Cyera Raises $400M to Secure AI Adoption at Scale for Every Enterprise

AI Needs a New Security Model‍

AI’s first wave proved what’s possible with public data. The next wave is about what it can achieve with proprietary data. 

2026 will be the year of Agentic AI for every enterprise. Agents are already acting in numbers humans never could, creating exponentially more data, decisions, and actions on behalf of all of us.
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The hardest part isn’t building those agents. It’s making them secure enough to run everywhere.

As we partner with the world’s largest enterprises, one thing is becoming clear: AI breaks the legacy security model. Traditional controls of network, endpoint, and vulnerability management are blind to the data AI uses. So they either starve it by blocking access or allow risk to spread unchecked.

More data makes AI impactful - but without the right controls, the attack surface explodes and risk becomes intolerable.

This puts Cyera in a unique position.

The Next Frontier: From Securing Data to Enabling AI

‍Cyera is the unifying data and access control plane for the world’s largest enterprises. 

We started with AI-native DSPM for data at rest, expanded into a complete Data Security Platform with Omni DLP for data in motion, Access, Identity, Business Data Context, Remediations, and last year, we launched AI Guardian to uncover Shadow AI and secure AI usage across enterprise chatbots, homegrown AI, and 3rd party applications.

Throughout this evolution of our platform -- from data at rest to data in use by AI, we’ve had tens of thousands of customer interactions and came to one clear conclusion: trusted data access is the foundation of AI Security.

With that insight, our goal with this funding is to extend our highly scalable data + access platform to address AI security across four key pillars:

• Safe AI for Employees: Eliminating shadow AI and insider risk while allowing employees to safely use copilots and 3rd party AI applications
• Trusted Agentic AI: AI Agent security and behavior insights, helping teams build and deploy AI agents that operate safely, with the right guardrails and clear impact
  
• AI Ecosystems & Homegrown AI Applications: Defending AI at build time by securing models, prompts, and data pipelines for custom AI apps and tools that support it
  
• Defend AI with AI: Building security agents that expand data security coverage and enable SecOps teams to automate detection, investigation, and response at AI speed

A New Era for the CISO

Spending most of my time with our customers I deeply appreciate the importance of this pivotal moment for CISOs.

For the first time, CISOs are moving beyond being guardians to becoming enablers of the most important transformation in the history of business and of all humanity. Security is not the cost center anymore. It is the accelerator – with a profound responsibility to enable securely.

I see Cyera’s primary role as empowering every security leader to lead that shift with confidence.‍

A Platform for Everyone 

While CISOs are at the center of this transformation, enabling AI safely is bigger than any single role. It spans CDOs, Privacy Teams, Compliance Leaders, Legal Partners, and Business Owners - anyone responsible for how data is used, shared, and protected.
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Cyera is building a platform for all of them.

I’m excited to partner with leaders who are stepping in bravely – and making AI safe enough for everyone to use, scale, and rely on.