Name: Sentra
Rating: 4.9 (121 reviews)

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Updated 13th October 2025

What is Sentra?

Sentra is a software designed to provide comprehensive data security and governance solutions for organizations managing cloud environments. The software enables users to discover, classify, and monitor sensitive data across multiple cloud platforms, helping ensure compliance with regulatory standards. Sentra offers features such as continuous data visibility, automated risk assessment, and policy enforcement to identify potential vulnerabilities and prevent unauthorized access. By integrating with existing cloud infrastructure, the software facilitates the management of data permissions and mitigates risks related to data exposure, supporting organizations in securing data assets and maintaining data privacy.

Overall experience with Sentra

IT Security & Risk Management Associate

10B - 30B USD, Travel and Hospitality

FAVORABLE

“Improving Security Posture with Effective Visibility Into the Data Landscape”

5.0

Nov 17, 2025

Sentra has been the most effective data protection platform we evaluated and eventually adopted.

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CRITICAL

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Data Security Posture Management

About Company

Company Description

Sentra is a company focused on providing data security for the cloud. It addresses the serious issue of sensitve data breaches in the public cloud stack. Sentra offers an automated data discovery, classification, monitoring, and protection service for organizations that prioritize the cloud. The main function of the system is to identify all sensitive data, determine who has access to it, how it is used, and the security level of the data. As data often changes and moves within the public cloud, it may not consistently retain its original security level. Sentra addresses this by detecting such transformations and instigating remediation processes. This reduces the risk associated with critical data, enabling businesses to utilize the scalability and acceleration of the cloud to promote business expansion, but ensuring their sensitive data remains secure.

Company Details

Company type

Private

Year Founded

2021

Head office location

Tel Aviv, Israel

Number of employees

51 - 200

Website

https://sentra.io

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It delivers comprehensive visibility into our vast data landscape and consistently provides the key insights and findings we expect from a modern data protection tool. Overall, it has significantly strengthened our data security posture.

Classification accuracy at scale. The precision that makes every downstream AI and security control actually trustworthy.

Customizable taxonomy that matches our regulatory language. Compliance that actually holds up when regulators look closely

Audit logging for user actions, custom roles, and API documentation were the main issues we faced, which were eventually resolved as we onboarded the product completely.

More built-in analytics on classification drift over the time would be helpful. Tracking that manually right now.

Custom classifier training took longer than expected. Results justified it but plan the timeline carefully

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Market Guide for Data Security Posture Management

10B+ USD

Travel and Hospitality

Review Source

Improving Security Posture with Effective Visibility Into the Data Landscape

Marketing Associate

50M-1B USD

Consumer Goods

Classification Accuracy Maintains Integrity at Petabyte Scale for AI Governance

May 3, 2026

Scanned close to 2 PB in the POC. I honestly expected the accuracy to degrade at that volume, it usually does. Well it didn't. We had an independent 3rd party validate the classification results and they came back above 97. Here's why that number matters specifically for AI governance and AI guardrails. All of it inherits the quality of classification layer. Below a certain accuracy threshold, none of those controls are reliable enough to trust. Above it, they all work. Sentra clears that bar at petabyte scale, which is genuinely unusual.

Chief Engineering Officer

<50M USD

Software

Longer Classifier Training Time Balanced By Enhanced Regulatory Alignment and Accuracy

Insurance data classification isn't generic, most tools apply off the shelf PII and financial labels and call it compliance. Our regulators expect more specificity than that. Sentra's customizable framework lets us define sensitivity in terms our regulators recognize. Staying compliant in this industry requires that precision and honesty that most vendors don't have.

MANAGER, IT SECURITY AND RISK MANAGEMENT

Retail

A highly effective DSPM platform with excellent data discovery, automation & reporting

Sentra has proven to be a strong DSPM solution offering clear visibility into our cloud environment. Its Data discovery, classification accuracy & contextual risk insights have been valuable in strengthening our compliance & reducing exposure from misconfigured or legacy data stores.

Software Developer

IT Services

Sentra Aids Copilot Security and Reveals Unexpected Volumes of Shadow Data

Nov 6, 2025

We tried 3 other vendors before Sentra. None of them could reliably identify protected health info (PHI) in our SharePoint archives. Sentra nailed it, and not our HITECH audit are a breeze.