Critical infrastructure is under attack. We built the defense.
The power grid, water systems, and public services your community depends on are being actively targeted by nation-state actors and ransomware groups. This is not a future threat. It is happening now. Spotlight exists because the current state of critical infrastructure protection is dangerously inadequate — and we built the fix.
The tools meant to protect us were never built for this fight.
Legacy systems built for a different era
Most critical infrastructure security tools were designed for IT and retrofitted — poorly — for OT. They alert. They don't fix. Every remediation requires an expensive professional services engagement, and your OT environment stays largely blind.
Cyber insurance premiums are skyrocketing
Premiums for critical infrastructure operators have surged. Insurers now demand evidence of active monitoring and documented remediation. Most organizations can't provide it.
One person defending critical systems
At many utilities and municipalities, a single IT generalist secures systems that protect entire communities — without the staffing, budget, or specialized tools to do it. Enterprise platforms were never priced for them. Spotlight is.
The gap between detection and remediation is where catastrophe lives.
When an attacker moves in minutes and a fix takes days, that window is where damage happens. Colonial Pipeline. Oldsmar water treatment. Rural electric cooperatives. These weren't failures of awareness — they were failures of capability. The market responded with tools that cost more, require more expertise, and still only detect.
Research-backed. Offensively informed. Built to defend.
Spotlight wasn't built by an AI startup that pivoted into cybersecurity. We were built from the ground up by a team with deep roots in national security research, offensive AI development, and applied machine learning — specifically to solve this problem.
Our work has been informed by the NSA, NIST, and the White House Office of the National Cyber Director. Our models are validated against containerised attack scenarios with scored checkpoints — a reproducible benchmark, so a change in what we detect can be measured rather than asserted.
The result is a platform that doesn't just report problems — it fixes them. On the device, with your approval. Without a mandatory deployment engagement, and without the days-long gap that turns incidents into catastrophes.
NSA · NIST · White House ONCD
Our founding team has a track record of providing research and advisory work at the highest levels of US national cybersecurity — the same agencies defining the standards we build to.
Frontier AI Research
We have built LLM benchmarking and evaluation tools used by frontier AI labs and government AI-safety institutes. We don't integrate off-the-shelf models — we build purpose-specific ones.
MassChallenge · Deutsche Telekom T-Challenge
Spotlight has been selected for and participated in one of the most prestigious accelerators in the world for security solutions. The Spotlight team was also selected as one of 12 finalists (out of 500+ startups and university labs) to participate in Deutsche Telekom's and T-Mobile's annual T-Challenge in Bonn, Germany.
Three principles that shape everything we build.
Offense informs defense.
The best defenders think like attackers. Our detection and remediation logic is scored against containerised attack scenarios with rubric-graded checkpoints, not theoretical models. You can't patch what you haven't tried to break.
Detection without remediation is theater.
An alert that requires a 48-hour deployment engagement isn't protection — it's documentation of failure. Detection and remediation must be inseparable, automated, and instant.
Access is a matter of public safety.
Enterprise security has always been priced for enterprise budgets — leaving co-ops, water districts, and municipal IT teams to make do with inadequate tools. Protection from catastrophic cyberattack should not be a luxury. Spotlight was priced accordingly.
To protect the systems the world runs on —
and empower the people who share our vision.
IT-grade security, OT-grade manners.