CASE STUDY
WE NEED TO CONTINUE TO
DELIVER AND STAY AHEAD
OF THE TRENDS.
“Almost immediately during the proof
of concept, SentinelOne emerged as the
solution for us. The rollout was even easier
than we expected, despite our complex
landscape. Watching the SentinelOne
platform tackle threats head-on – that our
existing legacy antivirus missed – was a
great moment for the team,” said O’Connor.
Aston Martin Lagonda joins a raft of recent
customers that have selected SentinelOne to
replace legacy and next-generation antivirus.
The company has seen exceptional growth
in the UK and across EMEA, among others
securing tens of 50,000+ endpoint enterprise
wins from leading financial services, retail,
manufacturing and governments in the past
few months.
Steve O’Connor, Director of IT at Aston
Martin, discusses more about the solution
and how it has benefitted customers.
Why did you select SentinelOne
as a vendor?
Before implementing SentinelOne, we used
a standard antivirus with lots of different
policies for different workloads that were
complex. WannaCry, however, prompted
us to consider why we weren’t affected
when so many others were. Luckily, we
have a rigorous patching schedule in place
so avoided a devastating attack through
this, but it prompted the question: would
our legacy antivirus have been capable of
stopping the attack?
We used a third-party provider that looked
at the market to put forward vendors for us
to review. We took on three to four initially
and looked at key requirements that we
needed within the business, which was
mainly around AI and Machine Learning.
One of our account managers within the IT
space was moving companies, and off the
back of a conversation with him, we added
SentinelOne to the proof of concept mix.
Our complex workloads range from standard
office through to computer design and
engineering, so we needed something that
works consistently across all of them. It
became apparent quite quickly that two
of the vendors were pinging us with lots of
alerts over a matter of two days and giving
us a lot of false positives – which wasn’t
what we wanted.
However, after a small ransomware outbreak
at one of our sites, we needed hands-on
support and SentinelOne was immediately
on it – dispatching an expert to site and
giving us the go-ahead to roll the client out.
In using a combination of what the solution
was capable of to remediate the threat and
the rollback feature, we had it all wrapped
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