Trellix vs. SentinelOne

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.