SentinelOne vs
Legacy Antivirus (AV)

As the cyber threat landscape continues to evolve, legacy antivirus vendors fall even further behind in their ability to adapt. Not only do most antivirus tools still leverage archaic prevention and detection methodologies, but their reactive, delayed approach to modernization often translates to disjointed solutions with “bolted on” functionality.

SentinelOne, in contrast, is purpose-built to protect you 24/7 against today and tomorrow’s threats. Our autonomous, AI-driven platform leads the market in preventing, detecting, and remediating modern attacks—without the overhead and manual workflows of traditional AV. Customers report a 97% satisfaction rate, and see an average of 353% ROI when they switch from legacy AV providers, according to Forrester’s Total Economic Impact report.

Most legacy AV tools were designed decades ago and rely heavily on known static signatures and cloud lookups for prevention and detection. These shortcomings become especially apparent against advanced, fileless and in-memory attacks, and in air-gapped environments where cloud-based detection isn’t an option. This approach may have been effective 10 years ago, but has fallen apart when tested against any modern adversary.

We hear time and time again from customers who evaluate SentinelOne against traditional EPP tools that our static & behavioral AI-powered engines spot threats (such as ransomware on an offline device) while competitors miss them entirely.

With most SOC teams overstretched and resource-limited, every second counts. Those that still rely on legacy AV tools, however, spend significantly more time operationalizing their technology just to meet other vendors at the starting line. This often requires juggling multiple products and interfaces, constantly updating agents & consoles with new file signatures, manually correlating and contextualizing alerts, and tediously writing scripts for remediation.

With SentinelOne, you can perform easy and directed investigations on an auto-generated attack Storyline™ that comes with pre-built context, trigger automatic or 1-click remediation & rollback of threats, and even graduate to advanced EDR capabilities—all from a single console. Agent upgrades are easily scheduled on your terms, and no infrastructure changes are needed.