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SentinelOne
Vs Microsoft

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3 Reasons Why Teams
Trust SentinelOne Vs. Microsoft

Coverage

Without Compromise

Modern enterprise environments are comprised of more than just Windows workstations and servers. While Microsoft Defender + ATP may provide “Advanced Threat Protection” for Windows 10+ endpoints, they lag severely behind in features and coverage for macOS, Linux, and earlier Windows versions.

SentinelOne is better equipped for the unique needs of every organization with support for modern and legacy operating systems and feature parity across Windows, macOS, and Linux. SentinelOne even extends protection to cloud workloads, securing VMs and containers running on AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, and Kubernetes.

Partnership

When It Matters Most

In the face of today’s threats, your success comes down to rapid, reliable security. Microsoft customers lack access to in-house experts who can guide & manage their programs, or even respond to security incidents. They also frequently find themselves at the mercy of long customer service lines and disorganized documentation.

SentinelOne’s commitment to customer success is demonstrated by our 97% satisfaction rate (CSAT) and full suite of security services. Our experts gain an intimate understanding of your environment to not only provide direct answers to your questions, but even offload day-to-day monitoring, triage, investigation, and incident response with our Vigilance MDR & DFIR offerings.

Proven Performance

and Value

In the 2020 MITRE ATT&CK® evaluation, SentinelOne correlated 17x more detection data than Microsoft Defender + ATP—evidence of our superior EDR automation and ability to help SOCs respond faster and more intelligently.

SentinelOne also delivers on ROI by automating tedious, manual processes. Our customers see an average of 353% ROI over 3 years, according to the Forrester Total Economic Impact report.

Comparing SentinelOne vs. Microsoft

Platform Capabilities

  • Modern & legacy OS coverage: Supports legacy and all modern versions of Windows, macOS, and Linux
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  • Limited OS coverage: Windows 10+ (Partial support for 7/8), three versions of macOS, and “recent” Linux distros
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  • One console for EPP + EDR, Cloud Workload Protection, and Network Attack Surface Management: Takes a unified, comprehensive, and OS-agnostic approach to securing modern enterprises
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  • Multiple consoles for limited-scope endpoint security: Windows endpoint & server-centric
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  • Lower risk security approach: Integrity of security systems isn’t tied to Microsoft infrastructure, limits impact of privilege escalation
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  • Risk of “eggs in one basket” approach: Security posture is dependent on Microsoft, significant downstream impacts of privilege escalation
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  • Feature parity across OSes: Prevent, detect, and remediate attacks with equal confidence
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  • Reduced feature set: For macOS, Linux, legacy Windows, and earlier Windows 10 versions
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  • Multi and hybrid cloud support: Protects AWS, Azure, GCP, and private cloud
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  • Azure-focused cloud protection
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    Automation & Recovery

  • Real-time, machine-powered attack reconstruction: Focused, contextualized alerts for analysts means faster MTTR
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  • Disconnected security events: Requires heavy manual correlation & reconstruction, as seen in the MITRE evaluation
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  • Fully automated recovery: Autonomous & 1-click remediation and patented rollback
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  • Manual, scripted remediation
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  • “Recovery” only restores from OneDrive
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    EDR Quality & Coverage

  • Comprehensive attack coverage: Includes fileless and ransomware attacks, LotL, polymorphic malware, and more
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  • Rudimentary attack coverage: Focuses on file-based, but experiences difficulty with ransomware and in-memory attacks
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  • Fewest misses, richest detections in 2020 MITRE ATT&CK® evaluation: SentinelOne significantly outperformed Microsoft in correlating 17x more telemetry, tactics, general and techniques (120 vs. 7)
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  • 50% more missed detections, granular & disconnected events lead to alert fatigue: Notably weak in correlating telemetry (2 correlated techniques and 0 correlated tactics)
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  • 365 day max EDR data retention in console
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  • 30 day max EDR data retention in console
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    Value-Adding Services

  • Complete portfolio of support & security services: Includes Vigilance Respond MDR & Vigilance Respond Pro MDR+DFIR staffed by in-house experts
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  • Restricted approach to security services: Outsources most managed security services, incident response limited to Windows endpoints
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  • Commitment to customer success: 97% customer satisfaction (CSAT), “great” to “excellent” net promoter score (NPS)
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  • Lack of personalized service for customers
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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

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