7 Reasons to Move Away from Legacy AV (Anti Virus)

Legacy AV Comparisons:
SentinelOne vs McAfee
SentinelOne vs Symantec
2022 MITRE Enginuity ATT&CK Evaluation
(the most trusted 3rd party performance test)

Cybersecurity professionals already know it: Legacy AV would not help them out on a rainy day. Legacy AV was born to solve a problem of few viruses every now and then, not the flood we see today, which risks the way we live.

1. Reduce Operational Costs
   
   It is hard to measure the overall cost of running outdated technology that may make you vulnerable to cyberthreats. NSS Labs conduct a comparative test with all endpoint security players. NSS Labs identified SentinelOne as having the best overall TCO over a three-year period.
   
   
2. Boost Protection
   
   Over time, adversaries have improved their malicious techniques, easily bypassing traditional security products with techniques like fileless malware and PowerShell exploits. Get ahead of the attackers and prevent advanced attacks with next-generation technology.
   
   
3. Save Time
   
   Time is a major factor when it comes to your security. The entire concept of dwell time – the time from adversary penetration to detection or mitigation is on average at least 90 days. Meanwhile, your security experts are wasting valuable time collecting evidence of a breach. You want your security team to focus on what matters, not looking for a needle in a haystack.
   
   
4. Improve ROI
   
   In the beginning there was just AV. Then, another agent to cover advanced threats. Then an additional agent that can provide visibility. On top of that, another one to report applications from a vulnerability scan. And so it goes on. More agents running in parallel on your endpoint means more performance impact.
   
   
5. Make the Software Work For You
   
   A characteristic of legacy AV is that it requires highly-trained staff to operate and interpret. Where are all those alerts coming from and are they connected? Which ones are false positives, and why are people in Marketing complaining they can’t access their computers?
   
   
6. Integrate your Security Solutions
   
   With the security industry as a whole experiencing a sharp cyberskills shortage, an endpoint security solution should integrate with your existing software stack and not create more work for your SOC team or IT administrators.
   
   
7. Reduce Post-Breach Costs
   
   An easy-to-use management console that presents the entire attack storyline can help you to quickly close out vulnerabilities and even track down the individuals responsible. The faster you can put things to rights, the lower the financial impact on the enterprise.
   
   (By SentinelOne™)

Deep Visibility
Regain Visibility Over Your Network and Assets

Executive Summary

You cannot stop what you cannot see. SentinelOne™ extends its Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) to offer the ability to search for attack indicators, investigate existing incidents, perform file integrity monitoring and root out hidden threats. Deep Visibility supports the needs of Enterprise IT and provides visibility into encrypted traffic. This unique solution helps security teams gain comprehensive insight into all endpoints so that responses can be prioritized and efficient without highly trained personnel or outsourcing EDR needs. This is accomplished through a streamlined interface that allows you to automate and connect it to other products on your portfolio. Deep Visibility does not require additional installation and is already integrated into SentinelOne’s™ single agent architecture.


Enterprise Need

Enterprise networks are more complicated than ever before. The explosion of cloud applications, coupled with the ability of users being able to access these cloud / SaaS applications from anywhere and any device, means the traditional network perimeter has disappeared. Keeping your business safe in today’s world means protecting your corporate data, and this means protecting your endpoint devices. A data breach happens in milliseconds, but it may take months to recognize that a breach has even occurred. To make matters worse, most web traffic today is encrypted, providing a simple trick for attackers to hide their threats and communications channels. The endpoint is the most vulnerable and exposed attack surface in the network today. In order to keep your endpoint devices safe, you need to have deep visibility into their environment and activities.
SentinelOne’s Automated EDR™ provides rich forensic data and can mitigate threats automatically, perform network isolation, and auto-immunize the endpoints against newly discovered threats. As a final safety measure, SentinelOne™ can even rollback an endpoint to its pre-infected state.


What is Deep Visibility

Deep Visibility offers full, real-time and historic retrospective search capabilities, even for offline endpoints, to improve proactive security. The telemetry data from endpoints and servers can help security teams correlate activity, such as lateral movement and callbacks, with other threat indicators to gain deeper insights. Deep Visibility extends to devices like laptops that may exist outside your network perimeter.
Compared to other offerings, SentinelOne’s Deep Visibility™ is unique because it is simple. There is no need for a highly-trained security team tasked with full-time threat hunting. SentinelOne™ offers a comprehensive view of your endpoints using a search interface that allows you to see the entire context in a straightforward way.


Simplified Endpoint Protection and Response
Visibility and EDR Made Manageable

EDR is now widely recognized as an essential requirement for Enterprise networks, with an increasing number of security solutions offering visibility on corporate assets. However, many of these solutions are seen as difficult and complicated to manage by Enterprise customers. With only a few minutes per security incident, the growing number of alerts and the lack of highly-trained personnel, the modern enterprise needs a solution that can be managed and automated into existing security flows. An effective, streamlined security solution such as offered by SentinelOne™ lowers costs and improves efficiency, allowing the business to grow without interruption.


Solve the Blindspot of Encrypted Traffic
Regain Visibility Over Network Traffic

Most network traffic is now encrypted, improving privacy but eliminating the option for network products to see the traffic, a trend that has important consequences for Enterprise. According to Gartner, by 2019 more than 80% of all enterprise web traffic will be encrypted. Moreover, Gartner expects that during 2019, more than 50% of new malware campaigns will use some form of encryption and obfuscation to conceal delivery and ongoing communications, including data exfiltration.

Meanwhile, cyber attackers rely on social engineering and take advantage of increasing noise and decreasing attention to detail. Users are increasingly being manipulated to download and execute malicious code on Enterprise endpoints, while adversaries become more adept at avoiding detection.
SentinelOne™ and Deep Visibility provide an effective, easily manageable solution to these changing circumstances. Deep Visibility is unique in its ability to look inside encrypted traffic and to reveal the chain of events leading up to compromise attempts. With Deep Visibility, SentinelOne™ is able to protect against data breaches, monitor phishing attempts, identify data leakage and ensure cross asset visibility while automatically mitigating these attempts, incident by incident.


Integrated with other Security Solutions
Seamless Integration

Deep Visibility is part of the “API anywhere” approach of SentinelOne™, so all capabilities are available via API, allowing you to integrate it with other security solutions on the network and reduce your IT burden.


Performance – No Additional Install
Same Agent, Cross Platform

Other endpoint security vendors typically require the client to install several agents in parallel on the same device, even sometimes managed by separate consoles. Endpoints may already have too many agents serving specific needs, taxing local resources and resulting in a poor end-user experience. When these kinds of solutions digest needed endpoint resources, they can degrade performance and impact productivity.

Unlike such solutions, SentinelOne™ offers a single lightweight agent that does it all with negligible impact on endpoint resources.
SentinelOne™ offers cross-platform protection. Linux and macOS devices may be less numerous than Windows devices across the typical Enterprise network, but they are no less important from a security perspective. A network is only as strong as its weakest link.


Summary

The Best EDR Capability, Delivered with EPP as a Single Agent

Deep Visibility monitors traffic at the end of the tunnel, which allows an unprecedented tap into all traffic without the need to decrypt or interfere with the data transport. This allows the engine to stay hidden from attacker evasions while also minimizing the impact on the user-experience.

Deep Visibility allows for full IOC search on all endpoint and network activities, and provides a rich environment for threat hunting that includes powerful filters as well as the ability to take containment actions.

Since Deep Visibility does not require an additional agent, and is a holistic part of the SentinelOne™ EPP platform, it is also fully integrated into the investigation, mitigation and response capabilities. Security teams can thus quickly dispose threats discovered via Deep Visibility such as gaining process forensics, file and machine quarantine, and full dynamic remediation and rollback capabilities.

(By SentinelOne™)