Choose Daylight Security or Northwave
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 Northwave if
- Benelux, DACH and Nordic buyers that want European MDR with a Utrecht SOC
- Mid-market and enterprise teams that value MDR connected to CERT, IR, red team and threat research
- Organizations that want risk-based monitoring across endpoint telemetry, logs and network traffic
What’s actually different
Buyer brief
Fit. Daylight Security is a Platform vendor that works with your existing tools. Northwave is a Services firm that works with your existing tools. Daylight Security targets Mid-market and Enterprise organizations; Northwave serves Mid-market and Enterprise. Daylight Security includes 4 attack surfaces in base pricing (Endpoint, Cloud, SaaS, Identity), compared to 2 for Northwave (Endpoint, Network).
FAQ
What is the main difference between Daylight Security and Northwave?
Daylight Security is a Platform vendor that is technology-agnostic (works with your existing tools). Northwave is a Services firm that is technology-agnostic (works with your existing tools). SLA commitments differ: Daylight Security offers ≤15 minutes, Northwave offers Not disclosed. Daylight Security covers 4 attack surfaces in base pricing vs. 2 for Northwave.
How do Daylight Security and Northwave 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. Northwave supports 1 autonomous actions (custom playbooks) and approval is configurable. Incident response is included with Daylight Security and not included with Northwave.
How does Daylight Security pricing compare to Northwave?
Daylight Security pricing: Not published. Northwave pricing: Not published. 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 Northwave: Public pages do not publish response SLAs or named default response actions.; Rapid Response is a separate related service, so buyers should confirm what incident-response support is included in base MDR..