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Daylight vs Red Canary

Daylight sells managed agentic security services that combine an AI-native security platform with human expertise to detect, investigate, and respond to cyber threats. Red Canary, now part of Zscaler, sells Managed Detection & Response (MDR), a service that taps in-house experts to detect, manage, respond to, and remediate threats at scale. CISO Tribune files both under MDR and managed SOC. This page sets the two records side by side: what each sells, where it is based, who owns and funds it, the customers it names and its recent news, each fact numbered to its source.

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Daylight vs Red Canary: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
DaylightDaylight sells managed agentic security services that combine an AI-native security platform with human expertise to detect, investigate, and respond to cyber threats.daylight.aiRed CanaryRed Canary, now part of Zscaler, sells Managed Detection & Response (MDR), a service that taps in-house experts to detect, manage, respond to, and remediate threats at scale.redcanary.com
What it sells
  • MDR[1][4][5][6][8]A managed detection and response service in which Daylight owns the detection-to-response cycle from alert ingestion to resolution.
  • Phishing[1][4]Handles user-reported emails and security alerts around the clock as part of MDR.
  • DLP[1][4][5]Adds an investigation and response layer to DLP signals.
  • Security Data Lake[1]A security data lake meant to replace a SIEM.
  • Managed Detection & Response (MDR)[3]Taps in-house experts to detect, manage, respond to, and remediate threats at scale.
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Headquarters
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Ownership and funding
Privately heldOwned by Zscaler since 2025[2][3][4]
Named customers
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Recent news
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G2 and Gartner Peer Insights
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  • G2: listed, seen October 27, 2026[4]
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Who it fits
Not written yetFrom its own pages, Red Canary sells mainly to security operations teams that need to scale protection without adding headcount. Its service is aimed at organizations whose attack surface spans networks, endpoints, identities, cloud infrastructure, and AI applications. Organizations that run AWS, GCP, or Azure environments are covered by its cloud detection. Teams that use a SIEM, SOAR, or ITSM platform can send alerts into those workflows.
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November 10, 2026September 27, 2026

Where they overlap

  • MDR and managed SOC is the primary category of both Daylight and Red Canary.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Daylight is also filed under Security data lakes and pipelines, Data loss prevention and AI model and agent security. Red Canary is also filed under Threat intelligence.
  • Daylight lists MDR, Phishing, DLP and Security Data Lake. Red Canary lists Managed Detection & Response (MDR).
  • Daylight is privately held. Red Canary is owned by Zscaler, since 2025.

How they differ

Daylight describes its MDR as owning the detection-to-response cycle from alert ingestion to resolution, with contractual accountability. Red Canary describes its MDR as using in-house experts, AI agents, and deep ZIA integration. Red Canary's MDR can block URLs and IoCs via ZIA, isolate endpoints via EDR, and suspend users via the customer's IDP. Daylight's MDR includes AI Security, phishing, and DLP.

Daylight also sells a security data lake meant to replace a SIEM, which keeps 90 days of telemetry hot and immediately searchable. Red Canary's MDR, by contrast, can send alerts to a SIEM, SOAR, or ITSM platform. CISO Tribune also files Red Canary under threat intelligence, and files Daylight under security data lakes and pipelines, data loss prevention, and AI model and agent security. Red Canary says customers can store MDR data or other raw data for any length of time they specify.

Daylight is privately held. Red Canary has been owned by Zscaler since 2025. Among Daylight's named customers, Antidote Health is a health tech company delivering health insurance solutions in the U.S., and Lusha is a B2B sales intelligence platform. Daylight integrated the tools in Antidote Health's environment during its POC and set up customized detection rules on cloud, identity, and SaaS applications. Daylight also ingested Lusha's own API logs and built detection logic for unusual export volumes and scraping behavior.

What it sells: Daylight

What MDR does[1][4][5][6][8]
Daylight owns the full detection-to-response cycle from alert ingestion to resolution, with contractual accountability. Investigations begin with identity, cloud, endpoint, SaaS, and historical context. For every confirmed case, Daylight drives remediation to completion, such as revoking sessions, resetting credentials, and blocking IPs. Daylight's MDR includes AI Security, phishing, and DLP.
What Phishing does[1][4]
Daylight handles user-reported emails and security alerts around the clock as part of MDR. Each reported email and security alert is investigated to a verdict and then remediated across every affected mailbox.
What DLP does[1][4][5]
Daylight adds the investigation and response layer that turns DLP signals into closed cases. Daylight drives real data theft to resolution and explains benign activity instead of only flagging it. DLP is included in Daylight's MDR.
What Security Data Lake does[1]
Daylight keeps 90 days of telemetry hot and immediately searchable, with older data archived at lower cost. Customers search the data themselves using plain English or KQL. Daylight handles the infrastructure, storage, and data operations.

What it sells: Red Canary

What Managed Detection & Response (MDR) does[3]
Managed Detection & Response (MDR) uses in-house experts, AI agents, and deep ZIA integration. Alerts can be sent to a SIEM, SOAR, or ITSM platform.

Questions about Daylight and Red Canary

What do Daylight and Red Canary sell?
Daylight sells MDR, Phishing, DLP and Security Data Lake. Red Canary sells Managed Detection & Response (MDR).
Are Daylight and Red Canary in the same category?
Yes. MDR and managed SOC is the primary category of both on CISO Tribune.
Who owns Daylight and Red Canary?
Daylight is privately held. Red Canary is owned by Zscaler, since 2025.
Who are Daylight and Red Canary sold to?
From its own pages, Red Canary sells mainly to security operations teams that need to scale protection without adding headcount.

About Daylight

Daylight sells managed agentic security services that combine an AI-native security platform with human expertise to detect, investigate, and respond to cyber threats. Under the Managed Agentic Security Services (MASS) model, agents execute security work at scale, while experts provide direction, judgment, and accountability. Daylight's Aura combines AI agents, security experts, and the customer's team into one platform with shared business context. Daylight states that cloud, identity, SaaS, and AI have expanded attack surfaces faster than traditional security services are prepared to follow. Daylight states that traditional services increase capacity by adding analysts, so the number of people required grows as the work grows.[2][3][4][13]

In its MDR service, Daylight owns the full detection-to-response cycle from alert ingestion to resolution, with contractual accountability. Daylight investigations begin with identity, cloud, endpoint, SaaS, and historical context. Daylight adapts its investigation to evidence across identity, endpoint, network, and cloud until the full picture is established. For every confirmed case, Daylight drives remediation to completion, such as revoking sessions, resetting credentials, and blocking IPs. Daylight maps a customer's detection surface against MITRE ATT&CK, covering every rule from each source. Daylight's MDR includes AI Security, phishing, and DLP.[4][5]

Daylight extends its MDR coverage to AI systems, detecting and investigating AI-native threats like agents, MCP servers, and LLM activity. Daylight's AI Security covers AI systems with detection, investigation, and response for every action, not only an audit-log view. Daylight detects malicious instructions and manipulation before agents act on them. Daylight brings every detection rule from a customer's SIEM, cloud, identity, and endpoint tools into a single library that runs continuously across the stack. Daylight handles user-reported emails and security alerts around the clock as part of MDR.[4][5][6]

Daylight's threat hunting uses autonomous agents that continuously hunt across a customer's security ecosystem with IOC- and hypothesis-driven techniques, guided by threat intelligence. Daylight's IOC hunts search for malicious IPs, domains, hashes, identities, and other indicators, then investigate matches and deliver a documented conclusion. When new vulnerabilities, campaigns, and supply-chain attacks emerge, Daylight turns threat intelligence into proactive hunts to determine whether the environment is exposed.[3][7]

Daylight keeps 90 days of telemetry hot and immediately searchable, with older data archived at lower cost and ready to rehydrate for historical investigations, audits, and compliance. Daylight stores raw telemetry as it arrives, without parsers, pipelines, or schemas required before it becomes searchable. Daylight handles the infrastructure, storage, and data operations of the data lake. The same telemetry powering Daylight MDR and threat hunting is available for a customer's own searches and investigations.[7][8]

Daylight manages detection engineering, rule tuning, and ongoing maintenance for customers. Daylight uses bi-directional integration to bring identity, device, cloud, and business context into every investigation and to share results back across the security ecosystem. Daylight uses AI-assisted onboarding and 120+ integrations to connect a customer's environment. Daylight states that its agentic services can develop new integrations within days. Daylight states that its experts across four regions keep customer hours. Daylight's team builds the detections, integrations, and automations for a customer's security program.[3][5][9]

During its POC, Daylight integrated the tools in Antidote Health's environment and set up customized detection rules on cloud, identity, and SaaS applications. Antidote Health is a health tech company delivering health insurance solutions in the U.S. LVT (LiveView Technologies, Inc.) provides rapidly deployable security hardware, powered by a proprietary SaaS platform. Daylight supports Tier 1 triage through automated end-user validation workflows, which let suspicious activity be confirmed directly with employees when appropriate. Daylight ingested Lusha's own API logs and built detection logic for unusual export volumes and scraping behavior. Lusha is a B2B sales intelligence platform.[1][4][7][8][10][11][12][14]

Daylight on the record

Sources

Daylight full record

  1. [1]daylight.aiDaylight · daylight.ai · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Daylight vs reliaquestDaylight · daylight.ai · published June 2, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Managed Security Services | DaylightDaylight · undated page, accessed November 11, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Managed Agentic Security ServicesDaylight · undated page, accessed November 11, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Services | DaylightDaylight · undated page, accessed November 11, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]AI Threat Detection & Security Services | DaylightDaylight · undated page, accessed November 11, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Managed Threat Hunting Services | DaylightDaylight · undated page, accessed November 11, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Managed Security Data Lake | DaylightDaylight · undated page, accessed November 11, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Security Integrations | DaylightDaylight · undated page, accessed November 11, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]How Antidote Health Secures a Fast-Changing StackDaylight · undated page, accessed November 11, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]How LVT Scaled Security Operations with DaylightDaylight · undated page, accessed November 11, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]How Lusha Scaled Security Without Building a SOCDaylight · undated page, accessed November 11, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]Our Story | DaylightDaylight · undated page, accessed November 11, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]How The Motley Fool Reached Zero Backlog with DaylightDaylight · undated page, accessed November 11, 2026 · Tier A

Red Canary full record

  1. [1]redcanary.comRed Canary · redcanary.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Zscaler completes acquisition red canary accelerate innovations agentic ai driven securityZscaler · zscaler.com · published August 1, 2025 · Tier A
  3. [3]Zscaler Managed Detection & Response (MDR) | ZscalerZscaler · undated page, accessed October 27, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Zscaler Sec Ops Pricing - G2G2 · undated page, accessed October 27, 2026 · Tier C

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