Daylight Security
Daylight MDR combines an AI-native platform with security experts with 10+ years of experience in IR and threat hunting. The platform integrates deeply across endpoint, cloud, identity, and SaaS environments, collecting business context to conduct cross-system investigations that reach verdicts rather than escalations. The security experts resolve ambiguous cases, tune detections, build new integrations, and lead response during confirmed incidents. SOC 2 Type II and ISO/IEC 27001 certified as of 2025.
Buyer fit
Good fit when
- ✓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
- ✓Teams wanting ChatOps-native collaboration via Slack, Teams, or Discord with sub-hour deployment
Watch out when
- ×Risk-averse organizations requiring a multi-year proven operational track record and broad independent review coverage
- ×Federal workloads requiring FedRAMP authorization
- ×SMBs or organizations with primarily on-prem estates and minimal cloud footprint
Coverage
EDR
SIEM
Cloud
Additional capabilities
Incident response
Pricing
What costs extra
- –Hypothesis-based agentic threat hunting (premium tier)
- –Agentic security data lake (extended retention)
Cost caveats
- –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.
- –No FedRAMP authorization. Not a fit for federal workloads requiring FedRAMP.
Pricing compiled from public sources. Verify directly with the provider.
Team and access
Reputation
Public Gartner Peer Insights pages show a 5.0 average for Daylight Security as of May 2026, but review volume is still light compared to established MDR vendors. Coverage on G2 and PeerSpot is thin, and Reddit presence is minimal.
What customers praise
- ✓Deploys in under 1 hour via API integrations, no agent install required
- ✓Vendor reports significant alert reduction by closing alerts at the source rather than escalating (vendor-claimed)
- ✓Senior-only analyst model with IR and threat-hunting backgrounds (vendor-stated)
- ✓Founding team from Unit 8200 and Torq, $40M from Craft Ventures and Bain Capital
Common complaints
- ×Founded late 2024, less than two years of operational history
- ×Review coverage on G2 and PeerSpot is still thin
- ×No FedRAMP authorization; not a fit for federal workloads
- ×Best fit is cloud and hybrid environments; less relevant for on-prem-only estates (vendor-stated)
Daylight is an emerging AI-native MDR provider focused on autonomous investigation and response workflows. Independent customer reviews remain limited compared to established MDR vendors, but the company has gained attention for investigating every alert, closing alerts at the source rather than escalating backlogs, and providing access to senior security experts with IR and threat-hunting backgrounds (vendor framing).
Questions to ask
- 1.
Is the 15-minute critical-severity response target a contractual SLA with service credits, or an internal target? What is the equivalent for high and medium severity?
- 2.
What is the runway and hiring plan with the $40M raise? What happens to our service if funding runs out or the company is acquired?
- 3.
How does the agentic model handle novel attack types it hasn't been trained on?
- 4.
Can we see your SOC 2 Type II report and ISO 27001 certificate, and what is the FedRAMP roadmap (if any)?
- 5.
How many customers are you currently serving, and can we speak with a reference in our industry?
- 6.
How does the 36-month contract discount work, given the company was founded in 2024?
- 7.
What is the split between agentic platform actions and human analyst work, and when do analysts engage versus the platform?
- 8.
What detection logic, investigation history, and telemetry can we export at end of contract?
Evidence
Sources reviewed
Main public source used for the provider profile.
Official service platform overview including AI-powered MDR capabilities
AWS Marketplace listing with pricing and service details
TechIntelPro coverage of $7M seed funding and company launch
Public-data caveats
- –SLA caveat: 15-minute response target for critical severity (vendor-stated). Buyers should confirm whether this is a contractual SLA with service credits or an internal target.
- –No public fixed price is recorded; compare only after a scoped quote.
- –No public breach warranty is recorded.
- –Response authority may depend on pre-approval and contract scope.
- –MDR analyst headcount or analyst-to-customer ratio is not public.
Also consider
Information compiled from public sources. Verify details directly with the provider before making decisions.