A New Era for Data Privacy: Introducing Data Subject Request (DSR) Automation

Privacy teams are under pressure. The number of data subject requests (DSRs) continues to rise, but most organizations still rely on spreadsheets, ticketing tools, and manual fulfillment. Requests drag on for weeks. Risk piles up. And teams burn countless hours trying to find personal data buried across systems.

It doesn’t have to be this hard.

With Data Subject Request (DSR) Automation by Cyera, you can fulfill requests in minutes. No guesswork. No stitching together half-broken workflows. Just fast, complete, auditable responses that prove compliance and protect your team’s time. This is not privacy software with a workflow bolt-on. It’s deeply integrated automation that works alongside your data security program, not around it.

‍When DSRs Create Drag Instead of Trust

Every privacy leader knows the pattern. A customer asks for their data. A former employee requests to have their information deleted. Suddenly, the regulatory clock starts ticking and your team is scrambling.

Requests come in through email, webforms, or verbal channels. Identity checks are handled inconsistently. Data must be pulled manually from cloud apps, file shares, databases, and collaboration tools. No one has the full picture, and no one is confident it’s complete.

The result is a process that’s slow, fragmented, and hard to scale. Most legacy tools were not built for modern environments, especially when personal data is spread across structured and unstructured sources. That’s why the average DSR still takes more than 30 days to resolve.

Every delay increases your risk of missing regulatory deadlines or delivering incomplete responses. But more importantly, every request eats up your team’s valuable time. And as request volumes climb, so does the risk and time invested.

Cyera Automates the Entire DSR Lifecycle

Cyera now automates every step of the DSR process. Intake. Identity verification. Data discovery and retrieval. Fulfillment. Audit logging. It’s all built into a single platform with 2,400 pre-built integrations designed for speed and scale.

DSR Automation by Cyera is designed for enterprises that manage large volumes of personal data across hybrid environments, multi-cloud architectures, and a sprawling SaaS landscape.

Leveraging our AI-native data discovery and classification capabilities, every DSR is grounded in a current, precise view of where personal data lives and who it belongs to. You can resolve each request quickly, confidently, and without relying on overly manual workflows.

Supported DSR types include:

• Access and portability
• Deletion and erasure
• Correction
• Objection or restriction of processing
• Opt-out of sale or sharing

Built for Scale, Not Just Checklists

Cyera doesn’t just help you track requests. It fulfills them. End-to-end. 

You can centralize DSRs through a brandable privacy request portal. After a request is submitted, identity is verified automatically. Cyera then finds all relevant personal data across structured and unstructured sources, packages and delivers the results securely, and keeps stakeholders (even the requestor themselves) in the loop throughout. Every step is logged and fully auditable.

DSR Automation by Cyera connects to more than 2,400 SaaS platforms, databases, and internal systems. That means it can discover, classify, and take action directly within your environment, wherever your data resides. No manual handoffs. No brittle custom scripts. Just fast, reliable execution that scales with your business.

Real Customers, Real Results

DSR Automation by Cyera is already proving itself in the field.

• A global consumer tech company has fulfilled more than 450,000 DSRs with the solution, demonstrating enterprise-grade automation at scale
• A leading digital health provider cut request fulfillment time by 98%, reducing manual work from nine hours to just eight minutes
• A national retailer achieved a 10x return on investment, shrinking fulfillment time from multiple days to under 24 hours

A process that used to take weeks, can now take less than 30 minutes, with greater auditability too.

Why Privacy Leaders Are Turning to Cyera

With enforcement increasing under GDPR, CPRA, and other privacy laws, late or incomplete responses can lead to serious penalties. Cyera simplifies compliance by automating every step of the DSR lifecycle. From intake to fulfillment to audit trail, your team can respond on time and with confidence.

Manual processes don’t just slow things down. They tie up legal, privacy, IT, and security teams with repetitive tasks and leave room for human error. Cyera removes those manual touchpoints, so your team can focus on higher-value work instead of chasing data across systems.

DSR Automation by Cyera also integrates with more than 2,400 data sources and systems, so it can take action directly within your environments. 

And when it comes time for compliance readiness, every request is fully tracked. Cyera logs each action from start to finish, giving you the defensible records you need for regulators, auditors, and internal reviews. You never have to scramble for documentation again.

Ready to Accelerate Data Subject Request (DSR) Fulfillment?

Spreadsheets and ticket queues weren’t made for DSR execution. Cyera delivers automation that works at the pace and scale of your business demands.

Whether your team handles hundreds of DSRs or hundreds of thousands, Cyera gives you the intelligence, precision, and auditability to move faster, reduce risk, and stay in control.

Request a demo to see how Cyera can help your team automate compliance and fulfill every request with confidence.