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SentinelOne
vs McAfee

Learn why customers choose Singularity XDR for autonomous cybersecurity over legacy solutions by McAfee.

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McAfee

Protection

  • Military-grade prevention, detection, and response powered by patented behavioral AI. Always on, no internet connection required.
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  • Human powered protection creates delays and misses. Requires heavy tuning to make cybersecurity happen.
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    Detection

  • “It just works.” Offers the most comprehensive coverage and easiest to visualize, proven in multiple industry tests.
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  • Only offers sparse data correlation with 10x more misses than the competition in industry evaluations.
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    Remediation

  • Automated remediation. Revert malicious activities with one-click remediation and rollback.
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  • Relies on DAT “repair” feature and can vary across threat types, only offering limited “EDR Rollback”.
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    Automatic Mitigation Against Cyber Threats

  • Automatically mitigate against cyber threats across Windows, macOS, and Linux.
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  • Does not offer options to remediate malicious actions, only offering traditional mitigation actions.
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    Real-time, Machine-Powered Attack Reconstruction

  • Automatically reconstructs events into easily navigable Storylines™, offering focused, contextualized alerts for analysts for faster MTTR.
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  • Requires manual correlation and context-switching between products for investigation and hunting.
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    Complete Portfolio Of Security Services

  • Includes Vigilance Respond MDR & Vigilance Respond Pro MDR+DFIR, staffed by in-house experts
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  • Offers limited security services with outsourced MDR activities to partner network.
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    Talk to an expert and discover why customers across all industries and sizes choose SentinelOne over McAfee.

    3 Reasons Why Customers Choose

    SentinelOne vs McAfee

    Legacy vs. The Long Run

    McAfee announced the sale of its endpoint security business, leaving tens of thousands of customers behind. In contrast, SentinelOne’s autonomous platform leads the market in preventing, detecting, and remediating modern attacks.

    Proven EDR Performance & Value

    McAfee fails to detect targeted attacks, as proven in the annual MITRE ATT&CK evaluations. SentinelOne offers 99% visibility, and real-time analytics coverage.

    Solutions Designed to Make the Most of Your Time

    McAfee customers are forced to manually manage and investigate threats to their security estate. SentinelOne accelerates investigation and MTTR with autonomous cybersecurity.

    Backed by the Industry

    See why SentinelOne is recognized by industry experts.

    Endpoint Protection Platforms

    • A Leader in the 2025 Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Protection Platforms.
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    96% Would Recommend for EDR and EPP

    • 4.8/5 rating for endpoint protection platforms and endpoint detection and response platforms.
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    MITRE ATT&CK® Evaluations

    • 100% detection accuracy, zero delays,
      5 years running.
    • 100% technique detections across all operating systems.
    • 88% less noise than median across all vendors.
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    Trusted by the Best

    The World’s Leading & Largest Organizations Choose Singularity XDR

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