This is an era defined by relentless pressure on cybersecurity professionals. As environments and attack surfaces have expanded, endpoint, cloud, identity, and now AI signals continue to pile up faster than teams can interpret them. Meanwhile, rapidly evolving TTPs, fueled by ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) and other off-the-shelf tooling have enabled motivated threat actors to move with the sophistication and speed of the most advanced nation state adversaries.
With defenders stretched thin, actors are using these advanced techniques to hide behind operational noise. And, while handling alert fatigue isn’t enough, even mature teams can struggle to confront advanced persistent threats, especially those that specialize in evasion and long-term access.
Addressing these new realities requires reimagining defenses – new strategies to unify signals, eliminate the noise, augment human capacity, and truly prepare for incidents long before they happen. This requires more than just better tools. It requires a full shift in how detection and response is delivered.
That shift is SentinelOne’s Wayfinder Threat Detection and Response (Wayfinder TDR), now generally available (GA).
Our Ethos | Defense Through AI, Intelligence & Human Experts
Wayfinder TDR is built on a foundational belief: True cyber resilience emerges from the fusion of AI, intelligence, and world-class human expertise – not from any single component in isolation.
Modern adversaries evolve too quickly, hide too effectively, and move too fluidly for traditional service models to keep up. Automated systems can miss subtle behaviors and human teams alone cannot keep pace with the scale of telemetry, meaning generic threat feeds are no longer the right solution. True defense requires three pillars working in concert.
Intelligence provides the early warning – timely, curated, contextual insight into an attacker’s behavior and tactics. SentinelOne integrates Google Threat Intelligence (GTI), one of the most powerful and comprehensive intelligence sources in the world, directly into every part of Wayfinder. It delivers a level of global threat visibility previously available only to a small set of elite organizations. This data is combined with our SentinelOne intelligence for an unparalleled set of threat content previously unseen in cybersecurity.
AI then transforms that intelligence and raw telemetry into actionable outcomes. SentinelOne’s industry-leading Purple AI engine automates triage, accelerates investigation, enriches findings with context, and closes the gap between detection and action. AI allows Wayfinder experts to cut through overwhelming volumes of data and surface what actually matters to the operation.
Finally, human expertise applies the experience and ingenuity to understand and act on what’s uncovered. Across 16 countries, SentinelOne’s team of threat hunters, analysts, incident responders, and strategic advisors bring decades of hands-on experience with the world’s most sophisticated adversaries. This combined knowledge closes gaps that machines alone cannot see, validating ambiguous signals and guiding customers through moments of uncertainty with clarity and confidence.
Wayfinder deepens this philosophy by combining elite human expertise with agentic, AI-powered threat hunting and investigations. This multi-layered human and AI model brings a level of defense that neither humans nor machines can achieve alone. We believe that the future of AI security is one that elevates – rather than replaces – human defenders, arming them with the speed of automation and the insights of global intelligence.
Our Portfolio | Tailored Protection & Elite Expertise
Wayfinder Threat Detection & Response is a unified portfolio designed to meet organizations where they are. From automated hunting and 24/7/365 MDR to high-touch advisory services during crises, each Wayfinder offering can either stand alone, or bring a comprehensive and adaptive defense program together.
These services deliver end-to-end coverage across preparation, detection, investigation, response, and recovery, ensuring customers are supported through every phase of the threat lifecycle.
Wayfinder Threat Hunting
Threat hunting is the foundation of the portfolio, delivering always-on, fully automated hunts powered by GT, SentinelOne’s threat intelligence, and enriched by SentinelOne experts. It continuously scans customer environments for emerging attacker infrastructure, high-confidence indicators of compromise, and evolving techniques.
Wayfinder Threat Hunting is unique in that it requires no manual tuning, no scheduled queries, and no analyst scripting. Intelligence updates stream directly into the system and are matched against customer telemetry with contextual attribution – threat actor, campaign, and MITRE mapping all included. Findings immediately feed into MDR workflows for rapid investigation and response.
This eliminates blind spots that attackers rely on and brings dynamic, intelligence-led coverage to every organization, regardless of staffing or maturity level.
Wayfinder MDR Essentials
MDR Essentials delivers enterprise-grade, always-on XDR coverage across endpoints, cloud environments, identity providers, and supported partner services. It provides continuous monitoring, triage, investigation, and response, powered by SentinelOne analysts, AI-driven inference, and threat hunting insights. Using curated intelligence from both SentinelOne’s AI-driven alerting and triage and Google Threat Intelligence, get rapid insight and protection at scale.
MDR Essentials is built for organizations that want strong, immediate defense without operational complexity. Onboarding and activation are simple and swift while coverage is unified through the Singularity Platform. Customers benefit from 24/7 protection, rapid containment, and detailed guidance without needing to expand internal teams.
With MDR Essentials, organizations finally get the confidence that cyber experts are watching every signal, every hour, across every critical surface.
Wayfinder MDR Elite
Wayfinder MDR Elite extends the Essentials experience with a premium, high-touch operating model for organizations that are looking for deeper partnership, strategic alignment, and more proactive readiness and response. Every MDR Elite customer receives a dedicated Threat Advisor, an expert who becomes embedded in their security program, and offers hands-on guidance, operational reviews, and tailored risk management recommendations.
Elite also provides bundled access to SentinelOne’s DFIR specialists, enabling advanced investigations, malware analysis, and targeted forensics. As well, Elite customers receive a built-in Incident Readiness & Response (IRR) retainer, ensuring they have pre-approved hours available for compromise assessments, breach simulations, preparedness workshops, and expert counsel during major incidents.
For teams that want not just coverage but clarity, Elite becomes a trusted extension of their leadership and decision-making process.
Wayfinder Incident Readiness & Response
Wayfinder IRR creates a foundation of preparedness that many organizations simply do not have today. With a renewable pool of hours, customers can proactively strengthen their posture or engage experts during high-pressure moments.
The key to this offering is flexibility. Use those hours to get immediate, 24/7/365 access to elite DFIR specialists that respond effectively and compliantly to critical incidents. Or use hours for breach readiness exercises and compromise assessments to uncover hidden risks and improve your security posture and readiness.
Wayfinder IRR experts act as a trusted partner who can guide organizations through high-pressure moments before, during, and after a breach to build confidence, clarity, and resilience. Expert-led exercises, simulations, and advisory services will transform theoretical security plans into reliable, tested incident response capabilities. And when incidents do occur, our team will not only contain, investigate, and stop the breach in its tracks, but will reconstruct attacker activity to understand the “how” and “what” of an incident, identifying compromised accounts, exfiltrated data, and affected systems.
Wayfinder Emergency Response
For organizations experiencing an active breach without a retainer in place, Wayfinder Emergency Response provides urgent access to a 40-hour block of DFIR expertise. It enables rapid containment, adversary eviction, hands-on investigation, and guidance during critical situations.
Our experts’ deep platform expertise speeds investigations and delivers critical evaluations such as rapid Root Cause Analysis, malware reverse engineering, IOC analysis, and more. With Wayfinder Emergency Response, achieve complete incident control with rapid threat containment, root cause analysis, and privileged, counsel-driven investigative support with defensible reporting. This ensures that all organizations have an expert-led lifeline supported by AI-driven analysis and Google-enhanced intelligence during the most critical moments.
Our Vision | Redefining Managed Services for the AI Era
For years, organizations have been forced to choose between generic intelligence feeds, siloed MDR services, and incomplete incident response retainers. These make for complex in-house responsibilities since point solutions only offer bolt-ons rather than cohesive strategies. AI was under utilized. Human expertise was expensive, inconsistent, or inaccessible. We set out to eliminate the fragmentation that leaves so many organizations exposed.
SentinelOne’s Wayfinder TDR services break that cycle by unifying agentic AI, elite human operators, and unmatched threat intelligence insights into a single, adaptive defense fabric. The result? A portfolio that not only responds to threats but proactively seeks them out, contextualizes them, and then empowers organizations to act with precision and speed.
It stands alone in merging together the deep integration of GTI, operational automation driven by AI, and the global scale of human expertise. Instead of stitching together disparate solutions, Wayfinder is purpose-built to streamline telemetry, intelligence, and human insight into a coherent defense program.
This shift matters as modern adversaries are no longer linear nor predictable – they’re fluid. They adapt rapidly. And, they exploit operational complexity. To reduce that complexity, Wayfinder closes detection gaps and reduces the noise while ensuring that experts are available before, during, and after any incident.
This is a fundamental redefinition of what managed security can achieve when human ingenuity and agentic AI move in sync. Aligning intelligence, technology, and human judgment in a single adaptive defense, Wayfinder raises the bar for what true managed security must deliver.
Conclusion | Proactive & Scalable Defense Starts Now
The future of cybersecurity belongs to organizations that can see farther ahead, move faster, and act with confidence. Attackers are only becoming more automated and opportunistic, meaning SOCs need more than tools – they need a combination of the right intelligence translated by trusted experts and partnership when incidents arise.
As announced at OneCon 2025, Wayfinder joins human expertise, agentic AI, and Google Threat Intelligence to deliver a multi-layered human + AI defense model that helps customers fill in their skill gaps, elevate teams, and strengthen their posture immediately.
Wayfinder TDR is the next evolution of SentinelOne’s services portfolio, combining threat hunting, managed detection, and incident response into a force multiplier to empower organizations in regaining control and reducing daily risk.
Shift the advantage back to the defending side with Wayfinder – watch an overview here and book a demo to get started.
