We performed a comparison between Symantec Endpoint Security and SentinelOne Singularity Complete based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Users praised Symantec Endpoint Security for its regular virus signature updates and comprehensive administrator's console. SentinelOne Singularity Complete is praised for its dependable threat prevention and ability to reverse ransomware file encryption. Reviewers said Symantec Endpoint Security could improve its graphical interface, Linux support, and scanning capabilities. SentinelOne could improve its automation, machine learning, and AI capabilities while improving reporting and integration.
Service and Support: Some users said Symantec customer service was helpful but slow, while others have expressed general dissatisfaction with support. Customers have been pleased with SentinelOne’s customer service. Reviews highlighted the support team’s responsiveness and efficiency.
Ease of Deployment: Some users said Symantec Endpoint Security was easy to set up, while others struggled with the installation. Deployment time varies depending on the customer’s environment. Users find the initial setup for SentinelOne Singularity Complete to be quick and painless, with helpful support from the vendor team.
Pricing: The cost of Symantec Endpoint Security depends on the licensing terms and necessary security components. While some users find the price acceptable, others believe it could be more affordable. Some reviewers thought SentinelOne Singularity Complete is reasonably priced and competitive, while others say it’s costlier than many alternatives.
ROI: Symantec Endpoint Security demonstrates strong stability and incident prevention, leading to reduced downtime. It offers a favorable return on investment. SentinelOne Singularity Complete yields an ROI by saving money and protecting against ransomware attacks. Other users noted its valuable dashboard data and low CapEx requirements.
"The features that I have found most valuable are the ability to customize it and to reduce its size. It lets you run in a very small window in terms of memory and resources on legacy cash registers."
"This is stable and scalable."
"It notifies us if there's any suspicious file on any PC. If any execution or similar kind of thing is happening, it just alerts us. It doesn't only alert. It also blocks the execution until we allow it. We check whether the execution is legitimate or not, and then approve it or keep it blocked. This gives us a little bit of control over this mechanism. Fortinet FortiEDR is also very straightforward and easy to maintain."
"Exceptions are easy to create and the interface is easy to follow with a nice appearance."
"The stability is very good."
"We have FortiEDR installed on all our systems. This protects them from any threats."
"Fortinet FortiEDR made our clients feel secure and more at ease, knowing that they had an EDR solution that would close the gap in their security posture."
"It is stable and scalable."
"The fact that SentinelOne is actively looking for threats and runs them against the hash on the Internet to determine if they are malicious or not, is what takes it to the next level compared to other antivirus products."
"The most valuable aspects of SentinelOne Singularity Complete are the ease of deployment with the Sentinel Agent and the enhanced visibility with Skylight, which provides correlation of logs and all endpoint data in a centralized location."
"I find the application inventory feature to be extremely useful."
"It's quite scalable."
"We have had very few false positives or false negatives, which allows our analysts to focus on their work instead of dealing with noise."
"The most useful feature of all is deep visibility."
"The ability to get queries by pressing the "tab" button is a plus for SentinelOne."
"It is purely cloud-based, meaning you don't need to have something installed, such as a server on-prem. You have cloud management and can access it from anywhere, with integration with SSO, with one click. It's also very lightweight."
"Some of the most valuable features were antivirus, malware, and spyware. They were really good."
"It is a stable product."
"This solution has helped us because it is really useful for blocking all kinds of viruses."
"I like the endpoint detection and response. That's the best feature. I also like the fact that we don't need to use a file on the computer, whereas some anti-malware solutions work with a file on the endpoint. Symantec is a very good option compared to solutions from other vendors."
"The most valuable features of Symantec Endpoint Security are endpoint protection, antivirus, firewall, and policy creation."
"It is a solid antivirus security product."
"The features are very nice. We are getting updates continuously from the Symantec side regarding any attacks, such as zero-day attacks. Symantec helps us in mitigating any attacks or threats early."
"The installation was very easy."
"They can include the automation for the realtime updates. We have a network infrastructure with remote sites. Whenever they send updates, they are not automated. We have to go into the console and push those updates. I wish it was more automated. The update file is currently around 31 MB. It could be smaller."
"There's room for improvement in the quick response time and technical support for integration issues, especially when dealing with multiple vendors."
"We've had a lot of false positives; things incorrectly flagged that require manual configuration to allow. Even worse, after we allow a legitimate program, it sometimes gets flagged again after an update. This has caused a lot of extra work for my team."
"I think cloud security and SASE are areas of concern in the product where improvements are required. The tool's cloud version has to be improved in terms of the security it offers."
"The solution's installation from a central installation server could be improved because the engineers had a little bit of trouble getting it installed from a central location."
"The support needs improvement."
"The only minor concern is occasional interference with desired programs."
"The amount of usage, the number of details we get, or the number of options that can be tweaked is limited in comparison to that with other EDR solutions"
"The way Singularity Complete handles blocking external mass storage is annoying because it is so difficult to unblock single endpoints."
"This solution would be more attractive to customers if the price were lower."
"It's fine. It's correcting all the EFC files with a virus. All the achievements, maximum EFC files. Many EFC files will be flagged as a virus. Some virus databases need to be updated. The model is good at finding many EFC files. The trouble is it needs to be updated."
"I would have liked the dashboard to be more user-friendly."
"Improvement seems necessary, especially with the focus on enhanced support."
"I don't like switching the way you switch from legacy to XDR."
"The learning curve was a little steep."
"SentinelOne's customer support is sluggish and frequently fails to deliver sufficient assistance."
"When, Microsoft releases a new OS version twice a year, you never know if the current version of Symantec Endpoint Protection will support it. You can have a lag between when Microsoft releases a new client - and then the current version doesn't work correctly - and it could be some months between updates from Symantec."
"As for some features I would like to see, I'd like a retrospective action feature similar to Cisco Secure Endpoint's. Some antiviruses don't allow you to re-scan a product that was in the former scan—for example, if a file was classified as proper, but then for some reason the file was changed, we need an antivirus with retrospective capability. We need EPP and EDR products in a secured environment."
"It would be helpful if this product provided patch management functionality."
"We are not satisfied with the technical support."
"It would be nice to be able to manage the endpoints a bit further. A valuable attribute would be the management of software inventory, software deployment, and third-party software deployment. I would like to see the ability to deploy and delete unlicensed software. Many users try to install what they shouldn't, so that would be really useful."
"If there is a suspicious file, it is put into a sandbox where Symantec does an analysis. After the analysis, Symantec marks the file as a risk, but it doesn't blacklist or block the file. If a file is already known to be harmful, I would like them to automatically block or blacklist it to reduce the damage."
"Overall, the price could be reduced."
"Using the management console is a bit complex. There are many features that we cannot use and we could use some help. We need some assistance to make them work better. They need to add features to make it simpler."
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SentinelOne Singularity Complete is ranked 2nd in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 177 reviews while Symantec Endpoint Security is ranked 5th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 140 reviews. SentinelOne Singularity Complete is rated 8.8, while Symantec Endpoint Security is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of SentinelOne Singularity Complete writes "Provides peace of mind and is good at ingesting data and correlating". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Endpoint Security writes "The solution has given us visibility into compliance within our whole system and helped us ensure everything is updated". SentinelOne Singularity Complete is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, Darktrace, ThreatLocker Protect and Wazuh, whereas Symantec Endpoint Security is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, Trend Micro Deep Security and Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks. See our SentinelOne Singularity Complete vs. Symantec Endpoint Security report.
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