Cyera Review 2026

AI-native data security platform that discovers, classifies, and protects sensitive data across cloud, SaaS, on-premises, and AI environments. Uses machine learning and large language models to automatically categorize data across 200+ built-in categories including PII, PHI, PCI, intellectual property, and secrets with high accuracy and low false-positive rates.

Cyera is an AI-native data security platform built to give large enterprises continuous visibility and control over sensitive data wherever it lives — across public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI), SaaS applications, on-premises file shares and databases, data lakes and warehouses (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift), and emerging AI environments such as model training datasets and vector stores. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in New York, Cyera has rapidly become one of the most prominent vendors in the Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) and Data Access Governance (DAG) categories, achieving unicorn status and surpassing a $4 billion valuation by 2025.

The platform's core differentiator is its agentless, ML- and LLM-powered classification engine. Rather than relying on brittle regex patterns and keyword dictionaries, Cyera applies large language models and contextual machine learning to understand what data actually represents in business terms — distinguishing, for example, a customer SSN from a test value, or a clinical PHI record from a marketing email. It ships with 200+ built-in classifiers covering PII, PHI, PCI-DSS, financial records, intellectual property, secrets, and country-specific identifiers, and allows security teams to build custom classifiers without writing code.