SentinelOne Singularity Complete Initial Setup

Eddie Drachenberg - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Network and Infrastructure Manager at Bettcher Industries

I was involved in the initial setup.

The deployment is very straightforward. It's super easy to just download your agent, and you get your site token, you install, and you push it out. We use the PDQ at my last company. Here, we use SCCM. We push it out with the MSI, with the site token pre-installed. I see it on my dashboard. It's easy.

My last deployment was handled by myself.

The solution does not require any maintenance anymore. It used to be kind of a headache to go through and have to update the agent. And just to remember to do it. Now I get the email. It tells me there's a new agent out there. I go read up on what the changes are, which is great. Then I go in there and set up the auto-install on the agents, and it just hits them on the schedule. You only have to really pay attention to it once in a blue moon when a new agent is installed or there's a general release.

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Brian Fulmer - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at American Incorporated

I had prior experience with this kind of antivirus, so I thought setting up SentinelOne was very straightforward. We stood up three different products in the course of 60 days to do this test. I didn't think there was anything unusual or unexpected about setting it up. It's perfectly understandable if you know what you're doing.

We have automated tools for deploying software. The biggest problem was getting the old endpoint solution off and the new endpoint solution parked on top of it. We had a 30-day window to get it all done for 250 endpoints.

My IT group has four people, including me, but it's not hard to manage or deploy. It fits right within our normal imaging endpoints, so it's super-low overhead.

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AK
IT Security Engineer at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Getting the solution spun up and put into the environment, and getting it set up to where it's working smoothly, was okay in terms of a process. They are like any other vendor trying to give you a white-glove service.

I was involved in the initial setup.

Once we understood the methodology, it was pretty straightforward. 

I chose to rely on people who knew how the product worked. I relied on their input and insights. We did procure professional services to really get into training and understanding the solution.

The learning curve continues to be the false positives. I've had to create a new exclusion list from scratch. I'm still going through the process. 

New users need to have a work-in period. There will be a period to get all of the little anomalies tweaked out.

There were three of us implementing the solution.

There's no real maintenance to worry about. That's why we purchased the SaaS solution. We do need to update the agent. 

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SecOps Engineer at a media company with 10,001+ employees

I was not involved in the entire setup process for SentinelOne Singularity Complete, but it was mostly straightforward. However, getting the agents onto the machines was more complicated than the team would have liked.

The team started with a test machine and then expanded after issues arose, including figuring out how to fix the issues.

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Austin Estrada - PeerSpot reviewer
Cybersecurity Analyst at Brady Corporation

We have it almost entirely hosted in the cloud. We do deploy it via the deployment software that we use to deploy to our endpoints. We do have it in the cloud as well that we run through the command line and then point it to our management console, but we do not have it hosted on-premises. We like the idea of having things in the cloud at least for the specific instance.

I was not involved in its deployment. I came here a little bit later, but I got to talk to some of the people afterward. I am part of the deployment now, but I missed the boat by a handful of months.

It is pretty straightforward. The way it works is that you get what is called the management console URL, which is essentially when you install it, it tells you who the device belongs to. You put in your URL, you run a command from it on an executable, and then from there, it is on your machine. It is pretty straightforward.

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MY
IT Manager at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

Deploying SentinelOne Singularity Complete didn't take long for a small global company like ours. My company has offices in the US, Canada, France, and India, and working between different locales took more time, but generally, the process didn't take very long, as it only took about two weeks.

SentinelOne Singularity Complete is a commercial solution that I found easy to implement, which is another reason my company paid for a commercial solution.

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RM
Senior Information Security Engineer at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees

The deployment and rollout of SentinelOne are pretty simple. In our environment, we deployed the agents, then we had to remove them from some of the machines because the agent was impacting the performance of those machines. At that time, we found out it wasn't the SentinelOne agent rather an underlying issue on our own system or even the environment that it was in. We had to take SentinelOne out to troubleshoot the root cause, which delayed us a bit in rolling it out to our other infrastructure. That was completely fine. Looking at it from a global and world perspective, the rollout was very simple. 

About 6,000 to 7,000 endpoints took us six to seven months to deploy. Linux took a bit longer to deploy because the tools are not as good for deployment as what is available for Windows and Macs. Using a script, we were able to take care of that. However, we could only do that during maintenance windows, otherwise we couldn't deploy the agents without an approval change.

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Maxwell Essuman. - PeerSpot reviewer
Country Manager at Platview Technologies

In the beginning, our technical team did not have a lot of information but once they received some guidance from SentinelOne the deployment was easy.

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Michael Grissom - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Cyber Security at Tidewater Mortgage Services

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.

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Rashid Torrence - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Manager of Business Services at ATC Communications (Idaho)

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. 

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Kevin Mabry - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO, Author, Cyber security best practices at Sentree Systems, Corp.

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.

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Sumit Saxena. - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

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.

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TH
Director or IT Security at a educational organization with 11-50 employees

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.

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MC
Director of IT at a construction company with 51-200 employees

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

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Rob Grow - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Director at a construction company with 501-1,000 employees

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.

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Ian Sterling - PeerSpot reviewer
Analyst Information Security at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I was involved in its initial deployment. I packaged the Jamf mobile device management installation package for our Macs. As far as security products go, it was the easiest one. The instructions were great. They were aligned with the vendor, which is something not common. Usually, it is like, "Here is what you have to do with your vendor." SentinelOne took that extra step, and it deployed right out of the box.

We have on-premises, public cloud, and private cloud deployment. Our cloud provider is primarily AWS, but we also have a little bit with Google and Mandiant, so we have a hybrid cloud. We are in the middle of a migration. The cloud is fairly new for us, and securing it has been a priority.

We have our deployment segregated on endpoint types, but our entire organization has it.

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BS
Deputy CISO at The University of Texas at El Paso

I was not involved in the initial setup. 

I'm not hands-on. I'm more on the management side. Basically, we make sure that they connect, and I'll handle the management once everything's set up. I'm handling monitoring. Deployment is handled by another team. We have maybe ten team members who manage deployments. 

The maintenance is minimal. It's pretty self-sufficient. We just do normal reviews. 

From my point of view, the deployment is straightforward. 

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DD
Information Security Engineer II at a recreational facilities/services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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

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

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AC
IT Manager at a construction company with 51-200 employees

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

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MW
Sr. Security Engineer at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The initial deployment was pretty straightforward from my perspective. We were able to take the package and deploy it, which made it really easy to get it on all of our endpoints. About ten people were involved in the deployment.

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Nagendra Nekkala - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager ICT & Innovations at Bangalore International Airport Limited

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.

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RR
CISO at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

The initial deployment was straightforward. The entire deployment took 16 weeks, with eight weeks spent deploying the endpoints and eight weeks spent deploying the service. A total of 20 people were required for the deployment.

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DS
Enterprise Security Architect at a recruiting/HR firm with 10,001+ employees

The initial setup of SentinelOne was very simple. I packaged the executables into MSIs, including the token ID, I created a package in Tanium, and I dropped it on all the workstations. I was able to deploy it to over 40,000 endpoints in 35 days.

When you govern as much real estate as I do, meaning the number of endpoints and the number of different business units that those endpoints comprise, there had to be a deployment strategy for it. I broke it down into countries, and in each of those countries I broke into brands and I broke it into asset types, whether they be servers or workstations, whether they're mobile or localized. It's not difficult to push out there, as long as you create exclusions. I used my legacy tools in parallel with this for a month and still never faced any issues.

For any organization, if you have any kind of deployment mechanism in place, you could put your entire workforce on this and it wouldn't matter how many endpoints. If they're online and available and you have a deployment solution, you could do it in a month, easily, if not less. I could've done it much faster, but I needed to do a pilot country first. I did all the testing and validations and then, once we went into production mode, it was very fast.

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Werner Lunow - PeerSpot reviewer
CISO at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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Luigi Tiano - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-Founder & VP Sales and Marketing at Assurance IT

The initial setup is straightforward. We collected several samples for each department, and subsequently, we distributed them to ensure their functionality among the users in different departments. After conducting the necessary tests, we proceeded to implement the final version.

Two individuals were engaged in the deployment: a Cyber Hunter and an administrator.

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DC
Vice President of Technology at J&N Stone

The initial setup is extremely easy. I collaborated with my team to grant trial access, allowing me to configure a single device and assess its functionality. Furthermore, the website's cloud segment was established automatically by SentinelOne. Upon downloading the package, it was promptly recognized, and the device was seamlessly incorporated into the cloud-based management console. This enabled me to effectively oversee, configure, and comprehend its settings. The overall process struck me as remarkably straightforward, even when I noticed that there was an error in the naming of my management console. A quick email to my account manager rectified the issue, with their prompt resolution at their end.

I completed the deployment on my own.

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Sasita Lamchaona - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Consultant at M.Tech

The initial SentinelOne setup is easy to set up in the environment and also easy to download the packet to install. 

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David Nee; - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at CyberTek MSSP

It is easier now than it was back then. We deploy it every month on somebody new. We have enjoyed that. 

Just yesterday, we had a customer convert from a separate partner to us, and that migration from company to company within SentinelOne was flawless. It was just us doing the migration. We have been there for so long, so we just bring it straight across. The process is very straightforward and easy. This partner of SentinelOne was going to uninstall the agents, and I paused them and asked them to just transfer. They had never gone through that before. We took that over and moved all the agents over without any loss of coverage to the actual customer.

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ZS
Sr. IT Systems Security Admin at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

We use Windows and Mac computers. Deploying SentinelOne on Windows was fairly easy. We were able to do it through our remote management solution. The installation was straightforward and simple. The most difficult part of the process was that the device had to reboot in order for SentinelOne to connect to the visibility service and bring everything online.

Deploying SentinelOne on Mac was a bit different. This is primarily due to the way the macOS operating system works. We need to grant specific privacy permissions to applications in order for them to have full disk access or screen recording capabilities. We found that if we installed SentinelOne on the user profile of a Mac computer, the user's administrator could remove it. This is not ideal, so we had to go back to the drawing board and deploy SentinelOne through our MDM solution.

The biggest headache was that, in order to deploy SentinelOne through MDM so that users did not have to grant privileges to the application, we needed to create a Privacy Preferences Policy Control profile with the specific permissions granted for the SentinelOne bundle ID. We then pushed this profile out to all users. Once we did this, the installation was seamless.

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ZV
Cyber Security Analyst at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

We are at about 98% deployment. There are endpoints that pop up that don't have the agent to get it, however, we're past the deployment phase or past the initial configuration phase. It's all just maintaining and tweaking, and as new features come out, we adjust.

I wasn't here for the initial deployment process. I've done a lot of configurations for new features that they've implemented.

Our team does general maintenance. They do a really good job of giving you the information you need to troubleshoot. Their knowledge base is really good. 

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MV
IT manager at a outsourcing company with 11-50 employees

The initial deployment was moderate. It would be much better if SentinelOne had a better way to induct the site token into the installation process, rather than requiring users to create a script.

The deployment took a couple of weeks to complete and required two people. We captured 80 percent of the endpoints within the first day, and then it took a couple of weeks to catch the more subtle ones.

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Mitchell Ayers - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a construction company with 11-50 employees

The portal is cloud-based, but the agents are on-prem.

I was involved in its deployment. I am a one-man IT shop. It was pretty straightforward. You get the agent that you want to install, and there is a code that you put in that locks it to your portal. It installs pretty easily.

It requires very little maintenance. Occasionally, I check to make sure that the agent version is pushed out because that is not automatic. I get to choose when the agent gets pushed out. If there is an update, I update them when I want to.

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KT
Director of information technology at Stuart & Branigin LLP

I was involved in the initial deployment of SentinelOne Singularity Complete, which was very straightforward.

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HH
Senior Security Analyst at a pharma/biotech company with 501-1,000 employees

The initial deployment was complex due to the complex environment. I would agree that deploying to a single device would be straightforward, but we have a manufacturing environment that requires bespoke applications, which makes any migration complex.

Fifteen people were required for the deployment.

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SimonThornton - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Security Services Operations Manager at a aerospace/defense firm with 201-500 employees

It is straightforward. If we deploy it from a URL where it downloads, it can be done in 10 minutes. If it is coming from an internal deployment server, it can be a few minutes. It is essentially headless. There are no prompts.

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JD
Operations Manager at Proton Dealership IT

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

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

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

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

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BB
CISO at Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

The initial setup was straightforward.

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Olivier Richard - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Support Director at Biotrial S.A.S.

The implementation process is quite straightforward. It's not complex at all. 

The deployment process took a maximum of a month. That said, we were doing very slowly since there were some computers that we knew would not have any attacks on it. However, there were others that were using acquisition data. We needed to install it and maybe wait a week to ensure everything conformed, and after that, we patched the rest.

Maybe five or six people are maintaining. However, no one really has to worry about it full-time. Really, only one to two people would be required. 

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BD
Agile Product Owner at Micron Technology, Inc.

The initial setup was complex, but their technical staff are professionals and were able to help us custom-tailor the package we needed. On a scale of one to five, in terms of the complexity, with one being impossible to do and five effortless, I would put SentinelOne at about a four.

Deployment was about a six-month project for us and it included a discovery period and learning about our environments. We worked with SentinelOne to learn the environments and figure out what we needed to be successful. Then, we focused on an implementation period and then just monitored it after that. It was about a month and a half for each phase of that six-month period.

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DM
Information Security & Privacy Manager at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

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

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

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

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Brian Glen - PeerSpot reviewer
Incident Response Specialist at Klick Health

It is a cloud solution. I inherited it, so I was not there when they implemented it. It was implemented about six months before I got hired. It was probably deployed in late 2021, and I started in February 2022.

It requires a little bit of maintenance in terms of fine-tuning the false positives and things like that. For example, because people use Logitech devices, I had to suppress the alerts because they kept popping up because the hash was always different. I have noticed that when a new agent comes, it can be a little aggressive in the beginning. I have to fine-tune the alerts a little bit, but that is a part of the process. I update the agents twice a year. I will try to do it more because now I know how the upgrade policy works. The only thing I am not yet good at is reviewing the Mac logs. Windows logs are easy because of the years of Windows experience and the use of Windows Event Viewer. I just got to be better with the Mac logs.

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JD
IT Director at a wholesaler/distributor with 501-1,000 employees

The initial deployment was straightforward. Implementing SentinelOne was not complicated, and more user-friendly than the others.

The deployment was completed by myself and one admin.

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GS
Head - Network & Security at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The initial setup is straightforward as long as we are not dealing with legacy systems. In the manufacturing industry, many systems utilize older operating systems like Windows 2000, which run traditional applications that cannot be removed. Deploying on Unix is also challenging, whereas Windows Ten is straightforward.

We deploy in large manufacturing environments and there were around 80 people involved in the deployments.

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SA
Manager of Information Security at a recreational facilities/services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The deployment was pretty straightforward. We deployed it originally in a reduced state until we had an outline for a majority of machines when we could protect the environment better. 

We had two or three staff members who handled the deployment. 

There is some maintenance required. We do have to monitor and fix agents and occasionally update the product. There are two to three people who perform occasional maintenance duties. 

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AshishGautam - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Project Manager at Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute In India

The initial setup was a bit complex but very simple if you set up a single order.

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AP
Senior Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

It was pretty straightforward, and it was pretty easy to get everything out.

We pushed through SCCM, and it went right in. I had very minimal issues with all of our endpoints. The ease was right there, and basically, there was not a disruption. It was one of the easier deployments that we have had. It roughly took half the time as our previous endpoint protection solution. We did it in about nine months, and we rolled from PoC straight into deployment. The previous solution took about 18 months to cover the same population with a lot more complications and finagling to make it work.

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GG
Network Administrator at a real estate/law firm with 501-1,000 employees

It took some time to figure out how to make the deployment work, to get it on everyone's computers, and to get the organization to fully adopt it, but it really wasn't hard in the long run now that we have it deployed.

There is no maintenance involved on our end. I can push policies during the day to upgrade the clients.

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SD
Director of Global Security Operations at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

They host the platform in the cloud. It is a SaaS application for us.

Its deployment was extremely straightforward. All you have to do is deploy their agents on your computers. The agent checks in with your cloud console, and you start retrieving information immediately. Carbon Black Defense has that capability as well, but we went with SentinelOne because it did have that cloud capability. When COVID hit, and everybody left the office to go home to work, it was seamless for us. We have full visibility into every single system and asset in the organization whether they are on-premises or off-premises. They could be traveling. They could be anywhere in the world. As long as they have Internet connectivity, we have full visibility into their computers.

In terms of maintenance, the only maintenance that is required is to maintain the health of the agents. Sometimes the agents can become corrupt or stop functioning, so you have to ensure that you are checking for assets in which you run into those situations. The other thing would be the agent versions. You have to maintain agent versions as new versions of the agents come out. You can either automate it so that your agents get updated automatically on whatever schedule that you want, or you can do it manually. You can also do it through some other software deployment platform. That is the only thing you have to do maintenance on. The backend is all maintained by SentinelOne. All the updates to the console environment are taken care of by SentinelOne. Because it is a SaaS application, the only thing that the customer is responsible for is the agent deployment and upgrades.

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OluwatoyeseAgoro - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Engineer at Cybervergent

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

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AE
Enterprise Security Director at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees

The initial setup is not complex. It's similar to any endpoint solution implementation. We require one staff to deploy the solution. We mainly use AWS as our cloud provider. We also use GCP.

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Suresh KannanP - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Security Practice Head at Tech Mahindra Limited

Deploying SentinelOne is straightforward. Rolling out agents across the endpoints takes time, but that's because of our company's internal procedures. We can start using it once the agents are deployed across all the systems. It took around three months or so. 

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RS
Assistant Manager at airtel

It's easy to set up and has a very lightweight agent. It's very easy to deploy.

The time it takes to deploy all depends upon the number of uses, the number of clients, which machines are there, et cetera. In the Ranger, you have options. If you have advanced features for deployment, Ranger deployment, it is easy.

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KT
Network Support at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

We went with cloud-based instead of on-prem. Going cloud-based was pretty easy. The most difficult thing we had to do was deploy the agent. They don't have any means of deploying the agent. You have to use either your Shoe Leather Express, you have to go walk around and deploy it. And in our case, we use our active directory network, we used SCCM to push it out to departments in that manner. 

One thing that would be nice is if they had a means of deploying their agent. For example, a long time ago, on a different network of a different company, they wanted some help, and I helped them install a Sophos antivirus solution. Sophos had a means of emailing. You can email people and they could click on a link, which would download and install the agent for them, which was nice. Now, we depend on the end-user to do their part of the job which is risky. But one thing about SentinelOne is that I can upgrade agents all day long, but I can't deploy an agent to a machine that doesn't have one on there. There's no means of doing that. I wouldn't expect them to have that in there necessarily, but I think it would be a fantastic ability if they could do that.

I actually like their agent. As a matter of fact, it's required. I don't see how they'd be able to pull it off otherwise to do what it does. My point is, if a computer did not have SentinelOne on it and they were to run into a problem, for example, if we had a device that's not on our active directory network and we wanted them to deploy SentinelOne on it, the only way for me to do that is literally to run the user down, find them, or find their device and install it manually. It would be really nice if there would be a means to deploy it to an endpoint.

We have 2,750 licenses, and I was able to deploy it to 2,750 devices quickly. If you have a deployment mechanism like using your domain or your network, you can actually just say, "Please put it on these devices." You can create an installer package and it talks back to the console and that's it. It's super easy.

Our deployment took close to six months, not because of SentinelOne but because of internal politics.

Because SentinelOne was a new product and anytime you install anything new here, it has to go through committees to install things, we targeted our most high valuable departments first, the ones with the protected data and also administrative offices, like the president of offices and HR. We tested it in our department first and once the rest of the university saw that our computers didn't go up in flames, they began to relax about it. Then, we went to our high priority departments, our Chief Information Security Officer got behind it 100% and pushed the issue, which allowed us to go full force on it after we got through the initial departments. We got it in there, we tested it in our environment, created the packages for it, and tested it in our department for a month. Over the next four months, I rolled it out to individual departments in groups.

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RS
System Engineer at Lyanthe

The initial setup of SentinelOne is straightforward. It's fairly logical. Everything works in the way you think it has to work. It's pretty simple to work with. It's just a matter of installing the agent and go. It takes about two minutes. There is an agent client with token codes. You just install the token code in it and reboot your endpoint and it's working.

We have it installed on 305 endpoints. This is a work in progress. We didn't have all of those endpoints when SentinelOne came in. We've rolled out new endpoints. But, it doesn't take long for a machine to get an agent and to make a connection and to get updates. Once you are in the portal, you can update from there. And then, you only have to check if it's already there and if the agent is working.

If we push an update, within an hour everything is there. If they are all online it will go pretty fast.

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Mohammad Ali Khan - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at Pacific Infotech UK ltd

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.

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TF
Director of Cybersecurity at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The product is cloud-based. The initial deployment was straightforward. We were able to rip and replace and do it all faster than our onboarding team had expected. It was done within a month.

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Laurie Reynolds - PeerSpot reviewer
Threat and Vulnerability Manager at GBG Plc

I was not involved in its initial deployment. I am with the engineering team. I have deployed SentinelOne on some systems, so I know the process, but I was not involved in deploying it or rolling it out company-wide.

It is in the cloud, but we have SentinelOne agents deployed on our systems. These agents report the data back to the cloud, which gives us the ability to see all of that data.

In terms of maintenance, the team that maintains it performs agent updates. They can be pushed automatically, but our engineering team has decided to not push the updates automatically because they could potentially break something or may not be fully compatible with a current version of, for example, macOS. There is some maintenance in that regard. There is also maintenance in terms of relieving some aged SentinelOne nodes. We might remove those. I would not necessarily call it maintenance, but when we set up particular alerts, we may maintain those alerts based on our requirements at the time. It may be the vulnerability being escalated in the wild, or we might want to set up some sort of detection that can basically detect or indicate any compromise. We maintain all of those rules.

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Tim Hayes - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at a wholesaler/distributor with 5,001-10,000 employees

The console is on the cloud, however, the devices are on-premises. The initial setup was very straightforward. Overall, it was fairly quick. We had more trouble getting the older product uninstalled than SentinelOne installed. We did the implementation slowly based on the business requirements. We deployed it over the course of a month. 

The company does a good job with training and keeping its documentation up to date.

It does not require much maintenance. Every now and then we might have one or two false positives.

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Salman Aziz - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Architect at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

The initial deployment was straightforward and simple for us. We just needed to install the agent on the end-user machines, open communication to their cloud URLs through our firewalls, and do some initial configuration on the console with help from their team.

We have a hybrid structure, not only on-prem. We have services running in the cloud as well as on-prem. We have multiple locations across regions and in different countries.

It's not difficult to maintain since it's purely on the cloud. If there are updates, they notify us. That is the maintenance activity. They update our services. Once all the environments move to the cloud, we won't need to worry about maintenance anymore. It depends on the vendor; there's nothing much to do on our end. They push any end-user updates, or they make them available to us and we push them out from the console.

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Greg Walia - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

The deployment was straightforward. We worked with a trainer and implementation specialist over at Sentinel. Four people from our team and one from the vendor were involved. After installation, the primary maintenance is ensuring the agents are deployed to the end-user machines. 

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AANKITGUPTAA - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at Pi DATACENTERS

The solution is easy to set up. It's not an overly complex process. We had no issues at all. 

One system engineer which has some knowledge of network security can handle the implementation.

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Mallappa Bagi - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Analyst at R V college of Engineering

The SentinelOne team helps with the implementation, and as it is a cloud SaaS application, we didn't have to do much. They have pretty well-defined documentation, and it is straightforward. And similarly, the maintenance is taken care of by the vendor.

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JL
System Administrator at a renewables & environment company with 51-200 employees

The deployment was good. We have agents installed on all endpoints. The management portal has a nice interface. We can do everything we need to do from there, which is nice. 

I was involved in the deployment. It was pretty straightforward. You just install the agents and make sure the policy is correct based on the servers or the usage of the endpoint. We only ran into an issue around a 32-bit Windows software system, however, it wasn't anything major. I mostly handled the implementation myself. 

There isn't much maintenance needed. You just need to do version updates. 

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Chris East - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

The initial deployment was straightforward. SentinelOne provides easy-to-follow well-documented instructions. I completed the deployment myself within half an hour.                                   

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AM
CISO at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I was involved in the deployment. It was a straightforward deployment. We had six people handling the deployment. 

We have not had a need for maintenance just yet. 

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AB
SecOps Lead at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The initial setup was straightforward and required six people for deployment, which took a few weeks to complete. Some teams took a little longer to figure out their deployment, but we deployed the whole system enterprise-wide within a month or two.

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CL
Security Expert at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

For deploying, it takes a long time. Our process was first to install SentinelOne with McAfee, having two antiviruses in the same host. Then, we started to uninstall McAfee. That process took about six to nine months because we had a lot of endpoints to deploy.

The antivirus migration was normal. The only thing that was tricky was the removal of the McAfee tool because sometimes it worked incorrectly and didn't uninstall the antivirus.

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Ronel Silawan - PeerSpot reviewer
Network and Systems Team Lead at Utilibill Pty Ltd

Deploying Singularity is straightforward, and it doesn't require you to restart the servers in the latest version.

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RK
Deputy Manager at JK Paper

The initial deployment was straightforward. 

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SS
Developer at DSY medical

We found the initial setup to be very simple. You just click through, and you're up and running. 

I'd rate it five out of five in terms of ease of deployment.

We're deploying it every month. SentinelOne sends updates every month and we action them. 

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Rajeev Babu - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. System Administrator at Danube Group

It is very easy to implement or install. I would rate it a five out of five in terms of the ease of setup. It does require maintenance by someone.

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KN
Senior security consultant at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

The initial deployment is straightforward. We receive a URL extension from the company and we set the policies and install the agent.

I deploy the solution for POCs using 20 machines. We demonstrate the deployment methods, and the customer completes the rest of the process. We typically complete this task in two days. For larger organizations that have a lot of departments and branches, the deployment can take up to 15 days.

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PC
Sr. Security Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

The initial deployment was complex, but SentinelOne helped with the process and two of our employees were involved.

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Rahul Kate - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-Founder at First Defense WLL

The setup is simple and the solution can be deployed using any tool. Vendors can also remotely deploy the solution.

If the solution is set up properly with the right policies and processes in place, then it won't require too many maintenance resources. Customers can also utilize the solution's NDR service instead of staffing that position. One technician can easily handle ongoing maintenance.  

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Sheryar Saqib - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Network Security Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The initial setup of this solution was simple. We did the setup ourselves, but did require a little help from the vendor.

I would give SentinelOne a four out of five for ease of setup.

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Michael Mcdonald. - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Security Consultant at First Technology

The initial deployment of the solution was straightforward. SentinelOne is typically used across multiple locations and departments for our clients. Fortunately, it demands very little continuous maintenance.

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AG
Executive Director of Information Security and Compliance at a pharma/biotech company with 51-200 employees

I'm involved in deploying SentinelOne Singularity Complete, and I found the process straightforward. My company is still going through with the deployment because of the ninety-day deployment model.

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GB
Network Engineer at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

SentinelOne Singularity Complete's initial setup is straightforward.

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RJ
Deputy Chief Information Officer at a computer retailer with 201-500 employees

The initial setup is very straightforward. SentinelOne has incredibly helpful information on their help pages. They are probably the fastest company that I know of in the entire EDR space for responding to a client's email or phone call when you need to do something new or complex.

We have covered everything from Citrix networks to more complicated systems that work by utilizing the Amazon and Azure cloud to spin up additional resources and spin down resources. We were able to protect every one of those assets with it. The agent is easy to load and configure and the library allows us to quickly pivot on a new client and get their exclusions in fast enough to not impede business as we're protecting them.

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TT
Offensive Security Certified Professional at Schuler Group

This is the first time we have used an antivirus software as a service and it was the easiest set up I have ever had in my life, and I have been doing this stuff for many years. The console was set up by SentinelOne, literally in 20 minutes. The deployment of the agent took me five minutes for the first machines and they reported within those five minutes. That was the fastest ramp-up I've ever seen.

There are three IT security guys who are concerned with information security in our company. Normally I don't do antivirus stuff. My colleagues are information security officers as well and don't care about antivirus. But I got this project to roll it out it all over the world because I'm one of the technical guys who is capable of doing it. So strictly speaking, I'm doing it alone—one person for 5,500 computers. But at least we have people in every time zone who are capable of using the SentinelOne console, more or less. Altogether, there are six people in our company who actually access the solution, including me.

We had an implementation strategy. Because we had a major pain point in China, we started rolling it out there. Because it's in a completely different time zone and the people are completely different in their mindset, this was one of the critical areas for us. It worked like a charm. I installed 230 machines within five days, and then I recognized that SentinelOne was finding so much more than our old antivirus solution that I started to really do a rollout plan. 

As part of that plan, we always install SentinelOne side-by-side with our old solution, and that works great. They say, "Don't ever have two antivirus solutions on one computer," but that's not true for SentinelOne. You can configure both and they work together. In the first step, SentinelOne is on the machine, just reporting to the console. That way, I see which software gets executed, software that SentinelOne might find problematic, and I do whitelisting or blacklisting, depending on the software. Once I don't get much software that I have to whitelist, I put the client into a kill and quarantine mode and every software gets removed automatically. Once the agent is in kill and Quarantine mode, the old antivirus solution is uninstalled. That's how we do it, country-by-country.

The time it took was affected by the Coronavirus. As a result of that, many of the machines were not onsite and many of the people weren't online, or were only on VPN. I don't distribute SentinelOne by VPN because people at home normally don't have a big bandwidth and I didn't want to stress it even more. I kept in mind that they were covered by our old solution, so there was no big need to really push it forward. But the 2,500 machines we have installed took six months.

SentinelOne gives their customers access to the SentinelOne API and that made it possible for me to write software for the deployment of SentinelOne. I'm speaking to the company to get permission to publish this software as open source. That might help many other companies that are facing the same problems I have in rolling it out all over the world.

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LC
Director - Global Information Security at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

The initial setup was straightforward. I co-authored a book on evaluating products and one of the things that you have to take into account is ease of use and how intuitive things are. Some people may not consider that important, but I consider it important.

In general, it was easy to set up. That was one of the reasons I was pleasantly surprised.

What can make it difficult is the environment you are in. For example, we have "freeze periods" during about half the year, where we cannot make any changes. So, during retail, during Christmas, Chinese New Year, Black Friday, etc., nothing can change in the environment and we cannot deploy anything.

Other things, outside of the environment, were that there are financial/fiscal periods, every quarter, where we cannot change certain things. And we have different silos: a server group, a Windows group, a Mac group, and a Linux group that didn't want to touch anything. Everyone had some bad taste left in their mouths at some point in time, not necessarily with SentinelOne, but in general. If everything is working, why change it? So there were some political things, internally. We have about 35 different companies around the world. Each has a variation of things and there is every version of every thing out there. And some have badly written code too that shows up as malware; it manifests just like malware.

For deployment and maintenance it was me. I did almost everything. There were only one or two people. Obviously, we have to follow the sun because we're global, so at times there might have been three or four people involved, but generally it was one or two who were coordinating it. They know the product and how to deploy it and what needed to be done, but I needed those guys around the globe. They had to coordinate with each of those groups I mentioned. But we owned it and we were accountable for it. We have segregated duties. Even though I'm in security, I don't have the rights to get onto our Windows Servers and make changes. I have to ask the server guys to do something and that's why things take time. That's why you need people to coordinate it.

But, once it was detecting those threats, I felt that even though we had an outsourced team, they were lacking in knowledge. If I told them, "Hey, this is malware," without the right experience, they wouldn't know what the heck to do with it. That was the challenge. That's why we went with SentinelOne's managed service. They have people who can deal with it and sort out the things that are real.

The way you do it is that you don't just McAfee take off a machine and put this one in. You run them simultaneously for some time, and then take one out. I wanted to see if something would happen, or it started messing things up, or if people would start calling saying, "Hey, there's something going on in my machine."

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GM
Head of Global Solutions at Arete Advisors

Deploying Singularity was straightforward. The only issue is with the interoperability with other tools running in the customer's environment. We faced some challenges, but those were the initial teething issues. The solution requires some maintenance. You need to continuously update the agents and apply patches. We need multiple people to maintain the solution because we are a service provider with a huge customer base, but if you are deploying it for one client, one engineer is enough.

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PN
Information Architect & Security Officer at a wholesaler/distributor with 201-500 employees

The initial deployment was straightforward. We first ran SentinelOne Singularity Complete in parallel with Trend Micro. This means that the agents can run in a monitoring policy or process, which sends us information about what the agent would block if it were in blocking mode. When we are confident that it is safe to switch to a blocking policy or policies, we can do so with a single click in the dashboard, and the agent or group of agents or all agents will start blocking. This is very easy to do, and we were able to deploy the agents to all endpoints in a matter of weeks.

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JS
Cybersecurity Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I was involved in the whole process of deployment. One thing that wasn't SentinelOne's forte was compatibility with a script for an on-premises software distribution tool. Most of what we did was homegrown to deploy the agents to the machines.

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JL
Application Support Specialist at a non-tech company with 201-500 employees

I was involved in the deployment of the solution. The process was very simple. SentinelOne took care of most of it for us. 

SentinelOne pushed out the agent for us. 

We did not need a lot of resources in terms of staff members. We were involved in the planning yet not too much of the implementation. We're still working on covering the last few machines. 

There is some maintenance, however, they are mostly updates and those are pushed out by SentinelOne. 

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Cem BALIK - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technologies Manager at VAS Bilisim Teknolojileri A.S

It's a simple, straightforward setup. It is not overly complex or difficult. 

We have a small IT team and have found that we just need to have one person managing the product. 

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MS
IT Solutions Specialist at a non-tech company with 11-50 employees

The deployment is straightforward. We have scripts to do the automatic installation while onboarding. The deployment takes no more than ten minutes.

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IB
Chief Innovation Officer

Once all testing was complete, the deployment was straightforward. Eight part-time employees completed the deployment in three months.

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it_user1011267 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Consultant at Jeneri IT

It was straightforward. It probably took me a week to get 250 machines converted.

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Jairo Avritchir - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Technology and Digital Transformation at Banco Fibra

The initial setup is straightforward as we have contracts with Microsoft Office Supplies, commodities, defender, and Active Directory.

I would rate the ease of initial setup of SentinelOne a five out of five. It is easy.

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KM
Security Head at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

It offers an easy implementation process. It's not overly complex or difficult. Setting everything up on the cloud is simple. The deployment was done in a matter of days. In the end, it took less than a week. We had two people handle the deployment process. 

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JM
Cloud Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

The initial setup of SentinelOne is very easy. You only need to turn it on and it starts working with a couple of clicks. The ease of implementation is SentinelOne strongest feature.

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EG
CEO at ERG Solutions

The implementation time depends on the size of the network but it's usually very short, no more than a day or two.  

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SP
Network and Security Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The initial setup was easy. We did it step-by-step, so we didn't deploy it to all our endpoints in one shot. We deployed 300 or 400 endpoints per week. This was in case there were any issues, then we could act immediately so we wouldn't have an impact on the whole business. However, we didn't experience any issues. We were up and running in about three or four days and had migrated 2000 clients to SentinelOne.

For our implementation strategy, we deployed one day, then another day we would watch. Then, we deployed another day and would watch the next. So, in about two weeks, we were up and running. We decided to do it that way because we have had issues with mass rollouts in the past. Now, we are very careful when rolling out stuff to the whole company. Perhaps, it might have not been a problem to roll it out in one day, but we did it very slowly to have a kind of a control outcome.

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ZC
Network Engineer at a government with 11-50 employees

The initial deployment was good. The solution is cloud-based.

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Jared Ochieng - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Security Specialist at infoark

The initial setup is very straightforward and easy. Once you install it, auto-updates are initialized. When you put in watches, you are searching for items, you need customization, and you add or remove rules, which is quite easy.

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Adam Peason - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Information Security Officer at Lone Star National Bank

It takes a little time to put it in.

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AG
Head of IT at a transportation company with 501-1,000 employees

The initial setup is very straightforward. It was pretty much all done for us. Essentially, all we had to do was install the agent on each workstation that was upgraded.

It took about three weeks to deploy, covering all 212 of our endpoints.

We didn't have a specific implementation strategy. We somewhat phased it in, and all of the new devices would be installed with SentinelOne. As we go through the different workstations, we replace what is necessary and upgrade the agent. It was a case of going through our four different offices and because we're quite small, we did it one by one.

There is no maintenance required, post-deployment.

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EC
Principal Security Analyst at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The initial deployment was straightforward for SentinelOne Singularity Complete. We had a bigger challenge installing Cylance. 

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AP
Security Engineer at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

We have it on our laptops and the cloud, so our setup is hybrid. I am in charge of deployment, and it is as simple or complex as any other solution. 

It requires maintenance on our end.

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BB
Chief Information Security Officer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

I was involved in the initial setup and found it to be straightforward. I cannot really how long it took to fully deploy.

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GA
Deputy General Manager at SLT Visioncom Pvt Ltd

IT installed the solution on my machine. 

That said, my understanding is the initial setup is not overly complex. At first, however, we had to do some whitelisting. You need to perform a few operations, and we had to reinstall the OS, install a backup, and handle whitelisting. While it takes time, it's not hard. 

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MM
Information Security Principal at Alkhorayef

The initial setup was straightforward. We use the SaaS model, cloud-based solution, and console on cloud, so it's very straightforward. I rate the setup a 4.8 out of five, and I would give it a five if they added application control.

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RS
Technical Team Lead at Alepo

Setting up SentinelOne is a pretty straightforward process. We have around 300 systems in our environment. Working with our security service provider and four other colleagues, we completed the deployment 10 to 15. It's worth noting that we were handling our daily tasks, so we weren't working on this the entire time. 

After deployment, we have to scan the endpoint for maintenance and upgrade. We also need to regularly update the endpoint agents from the console. Our security service provider primarily handles upgrades to the console itself. 

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Ashish Dubey - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Security Analyst at SecurityHQ

The initial setup for SentinelOne was easy, and I manually performed it. It's easy to deploy a device onto SentinelOne. You have to run the agent, and the application, then the tool will be onboarded. It's that easy.

The deployment of SentinelOne hardly took me half an hour. Once you've learned how and executed the agent file on the machine, you'll start getting the logs. You'll test, configure, and collect the right resources and receive the logs.

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RS
Technical Team Lead at Alepo

The initial setup is annoying since you have to download the agent and then upload it to the endpoint. 

For maintenance, basically, I'm the admin for SentinelOne. Also, there is a different organization altogether to whom we have outsourced the management of SentinelOne. They have their own employees. Their particular team would be working for our organization. They are an SoC organization, and they work 24/7 for various clients. We are one of their clients.

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SK
Head of Information Technology at a healthcare company with 201-500 employees

It’s very easy to implement the solution. It’s not complex at all. I’d rate it a five out of five in terms of ease of implementation.

For me to implement across eight servers, it took maybe a day. Two days at a maximum.

It’s on the cloud and therefore doesn’t require maintenance.

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TT
Consultant at NFC/IT

The setup script provided by SolarWinds (proprietary to their RMM) was a little challenging to get going, but once it worked, it worked perfectly. Except it didn't run on Win7 systems because it uses Powershell commands from a later version than what's available on Win7.

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EC
Principal Forensics Lead at Dotcom Security

The initial setup is straightforward. It takes about four weeks to deploy.

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QQ
Senior IT Security Analyst at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

The solution is very easy to set up. It's not overly complex or difficult. 

The implementation strategy was very simple: removing the old antivirus solution and replacing that with SentinelOne.

It took us three months to migrate and deploy.

We have ten to 14 people that can handle deployment and maintenance. Only one person, however, needs to handle typical maintenance tasks. 

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reviewer1261773 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer II, Enterprise Client Support at a media company with 10,001+ employees

The initial setup is straightforward. We do not have any on-premises infrastructure. Rather, we are using sentinel one in full-cloud mode. It was really just a matter of deploying the agent to the endpoints.

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Adam Harling - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at NETITUDE

The initial setup of SentinelOne Singularity Complete is easy. For exciting clients, the deployment of the solution can be done in minutes.

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CA
Product Manager at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

When compared to CrowdStrike, the initial setup is more complex.

It only took me 10 minutes to install it on two PCs.

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Olaf Suchorski - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Expert at Infinigate

The initial setup of this solution is straightforward. As soon as you install it, the policy is sent from the cloud, and perhaps some certificates, and you are up and running, so that's relatively easy. I would rate the setup experience a four out of five, as there is always room for improvement.

When I open my browser, and I'm behind the SonicWall firewall without Capture Client my browser will tell me that I cannot browse the internet until I install the client. Then there is a button in the browser to install it, I click on it as a user, and after a few minutes, I'm up and running. Now I can browse again, but with a client, so it's pretty easy.

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AM
Network & Cyber Security Manager at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees

We installed it, in the beginning, on-premises on our computer inside the network, and the installation was done with an integration company. Every three or four months we upgrade because our location is not connected to the internet directly.

The on-premises deployment took something like a week to get it deployed to everyone, but the installation itself was very quick, half a day. Then, to see what should be put in the blacklist or what to exclude took about two weeks. The deployment was done by me and the IT manager.

The cloud version was very simple, no problem. Things were done automatically.

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SS
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

It is very easy to deploy. It takes about a week.

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LH
Corporate Communications Coordinator at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The initial setup was straightforward.

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Tichaona Ndoreka - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Sup at Capital Development Services

The initial setup is straightforward.

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ShashikaKodikara - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Cybersecurity at Technovage Solution

The initial setup was straightforward. Our team has also done an equally simple upgrade. It took approximately 24-48 hours.

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Tim Bosman - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Information Officer at Amadys

The initial setup was straightforward. It entails simple installers and we deployed it through policies. We deployed it as a package on all PCs and servers and it took two weeks.

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VK
Senior Manager INFOSEC AND Risk ASSESSMENT Engineering at Atlas Systems

The deployment of SentinelOne Singularity is straightforward and very easy. The whole process of deployment took four hours.

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MV
IT Manager at Telecorp Inc.

The initial setup is very straightforward. When you implement, it goes through and does the initial scan and it makes the configuration changes that it needs. I haven't had a problem with any deployment at all and it's a very quick process. 

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Jeffrey Agomate - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Engineer at Infoprive

The implementation process is pretty easy. 

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ZB
Field Technician at Sonrise Technology Solutions

The initial setup took a little bit of orientation but nothing I would consider unusual for learning a new product like this. The deployment did not take very long at all. From the time when we were introduced, got registered for all the different related sites and services it only took a couple of weeks before we could deploy without really needing to think about it. It was pretty simple.

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PS
Software Engineer at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees

The initial setup was fairly straightforward. It was very easy to start up. You didn't have to go into a lot of documentation to roll it out. We used the management from the central platform, not our own central platform on-premise, and did it on the cloud version. This way, it could be delivered and updated remotely.

The deployment took a week. We deployed it to about 90 endpoints.

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CC
CIO at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The initial complexity was mainly related to finding the right exclusions to avoid false positives, especially with endpoints running technical and industrial software.

The rollout in our main company, with about 600 endpoints, was completed in about three months, including the initial fine-tuning for the AI engine.

In terms of our deployment strategy, in the first company where we installed SentinelOne, we chose to maintain our traditional antivirus product, and run SentinelOne together with it. The decision came about because we were not initially confident with SentinelOne. When we deployed it later to all of our subsidiaries, SentinelOne replaced the local antivirus solution.

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MS
Cybersecurity Consulting Lead at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The initial setup is easy. It's even simpler than, for example, Windows Defender. 

The maintenance is very low. It depends on how big the organization is. The false positive rate is very low. Obviously, it should be maintained by a team. Regardless, if it's Windows Defender, CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, or Symantec, it has to be built and looked after by a soft team.

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AE
Sr. Information Security Manager at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The initial setup is very easy and straightforward. We don't use the on-premise solution, we are Cloud-based. It's important because we have a lot of resources on our side who work fast. We can deploy in minutes. The initial deployment took one hour. 

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it_user1124088 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Operations Manager at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

The initial setup was straightforward. The deployment took around two weeks. 

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Just Asking - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at FirewallHire.com

The initial setup and deployment are easy. I can get it up and running in five minutes.

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KE
System Engineer at Dr. Marc Daenen

We use an in-house person along with a third-party consultant for implementation.

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SP
Managing Member at Pender & Associates

The initial setup is straightforward. 

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CF
Managing Partner at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The initial setup of this solution is straightforward. The deployment is very easy and very fast, taking perhaps two or three hours, depending on the size of the project.

It is a centralized deployment.

A maximum of two people are required for the setup and maintenance.

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RR
Cybersecurity Analyst at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The tool's deployment is not complex. Our team got complex information, which made it complex. 

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HP
VP at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The initial setup is very easy.

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Gbemisola Osunrinde - PeerSpot reviewer
Service Assurance Executive at Infoprive

The initial setup was straightforward and completed within a day because we had run a POC with them to understand the environment and had all the information we needed. I would rate the setup process 3.5 out of five.

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MD
Director Information Technology at a wellness & fitness company with 201-500 employees

SentinelOne is not too difficult to set up. The full deployment took a couple of months. The lengthy installation was caused by the fact that many people are remote working and we had 500 systems to install the solution on.

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LM
CISO at a religious institution with 501-1,000 employees

The setup is very straightforward and simple. Our users who have the solution have spoken so highly about SentinelOne that other users who are not on the target list ask if they too can use the solution.

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JP
System Engineer at a tech services company

The setup is very easy and straightforward. It is just like installing an ordinary program and it automatically reports back to the management console.

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it_user768165 - PeerSpot reviewer
Account Director

It is both straightforward and complex to install.

Machines on Windows 10 are easy and seamlessly installed.

Users machines that are not updated require updates to be done first before the solution can be installed.

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Nuno-Santos - PeerSpot reviewer
SOC Operator at Quattro

The initial setup was straightforward because we created an implementation plan and did some diagnostics before starting.

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HW
IT Security Manager at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The initial setup was straightforward. It wasn't a long project, it took six months.

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YP
Senioor Engineer of System and Security at Connex Information Technologies

The initial setup was very straightforward and convenient and it took a couple of minutes to deploy.

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Ivan Kelleher - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Director at Etelligence

The initial setup for SentinelOne is straightforward. Setting up the solution doesn't take long, e.g. on a per-device basis, it would take just 30 seconds.

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RQ
Senior Account Manager - Security Specialist at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Its setup is of medium complexity. It is not complex, and it is also not straightforward.

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SF
Président at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

The initial setup of SentinelOne was straightforward.

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it_user559848 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Development at a tech services company

Very easy. You can start your deploy with a single executable file or a massive deployment (GPO, etc.) with a MSI.

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Buyer's Guide
SentinelOne Singularity Complete
March 2024
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