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Daylight vs ThreatDefence

Daylight sells managed agentic security services that combine an AI-native security platform with human expertise to detect, investigate, and respond to cyber threats. ThreatDefence delivers a fully managed 24×7 SOC as a Service that combines its SecOps Platform with a team of cyber security experts who monitor, investigate and respond. 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 ThreatDefence: 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.aiThreatDefenceThreatDefence delivers a fully managed 24×7 SOC as a Service that combines its SecOps Platform with a team of cyber security experts who monitor, investigate and respond.threatdefence.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.
  • SecOps Platform[2][3][4][5]A platform providing end-to-end coverage and threat detection, backed by an AI-enabled 24x7 SOC.
  • SOC as a Service[2]A fully managed 24×7 SOC that combines the SecOps Platform with a team of cyber security experts.
  • SIEM[1][5][6]A SIEM built for investigation that connects, enriches and keeps security events searchable.
  • Network Detection and Response[3]Network Detection and Response sensors and a deception toolset to discover lateral movement.
  • Compromise Assessment[8]A review of an environment to reveal existing or past intrusions and security weaknesses.
  • Cyber Risk Management[9]A solution that assists customers in proactively identifying security gaps in their environment.
  • Cyber Range[10]Cyber range solutions with simulations of cyber attacks for cyber security teams and students.
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Where they overlap

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

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. ThreatDefence is also filed under SIEM, AI SOC analysts and Network detection and response.
  • Daylight lists MDR, Phishing, DLP and Security Data Lake. ThreatDefence lists SecOps Platform, SOC as a Service, SIEM, Network Detection and Response, Compromise Assessment and 2 more.
  • Daylight is privately held.

How they differ

CISO Tribune files both Daylight and ThreatDefence under MDR and managed SOC as their primary category. Daylight sells MDR in which it owns the cycle from alert ingestion to resolution, with contractual accountability, and its MDR includes AI Security, phishing, and DLP. It also sells a security data lake meant to replace a SIEM, with 90 days of telemetry kept hot and searchable. ThreatDefence sells a SecOps Platform and SOC as a Service, a fully managed 24×7 SOC that combines the platform with a team of cyber security experts. It also sells a SIEM, Network Detection and Response sensors with a deception toolset, Compromise Assessment, Cyber Risk Management, and Cyber Range.

ThreatDefence says its analysts, threat hunters and incident responders work alongside AI agents. Daylight says it connects an environment with AI-assisted onboarding and 120+ integrations. ThreatDefence collects data through supported agents, syslog, APIs, cloud integrations and network sensors.

Daylight is privately held. ThreatDefence is an Australian company founded in 2014 in Sydney, and it provides security operations and cyber defense solutions to MSPs and enterprises. It says it serves hundreds of customers in industries that include healthcare, government, finance, legal, retail and mining. ThreatDefence is SOC 2, PCI DSS and ISO 27001 certified. Daylight names Antidote Health, where it set up customized detection rules on cloud, identity, and SaaS applications during its POC, and Lusha, whose API logs it ingested to build 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: ThreatDefence

What SOC as a Service does[2]
ThreatDefence continuously monitors customer environments across cloud, network, endpoints, identity and applications. ThreatDefence analysts conduct scheduled and intelligence-led hunts to identify indicators of compromise, lateral movement, credential misuse and living-off-the-land activity. ThreatDefence customers have access to a dedicated portal with real-time dashboards, incident timelines, analyst notes, reporting and service visibility.
What Network Detection and Response does[3]
ThreatDefence offers Network Detection and Response sensors and a deception toolset to discover lateral movement. ThreatDefence network detection covers lateral movement and insider threats using session evidence and packet analysis. ThreatDefence agents connect network findings with endpoint and identity activity, helping analysts assess the scope and prepare targeted containment.
What Compromise Assessment does[8]
ThreatDefence offers a Compromise Assessment that helps reveal existing or past intrusions, identify vulnerabilities or weaknesses, and detect malicious activity, policy violations and security misconfigurations. ThreatDefence deploys sensors to collect real-time data from endpoints, cloud and network. ThreatDefence inspects an environment over an extended period of time to identify dormant malware or covert threat actors.
What Cyber Risk Management does[9]
ThreatDefence offers a Cyber Risk Management solution that assists customers in proactively identifying security gaps in their environment. ThreatDefence provides automated weekly and monthly reporting based on operational and compliance needs. ThreatDefence pinpoints vulnerable, exploitable or misconfigured systems in a customer network.
What Cyber Range does[10]
ThreatDefence offers cyber range solutions that provide simulations of cyber attacks for cyber security teams and students. ThreatDefence runs simulations on virtual replicas of critical infrastructure networks including power grids, train control systems and water treatment plants. The platform of ThreatDefence organizes trainees into groups dedicated to specific missions and objectives.

Questions about Daylight and ThreatDefence

What do Daylight and ThreatDefence sell?
Daylight sells MDR, Phishing, DLP and Security Data Lake. ThreatDefence sells SecOps Platform, SOC as a Service, SIEM, Network Detection and Response, Compromise Assessment and 2 more.
Are Daylight and ThreatDefence in the same category?
Yes. MDR and managed SOC is the primary category of both on CISO Tribune.
Who owns Daylight and ThreatDefence?
Daylight is privately held.

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
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  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

ThreatDefence full record

  1. [1]threatdefence.comThreatDefence · threatdefence.com · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]24x7 SOC as a Service | Managed SOC Monitoring and ResponseThreatDefence · undated page, accessed November 11, 2026 · Tier A
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  4. [4]24x7 Security Operations Team | ThreatDefenceThreatDefence · undated page, accessed November 11, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]AI-Enabled Security Operations Platform and 24x7 SOC | ThreatDefenceThreatDefence · undated page, accessed November 11, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]SIEM as a Service | Next Generation Cloud SIEM | ThreatDefenceThreatDefence · undated page, accessed November 11, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Industrial SecOps Platform for OT Security | ThreatDefenceThreatDefence · undated page, accessed November 11, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Cyber Security Compromise Assessment | Breach Detection & Forensics - ThreatDefenceThreatDefence · undated page, accessed November 11, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Cybersecurity Risk Management Services | Enterprise Risk Protection | ThreatDefenceThreatDefence · undated page, accessed November 11, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Cyber Security Simulation & Attack Simulation Platform | ThreatDefenceThreatDefence · undated page, accessed November 11, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Evidence-Based Security for Financial Services | ThreatDefenceThreatDefence · undated page, accessed November 11, 2026 · Tier A

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