Built for This Moment: Why Cyera Is the Security Company Defining the AI Era

I’ve been in cybersecurity my entire adult life. Since I was 17 and serving in the U.S. Army, security has been my calling. I started by protecting national defense systems, later served as a CISO for global enterprises, and went on to advise and invest in some of the most impactful security companies of the last two decades.

I’ve seen innovation reshape this industry time and time again. But what’s happening right now at Cyera is unlike anything I’ve ever witnessed before.

A Once-in-a-Generation Company

Today, we announced that Cyera is one of the ten fastest-growing companies in the history of the world. Out of 360 million companies ever created, that’s no small statement. Growth like this doesn’t just happen. It happens when you’re solving a problem that’s urgent, global, and impossible to ignore.

The rise of Agentic AI, intelligent agents capable of independent action, is transforming everything. The companies driving this revolution, from Cursor to Lovable, have become some of the fastest-growing in history.

And in security, that company is Cyera.

The Greatness and Challenge of AI

AI’s greatness is undeniable. It’s an encyclopedic mind powering everything from vibe coding tools that help kids build applications in minutes, to autonomous vehicles carrying our friends down the street (Yes, I have ridden in a Waymo car, and it was surreal).

But AI has also made the data problem exponentially larger, and for many organizations, harder to see. With the arrival of Agentic AI, data, access, and behavior have become the cornerstones of risk management for every company on the planet.

AI is also incredibly gullible. Its intent is to help, but its strength—and its weakness—comes from the data it consumes. And data remains the most fragmented and misunderstood area in all of cybersecurity. Yikes, right? When you combine that with AI, it becomes the fastest-growing risk vector in the enterprise.

Organizations everywhere are asking fundamental questions they’ve never been able to fully answer:

• Where and what is our data?
  
  
• Who has accessed it, and who shouldn’t have?
  
  
• How is that data being used, and where is it flowing?
  
  
• What protections are in place?
  
  
• What’s our current level of risk right now?
  
  

At Cyera, we’re helping organizations answer those questions for the first time.

Built for This Moment

This is why we built Cyera. Securing AI requires a new kind of architecture and a new way to think about data, access, and behavior.

Cyera is the first company to unify DSPM, DLP, and identity into a single, intelligent platform. We’ve recently expanded this with AI Guardian, giving enterprises real-time visibility and control across their entire AI estate.

It’s no longer just about finding and classifying data. It’s about understanding which AI tools and agents are interacting with that data, determining whether those interactions are appropriate, and taking action instantly, at the speed and scale that AI demands.

That’s what makes Cyera different. And that’s what makes this moment so exciting.

Real Results, Real Momentum

I couldn’t be prouder of the team at Cyera. They are relentless, working every day to protect what matters most to our customers and to make the most of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. And it’s paying off.

• We’ve helped customers remediate more than 127 trillion records.
  
  
• We’ve identified and classified 4 billion learned data classes.
  
  
• We’ve discovered and protected 530 million identities.
  
  
• We’ve secured 161 million prompts and over 4 million AI agents interacting with data.
  
  

One Fortune 100 telecommunications company told us they scanned “more in six weeks than they could in six years.” That’s what happens when precision meets scale.

The Fast Track to the Future

Cyera’s growth isn’t just a reflection of what we’ve already achieved. It’s a signal of what’s to come.

We’re helping CIOs, CISOs, and CDOs evolve from deployers of software and maintainers of infrastructure into orchestrators of intelligence. Because in the age of AI, security isn’t about walls anymore, it’s about awareness, adaptability, and alignment.

At Cyera, we’re scaling fast because the world of AI is moving fast. And I’ve never been more confident in a team, a vision, or a purpose.

This is the most exciting chapter of my career, not because of the pace, but because of the purpose. We have the opportunity to help organizations unlock the power of AI safely and redefine what modern security looks like in the age of autonomy.

And, we’re just getting started.

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