Name: Sentra
Rating: 4.9 (122 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.

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Data and Analytics Manager

250M - 500M USD, Software

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“Guardrails Established Only After Realizing Unknowns in GenAI System Access”

5.0

May 12, 2026

We were moving pretty fast with GenAI internally, maybe too fast if I'm honest. Agents plugged into knowledge bases, Copiloy across M365, a couple of Bedrock experiments. Someone eventually asked wether we actually knew what those systems could see. We didn't, not really.. Sentra snwered that and helped us set guardrails we should have had from the start. Better late than never, I suppose.

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Data Security Posture Management

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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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Sentra Likes & Dislikes

Visibility into AI systems can actually access. The question nobody asked until it almost mattered.

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

Some AI asset connections took more config that expected. Nothing unsurmountable.

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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4.9

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4 Star: 7%
3 Star: 0%
2 Star: 0%
1 Star: 0%

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.8

Integration & Deployment

4.7

Service & Support

4.9

Product Capabilities

4.7

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Data and Analytics Manager
50M-1B USD
Software
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Guardrails Established Only After Realizing Unknowns in GenAI System Access
5.0
May 12, 2026
We were moving pretty fast with GenAI internally, maybe too fast if I'm honest. Agents plugged into knowledge bases, Copiloy across M365, a couple of Bedrock experiments. Someone eventually asked wether we actually knew what those systems could see. We didn't, not really.. Sentra snwered that and helped us set guardrails we should have had from the start. Better late than never, I suppose.
Marketing Associate
50M-1B USD
Consumer Goods
Review Source
Classification Accuracy Maintains Integrity at Petabyte Scale for AI Governance
5.0
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
Review Source
Longer Classifier Training Time Balanced By Enhanced Regulatory Alignment and Accuracy
5.0
May 3, 2026
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.
Engineering Manager
1B-10B USD
IT Services
Review Source
Varied Experiences Shared Regarding This Product’s Performance and Usability
5.0
Apr 28, 2026
ive had basically the same conversation with about a dozen DISOs in the past year. They all have AI programs running and those 2 programs are mostly operating separately as if the decisions made in one dont directly determine the risk profile of the other. Thats backwards.
IT Security & Risk Management Associate
10B+ USD
Travel and Hospitality
Review Source
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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