Cyera Access Trail: Track Every Human and AI Interaction with Your Data

Every security leader knows the drill. An insider risk investigation begins or an audit kicks off, but the same questions echo: who touched the sensitive data, what did they do, when, and most importantly, are we sure? The answers should be simple, but they never are. Incorrect and slow data classification have left teams less confident, not more secure. And now, AI tools and agents only add to the challenge.  

Without complete visibility into access activity and the sensitivity of the data behind it, least privilege policies fail, insider threats are missed, and audits remain manual marathons. 

Know Who Accessed Data. Stop Who Shouldn’t. 

Cyera Access Trail solves this by correlating data and identity context with access activity. This creates an auditable activity trail in an easy-to-investigate view. And because it’s based on Cyera’s AI-native classification, you know the activity isn’t rife with false positives. You see exactly what action a user took on sensitive data, from where, and when. This gives enterprises the visibility and confidence they’ve been chasing for years.

Access Trail is designed to handle the activity scale and complexity of an enterprise workforce without adding operational overhead. The platform can process tens of millions of events per day and stores records for a year by default.

Access Activity Backed by AI-Native Data Classification 

Because Access Trail is built on our AI-native data classification engine, it provides the breadth and precision legacy tools lack, while remaining lightweight and easy to deploy. The solution monitors activity by both human and AI identities, enriching each event with contextual insights such as data identifiability, residency, subject role, relevant regulations, and protection measures. This context helps teams identify improper access, assess business and compliance impact, and prioritize remediation instead of combing through incomplete or irrelevant logs.

With Access Trail, you can monitor:

• Which identities or entities interacted with sensitive data
• What actions they performed
• Which data was involved
• When those actions occurred, down to the second

The result is continuous visibility that assists with both data security posture, identifying suspicious behavior, risk response, and compliance.

Accelerate Risk Response

Speed matters when sensitive data is at risk. Access Trail gives your security and insider risk teams the clarity to understand who acted, what they did, and why it matters in seconds, not hours.

• Investigate insider activity instantly: Reveal intent and context behind user actions with precise, time-stamped access records that connect data, identity, and activity.
• Monitor AI-driven access: Track how AI tools and agents interact with data to investigate misuse, prevent shadow AI, and maintain control over sensitive information.

Strengthen Your Data Security Posture

Access Trail helps you see what already happened and learn from it, so you can prevent it from happening again. With these insights, you can strengthen defenses, close security gaps, and build a more resilient data security posture over time.

• Clarify data ownership: Confirm accountable data owners to strengthen governance, improve data quality and security, and eliminate orphaned or unmanaged datasets.
• Enforce least privilege: Continuously align access permissions with actual usage to prevent privilege drift and reduce risk.
• Minimize your data footprint: Find and remove untouched and unnecessary data to limit exposure, cut storage costs, and simplify governance.

Simplify and Sustain Compliance

Compliance should validate your control, not slow down your business. Access Trail centralizes and automates evidence collection so your teams can demonstrate compliance quickly and stay ready at all times.

• Generate compliance records in seconds: Capture who accessed sensitive data, what was done, and when, all from a single auditable source.
• Stay continuously audit-ready: Maintain near real-time visibility into access activity and data sensitivity so you can demonstrate compliance anytime, without manual preparation.

The Future of Access Intelligence

Data access today is complex. As users, services, and AI agents interact with sensitive data, organizations must know not just who could engage with the data, but who actually did, what they did and why it matters. Access Trail provides that clarity.

Ready to see Access Trail in action? Request a demo if you haven’t explored the Cyera platform. For existing customers, reach out to your Cyera representative to learn more.

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