Choose Daylight Security or Group-IB
Choose Daylight Security if
- Mid-market and enterprise buyers frustrated with alert fatigue from traditional MDR providers
- Companies looking for AI-driven security coverage across endpoint, cloud, identity, and SaaS
- Technology and finance companies comfortable adopting an early-stage vendor with tier-1 VC backing
- You need Cloud and SaaS and Identity coverage included in base pricing
- You want direct Slack integration with your SOC
Choose Group-IB if
- No published fit criteria. The full profile lists coverage, response and pricing fields.
- Onboarding
- Under 1 hour to go operational, across more than 120 prebuilt integrations. New integrations are built in days.
- ChatOps
- Investigations run in Slack, Microsoft Teams or email, including questions put directly to the employee whose account or device is involved.
What’s actually different
Buyer brief
Fit. Daylight Security and Group-IB are both Platform vendors. Daylight Security works with your existing tools and targets Mid-market and Enterprise organizations, while Group-IB requires its own security platform and serves Mid-market and Enterprise. Daylight Security includes 4 attack surfaces in base pricing (Endpoint, Cloud, SaaS, Identity), compared to 2 for Group-IB (Endpoint, Network).
FAQ
What is the main difference between Daylight Security and Group-IB?
Daylight Security is a Platform vendor that is technology-agnostic (works with your existing tools). Group-IB is a Platform vendor that is platform-native (requires their own security stack). SLA commitments differ: Daylight Security offers ≤15 minutes, Group-IB offers Not disclosed. Daylight Security covers 4 attack surfaces in base pricing vs. 2 for Group-IB.
How do Daylight Security and Group-IB differ in response capabilities?
Daylight Security supports 6 autonomous actions (endpoint isolation, process termination, network containment, account disable, file quarantine, custom playbooks) and approval is configurable. Group-IB supports 5 autonomous actions (endpoint isolation, process termination, network containment, file quarantine, custom playbooks) and approval is configurable. Incident response is included with Daylight Security and not included with Group-IB.
How does Daylight Security pricing compare to Group-IB?
Daylight Security pricing: Not published. Group-IB pricing: Not published. No public per-endpoint or per-node price on the vendor site or AWS Marketplace. Watch for with Daylight Security: No breach warranty offered. If warranty coverage matters for your risk calculus, this is a gap.; 36-month contracts offer deeper discounts but lock you into a company with under two years of operating history.. Watch for with Group-IB: Requires deploying Group-IB's own endpoint, network, and email sensors, and cannot run on a competing EDR; Full forensic incident response and DFIR is a separate retainer, not the managed response included in XDR.