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CIOREVIEW.COMAUGUST 22, 2016CYBER SECURITY SPECIAL
20 Most Promising Cyber Security Solution Providers 2016
Company:
SentinelOne
Description:
Enables organizations to protect their
user endpoint devices and critical servers
against advanced malware, exploits and
other types of sophisticated threats
with a platform that unifies prevention,
detection and response
Key Person:
Sean Roth
Director,
Product Marketing
Website:
sentinelone.com
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An annual listing of 20 companies that are at the forefront of providing
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CIOReviewT h e N a v i g a t o r f o r E n t e r p r i s e S o l u t i o n s
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n the light of newer and more engaging paradigms
being adopted into the organizational infrastructure,
such as BYOD and remote work stations, networks are
increasingly becoming vulnerable to catastrophic cyber
attacks, due to both premeditated and inadvertent actions.
Poised at the helm of helping security teams oust such
harmful incidents from happening, experts have come with
ways to identify and eliminate potential threats. Cloud-based
cyber security tools that cover the end-to-end value chain of an
organization to proactively monitor and thwart threats are already
makingtheirrounds,reducingcostofownershipsforstakeholders.
Stringent firewalls, guided by data analytics algorithms regularly
probing into suspicious and iterative patterns, keep perpetrators at
check. Also there are comprehensive endpoint security solutions
that ensure appropriate authentication with which security
administrators can grant and revoke role-based as well as ad-hoc
access to applications, files, and network on a whole.
In an effort to help decision makers uphold the safety of their
working environments, a panel of prominent CEOs, CIOs, VCs,
analysts, along with the CIOReview editorial board has assessed
scores of cyber security solution providers and picked out a list
of prime choices.
We have considered the vendor’s ability in designing and
building advanced cyber security solutions that cater to the
enterprise defense needs. We present to you CIOReview’s 20
Most Promising Cyber Security Solution Providers 2016.

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n today’s highly connected world,
endpoint security is a huge concern
for CIOs as many employees use
their personal devices to connect to
the corporate environment, and using
corporate endpoints outside of the
organization’s network, in an increasingly
mobile fashion. Besides, the increasing
number of endpoints has made it difficult
for organizations to track internal
threats—such as those that rely on fake
or stolen credentials to move between
different Virtual Private Network (VPN)
connections, source Internet Protocol (IP)
addresses, and machines. Enterprises often
try to layer new tools and point solutions
on the top of legacy endpoint technologies
and obsolete antivirus software which
increases the complexity as well as adds
to the business costs. In such a scenario,
SentinelOne, a company based in Palo
Alto, California, is providing next-
generation endpoint protection in a single
platform. “Our platform unifies prevention,
detection and response capabilities in
protecting both user endpoints and critical
servers across all major attack vectors,”
states Sean Roth, Director, Product
Marketing, SentinelOne.
Frequently, servers that support
business-critical applications witness
a tradeoff between security and
performance. Many enterprises tend to not
replace their antiquated antivirus solution
which consumes large amounts of CPU
cycles as it runs file scans and signature
updates. Others resist deploying any kind
of dedicated server security solution for
fear of not meeting critical SLAs due to
performance degradation. On the other
hand, SentinelOne’s offering requires no
signature updates or file scans, thereby
consuming less CPU power. The tool
employs a uniquely architected agent,
which performs out-of-band monitoring
of system activity without creating any
noticeable performance degradation.
Additionally, the platform protects against
both known and unknown threats, unlike
antivirus software which is effective
only against known file-based malware.
SentinelOne’s solution enables enterprises
to protect themselves against advanced
malware, exploits and insider attacks while
preserving valuable server performance.
SentinelOne’s underlying endpoint
protection technology is behavior-based.
The SentinelOne agent monitors all
activity both in kernel and user space:
processes, memory, registry, and network.
Each agent leverages SentinelOne's
Dynamic Behavior Tracking (DBT)
Engine which utilizes sophisticated
machine learning to detect threats against
a full context of normal application and
system behavior. In addition, the platform
allows users to investigate threats with
detailed forensics reports and attack
visualizations based on data sent from
the agent to the SentinelOne management
console in real-time. This facilitates
clients to have a 360-degree view of an
attack, mapping its point of origin and
progression across endpoints and other
systems for complete forensic insight.
SentinelOne’s Endpoint Protection
Platform is effective in protecting endpoint
systems and critical servers across different
types of organizations. In order to better
serve specific verticals, the company has
certifications for regulatory compliance
and was recently Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act
(HIPAA) and Payment Card Industry Data
Security Standard (PCI DSS) certified.
“Beyond compliance, the SentinelOne
EPP offers enterprises intelligent threat
response capabilities. Admins can create
custom mitigation policies as required by
the different categories of endpoint and
server devices under their management,”
explains Roth.
In an instance, the firm assisted a
global cosmetics manufacturer to deploy
SentinelOne EPP across 3,000 user
endpoints, replacing McAfee antivirus.
The client was bogged down with desktop
support work, reimaging 8 to 10 laptops
per week that were being attacked by
ransomware. With SentinelOne’s ability to
detect and remediate ransomware attacks,
the instances of ransomware infections
plummeted to almost zero, saving the
company over 70 man-hours of internal
user support work.
Having just announced an industry-
first Ransomware Cyber Guarantee just
prior to the annual Black Hat event in Las
Vegas, the company has exciting plans for
the future. “We will continue to enhance
our behavior-based threat detection and
broaden our enterprise features, along
with the number of different endpoint
and server platforms we protect,”
concludes Roth.
SentinelOne
Securing Endpoints from Major Vector Attacks
Our platform protects both
user endpoints and
critical servers across major
attack vectors
Sean Roth