A service with three staffing options

Daylight has raised $80 million in a Series B led by the growth equity business of Goldman Sachs Alternatives. Okta Ventures joined as a new investor, and the November 10 announcement put total funding at $120 million. What the investors are financing is partly a labor business. Daylight offers to run a security operation, share that work with a customer’s existing staff or assign engineers to work alongside them. In each arrangement, engineers adapt software agents to the customer’s environment.

Who reads the findings

Independent research helps explain the appeal. ISC2 asked 856 cybersecurity professionals who already used AI how their work had changed. Sixty-three percent said they spent more time validating AI output than a year earlier. Yet respondents were almost evenly divided on whether hands-on work had increased, decreased or stayed the same. Faster production of findings can leave an analyst with more material to review. The May survey covered practitioners generally and did not evaluate Daylight.

The cost that moves between teams

For a professional services firm comparing bids, two contracts for the same automation platform can represent quite different commitments of staff time. An investigation that ends in a disputed alert still needs someone who knows the client’s systems and can decide whether to act. In a co-managed arrangement that person could be on the buyer’s payroll. The financing announcement gives prospective buyers a description of the staffing options. Its response-speed claims come from the participants in the deal.

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