Intuitive Interface, Minor Scanning Glitches
What do you like best about the product?
I like how easy Cyera is to use. The user interface is very friendly and intuitive, so I don't have to search a lot to find the tools I need. It's particularly useful for seeing which users have the most sensitive data not stored properly. The ease of use was a major reason for switching from Varonis.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike that sometimes Cyera's scanning for databases gets stuck, and you need to contact the Cyera team to restart it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Cyera to check the data at rest users store and see if sensitive data is not secured properly. It's intuitive and user-friendly, so I don't have to search much to find tools I need.
Cyera Delivers Strong Data Security Insights Across Process, Tech, and People
What do you like best about the product?
Cyera is providing a lot of good information for organization to improve its data security, in terms of process, technology and also people.
What do you dislike about the product?
Cyera’s UI could be improved to enhance the overall user experience. More self-serve report generation would always be welcome, rather than having to rely on the Cyera team. The ability to customize issue statuses would also be a great option, instead of being limited to the standard Open, Closed, or In Progress. Last but not least, additional automation workflows would always be helpful.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps organizations manage storage locations—both cloud and on-prem—that contain sensitive information and may pose a risk of leakage or lead to non-compliance. Cyera report can help organizations to review its current practices, operation procedures, policies, and employee trainings for further data security adherence and improvement.
Love It Overall
What do you like best about the product?
What I like most of Cyera is the strong visibility it provides into sensitive data and do the classification. It helps us prioritize data risk, issues and take action appropriately.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some challenges include initial setup complexity specially in a hybrid environment with limitations access the on-prem systems. Reporting and customization could be improved.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Cyera DSPM helps us solve the challenge of understanding where our sensitive data resides and how it's being accessed across our cloud platform. It gives us clear visibility into data risks and misconfigurations that were previously hard to track.
Accurate DLP Identification, Needs Better Reporting
What do you like best about the product?
I like Cyera's accuracy with identifying the types of DLP stored, and I appreciate its wide reach in scanning.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't like that its report generation function is limited to specific data sets and could be expanded upon for more flexibility.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Cyera for identifying exposed DLP in our environment and addressing the storage of DLP in non-approved locations.
Cyera’s High Accuracy Makes Data Security Feel Effortless
What do you like best about the product?
High-Accuracy Data Discovery: The most common praise for Cyera is its ability to uncover “shadow data”—sensitive information (PII, PCI, secrets, etc.) that has drifted into unmanaged buckets or ended up in forgotten databases. In contrast, legacy tools (such as traditional DLPs) often depend on rigid regex patterns that can generate a large number of false positives. Cyera’s AI-native classification, by comparison, is described as significantly more accurate.
What do you dislike about the product?
Over-reliance on AI accuracy is a concern for me. No AI is perfect, and even though Cyera claims high accuracy, it can still produce false positives and false negatives.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Fast Time-to-Value: Because it’s agentless, you can see the “risk score” within 24 hours of connecting your AWS/Azure/GCP accounts.
Identity Context: It doesn’t just say, “here is a file”; it adds the missing context, like “here is a file that John from Marketing can access even though he shouldn’t.”
Operational Efficiency: It cuts down the “noise” for the SOC team by prioritising the risks that actually matter.
AI-Driven Data Security, Limited Customization
What do you like best about the product?
I like Cyera's AI-powered features that help predict data risks. This is really useful because proactive actions are crucial in data security to prevent issues before they occur. Setting up Cyera was relatively easy, making the transition smooth for us.
What do you dislike about the product?
The customization freedom of Cyera is relatively limited. It would be great to allow customers to further customize the Cyera solutions to meet different purposes.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Cyera to secure data across environments and predict data risks using AI, allowing proactive actions in data security.
Rapidly Surfaces New Issues with Clear Remediation Steps
What do you like best about the product?
The speed in which it can surface new issues and return remediation steps.
What do you dislike about the product?
The some times chaotic nature that bulk issues are identified and raised for remediation can be at time a challenge to tackle.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The speed in which issues are identified, returned to in a way that can be worked through and the remediation steps required to complete each of those issues raised.
Cyera Delivers Clear DSPM Visibility and Actionable Executive Insights
What do you like best about the product?
Cyera provides strong DSPM capabilities that have given our organization clear visibility into sensitive data across cloud environments. For a mid-sized biotech company, the platform delivers immediate value by improving understanding of the data landscape and enabling more informed, timely decisions as the business scales. Deployment was straightforward, the interface is intuitive, and the insights are actionable at an executive level. Overall, Cyera has met our expectations and become an important part of our data management strategy.
What do you dislike about the product?
While the UI is intuitive, fully leveraging all of the insights takes time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Cyera solves the problem of having limited visibility into where sensitive data exists, giving leadership a clear, straightforward view of their data as the company grows.
Fast Setup, Efficient Security Solution
What do you like best about the product?
I like that the installation of Cyera was very fast. The proof of concept we started was completed in just a few days, and we were able to see the data within three days and start working on it. Within one week, we were fully deployed and could access the information we wanted, allowing us to start resolving issues promptly.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think the hardest thing to understand is how to improve the system after the first integration and the creation of the rules. It's hard to understand the process of how to improve the system. First, we got an overwhelming amount of issues, and the start of the process of resolving those was very tedious and long.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Cyera makes it easier to locate information, permissions, and errors, helping manage security and compliance, including EU regulations. It's our main DLP system.
Data discovery has accelerated and now drives faster classification and compliance mapping
What is our primary use case?
My main use case for Cyera includes data visibility, data tagging, data classification, AI assessments, and policy governance, risk, and compliance policy.
For data classification, I import structured and unstructured data into the platform, let it run through its discovery, and then identify classification with auto-labeling, ML classifiers, as well as manual tagging that I do to identify what data is in there. The platform also runs through compliance checks automatically.
I use Cyera as an assessment tool but also resell the product.
What is most valuable?
The best features Cyera offers include agentless discovery and sampling as well as AI ML-based classifications.
I find myself relying on the sampling the most, which makes everything really fast, but also the auto-classification and ML-based functionalities. The main thing that stands out to me and my team about the features is the speed of integration and how fast it does the discovery on the data. Once it discovers the data, it also maps it back to a ton of compliance frameworks and best practices that I can use to operationalize.
Cyera has positively impacted my organization by allowing me to identify the highest risk areas but also provide better classification of data, which then leads to better data pillar maturity.
Cyera has accomplished all three outcomes: saving time, reducing risk, and improving compliance scores, as the speed at which it discovers data was significantly faster.
What needs improvement?
I think the area for improvement in Cyera is probably around integration, particularly with other platforms and third-party tools. For example, I see some integration areas with leading DLP solutions or even firewall solutions.
Cyera does a pretty good job of integrating with Microsoft MIP.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Cyera for about a year and a half.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Cyera is pretty stable, and they have been very fast with newer feature adoptions.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability is quite good since Cyera scales pretty well because it is built in the cloud.
How are customer service and support?
The customer support from Cyera is pretty good; they have been very responsive to tickets.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Previously, I used Varonis and Symantec, but they just were not accurate and they took forever. They always could not get the last fifteen to twenty percent of classification, which required a lot of manual work. Cyera has automated that process.
What was our ROI?
I have seen a return on investment with Cyera, as it has vastly improved the way I do data classification as well as identifying risks in my data.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Cyera was that the licensing initially was tricky because it is based on storage as well as user count. I use Cyera to actually identify how much storage I had.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Before choosing Cyera, I did evaluate other options, including re-evaluating Varonis for their cloud and looking at Forcepoint, Symantec, McAfee, and a few other DLPs, as well as Microsoft.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate the customer support a seven on a scale of one to ten.
My advice to others looking into using Cyera is to try it out first.
I think Cyera has a great management team and a really innovative product.
I rate this review nine out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
