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SentinelOne
Vs McAfee

Re-evaluating McAfee? It’s as simple as 1-2-3 to learn why customers choose SentinelOne over McAfee for endpoint & cloud protection, detection, and response.

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3 Reasons Why Teams
Trust SentinelOne Vs. McAfee

Legacy vs.

The Long Run

On March 8, 2021, McAfee announced the sale of its endpoint security business to STG, leaving tens of thousands of customers behind and adding further uncertainty to the legacy platform’s sustainability and adaptability to the future threat landscape.

 

In contrast, SentinelOne’s autonomous, AI-driven platform leads the market not only in preventing, detecting, and remediating modern threats, but also maximizing the efficiency and efficacy of today’s SecOps teams—an approach validated by our 97% customer satisfaction rate.

 

Did we mention that SentinelOne customers see an average of 353% ROI when switching from legacy AV providers, according to the Forrester Total Economic Impact report?

Proven EDR Performance

& Value

Like many legacy AV vendors, McAfee’s protection and detection capabilities were designed decades ago and rely heavily on known signatures and cloud lookups. While this approach may have been effective 10 years ago, it falls apart when tested against the modern adversary. The proof? In the 2020 MITRE ATT&CK® evaluation, McAfee missed 96 detections—more than 10x as many as SentinelOne—and only correlated 14 telemetry points, tactics, and techniques compared to SentinelOne’s 118 correlations.

 

McAfee also falls short in detecting stealthy trojan attacks like SUNBURST without sophisticated, real-time behavioral AI and adequate EDR data retention, especially when stacked up against SentinelOne’s built-in behavioral AI analysis and 2x longer retention.

Solutions Designed to

Make the Most of Your Time

With most SOC teams overstretched and resource-limited, every second counts. While McAfee customers spend precious time manually correlating security events, reconstructing attacks, repairing endpoints, and juggling multiple modules and agents, SentinelOne streamlines the process from end to end(point).

 

The SentinelOne Singularity™ platform enables you to perform easy, directed investigations with auto-generated attack Storylines™, and trigger automatic or 1-click remediation & rollback of threats—all from a single console and agent.

Comparing SentinelOne vs. McAfee

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Platform Capabilities

  • ONE console, ONE agent: Centralized & intuitive operations through a single platform
  • Multiple modules & agents: Requires frequent navigation between complex interfaces
  • Cloud connectivity optional: Best-in-class EPP + EDR enabled by robust static & behavioral AI engines, even when offline
  • Cloud-dependent: Detections rely heavily on cloud access (GTI), offline dependencies on legacy signatures (DATs) and immature machine learning
  • Feature parity across cloud SaaS, hybrid, and on-premises deployments
  • Varying feature set between self-hosted vs. SaaS ePO instances

    • Automation & Recovery

  • Real-time, machine-powered attack reconstruction: Events are automatically reconstructed into easily navigable Storylines™, focused & contextualized alerts for analysts means faster MTTR
  • Tedious correlation & contextualization: Investigation & hunting requires context-switching between MVISION, ePO, and SIEM integration
  • Fully automated recovery: Autonomous & 1-click remediation and patented rollback
  • Partial automation: Relies on DAT “repair” feature and can vary across threat types, limited “EDR Rollback”

    • EDR Quality & Coverage

  • Static & behavioral AI-driven detection: Equipped to handle unknown threats and modern TTPs, including fileless and in-memory attacks
  • Legacy & ineffective, signature-based approach: Misses fileless, & advanced attack TTPs, rudimentary AI capabilities
  • MITRE ATT&CK mapping: Integrates with MITRE Framework for easier, more intuitive investigation
  • Limited MITRE Framework mapping: Requires MVISION Cloud add-on/module
  • Fewest misses, richest detections in 2020 MITRE ATT&CK® evaluation: SentinelOne outperformed McAfee, correlating 8x the telemetry, tactics, and techniques (118 vs. 14) and producing 1/10th as many misses
  • Sparse data correlation, 10x as many misses: McAfee missed 96 detections (among the most misses of the vendors evaluated)
  • 14 day standard EDR data retention: Accessible upgrades up to 365 days
  • 7 day standard: Upgrades up to 90 days at an additional cost

    • Value-Adding Services

  • Complete portfolio of security services: Includes Vigilance Respond MDR & Vigilance Respond Pro MDR+DFIR staffed by in-house experts
  • Limited security services: Outsources MDR activities to partner network
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    The World’s Leading and Largest

    Enterprises Trust SentinelOne

    Including 4 of the Fortune 10 and
    hundreds of the global 2000

    Purpose Built to Prevent Tomorrow’s Threats.

    Today.

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