Spotlight blog: Cyera

Cyera shares how it's building the trust layer for the agentic enterprise

Company overview

Cyera is building the trust layer powering enterprise AI transformation. Enterprises like Paramount, Chipotle and Valvoline use Cyera to control exactly what data their AI can reach, and govern what happens next. The platform secures data at rest, in motion and in use, whether touched by humans or AI agents.

Valued at over $12bn, Cyera is backed by leading investors including Accel, Blackstone, Cyberstarts, Georgian, Lightspeed and Sequoia. Cyera raised a $600m Series G led by Evolution Equity Partners, followed by a $400m extension led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, with growth in EMEA as a priority.

Solutions and services

What can these tools and agents see, and what can they do with it? Cyera answers that with one platform to secure AI, from data to identity to action, built around four core products.

  1. Agent Guardian, launched at Black Hat in August, finds every AI agent, including shadow agents, and controls what each one can see and do.
  2. Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) finds and classifies sensitive data and shows who can access it.
  3. Omni DLP is Cyera’s AI-powered data loss prevention, cutting the false positives that make data loss prevention so hard to run.
  4. Cyera Identity, built on Cyera’s acquisition of Oasis Security, governs non-human identities such as workloads and AI agents.

Customer success story

For one UK fintech, trust is the business model. It uses data and algorithms to decide who to lend to and how much, which means holding some of the most sensitive information customers ever share, across AWS, Snowflake, documents and spreadsheets.

Its first full Cyera scan found around 170 million potential sensitive data instances. That's now down to 500,000, a 99.9 per cent reduction. Bulk remediation and a Slack integration let the team fix issues at scale, saving "many, many hours and days of engineering resource". The lender's focus has now moved to AI readiness.

Industry expertise and innovation

AI didn't create the data exposure problem, but it’s made it urgent. Traditional controls assumed a person was making each decision. AI agents act continuously and at machine speed, so trust has to be verified before every action, not granted once.

That’s why Cyera brought together data and identity through its recent acquisition of Oasis Security, the leaders in non-human identity management. You can’t secure what AI touches without understanding both what the data is and who (or what) is accessing it. Non-human identities, from service accounts and API keys to AI agents, now operate inside every enterprise at a far greater scale.

An IDC Business Value study commissioned by Cyera found customers saw a 441 per cent return on investment over three years, payback within 4.5 months and a 48 per cent reduction in over-permissioned access to sensitive data.

Future vision

Cyera has seen non-human identities in Fortune 500 companies grow by nearly 500 per cent in six months, and each one is a potential route to sensitive data. The organisations that scale AI safely will be the ones that can say what every agent can see and do. That's the trust layer Cyera is building.

"Every AI conversation a customer has ends up coming back to data and identity. What have we got, where is it, and who’s accessing it? Partners who can answer that quickly are the ones customers keep calling," says Charlotte Shone, director, Northern Europe Channel & Alliances at Cyera.

"In EMEA we're partner-first. Our job is to make that easy for them, with a platform that's up and running in under a day and a team that builds the go-to-market with partners, not around them."

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