Business Services at ATC Communications (Idaho)
Real User
Top 10
Good automation and storytelling feature with a great GUI
Pros and Cons
  • "The GUI is really easy to use."
  • "We'd like to have a network map or scan to cover network security."

What is our primary use case?

In most cases, the product is used as an XDR or MDR for our customers internally as well. It is used for us to provide some customers with a light SOC service so we could also manage that solution. So as an example, if they don't have dedicated resources to look or monitor it offers that ability for them to do the monitoring for you or for some customers. That is very handy. But most of the time, we use it as an MDR XDR solution for our customers.

We mostly provide customers with MSSP services. We do not resell it as a standalone.

What is most valuable?

The ease of use and has some integrations within their marketplace. Those come in handy. The GUI is really easy to use.

The storyboarding gives you a play-by-play of how an instance or alert came to be.

Some of the automation tools are really good. 

Singularity's ability to ingest and correlate across our security solutions is great. I don't see a platform that does it better. At least from an MDR standpoint. It really is a central tool to ingest that data to begin with and correlate and then it's pushed out other solutions like Splunk or other solutions.

Singularity has helped reduce alerts. The automation tools have been able to lower the number of alerts. We desensitized alerts as there are too many of them. Sentinel One has helped repair it with our team to do that. Just the ability for the automation tools to be in use has been really helpful.

Singularity has helped free up our staff for other projects. The automation tools have really helped there.

Our security team is about ten people. Two people no longer have to worry about anything. We've saved about 20% to 30% of our labor, our staff. 

Singularity helped reduce our organization's mean time to detect. We're able to detect or even dive in and look for issues. We have the freedom to look and inspect. We're proactive now.

Our mean time to respond is good. It helped us fill operational procedures.

Singularity helped save costs. We've saved in terms of operational costs or even salary in terms of time-savings. We didn't save on platform to platform, yet we saved on time. 

It's helped us reduce organizational risk. We're able to monitor our networks better.

They are probably the most mature product at the moment. For the price point, we're getting a good middle ground of price and value. 

What needs improvement?

I would hope that they would increase their prebuilt migrations. As an example, they have one Active Directory in Azure Cloud, which is really good. If they can expand that to other pretty well-known software, some platforms, that'd be great. What they have now is good for some of the key players like Azure, Google, and Splunk. I would just like to see that being expanded.

We'd like to have a network map or scan to cover network security. That would be good to have.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've used the solution for five to six years. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The stability is great. I'd rate the stability nine out of ten. They are never really down. It's usually up and running. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution is very scalable and very easy to scale. 

How are customer service and support?

Every time we have an issue, we get somebody who knows the product and can talk us through it. We can resolve issues pretty quickly. 

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We had used Crowdstrike and Trend Micro a bit. 

We first switched to Sentinel One based on an audit. It was a next-generation antivirus. There are new options on the market now. We continue to use it due to the fact that are always improving their offering and I don't see a better option on the market.

How was the initial setup?

I was part of the deployment. The initial setup is pretty straightforward. 

We have three people involved in the deployment of the product. 

There isn't too much maintenance. It just works. 

What about the implementation team?

We did use a consultant to assist with deployments in the past. At this point, we just do it ourselves. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The pricing is good. They are in line with the market.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We looked into Crowdstrike, Carbon Black, and Microsoft.

What other advice do I have?

In terms of Ranger, I've used it. I have not used it recently. I'm actually trying to get back into and play with that again.

Sentinel One is good as a strategic security partner. The platform is great and there are a lot of features. Using their managed service really does help. We can partner with them to provide that service to our customers. 

I'd rate the solution ten out of ten. 

I'd advise others considering the solution to get with a good MSP or MSSP. Users should try the complete version and all the features to find out about the entire system. Get the higher feature set and go down from there. I'd also advise at first new users get a good MSP to work through the initial installation process. 

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Hybrid Cloud
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CEO, Author, Cyber security best practices at Sentree Systems, Corp.
Reseller
Top 10
Easy to navigate and use with helpful support
Pros and Cons
  • "Their platform is really easy to work with."
  • "I really haven't done enough to really see any improvements."

What is our primary use case?

We primarily use it the same way we would use Bitdefender. It's for security.

What is most valuable?

When it comes to security, the telemetry, the information that you get from the EDR part of it, and the ability to be able to parse it and use it is great. I really like their platform. You're able to go in and do some of the research and study. If there's an incident response needed, you can handle it with SentinelOne. That's what I really like about it.

It's just as good, if not better, than Bitdefender. The one thing I do like more about SentinelOne is working with their tech support. It's really easy to get to them and easy to work with them. 

Their platform is really easy to work with. It's easy to navigate and use. 

What needs improvement?

I really haven't done enough to really see any improvements. It really has all the telemetry markers that I look for. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I just started using the solution. I've used it for five or six months. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The scalability is very good. I'd rate it nine out of ten. It can expand well. 

We have about ten people, admins, who are on the solution. 

How are customer service and support?

Technical support has been great. They are helpful and responsive. I've only used them for onboarding assistance. I've never had an issue I needed help troubleshooting with.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I've also used Bitdefender. I didn't stop liking Bitdefender. I love Bitdefender. I have nothing against Bitdefender. The only reason I did move to this product is due to the SOC that I work with. Bitdefender doesn't work with the stock that I use as well as SentinelOne does. SentinelOne also offers better support. Bitdefender's platform can be a bit more cumbersome to try to get through in terms of getting your agents to install, for example. SentinelOne is very simple. 

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is very easy. I'd rate the ease of implementation ten out of ten. 

There is one person that handles maintenance on the solution. That would be me.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

There are a couple of different solutions that they offer. The one I use is $6 a month per device. Some are $4 and there are some that are more than that, and those offer an MDR part, which is the managed detection and response. 

What other advice do I have?

I'm a partner.

To anyone using any of these MDR-type scenarios, one of the things they need to recognize with SentinelOne is that, only looking at SentinelOne telemetry, when it comes to the stock solution that they offer, it's not a true SOC. It is an internal SOC solution. That's why it's an MDR. So they're only looking at what their solution finds. If their solution finds ransomware and stops it, then you're only looking at that telemetry. That's why I offer an outside external stock since the external stock is looking at everything. If you have one device that has something on it or something with nothing on it, it's going to see it all. That's the big difference between an internal SOC as opposed to an external SOC.

I'd rate the solution ten out of ten. 

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Senior Manager ICT & Innovations at Bangalore International Airport Limited
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
Easy to configure, has increased our security score, and reduces our costs
Pros and Cons
  • "The protection SentinelOne Singularity Complete provides to our endpoint devices in terms of cybersecurity is valuable."
  • "The documentation provided for implementation is not adequate and has caused us challenges."

What is our primary use case?

We use SentinelOne Singularity Complete as our server and endpoint security solution.

We sought to consolidate our security solutions, lower maintenance, and operational costs, and streamline scalability and configuration. Implementing SentinelOne Singularity Complete enabled us to achieve these goals.

How has it helped my organization?

SentinelOne Singularity Complete's interoperability is excellent. The solution can correlate with various threats and provide us with granular information across our landscape. Singularity Complete is fully integrated and can be scaled and expanded to all of our devices.

Singularity Complete's ability to ingest and correlate across our security solutions is good.

Singularity Complete has enabled us to consolidate our security solutions. We can now consolidate all of our Linux and Windows security servers, as well as display various touchpoints and our laptops and desktop devices.

We use the Ranger functionality. The network and asset visibility provided is important because we can see the types of devices connecting to our enterprise network.

Ranger's ability to prevent vulnerable devices from becoming compromised is good.

Singularity Complete has increased our security score. We were able to see the benefits within four months.

Once we can configure and fine-tune Singularity Complete, we can eliminate the false positives that are generated.

Singularity Complete has helped free up our staff's time to work on other projects. We have saved around two months in total.

Singularity Complete has helped reduce our MTTD by 30 percent.

Singularity Complete has helped reduce our MTTR.

Singularity Complete has helped reduce our organizational risk by 50 percent.

What is most valuable?

SentinelOne Singularity Complete is easy to configure.

The protection SentinelOne Singularity Complete provides to our endpoint devices in terms of cybersecurity is valuable.

What needs improvement?

The support has room for improvement. They take a lot of time to respond.

The documentation provided for implementation is not adequate and has caused us challenges.

The pricing is also high and can be improved.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using SentinelOne Singularity Complete for three years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

SentinelOne Singularity Complete is stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

SentinelOne Singularity Complete is easily scalable.

How are customer service and support?

The technical support takes time to respond to our tickets.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Neutral

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Previously, we utilized McAfee for our servers and Microsoft Defender for our endpoint protection on desktops and laptops. However, we desired a unified EDR solution to streamline our security management. Upon evaluating SentinelOne Singularity Complete and confirming it met all our requirements, we transitioned to this comprehensive solution.

How was the initial setup?

The initial deployment was straightforward. The deployment took two months, and three of us including two engineers were involved in the process. We first deployed Singularity Complete to our test servers to ensure everything worked properly before proceeding with the full deployment.

What was our ROI?

The consolidation of multiple solutions into Singularity Complete, along with improved response times and smoother business functionality, has resulted in a return on investment.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The price is costly compared to what we were previously paying with Microsoft Defender and McAfee.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

After evaluating CrowdStrike and other solutions, we ultimately chose SentinelOne Singularity Complete due to its user-friendly functionality, efficient logging, and rapid response times.

What other advice do I have?

I would rate SentinelOne Singularity Complete eight out of ten.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete is a comprehensive, integrated solution for endpoint protection across the enterprise.

Singularity Complete is deployed across our campus with around 200 users.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete is a good solution that meets our enterprise needs.

I recommend organizations first evaluate SentinelOne Singularity Complete to see the kind of visibility it can provide into their endpoints.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete has reduced our operational costs and response time while enhancing our business efficiency.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Hybrid Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
MSP
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Great threat detection and prevention capabilities, but needs to support more common development languages
Pros and Cons
  • "The threat detection and prevention capabilities are valuable, providing development programming support that enables us to perform fair investigations."
  • "SentinelOne needs to provide more documentation for administrators and analytics."

What is our primary use case?

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.

How has it helped my organization?

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.

What is most valuable?

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.

What needs improvement?

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.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using SentinelOne Singularity Complete for six months.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

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

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

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

How are customer service and support?

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

How would you rate customer service and support?

Neutral

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

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.

How was the initial setup?

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.

What about the implementation team?

We implemented the solution in-house.

What other advice do I have?

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.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Hybrid Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Microsoft Azure
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Provides a single pane of glass and takes care of a lot of things for us
Pros and Cons
  • "The single pane of glass is probably the most valuable. That is a big one. We could see everything from one view."
  • "It is not so much on the Singularity platform itself, but they have their own built-in SIEM that is included with it. That needs to evolve a little bit. It is relatively basic in its capabilities. They have potential there for a great product and a needed product too. Having some kind of SIEM capability with the endpoint solution will save me from buying a bigger SIEM or buying another one. I could just use the one that comes with my endpoint solution."

What is our primary use case?

We use it for our endpoints. It is installed on all of our servers and desktops. It is a replacement for the AV platforms that we used to have. 

Overall, the product monitors what is happening on your machines. It monitors incoming mail and web addresses that your browsers are trying to access. It looks for suspicious activity that may occur on your desktop or on your server and generates alerts based on the type of activity. It might find a malicious file that you downloaded. Like a virus scanner, it would scan something. It might find something that it suspects to be malicious. It will look at that item and go to its own threat intelligence sources to see if it is a known threat. If it is a known threat, it will either block it or do something to it based on how you have pre-configured it. If it suspects something to be a threat but does not have any reference, meaning that it is an unknown threat, then depending on what it detects or how that thing may behave, it would either alert you or suppress or isolate it. It can do a number of things. It depends on the inner workings of the product itself, but our use cases are to protect our endpoints. It is a replacement for our AV, but it is a whole level above what AV used to be. It is the evolution of AV.

How has it helped my organization?

We had three different AV platforms in our organization. There was no central way to manage them. We had no complete visibility. From one part of our organization, we had no visibility into another part of our organization. By putting this platform in, we now have one view of the entire organization. We can look at threats as they span our organization. Threats could potentially be moving around. We can detect if they are spreading to other parts. We could not do any of that before.

Singularity Complete has a much better detection engine. It detects a lot more than an AV can. AV is pretty much finished. There would not be AV anymore.

In terms of interoperability, we do not have any other SentinelOne solution. This was our first one. There is not a lot of interoperability between endpoints and everything else. The only interoperability that is useful for us right now is the log data that it provides to our SIEM. It allows us to do correlative analysis between different areas. If we have a threat that could be going from endpoints to internet devices, such as switches, or places where the EDR system is not installed, it becomes valuable when we are sharing data from the EDR and our other systems, and we have a tool that analyzes all that data to look for threats that may span in our entire environment. I do not see the interoperability being a problem with our other tools, and I am sure it would not be an issue amongst SentinelOne's own tools as well, but I do not have any data points on that yet.

Singularity Complete has helped big time to reduce our alerts. In fact, that was my concern with it. I was concerned that we are not seeing too many alerts anymore. I had a meeting with them recently, and I mentioned to them that I feel that we should be getting more alerts. They are going to take a look at our platform to make sure it is working fine, but it seems to be doing a great job of dealing with the alerts in an automated fashion. I became a little bit suspicious that it might be doing too good of a job, so we are just having them double-check. It is just me making sure all my I's are dotted, and my T's are crossed. As a security person, I do not like to have questions out there, but otherwise, it is doing a great job.

It has freed up our time. It takes a lot less time to investigate things. It takes care of a lot of things for us. It has offloaded 30% to 50% of some of the work that we had to do in the past. It allowed us to work and focus more on higher-priority items.

It has absolutely reduced the mean time to detect. It has probably reduced the time to detect by 75% because we just did not have some of these capabilities before.

Singularity Complete has also reduced our mean time to respond but not as much as the mean time to detect. It does a lot of resolution of issues for us. It has probably improved that by 30% to 50% because it does a lot of that automatically, but it frees up our time. We can resolve the stuff that needs our personal assistance a lot quicker because we have more tools and capabilities at our disposal through SentinelOne than we had before.

Singularity Complete has saved us costs big time. We have eliminated three different vendors and the associated maintenance of those platforms. We needed more people and resources to manage three different things, but now, we do everything with just a couple of folks. Our time savings are about 50%.

It has helped reduce our organizational risk because we can detect more things that are hitting us. I cannot give a number on that, but it has definitely reduced our risk exposure. From a pure security standpoint, our risk frame point used to be flagged as red. We were missing a lot of things, and now, it is green.

What is most valuable?

The single pane of glass is probably the most valuable. That is a big one. We could see everything from one view. 

The automatic detection and response is great. It takes care of a lot of alerts that it generates before they even cross our desks, which is great. 

It has advanced detection capabilities. It has the ability to go and look for known threats that are in the environment. Its ability to detect even unknown threats and any suspicious activity is great. We are very happy with it.

What needs improvement?

It is not so much on the Singularity platform itself, but they have their own built-in SIEM that is included with it. That needs to evolve a little bit. It is relatively basic in its capabilities. They have potential there for a great product and a needed product too. Having some kind of SIEM capability with the endpoint solution will save me from buying a bigger SIEM or buying another one. I could just use the one that comes with my endpoint solution.

From the looks of it, it does pretty much what we need, but it could do more. It would be nice if it had some newer features that other players have. They would have a good market advantage if they were offering SIEM as a part of it. They kind of do that, but it is not something they are promoting. We just stumbled on it, so you can use it for doing other things as well, not just endpoint incident and event collection.

For how long have I used the solution?

We installed it in January, and we were doing a gradual ramp-up over three months. It has been up and running for about four months now. It is completely up and running.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

We have not had any issues. The performance seems good. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It seems very scalable. We have not run into any issues. We pushed it over about 2,000 endpoints. It performs the exact same way it has been.

How are customer service and support?

I have not personally contacted them, but my team has contacted them. Especially during deployment, they were very helpful. They helped us to get it done. The feedback I got was positive.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We had three different AV platforms. We eliminated McAfee, Defender, and ESET. Singularity Complete does everything better than these because it has got capabilities that these products did not even have. The biggest thing for us is the single pane of glass, so we can see right down to the machine. It is great at machine isolation, and it has better detection and mitigation capabilities than any of these products. It does a lot of it behind the scenes. A lot of it is automated and does not require us to do anything.

How was the initial setup?

It is a cloud solution with local installs at the endpoints, so everything is cloud.

I manage security for the organization. I was not doing the deployment, but I was a part of the deployment team, the meetings, and the decisions when we were going to do different things. I was not pushing the software to anybody's desktop but my team was.

It was not a difficult installation. Based on the feedback that we got, it was pretty straightforward. It went over relatively smoothly.

It does not require any maintenance. It is cloud-based, so we do not have to do much to it. The endpoints will update themselves periodically, so there is not much for us from a maintenance standpoint. It does not have a lot for us to do.

What about the implementation team?

We acquired our SentinelOne implementation through a reseller. We used the reseller's help, but we did almost 90% of it ourselves. They helped us manage the project piece and provided expertise and guidance. Between SentinelOne and the vendor itself, we got it done, but we did 90% of the heavy lifting.

There were probably four or five people between all of our locations, but most of it was done remotely. There was no need to touch individual desktops. We were able to push most of it out.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

SentinelOne was half the price of CrowdStrike.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We looked at all the big ones, such as CrowdStrike. That is the first one that comes to mind. We even looked at Microsoft Defender and Sentinel. We looked at a few other solutions out there. We had an IBM demo there, but I do not remember what theirs was called. Bitdefender was another one that we looked at.

We went to Singularity Complete for the feature set. They did not have a robust feature set the way CrowdStrike does, but they had everything that we needed. CrowdStrike had even more advanced features, but SentinelOne's pricing was half of what CrowdStrike sells for. It was a pretty easy decision for us to go with SentinelOne. They were much better than the other players that we looked at. It came down to between SentinelOne and CrowdStrike, and the pricing made all the difference. They also seemed pretty easy to deal with, whereas with CrowdStrike, it felt like they were doing us a favor. When we talked to them, I just did not get a great sense of them, but price was one of the main things. CrowdStrike's price was double of SentinelOne's price.

What other advice do I have?

I would advise a couple of things. If you are using a reseller to buy this and install it for you, have a good reseller that you can call upon for support and help manage the project. The other thing that I would probably suggest is to negotiate your education up front and not after the fact. It does not come with a lot of training. They even charge for the online university, so you should probably negotiate that as a part of the negotiation process before you sign a deal. Other than that, it is good.

I would rate Singularity Complete a nine out of ten. For my use case, it is definitely a nine.

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Saves us time and cost, and is easy to upgrade
Pros and Cons
  • "The most valuable features include the agent installation and update processes."
  • "The UI appears to be flat, and I wish to have the ability to customize it with features and buttons that are tailored to our needs."

What is our primary use case?

We utilize SentinelOne Singularity for endpoint malware protection and to gain visibility into threats across the network.

How has it helped my organization?

SentinelOne Singularity has the potential to ingest and correlate data across our security solutions.

Ranger provides network and asset visibility.

Ranger saves us time by not having to make changes to our hardware and systems.

Ranger helps prevent vulnerable devices from being compromised.

SentinelOne Singularity assisted our organization by saving deployment time and decreasing the volume of support calls.

Singularity helps reduce the number of alerts.

Singularity has helped our staff free up around 15 minutes of their time to focus on other projects.

It has reduced our MTTD.

It has helped our organization save costs through time savings.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable features include the agent installation and update processes.

What needs improvement?

The UI appears to be flat, and I wish to have the ability to customize it with features and buttons that are tailored to our needs.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using SentinelOne Singularity Complete for seven months.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

SentinelOne Singularity is stable. We have not experienced any crashes or downtime.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

SentinelOne Singularity scaled easily in terms of deployment. We haven't experienced any performance issues, whether it's installed on a higher-end machine or a low-end machine. SentinelOne Singularity has been excellent.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We faced issues with our previous endpoint solution, Panda Adaptive Defense 360. SentinelOne Singularity seemed to be a more reliable and easier-to-manage alternative. Panda Adaptive Defense 360 caused significant downtime during deployments and updates.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup was straightforward. The deployment required three people.

What about the implementation team?

The implementation was completed in-house.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We assessed McAfee, Trend Micro, and BlackBerry. We opted for SentinelOne Singularity due to its smaller footprint and more efficient software that uses fewer resources.

What other advice do I have?

I rate SentinelOne Singularity a nine out of ten.

SentinelOne Singularity is a mature product.

Maintenance is necessary only when we are periodically carrying out updates.

Having a vendor like SentinelOne is crucial for a solid security strategy, as we aim for a product that seamlessly caters to both the IT department and end users. We intend to avoid exacerbating issues more than resolving them. Therefore, I believe SentinelOne is a suitable solution for us – easy to deploy and maintain on a daily basis.

I suggest trying out SentinelOne Singularity and comparing it to more traditional security vendors. SentinelOne Singularity offers a slightly distinct approach, but it's an effective method.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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