SentinelOne Singularity Complete Reviews

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have been using SentinelOne Singularity Complete for one year.

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

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

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

Positive

We have seen a return on investment.

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

I rate SentinelOne Singularity Complete nine out of ten.

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

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

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

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

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

It is our primary software platform for endpoint detection and response and vulnerabilities.

Our overall fleet posture and our security have increased a lot. It is much easier to get the agents out onto machines no matter what their operating system is, and it gives equitable reports back no matter what our platform is.

So far, it is one of the most interoperable applications and platforms that I have seen. There is the ease of bringing things in with the marketplace and the willingness of the company itself to work with you to help you address anything that they do not currently have.

Singularity Complete has helped free up our staff for other projects and tasks. Being new in the department for a year and a half, I am not the one to say how much time it has saved, but it has made my life easier by several hours a week. It gives me a straight line and a story for what I am looking for, so I can quickly identify whether something is to be expected and just a false positive or if it is actually a problem. Usually, when it is a problem, SentinelOne would have already mitigated it.

Singularity Complete has absolutely helped reduce alerts. It has drastically reduced alerts across the board. There is a 40% to 60% reduction. This reduction is because it is tunable. It is very tunable, and you can tweak it to meet your needs where you are not just stuck with what a manufacturer or a software developer said in terms of the alerting that you are going to get.

Singularity Complete has definitely helped reduce our organizational risk. Our risk score has gone down by 15% to 20%. We have better coverage and better insight into what is being covered.

Singularity Complete has probably saved us costs. I do not have enough insight into those budget numbers, but they keep adding things to it, so my guess is that it has saved us costs.

SentinelOne is one of our most important partners. The help that we get from their engineers, success team, and support really and truly has been unparalleled.

I am going to be a little biased because I am a Mac guy. I have been a Mac guy for twenty years, and the feature parity and the capabilities of a Macintosh agent are unparalleled in the industry. It is the first anti-malware and antivirus that does not make you feel that you bought the wrong processor. It is really good and lightweight. 

It seems like they are doing a lot with their automatic updates. They can maybe slow down the actual release cycle to make it easier to deploy the most recent and then do it using the live update. They can continue to work on that because trying to get agent changes through change management platforms and get approvals and testing can be quite difficult.

I have been using Singularity Complete for three years.

I am blown away by their support. Every time I reach out to my customer service manager, they are returning questions after hours. You do not see that from a lot of companies. I would rate their support a 10 out of 10.

Positive

We were not officially using a similar solution. We had other products that we were using, but we did not have a full solution like SentinelOne. We were using multiple things. One of them was McAfee. We switched because they got bought by Trellix, and nobody knew what was going to happen with them. That was our most recent one and what I am most experienced with.

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.

We did it directly on our own. We rolled it out very quickly. We had been dealing with McAfee before it, so this was like a breath of fresh air.

We had two or three people working on it, so it went out very smoothly.

I believe we have seen an ROI. If nothing else, the investment that they are making, as analysts, engineers, and architects, we feel that we can get more done in SentinelOne and have a better stance overall for our organization. 

They evaluated a lot, but that was before I was in the department, so I do not know exactly which ones they did.

I would advise listening to your sales engineers and letting them give you ideas because SentinelOne can do things that you have no idea about.

For next-generation platforms, it is at the top of what is a small stack right now, and that puts them ahead of a lot of other people.

I would rate it a 10 out of 10. It has been fantastic for us.

It's our main EDR solution on campus for our university. It's the main solution that we deployed to our host throughout the university.

I wasn't here for the initial implementation, however, it was to replace a previous product that we had, so we wanted to move to something cleaner, easier to use, and an overall better product.

Its basic use, which is just an EDR solution for actively hunting and killing threats, is good. It does what we had intended it to do, and that's what it does a great job of.

The main feature, its EDR capabilities, is the most valuable. It is great for security monitoring and blocking when needed. It offers good basic operations of an antivirus solution.

Singularity's ability to ingest and correlate across security solutions is good. It does not ingest as much as it gives out. Right now, for us, there is not any ingesting happening for it right now. We don't have that set up.

The interoperability with other solutions or other third-party applications has been pretty solid. It's pretty standalone by itself. We're exporting a little bit of data from it, however, and we haven't had any issues.

Our mean time to detect is good. I wouldn't have the numbers on that, however, it's relatively quick. From some of the stuff that we've done investigations on, it's within the minute. It responds when it sees something within minutes and runs through its normal process of blocking and then alerting us about whatever was done.

The response comes to us. That's a human response. It's just the detection and alerting system, and then the response falls on us, and that varies depending on workload.

The quality is obviously great. They are mature. They change, they adapt as any security tool would in response to the threats in the threat landscape.

Off the top of my head, I can't think of much that’s wrong with the product. It's a pretty solid tool from top to bottom. I've had some issues with the specific agents, however, we are moving off of that particular OS that we were having issues with. Other than that, it's been a pretty solid tool.

We had a problem on the Singularity side. So for that particular issue, I’m not sure why it didn’t work with the OS, a Windows Server. It was an issue with some of the clients connecting to the console. We’ve been working with them and haven't been able to find out a single cause of failure.

I've been using the solution for a year and a half. 

We haven't had any issues. There is nothing that's noticeable and it's never offline for long periods of time. 

It's pretty scalable. There are a few operating systems that we've had issues with. Other than that, everything else has been pretty scalable.

Technical support is super. They are very helpful and relatively quick to respond. Sometimes they take a little bit to respond, however, it's not super long. 

The company also has good online knowledge and it's pretty helpful. Usually, we'll access the database knowledge first and then go to support. 

Positive

We used CrowdStrike previously.

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. 

We use internal teams to handle deployment. 

I'm not sure of the pricing. That's above me. I'm a technical person. It's not my arena.

They also have this feature called Ranger. That one we don't have implemented. That's an extra fee, so we don't have it.

Overall, I'd rate the solution ten out of ten. It's been a pretty solid tool. 

I would probably recommend it over some of the other ones that I've seen only based on the ease of use. It does what it's supposed to do. It's been relatively fast and is also pretty complete from what we've seen. The product is not very difficult to learn.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Singularity Complete substantially reduced our MTTD.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have been using SentinelOne Singularity Complete for three years.

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

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

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

Positive

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

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

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

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

I would rate SentinelOne Singularity Complete eight out of ten.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Uptime is all the time. 

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

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

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

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

Positive

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have had no stability issues so far. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The solution provides endpoint protection for all our desktops, laptops, and servers. We also use it for some of the firewalls on the endpoints. We are also doing asset discovery for devices.

Tracking down which devices don't currently have SentinelOne on them is the most valuable feature of the product. So, we can push SentinelOne onto those devices.

Recently, the vendor took away my ability to create a ticket, mostly because we're in an MSSP environment. It has created a lot of extra hoops to jump through. I recently had a single sign-on issue on the console. I had to go through my MSSP. It took a month and a half to two months to get any resolution on it because my MSSP can't test our single sign-on. They don't have an account in that system. It has been very detrimental to effectively solving issues. I understand that the vendor does not want the clients of the clients submitting tickets. However, when I'm the one who's doing the majority of the work inside of SentinelOne, removing that from my ability has been very inconvenient.

The filtering features of the application management console could be improved. If I search for applications that shouldn't be installed on our endpoints, filtering is not the most straightforward process. Running through the search process takes a lot of time and effort. It would be hugely beneficial if the tool blacklists the applications that are not allowed to be installed. It would help with the management of unapproved applications or malicious applications that might be installed.

The automated agent upgrade system could use a little bit more fine-tuning. The maintenance windows must be a little bit more robust. I have to manually set what agent we're pushing each time we want to change instead of asking the tool to do N-1 for agent upgrades. It's automatic, but it's not quite automatic.

I have been using the solution for two years.

We've had fewer issues with stability recently, mostly because they made some changes to the actual agents. Shadow copies were filling up the drives and causing some crashes. However, the more recent agents have been much more stable, which has been wonderful.

The tool is very scalable. If we use all of our agents, it's very easy to ask the vendor to add more agents to our license. They get that taken care of, which is really nice. It's been very easy to change and modify groups as we need to.

Exclusions have been very straightforward. I would love to see the exclusions to look at the machines in a group and inform us when we have exclusions that are not found in the directories on the machines. It will help with the removal of redundant or unused exclusions. It will remove some of that risk.

I don't have access to create tickets. The vendor removed the ability. I need to talk with our MSSP for support. They sometimes send us support articles that we already have access to. It takes an extra three to four days to get things resolved. In the most recent case, it was a month and a half.

We used Symantec Endpoint Protection before. We switched to SentinelOne Singularity Complete because Symantec Endpoint Protection was very old and was not being updated by Broadcom anymore. It was not as effective in terms of reporting. It was very clunky. So we were looking for something new and a little bit easier to work with than what we had at the time.

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.

Our MSSP helped us do the deployment. We used the asset management tool Ivanti to push out the agents.

The pricing is packaged in with our MSSP. The cost of endpoint protection is fairly reasonable. Some of the other systems are a little expensive, but there's still value behind them. It's pretty close to what I would expect.

We haven't stepped into other integrations quite yet. We're looking to explore it next year. We're trying to rebuild our security stack. The endpoint protection was one big step. We're planning on expanding a little bit more. I love that it is pretty straightforward to connect between different systems. It makes my life a little easier.

The solution’s ability to ingest and correlate across our security solutions is nice. We haven't done much of that with our systems yet, but having one source of truth to look at all those different pieces is hugely beneficial because we have a very small team. Anything that allows us to connect all the dots and pieces makes our lives really easy.

We're rebuilding our security stack from scratch. We do not have to get many other solutions because much information is built into Singularity Complete. We did a POC of the Ranger functionality for a little bit of time. Ranger's network and asset visibility are about the same as in Rogues.

The automation would be great if I didn't have to create a couple of extra security holes by opening up ports on our devices. So we've gone back to using just Rogues rather than Ranger because there isn't a lot of added value for that extra piece. I can take the whole list, export it, and take it to one of our other solutions and have the agent pushed from there.

It is nice that Ranger requires no new agents, hardware, or network changes for most of the part. If we're going to automate the installation process from another Ranger agent, it will require opening up some extra security holes. I don't love that part. I love that it discovers assets that don't have SentinelOne but could potentially have SentinelOne. It has been beneficial to us.

We like Ranger because it helps find the missing pieces. We must ensure that we're not going over on our licenses, but it helps us discover the devices in our network and how we can better protect the environment. It also gives us an inventory of devices. If they are vendor devices, we can go to our vendors and ask them why the devices have old software versions.

The product has done a much better job of giving us high-fidelity information. The system that we had before was old and antiquated and did not work well. We are getting better-quality alerts. The solution has helped free up our staff for other projects and tasks. All the information is in one place, and a lot of the system has been automated for us. The tool resolves threats almost instantaneously for us. It's hugely beneficial for a very small team.

The product has helped reduce our mean time to detect. It is a lot better at discovering threats and mitigating them quickly than our previous solution. However, I wouldn't say that it's perfect. The solution has helped reduce our organization’s mean time to respond. We have a managed security service provider that's doing a lot of the research for us, but it's been very helpful for us to have the information.

The tool has helped us with a couple of audits that we've had. It has also helped us with some of our cyber insurance because we're able to give much better reporting compared to our previous solution. The reporting is available on the fly rather than us trying to go through multiple systems to try and get some information from it.

The product is easy to use. It is very easy to navigate around. The vendor has added features that we've wanted. It has made our lives quite a bit easier. People who want to buy the product must evaluate their exclusions ahead of time and understand what level of exclusion they need for each system. We spent the most time reevaluating exclusions for each server system.

It was not too big of a deal for our desktops and laptops. However, for some of those bigger systems, especially with us being a healthcare organization, ensuring we weren't impacting the end-user experience was central. For example, we have EMR, which is electronic medical records. If we impact that, it affects patient care, which in turn can be not great.

It was a very big jump for our process to go from monitor-only mode to full-protect mode. We allowed things to just sit there for a very long time and understand the changes in our environment.

Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.