Cyera Can Help Federal Agencies Safely Adopt Agentic After Clearing FedRAMP's Highest Bar in 5 Months

Federal agencies working with the government's most sensitive data and most sophisticated AI technologies now have access to the leading trust platform to secure data, identities, and AI as Cyera is Certified at FedRAMP Class D, formerly FedRAMP High. Today, Cyera is Certified at FedRAMP Class D, formerly FedRAMP High.

Class D is what the market has known for a decade as FedRAMP High, the highest bar of the FedRAMP program, renamed this year under FedRAMP's Consolidated Rules for 2026. 

Expect nothing less than the highest standard

When organizations trust a platform to secure their data, identities, and AI, that trust has to be earned under real scrutiny. FedRAMP Class D gave us one of the toughest tests in the industry to prove it. 

Cyera provides the trust layer, federal agencies working with the country's most sensitive data need. These agencies face mandates to adopt AI quickly and securely. Delivering on those goals requires understanding the data AI tools are built on. 

Cyera finds and classifies every data asset, looking at the full context to understand its true sensitivity. It provides the same continuous visibility into human and non-human identities to provide another layer of protection. Agent security builds on those foundations to see every agent and what it can reach, set guardrails, and block unapproved actions in real time.

Earning this certification usually takes 12 to 18 months from agency sponsorship to authorization. Even before having a sponsor, we began our preparation. We built the environment, the documentation, and the control implementation for Class D before we had a sponsorship commitment in hand. That’s because we recognize the need to move quickly right now. OpenAI made this clear in their collective call for action on cyber defense: “We have a limited window to strengthen cyber defenses. In the coming months, AI-enabled cyber attacks will become far more widespread and sophisticated as models around the world become increasingly capable.”

The FedRAMP Marketplace tracked us as "In Process" starting April 1. On [DATE], that became Certified. Less than five months, start to finish, which is roughly three times faster than industry norm.

This investment in our cyber defenses is a commitment to not only the federal space but to our existing customers. The work we put in to get here, built on NIST SP 800-53 Revision 5, doesn’t stay inside a government-only box. The same rigor that got us to Class D has already made the platform every other Cyera customer runs on stronger.

“FedRAMP Class D sets a high bar. Meeting it required us to prove how we secure the platform, how we operate it, and how we respond under scrutiny. That work makes Cyera stronger for every customer, not just the federal government.”
- Lamont Orange, Chief Trust Officer, Cyera

What this actually gets you

Cyera for Government is the same platform we built for the commercial market: know your data, then control what identities and AI agents can do with it. The difference is it now runs inside a FedRAMP boundary. 

Data security comes first. Cyera finds and classifies data assets an agency owns, with the sensitivity and mission context attached. Our DSPM and DLP work together from there: classification drives policy, and what we observe moving feeds back into sharper classification.

Identity security extends that visibility to every human, machine, and service account accessing sensitive data, with continuous intelligence across identities, permissions, and data, and automated rotation and decommissioning to eliminate stale access before it becomes a risk or an audit finding.

Agent security is where this matters most for where the federal market is headed. As agencies bring AI agents into casework and records processing, the question stops being who can see this data and becomes can this agent take this action, on this data, right now. Cyera's Continuous Trust Decision Engine answers that in real time, and logs it for the audit trail an inspector general is eventually going to ask for.

For a federal CISO, that helps turn OMB mandates and executive orders from a scramble into a standing answer. The evidence is already assembled before the audit request lands.

This is just the beginning

Class D is a big step in what is a never-ending initiative. This gives us a strong foundation for addressing diverse international and industry-specific security requirements, and we plan to bring that same level of investment and willingness to every standard.

Same trust model, data trust, identity trust, and agent trust, that got us through one of the toughest security reviews in the industry. This is just the start, and we intend to keep investing at this pace.

See the listing on the FedRAMP Marketplace, or reach out and see a demo for what data and AI security looks like for your agency.