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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint (formerly Microsoft Defender ATP) is a holistic, cloud delivered endpoint security solution that includes risk-based vulnerability management and assessment, attack surface reduction, behavioral based and cloud-powered next generation protection, endpoint detection and response (EDR), automatic investigation and remediation, managed hunting services, rich APIs, and unified security management.

    $2.50

    per user/per month

    SentinelOne Singularity

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ASentinelOne is endpoint security software, from the company of the same name with offices in North America and Israel, presenting a combined antivirus and EDR solution.

    $4

    per agent, per month

    Pricing
    Microsoft Defender for EndpointSentinelOne Singularity
    Editions & Modules
    Academic
    $2.50
    per user/per month
    Standalone
    $5.20
    per user/per month
    Singularity Ranger IoT
    $4
    per agent, per month
    Singularity Core
    $6
    per agent, per month
    Singularity Control
    $8
    per agent, per month
    Singularity Complete
    $12
    per agent, per month
    Singularity Cloud
    $36
    per VM/Kubernetes worker node, per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Microsoft Defender for EndpointSentinelOne Singularity
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    Microsoft Defender for EndpointSentinelOne Singularity
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
    Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    Microsoft has always been a secondary, aside from one company I've worked at. And the honest truth is that it's already on the endpoint and already part of the Microsoft stack in most companies; it's already there. I don't have to worry about deploying it. It's very effective …
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    in an overall protection sentinelone is providing better protection for us, but as it comes with subscription's limitation, we have to be really careful in managing the licenses, the MS Defender for endpoint is providing us a decent protection which we are not complaining …
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    The fact it is integrated into the Microsoft 365 licensing our customers already purchase makes it an easy choice.
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    I would say Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is a little behind compared to those two market leaders in the space. However, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is easy to deploy and manage for windows devices and the cost is more reasonable.
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    At the time, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint was a comparable selection with SentinelOne, but won on one important consideration for Educational Use, cost. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint was including in our Microsoft Enterprise agreement meaning that there was no additional …
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is one of the best solutions when the goal is to protect the endpoints of a windows oriented infrastructure. The integrations with the Microsoft services and the unified platform that the analyst can use play a decisive role in the choice and …
    Incentivized
    SentinelOne
    Chose SentinelOne Singularity
    SentinelOne and Microsoft Defender are both best of industry EDR solutions. We employ both in out environment in tandem to provided complete coverage of systems and protection against all emerging cyber threats.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    96%
    Would buy again
    157 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    14 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    146 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    14 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    155 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    14 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    130 Answers
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    12 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    140 Answers
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
    Features
    Microsoft Defender for EndpointSentinelOne Singularity
    Endpoint Security
    Comparison of Endpoint Security features of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and SentinelOne Singularity
    Feature
    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    8.7
    79 Ratings
    2% above category average
    SentinelOne Singularity
    9.2
    15 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Anti-Exploit Technology9.075 Ratings9.614 Ratings
    Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)9.179 Ratings9.915 Ratings
    Centralized Management8.679 Ratings8.915 Ratings
    Hybrid Deployment Support7.110 Ratings8.67 Ratings
    Infection Remediation9.077 Ratings9.815 Ratings
    Vulnerability Management8.774 Ratings7.712 Ratings
    Malware Detection9.278 Ratings9.915 Ratings
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    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Microsoft Defender for EndpointSentinelOne Singularity
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (169 ratings)
    9.5
    (18 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.4
    (10 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (40 ratings)
    8.6
    (8 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    9.2
    (4 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Microsoft Defender for EndpointSentinelOne Singularity
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    If you have multiple endpoints in your environment, if you're looking to understand what your environment looks like, if you're trying to identify the health of your environment, or identify any risks or vulnerabilities in your environment pertaining to your endpoints and devices.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    SentinelOne
    It works extremely well for investigating the root cause analysis of events because you can see so much detail into what was happening before, after, and around the detective incident. A weak point would be when the AI gets a little over-aggressive or doesn’t quite understand the use case for specific tools. Our RMM tool was detected as a pup.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • The big thing for us is on endpoint, it kind of integrates with everything else that we already have because we use Microsoft completely. And so that helps us with being able to integrate, and send things over to Azure Sentinel as we need to as well.
    Incentivized
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    SentinelOne
    • Installs on all of our Windows machines and only requires 1 reboot for the install to finish.
    • It allows you to customize the UI and filters based on your use case.
    • Gives a very high level of visibility into any concerns you have or should have in your network.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Cons
    Microsoft
    • I'd say building out summaries and log reviews for analysts reviewing incidents. So, pivoting from the alerts themselves to actually getting the detail underneath. Trying to understand what caused an alert, where they went from there, et cetera, et cetera. And then trying to get into deeper log review to take that investigation further can be a pain point.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    SentinelOne
    • Possibly for compatibility with legacy Windows OS's and non Windows OS's.
    • Some settings are greyed out and unable to change but I believe this is to protect you from making a bad configuration change.
    • Could do better with reporting at the base level subscription.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    Cost add-ons for Security features is nickel and diming the process to keep pace with cybercrime. Limited Education budgets require us to be more pro-active in finding cost-effective measures to protect our devices, staff and students. Defender is a strong, well-featured product that is pricing itself out of the education market
    Incentivized
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    SentinelOne
    Reliable for simple installation and above all efficient
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Usability
    Microsoft
    Because it's hard to find things sometimes. I can find things now because I know where they are. But you have to work with it a little while to figure out how. I'd basically say it was a security tool designed by developers. So you have to get that mindset to find things. So a new hire, a new person in the SOC would have a difficult time. I know that's sitting in here, or that screen is in here somewhere. So it's gotten better.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    SentinelOne
    There are some minor issues with the platform that can be mildly frustrating, but the overall performance, peace of mind, and ROI make it worth using. The management console is intuitive and easy to learn, the endpoint clients are simple but give IT professionals enough data to make management easy and simple
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint chugs along just fine no matter what we throw at it and what systems it's running on. It doesn't take up a lot of resources either, so that's welcomed.
    Incentivized
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    SentinelOne
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is easy on memory and resources on clients.
    Incentivized
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    SentinelOne
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    The first time I tried to onboard my macOS endpoints to MDE I struggled for quite a bit. I had to reach out to Microsoft's MDE support team. The tech was very helpful in walking me through the steps during a screen share session
    Incentivized
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    SentinelOne
    Their support is good and quick to respond. The one issue we faced was when a non-protection issue arose there was a lot of dancing around trying to figure things out. This was frustrating as it took significantly longer to figure out issues. Lots of repetitive log gathers, screen caps, uninstalls that never seemed to resolve issues. Eventually, the product would be updated and the issue seemed to be resolved, but seemed to be the only solution.
    Incentivized
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    Implementation Rating
    Microsoft
    Deployment was handled by our team here and everything went pretty smoothly. We did have a few hiccups in our test group, but that only took a bit to get ironed out.
    Incentivized
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    SentinelOne
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    Particularly, we're evaluating Symantec Endpoint Protection, the commercial version. We've looked at eSet, a couple of the others, and it's much too heavy or difficult to manage, things like that. Ease of use, ease of integration. It's already there. It's super easy to update it with the regular OS updates and everything. So we can manage it whether we're using SCCM or Intune or Dato, it's very easy to deploy updates and manage things.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    SentinelOne
    SentinelOne had all of the major features that we were looking for. The other products either required too much administrative attention or were lacking key features. For example, one could be uninstalled by the end user. We required that the installation be password protected to protect against end user disabling or uninstalling. One product required manual intervention for all remediation which put to high a burden on limited staff. All products are always being revised so these may no longer be issues but they had a significant impact on our decision.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is easily scaled from small orgs to giant enterprises.
    Incentivized
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    SentinelOne
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • I think the positive impact overall is that we do a lot of sitting in front of assessors- federal assessors, government assessors. And it really comes down to when the assessor has to think about another product that you're bringing in that's not Microsoft, it creates a lot of confusion, more paperwork, more explanation. But the positive impact is that they know it, everybody kind of knows Microsoft. And so when you tell them you have this endpoint for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, they're like, okay. The questions go away, and it makes the overhead a lot less during an assessment.
    Incentivized
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    SentinelOne
    • SentinelOne has already proved its value by stopping attacks that would have gone otherwise unnoticed until much later in their infection process.
    • The Vigilance team has provided quick response to threats that were not easily contained via the automated response SentinelOne's agents provide. This has given us a significant piece of mind.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Screenshots

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    SentinelOne Singularity Screenshots

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