Trellix vs. SentinelOne

Government- and military-grade comprehensive security for the enterprise versus low-efficacy security focused on simplicity for SMB

Why customers choose Trellix over SentinelOne

Broadest Security Platform
  • Integrated platform across endpoint, email, network, data, cloud, intelligence, and security operations.
  • SentinelOne lacks integration between cloud and on-prem, with multiple agents and multiple consoles, and lacks data and collaboration security.
Industry Leading Detection and Response
  • Highest efficacy results across standardized tests for detection and response. Advanced forensics capability.
  • SentinelOne does not participate in respected third-party tests (AV Comparatives, SE Labs, AVT) so actual real-world efficacy and performance is lacking evidence.
Purpose Built GenAI
  • Generative and predictive-AI to power detections, guided investigations, summarization, and threat landscape contextualization.
  • SentinelOne is largely an endpoint-centric LLM that prompts users instead of using intelligence. It depends on the user being an expert and results in a limited “quickstart library.”
Resilient by Design Architecture
  • Resiliency in architecture, management, and operations across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud, with more control vectors for greater resiliency.
  • SentinelOne has hybrid, on-prem, and cloud offerings but functionality is not the same across environments. Significant feature gaps lead to increased risk and reduced resilience.

Trellix vs. SentinelOne critical capabilities

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Broadest Security Platform

Platform

Powerful, performant native, and open platform
Comprehensive and open with a broad set of security controls - endpoint, server, email, network, data, and XDR.

Limited point solutions
Not a true integrated platform. Lacks controls such as data security and collaboration security.

Deployment

Security where you need it
Meets everyone where they are: on-premises, industrial, air-gapped, hybrid, cloud.

Lacking critical coverage
Minimal on-premises and hybrid support. Lacking application control, OT vendor validation. Missing OS support beyond recent OSes.

Management

Simple, scalable effective management
Highly scalable management architecture with common policies across OSes and devices, extensive, customizable reporting minimizes risk and shortens responses.

Restricted management capability
Limited flexibility, not scalable across multiple environments. Need to shift to different management consoles that are not integrated. Not suitable for advanced workloads.

Critical Asset Protection

Available protection for critical assets
Specialized, mission critical system protection, broadest certified protection on OT, industrial and SCADA. Dedicated solution for OT.

Does not cover business critical systems
Lacking industrial/OT coverage. Do not have a dedicated solution and established vendor partnerships for critical asset protection.

Industry Leading Detection and Response

Protection Efficacy

Multi-layered protection
Broader visibility that prioritizes high fidelity alerts with fewer false alarms, reducing analyst workload.1

Questionable efficacy
Lacking external validation from SE Labs, AV Test, and AV Comparatives or other third parties.

Threat Intel

Global and open perspective
Industry-leading intelligence from hundreds of millions of sensors, Public Private sector Partnerships, as well as our Advanced Research Center empowers Trellix customers to confidently understand and face threats through integrated operational intelligence—because understanding, not fear, is key to effective protection.

Diminished pool of data
Limited in-house threat intel delivers minimal adversarial insights.

Detection

Defense in depth across the attack chain
AI-powered threat detection at multiple layers: email, network, cloud, identity, sandbox, and endpoint, leveraging both native and open telemetry sources to detect and remediate at the earliest possible opportunity, reducing MTTD.

Reduced context and scope
Limited security controls due to immature platform - lacking telemetry from collaboration, data, email, and other controls.

Weak inline protection, resulting in increased ransomware vulnerability.

Remediation

Rapid response and recovery
Enhanced rollback and remediation with complete SOAR platform, AI guided playbooks and manual option to ensure fastest response and recovery.

Increased risk and recovery time
No ransomware rollback, out of the box AI-guided playbooks, or dedicated SOAR capability. Remediation is biased toward endpoint.

Forensics

Deep insights where you need them
Scalable cloud and on-premises endpoint and network forensics, powering bulk investigation, bulk forensics, and bulk remediation. Works even when endpoints are offline. Advanced, custom capabilities through HX.

Basic capabilities
Lacks platform approach to forensics. Lack of customizable or advanced forensics capabilities. Lack of technical depth. Unable to create EDR rules or models.

Purpose Built Artificial Intelligence

AI Built for Security

10+ years of highly effective advanced analytics
Full automation with Trellix Wise, using ML, AI, and GenAI across endpoint, email, network, data security, and cloud.

Minimized experience with AI
AI efficacy constrained by lack of platform capabilities. Doesn't offer easy, pre-built, purpose-built integration of third party sources.

Alert Triage

No alert left behind
GenAI powered alert triage for 100% of alerts that dynamically crafts investigations and prioritizes them to tell a human when there's a critical incident.

Unclear triage
Not easy to understand if all of your security alerts are triaged and investigated the way your SOC experts would.

GenAI That Understands Intent

Human-level situational awareness
Trellix Wise is better than humans at decoding and understanding what is happening in customer environments, such as what embedded commands are suspicious for which job roles.

Lack of transparency
SentinelOne is not clear about whether Purple AI respects the local policies and requirements of each customer, or offers simply generalized global perspectives.

Resilient by Design Architecture

Product Design

Government- and military-grade
Transparent, modular microservices-based architecture for flexibility, performance with optimal threat detection where you need it. Scalable design for multi-control point administration.

Focused on simplicity
Simplified product design that does meet comprehensive enterprise security requirements.

Real-time Architecture

Immediate response
Real time inoculation across multiple control points.

No real time capabilities
Lacking data exchange layer for real time communication.

Kernel Footprint

Respect for the kernel!
Minimal kernel footprint with validated changes published quarterly (or less) that reduce risk with full customer control.

Unknown quantity
SentinelOne does not participate in third-party testing.

Performance Impact

High performance, efficient real world utilization
Third-party validated low resource utilization and broader device protection.

No published validation
Not participating in third party tests means performance should be questioned.

The Trellix Platform advantage

Leveraging 25+ years of threat data and advanced analytics, the Trellix AI-powered platform increases visibility, control and response. With threat intelligence from millions of sensors, telemetry from more than 53,000 customers, and an elite team of threat researchers in the Advanced Research Center, our platform provides real-time insights into emerging threats.

Guided by contextual threat intelligence and using ML, AI and GenAI to eliminate blind spots, the platform investigates 100% of your security alerts leaving no alert left behind. Analyzing data from native endpoints, email, network, data security, and cloud sensors as well as over 400+ open integrations, the Trellix platform is a single, open, flexible and comprehensive solution that provides unparalleled threat detection and response.

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Customer testimonials

Industry recognition

Trellix is recognized as an industry leader by key analyst firms
SE Labs EPS Protection Q3 2023

Trellix Endpoint Security earns AAA from SE Labs

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IDC Leader in Worldwide Modern Endpoint Security

Global InfoSec Awards Winner 2024

Endpoint Security Trailblazer from Global InfoSec Award

AV Comparatives Business Security Award 2023

AV TEST: Award for Best Protection for Corporate Users under Windows

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