Cyera Reviews, Ratings & Features 2026 | Gartner Peer Insights

Data security posture management (DSPM) discovers previously unknown data across on-premises data centers and cloud service providers (CSPs). It also helps categorize and classify previously unknown and discovered unstructured and structured data. As data rapidly proliferates, DSPM assesses who has access to it to determine its security posture and exposure to privacy, security and AI-usage-related risks. DSPM is delivered as software or as a service.

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Software Developer

The Cyera Classification Engine offers a greater degree of quality than other competitors in the field. They don't rely on pure regex, nor do they try and manually enumerate the entire corpus of data elements that exist in the entire world (two fundamentally flawed approaches in other systems). Their ability to detect and classify business context (aka not just "name", but "customer name") and their ability to automatically detect and create new data element types opens up new avenues for compliance and governance workflows. Furthermore, they can handle the large datasets I handle across multiple data storage locations. Their agent-less deployment has made it easy to cover my entire stack quickly.

I have found their policy engine to be a little brittle in comparison to the high quality classification engine, and forming the right policies to align them with my company goals is a manual labor process that will hopefully soon be automated.

I have also had some issues with aligning on the complete size of my data before contracting, since they contract around raw data size. 

But their emerging AI functionality and the ability to have high level introspection into my entire data stack are quite valuable, and I look forward to keeping my partnership with Cyera going strong.

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IT Security & Risk Management Associate

Cyera is a good DPMS tool, but it has a lot of room for improvement. Support is decent, and the product does provide value, but make sure you have all of your use cases created when determining if this is the right product for your DPMS and data governance needs.

It Security & Risk Management Associate

Small company that is highly driven with product success and ensuring the product is properly tailored to, if not the company, then the general industry as an overall.  

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Cyera is the data security company that gives businesses deep context on their data, applying correct, continuous controls to assure cyber-resilience and compliance. Cyera takes a data-centric approach to security across your data landscape, empowering security teams to know where their data is, what exposes it to risk, and take immediate action to remediate exposures. 

Cyera overcomes the key challenges security teams face when securing their data. Security teams struggle to understand where they manage their data, what their data represents, and how to remediate exposures to security, privacy, and regulatory requirements. Cyera is the data security platform purpose-built to improve your cyber-resilience, assure compliance, and optimize costs for the cloud era.


Know your data. Keep it secure.

Awards and accolades:
2023 Data Security Platform of the Year - Data Breakthrough Awards
2023 Cloud Data Security Product of the year - Cloud Computing Magazine
2022 Best Data Security Solution - CISO Choice Awards

Cyera at a glance:
Cyera is the data security company that gives businesses context and control over their most valuable asset: data.

As a pioneer in Data Security Posture Management, Cyera instantly provides companies visibility over all of their sensitive data, context over the risk it represents & their security exposure, and automated remediation to reduce the attack surface and ensure operational resilience. We are redefining the way companies secure their data.

How Cyera is different:
Cyera takes a data-centric approach to security, assessing the exposure to your sensitive data, everywhere. Our DataGraph automatically and continuously learns from your environment, assessing your threat surface, data access, and security controls across multiple dimensions of risk. 
Because Cyera applies deep data context holistically across your data landscape, we are the only solution that can empower security teams to know where their data is, what exposes it to risk, and take immediate action to remediate exposures and assure compliance without disrupting the business. 

Why your business needs Cyera:
Mass migration to multi-cloud and work from anywhere has broken traditional security. It has never been easier for siloed projects, rapid dev cycles, or human error to result in a data breach or ransomware attack. Cyera dynamically develops deep context about the sensitive data across your hybrid cloud landscape, assessing your threat surface, data access, and security controls and quickly remediating exposures to your most valuable & vulnerable data.

Case Studies:
Healthcare - https://www.cyera.io/use-case/healthcare
Finance - https://www.cyera.io/use-case/finance
Tech - https://www.cyera.io/use-case/technology

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Favorable Review

Responsive Team Implements Features Quickly Amid Product Growth and Evolving Needs

Critical Review

Cyera Offers Useful Data Discovery But Lacks Continuous Monitoring Features

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