Cyera and Okta: Eliminating Identity and Data Access Blind Spots in the AI Era

A CFO shouldn’t have to wonder if marketing can see payroll data. A CISO shouldn’t have to guess which contractors can access customer records. Yet as organizations grow, adopt more platforms, and generate more data, that’s exactly the challenge they face. More systems and more information create more risk. The question becomes not just, “Where does sensitive data live?” but also, “Who in the organization can access it?”

Cyera discovers and classifies your most sensitive data and shows you which identities can access it. With our Okta identity enrichment capability, you get a consolidated view of previously fragmented identities and their access across your environments. This visibility helps you shrink your attack surface, lower insider risk, and meet compliance requirements (for example, ensuring that only the finance team can access financial information).

Why Fragmented Identities Create Blind Spots

In most organizations, employees don’t have just one account. They have many. A single person may have accounts for Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Snowflake, and many more. Each of those accounts is often treated as separate individuals by security tools, even though they all belong to the same employee.

This creates blind spots, including:

• Incomplete access visibility: No single source of truth for what data one person can access across environments.
• Inconsistent Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) enforcement: Some accounts may be protected by MFA, others left exposed.
• Excessive permissions: Users accumulate access rights over time without review or revocation.

These problems are difficult enough in traditional IT. Add in copilots and other AI tools and the stakes are even higher. If you can’t map a person’s full identity to the data they can access, you cannot control what data AI tools might use or learn from.

Cyera’s Identity Module integrates with Okta to address these blind spots directly. Cyera leverages Okta to consolidate fragmented identities into a single, unified view. Cyera then links that identity to the sensitive data it can access across SaaS and cloud platforms like AWS, Microsoft, Google, Snowflake, and more.

The result is a unified picture of access: who the person is, what data they can touch, and whether strong authentication protects every account.

What This Enables for Security Teams

1. Complete access visibility
Security teams gain clarity into what each individual can access across the enterprise. No more stitching together reports from separate systems. One consolidated record shows the full scope of permissions tied to a single user.

2. Stronger least privilege enforcement
By aligning access rights with actual roles, organizations can spot excessive entitlements and remove them quickly. That prevents users from holding on to sensitive access long after their responsibilities have changed.

3. Consistent Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) coverage
Okta’s security configurations feed directly into Cyera’s Identity Module. This makes it easy to see which accounts lack MFA and enforce strong authentication across every identity.

4. Safer, faster AI adoption
AI's ability to quickly access sensitive data, often without employees' knowledge, presents a new attack vector. Threat actors can compromise AI-enabled users to accelerate their path to critical assets. This underscores the necessity of robust identity security controls, like those provided by Okta, and the importance of limiting AI's access to sensitive data it shouldn't have, a capability offered by Cyera. 

A Practical Example: Moving from Guesswork to Clarity

Let's say that one employee, a finance analyst, fell for a phishing attack. You need to quickly assess the blast radius and understand the risk. In order to do so, you need to understand which identities were used by the employee, and what permissions they had across environments. In Microsoft, they can view sensitive budget files. In Snowflake, they have read access to customer transaction records. With Google Workspace, they share sensitive financials with external auditors.

Without Okta identity enrichment, these three accounts look like three different people. Security teams have no way to connect the dots. With Cyera and Okta, all three identities are consolidated into a single user profile. This unified view shows every dataset the analyst can access, along with whether MFA protects each account. If one account lacks MFA, the risk is flagged for remediation.

This clarity eliminates guesswork. It helps ensure the analyst’s access is appropriate for their role, consistent across platforms, and protected by strong authentication.

Why Connecting Identity with Data Access is Critical

AI is magnifying existing identity and access challenges. Copilots and assistants are designed to surface and act on data wherever it lives. When you can’t see what data identities can access, you can’t control how AI tools use it.

Security leaders need to know, with certainty, who has access to what data and whether the right controls are in place. Cyera and Okta make that possible by bridging identity and data security in real time.

As the foundation of modern security, data and identity are two sides of the same coin. With Okta as the source of truth for identities and Cyera providing deep visibility into data access, organizations can finally answer the questions that matter most:

• Who are our users, really?
• What sensitive data can they access?
• Are the right controls in place to protect that access?

Answering these questions is essential not only for compliance, but for preventing insider risk, stopping account takeover, and adopting AI with confidence.

Cyera and Okta deliver the unified visibility that organizations need to close blind spots, enforce least privilege, and secure sensitive data in the AI era. Request a demo today to see the integration in action. 

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