SentinelOne cuts malware analysis from weeks to hours with Daybreak
SentinelOne says it uses OpenAI Daybreak to complete detailed malware reverse engineering in roughly eight hours, compared with the four to six weeks such work can require.
AT A GLANCE
Key points
- Detailed reverse engineering falls from four to six weeks to roughly eight hours
- More samples can be compared for shared components across threats
- Architecture-changing decisions remain under human oversight
What is changing?
According to OpenAI’s October 14 case study, SentinelOne uses Daybreak to reverse engineer sophisticated malware. Chief AI Officer Gregor Stewart says work that can take an expert researcher four to six weeks can be produced in roughly eight hours, with what the company describes as human-level output.
The shorter analysis cycle lets the team inspect more samples and look for shared components across apparently unrelated threats. That can reveal connections beyond isolated incidents and provide new leads for customer investigations.
SentinelOne also plans to bring this capability into software development. However, it stresses that architecture-changing decisions should remain under human oversight. Automation may assist with point fixes, but final accountability stays with the security team.
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Source date: 14 October 2026.
Published by AI Radar: 16 Oct 2026, 08:02 (Istanbul, UTC+3). Updated: 16 Oct 2026, 09:10.
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