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Sophos provides comprehensive protection to reduce security incidents, alerts and response time. We also provide the opportunity for organizations to consolidate their cybersecurity spending and reduce their security management burden. SentinelOne is primarily an endpoint security solution and offers little opportunity for vendor consolidation. You need more than just SentinelOne endpoint protection to optimize your security posture. 

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Exposure to Threats

SentinelOne closes the doors but opens the windows, as it lacks web protection and application control capabilities and creates opportunities for cybercriminals to attack.

Exposure to Threats

Sophos uses web, application, and peripheral controls to block common attack vectors and reduce your attack surface. Our AI-first protection, anti-ransomware and anti-exploitation capabilities, and other advanced technologies allow us to stop threats fast before they escalate.

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Context-Sensitive Defenses

Don’t let attackers live off your land. SentinelOne does not automatically adapt its defenses based on the context of the device.

Context-Sensitive Defenses

When Sophos detects a hands-on-keyboard attack, we automatically activate extra defenses on the endpoint with a "shields up" approach. Sophos Adaptive Attack Protection blocks suspicious activities like downloads of remote admin tools, giving your team valuable time to respond.

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A Unified Security Ecosystem

Cybercriminals don’t just attack endpoints. Get the full picture with Sophos. SentinelOne does not offer network or email security, leaving major gaps in the overall security posture of an organization.

A Unified Security Ecosystem

Consolidate your defenses by integrating your endpoint, server, network, mobile, email, cloud security, and third-party security controls in the Sophos Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem and single management console built for organizations of all sizes and capabilities. You can manage your security on your own. Or, Sophos MDR can detect, investigate, and respond to threats for you.

Sophos vs. SentinelOne

FEATURES Sophos SentinelOne
Attack Surface, Pre- and Post-Execution
Attack surface reduction, with multiple technologies for web protection, application control, and device control that eliminate attack vectors and protect against data loss

Fully provided

Partially provided
Defenses that automatically adapt to human-led attacks

Fully provided

Not provided

Automated Account Health Check to maintain a strong security posture

Fully provided

Not provided

Security Heartbeat to share health and threat intelligence information between multiple products

Fully provided

Not provided

Remote ransomware blocking and rollback

Fully provided

Not provided

Feature parity across Windows, macOS, and Linux Partially provided Partially provided
Management, Investigation, and Remediation
Single management console for managing and reporting

Fully provided

Fully provided

Alert triage and assistance

Fully provided

Fully provided

Extensive threat-hunting and investigation capabilities

Fully provided

Fully provided

Suitable for customers without an in-house SOC

Fully provided

Fully provided

Suitable for large enterprise organizations with a full in-house SOC

Fully provided

Fully provided

Threat Hunting and Response
Endpoint detection and response (EDR) functionality

Fully provided

Fully provided

Integrated extended detection and response (XDR) enables analysts to hunt for and respond to threats across your environment, correlate information, and pivot between endpoint, server, network, mobile, email, public cloud, and Microsoft 365 data

Fully provided

Partially provided
MDR service provides 24/7 threat hunting, detection, and unlimited remediation to organizations of all sizes, with support available over the phone or through email

Fully provided

Fully provided

Incident response included in top MDR tier

Fully provided

(Optional IR Retainer for lower MDR tiers)

Partially provided
Integration with third-party security control to leverage your existing security investments, gain full visibility into your environment, and provide detections and alerts to your team and the MDR team

Fully provided

Partially provided
Monitor and generate detections across your third-party security controls and data sources

Fully provided

Not provided

Encrypted network traffic analysis (NDR)

Fully provided

Not provided

Independent Third-Party Testing
Proven protection and performance as a consistent and strong performer in third-party protection tests and evaluations

 

Regularly participates

Not provided

Rarely participates

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Independent Third-Party Testing

Third-party testing helps organizations make informed decisions about their technology stack and security investments. Sophos believes in the informational and transparency value of regular participation in third-party tests. We have received high scores for performance, ease of use, and effectiveness in tests from SE Labs, AV-Test, and other third-party evaluators. SentinelOne rarely participates in third-party testing.

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A Unified Security Ecosystem

Consolidate your defenses by integrating your endpoint, server, network, mobile, email, cloud security, and third-party security controls in the Sophos Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem and single management console that SentinelOne can't match. All of your Sophos products are continuously optimized with real-time threat intelligence and operational insights from Sophos X-Ops.

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