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Cyera Platform

byCyera
in
4.6
2025
Market Presence: Data Security Posture Management, Data Loss Prevention

Overview

Product Information on Cyera Platform

Updated 2nd March 2026

What is Cyera Platform?

Cyera is an AI-powered data security platform that enables organizations to discover, classify, and monitor sensitive data across cloud and on-premises environments, including databases and file shares. With an agentless design that supports connector-less and lightweight connector-based deployment, the platform can be implemented in minutes to scan petabytes of data without disrupting operations. Our adaptive AI-native classification engine understands data in its full business context, delivering 95%+ precision. By unifying Data Security Posture Management and Data Loss Prevention, Cyera empowers security leaders to gain deep visibility into their data attack surface, remediate risks, and maintain regulatory compliance. With this approach, organizations can use their data confidently and prepare for new challenges, including secure adoption of AI.

Cyera Platform Pricing

Cyera Platform software typically utilizes a subscription-based pricing model, where fees are determined by factors such as data volume, deployment scale, and selected features. The software offers tiered plans catering to organizational needs, and pricing information is usually provided upon request or through direct engagement, reflecting customization based on enterprise requirements.

Overall experience with Cyera Platform

Software Developer
50M - 250M USD, Healthcare and Biotech
FAVORABLE

“High Quality Classifications, Easy Deployment, and Some Policy Labor”

4.0
Feb 24, 2026
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.
IT Security & Risk Management Associate
<50M USD, Software
CRITICAL

“Cyera Offers Useful Data Discovery But Lacks Continuous Monitoring Features”

3.0
Feb 20, 2026
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.

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2025
For Market:
Data Security Posture Management

About Company

Company Description

Updated 10th January 2024

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.

Company Details

Updated 27th February 2026
Company type
Private
Year Founded
2021
Head office location
New York City, United States
Number of employees
1001 - 5000
Website
https://www.cyera.io

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Cyera Platform Likes & Dislikes

Like

* Classification quality is above and beyond many competitors * Emerging features related to AI severity and classification improve upon standard issues in DSPM platforms * AI MCPs and ETL exports of data allow for analytical and customized workflows customized to my company

Like

We like the data discovery, labeling, and classification process, and the ability to build policies that target specific areas of concern around access to data and data handling and retention.

Like

We were able to deploy this solution at scale very quickly with a small number of team members. We deployed at the Org level with read only roles across a large number of CSP's and Accounts and had inventory scan results in a matter of days. Most of our data sources were connected within 30 days and we had enterprise visibility and classification done within a couple months of onboarding. Just incredible! And the most amazing thing now integrated with the solution is CY the AI bot that allows you to prompt your data to find an amazing amount of intel about your data and risks to prepare your enterprise for all the AI use cases you are about to roll out.

Dislike

The labor involved in forming the correct policies. The lack of proper alerting around health deployment issues.

Dislike

1. No continuous monitoring. 2. Filters and reporting are not super intuitive. 3. False-positive results from policies.

Dislike

We are waiting for our ability to fully customize our dashboard and widgets which is coming out shortly. But this is cosmetic and users have personal preferences for how they want to see the results when they login. This is coming out this quarter, so that's good.

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Cyera Platform Reviews and Ratings

4.6

(313 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
70%
4 Star
27%
3 Star
4%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.7

Integration & Deployment

4.6

Service & Support

4.8

Product Capabilities

4.6

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  • Software Developer
    50M-1B USD
    Healthcare and Biotech
    Review Source

    High Quality Classifications, Easy Deployment, and Some Policy Labor

    4.0
    Feb 24, 2026
    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.
  • Chief Information Security Officer
    10B+ USD
    Media
    Review Source

    The Next Gen DSPM that will allow you full visibility and classification to Start your AI Journey securely

    5.0
    Feb 20, 2026
    World class solution from a world class team of data and cybersecurity leaders in the DSPM space. They have whitegloved our relationship with them from day 1. From the POC to purchase to enterprise deployment they have met with us weekly and given us daily Slack support to become successful in achieving our goals related to Data Security. They are always available to help and we continue to drive into additional SAAS and on premise environments as they are supported each quarter.
  • Senior Director - Security, Governance,r
    50M-1B USD
    Services (non-Government)
    Review Source

    Getting Insights into Your Cloud-Hosted Data with Cyera

    5.0
    Feb 19, 2026
    I had an exceptional overall experience. The contracting process was smooth from start to finish, and the vendor was professional in all their communication and worked to answer any questions we had throughout the contracting process. Once the contract was executed, they worked with us to get the product enabled and onboarded, and they worked with us during the initial onboarding. We continue to collaborate regularly today. They also implemented some additional data classification detections based on the data they analyzed as part of our onboarding.
  • IT Security & Risk Management Associate
    1B-10B USD
    Software
    Review Source

    Integration With Data Security Policies Enhances Consistency Across DLP Products

    4.0
    Feb 20, 2026
    Overall our experience with Cyera has been pleasent. We are still in the early stages of on-boarding them into our environment, but so far it has been going well.
  • VP, ENTERPRISE INFRASTRUCTURE & CISO
    50M-1B USD
    Finance (non-banking)
    Review Source

    Improved Data Visibility and Governance Achieved Despite Rising Data Issue Volume

    5.0
    Feb 13, 2026
    The solution has worked very well for us and provides an exceptional amount of visibility into where sensitive and confidential data resides, who has access to it, and how it should be classified based on our internal policies.
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